The modern ideology of race, so important in twentieth-century Europe, incorporates both a theory of human societies and a theory of human bodies. Ian Campbell�

This volume brings together new work on the image of the nation and the construction of national identity in English literature of the seventeenth century. The

Rather than seeking to survey the historical 'background' to Shakespeare, the essays in the collection display a variety of perspectives, insights and methodolo

Keith Thomas's earlier studies in the ethnography of early modern England, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Man and the Natural World, and The Ends of Life, w

This volume examines how historical beliefs about the supernatural were used to justify violence, secure political authority or extend toleration in both the me