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Long-term social and demographic changes - and the conflicts they
create - continue to transform British politics. In this accessible
and authoritative book Sobolewska and Ford show how deep the roots
of this polarisation and volatility run, drawing out decades of
educational expansion and rising ethnic diversity as key drivers in
the emergence of new divides within the British electorate over
immigration, identity and diversity. They argue that choices made
by political parties from the New Labour era onwards have mobilised
these divisions into politics, first through conflicts over
immigration, then through conflicts over the European Union,
culminating in the 2016 EU referendum. Providing a comprehensive
and far-reaching view of a country in turmoil, Brexitland explains
how and why this happened, for students, researchers, and anyone
who wants to better understand the remarkable political times in
which we live.
Elections aren't just important - they are revealing. They tell us
things about who we are and how we behave. Written by leading
political experts, Sex, Lies and Politics reveals what really makes
us tick. At once funny, revealing and shocking, it covers
everything you need to know about the voters and their quirks,
foibles and sexual secrets, including when they lie (often to
themselves), how they are swayed by tribal loyalties (even when
judging cats and celebrities), and why you should keep quiet about
your Brexit vote when moving house... Combining brand-new essays
with fully updated pieces from the acclaimed Sex, Lies and the
Ballot Box and More Sex, Lies and the Ballot Box, this witty and
thought-provoking collection is a guaranteed conversation starter.
If you want to discover which party's voters have the wildest
private lives, read on.
Long-term social and demographic changes - and the conflicts they
create - continue to transform British politics. In this accessible
and authoritative book Sobolewska and Ford show how deep the roots
of this polarisation and volatility run, drawing out decades of
educational expansion and rising ethnic diversity as key drivers in
the emergence of new divides within the British electorate over
immigration, identity and diversity. They argue that choices made
by political parties from the New Labour era onwards have mobilised
these divisions into politics, first through conflicts over
immigration, then through conflicts over the European Union,
culminating in the 2016 EU referendum. Providing a comprehensive
and far-reaching view of a country in turmoil, Brexitland explains
how and why this happened, for students, researchers, and anyone
who wants to better understand the remarkable political times in
which we live.
Winner of the American Historical Association's 2022 Eugenia M.
Palmegiano Prize. White publishers and editors used their
newspapers to build, nurture, and protect white supremacy across
the South in the decades after the Civil War. At the same time, a
vibrant Black press fought to disrupt these efforts and force the
United States to live up to its democratic ideals. Journalism and
Jim Crow centers the press as a crucial political actor shaping the
rise of the Jim Crow South. The contributors explore the leading
role of the white press in constructing an anti-democratic society
by promoting and supporting not only lynching and convict labor but
also coordinated campaigns of violence and fraud that
disenfranchised Black voters. They also examine the Black press's
parallel fight for a multiracial democracy of equality, justice,
and opportunity for all-a losing battle with tragic consequences
for the American experiment. Original and revelatory, Journalism
and Jim Crow opens up new ways of thinking about the complicated
relationship between journalism and power in American democracy.
Contributors: Sid Bedingfield, Bryan Bowman, W. Fitzhugh Brundage,
Kathy Roberts Forde, Robert Greene II, Kristin L. Gustafson,
D'Weston Haywood, Blair LM Kelley, and Razvan Sibii
This book provides a sequel to Robert Ford's comprehensive
reference work A Blues Bibliography, the second edition of which
was published in 2007. Bringing Ford's bibliography of resources up
to date, this volume covers works published since 2005,
complementing the first volume by extending coverage through twelve
years of new publications. As in the previous volume, this work
includes entries on the history and background of the blues,
instruments, record labels, reference sources, regional variations,
and lyric transcriptions and musical analysis. With extensive
listings of print and online articles in scholarly and trade
journals, books, and recordings, this bibliography offers the most
thorough resource for all researchers studying the blues.
The British General Election of 2019 is the definitive account of
one of the most consequential and controversial general elections
in recent times, when Boris Johnson gambled everything calling an
early election to 'Get Brexit Done', and emerged triumphant.
Drawing upon cutting-edge research and wide-ranging elite
interviews, the new author team provides a compelling and
accessible narrative of this landmark election and its implications
for British politics, built on unparalleled access to all the key
players, and married up to first-class data analysis. The 21st
volume in a prestigious series dating back to 1945, it offers
something for everyone from Westminster insiders and politics
students to the interested general reader.
Winner of the Political Book of the Year Award 2015 The UK
Independence Party (UKIP) is the most significant new party in
British politics for a generation. In recent years UKIP and their
charismatic leader Nigel Farage have captivated British politics,
media and voters. Yet both the party and the roots of its support
remain poorly understood. Where has this political revolt come
from? Who is supporting them, and why? How are UKIP attempting to
win over voters? And how far can their insurgency against the main
parties go? Drawing on a wealth of new data - from surveys of UKIP
voters to extensive interviews with party insiders - in this book
prominent political scientists Robert Ford and Matthew Goodwin put
UKIP's revolt under the microscope and show how many conventional
wisdoms about the party and the radical right are wrong. Along the
way they provide unprecedented insight into this new revolt, and
deliver some crucial messages for those with an interest in the
state of British politics, the radical right in Europe and
political behaviour more generally.
A Blues Bibliography, Second Edition is a revised and enlarged
version of the definitive blues bibliography first published in
1999. Material previously omitted from the first edition has now
been included, and the bibliography has been expanded to include
works published since then. In addition to biographical references,
this work includes entries on the history and background of the
blues, instruments, record labels, reference sources, regional
variations and lyric transcriptions and musical analysis.
The Blues Bibliography is an invaluable guide to the
enthusiastic market among libraries specializing in music and
African-American culture and among individual blues scholars.
Winner of the Political Book of the Year Award 2015 The UK
Independence Party (UKIP) is the most significant new party in
British politics for a generation. In recent years UKIP and their
charismatic leader Nigel Farage have captivated British politics,
media and voters. Yet both the party and the roots of its support
remain poorly understood. Where has this political revolt come
from? Who is supporting them, and why? How are UKIP attempting to
win over voters? And how far can their insurgency against the main
parties go? Drawing on a wealth of new data - from surveys of UKIP
voters to extensive interviews with party insiders - in this book
prominent political scientists Robert Ford and Matthew Goodwin put
UKIP's revolt under the microscope and show how many conventional
wisdoms about the party and the radical right are wrong. Along the
way they provide unprecedented insight into this new revolt, and
deliver some crucial messages for those with an interest in the
state of British politics, the radical right in Europe and
political behaviour more generally.
The British General Election of 2019 is the definitive account of
one of the most consequential and controversial general elections
in recent times, when Boris Johnson gambled everything calling an
early election to 'Get Brexit Done', and emerged triumphant.
Drawing upon cutting-edge research and wide-ranging elite
interviews, the new author team provides a compelling and
accessible narrative of this landmark election and its implications
for British politics, built on unparalleled access to all the key
players, and married up to first-class data analysis. The 21st
volume in a prestigious series dating back to 1945, it offers
something for everyone from Westminster insiders and politics
students to the interested general reader.
This book provides a sequel to Robert Ford's comprehensive
reference work A Blues Bibliography, the second edition of which
was published in 2007. Bringing Ford's bibliography of resources up
to date, this volume covers works published since 2005,
complementing the first volume by extending coverage through twelve
years of new publications. As in the previous volume, this work
includes entries on the history and background of the blues,
instruments, record labels, reference sources, regional variations,
and lyric transcriptions and musical analysis. With extensive
listings of print and online articles in scholarly and trade
journals, books, and recordings, this bibliography offers the most
thorough resource for all researchers studying the blues.
Winner of the Stanislas Julien Prize Winner of the Joseph Levenson
Prize for Scholarship on Pre-1900 China Dreaming is a
near-universal human experience, but there is no consensus on why
we dream or what dreams should be taken to mean. In this book,
Robert Ford Campany investigates what people in late classical and
early medieval China thought of dreams. He maps a common
dreamscape-an array of ideas about what dreams are and what
responses they should provoke-that underlies texts of diverse
persuasions and genres over several centuries. These writings
include manuals of dream interpretation, scriptural instructions,
essays, treatises, poems, recovered manuscripts, histories, and
anecdotes of successful dream-based predictions. In these many
sources, we find culturally distinctive answers to questions
peoples the world over have asked for millennia: What happens when
we dream? Do dreams foretell future events? If so, how might their
imagistic code be unlocked to yield predictions? Could dreams
enable direct communication between the living and the dead, or
between humans and nonhuman animals? The Chinese Dreamscape, 300
BCE-800 CE sheds light on how people in a distant age negotiated
these mysteries and brings Chinese notions of dreaming into
conversation with studies of dreams in other cultures, ancient and
contemporary. Taking stock of how Chinese people wrestled with-and
celebrated-the strangeness of dreams, Campany asks us to reflect on
how we might reconsider our own notions of dreaming.
Winner of the Stanislas Julien Prize Winner of the Joseph Levenson
Prize for Scholarship on Pre-1900 China Dreaming is a
near-universal human experience, but there is no consensus on why
we dream or what dreams should be taken to mean. In this book,
Robert Ford Campany investigates what people in late classical and
early medieval China thought of dreams. He maps a common
dreamscape-an array of ideas about what dreams are and what
responses they should provoke-that underlies texts of diverse
persuasions and genres over several centuries. These writings
include manuals of dream interpretation, scriptural instructions,
essays, treatises, poems, recovered manuscripts, histories, and
anecdotes of successful dream-based predictions. In these many
sources, we find culturally distinctive answers to questions
peoples the world over have asked for millennia: What happens when
we dream? Do dreams foretell future events? If so, how might their
imagistic code be unlocked to yield predictions? Could dreams
enable direct communication between the living and the dead, or
between humans and nonhuman animals? The Chinese Dreamscape, 300
BCE-800 CE sheds light on how people in a distant age negotiated
these mysteries and brings Chinese notions of dreaming into
conversation with studies of dreams in other cultures, ancient and
contemporary. Taking stock of how Chinese people wrestled with-and
celebrated-the strangeness of dreams, Campany asks us to reflect on
how we might reconsider our own notions of dreaming.
This innovative sourcebook builds a dynamic understanding of
China's early medieval period (220-589) through an original
selection and arrangement of literary, historical, religious, and
critical texts. A tumultuous and formative era, these centuries saw
the longest stretch of political fragmentation in China's imperial
history, resulting in new ethnic configurations, the rise of
powerful clans, and a pervasive divide between north and south.
Deploying thematic categories, the editors sketch the period in a
novel way for students and, by featuring many texts translated into
English for the first time, recast the era for specialists.
Thematic topics include regional definitions and tensions,
governing mechanisms and social reality, ideas of self and other,
relations with the unseen world, everyday life, and cultural
concepts. Within each section, the editors and translators
introduce the selected texts and provide critical commentary on
their historical significance, along with suggestions for further
reading and research.
Shortlisted for the Practical Politics Book of the Year at The
Paddy Power Political Book Awards 2015. Have you ever wondered...-
what emotions really influence where your cross goes on the ballot
paper? - whether people are claiming to vote when they haven't? -
which party's supporters are the kinkiest in bed? In the run-up to
the most hotly contested and unpredictable election in a
generation, this exhilarating read injects some life back into the
world of British electoral politics. Sex, Lies and the Ballot Box
sheds light on some of our more unusual voting trends, ranging from
why people lie about voting to how being attractive can get you
elected. Each of the fifty accessible and concise chapters, written
by leading political experts, seeks to examine the broader issues
surrounding voting and elections in Britain. It is not just about
sexual secrets and skewed surveys: it illustrates the importance of
women and ethnic minorities; explains why parties knock on your
door (and why they don't); and shows how partisanship colours your
views of everything, even pets. This fascinating volume covers
everything you need to know (and the things you never thought you
needed to know) about the bedroom habits, political untruths and
voting nuances behind the upcoming election. Foreword by Daniel
Finkelstein
Suffragists recognized that the media played an essential role in
the women's suffrage movement and the public's understanding of it.
From parades to going to jail for voting, activists played to the
mass media of their day. They also created an energetic niche media
of suffragist journalism and publications.This collection offers
new research on media issues related to the women's suffrage
movement. Contributors incorporate media theory, historiography,
and innovative approaches to social movements while discussing the
vexed relationship between the media and debates over suffrage.
Aiming to correct past oversights, the essays explore overlooked
topics such as coverage by African American and Mormon-oriented
media, media portrayals of black women in the movement, suffragist
rhetorical strategies, elites within the movement, suffrage as part
of broader campaigns for social transformation, and the influence
views of white masculinity had on press coverage. Contributors:
Maurine H. Beasley, Sherilyn Cox Bennion, Jinx C. Broussard, Teri
Finneman, Kathy Roberts Forde, Linda M. Grasso, Carolyn Kitch,
Brooke Kroeger, Linda J. Lumsden, Jane Marcellus, Jane Rhodes,
Linda Steiner, and Robin Sundaramoorthy
This innovative sourcebook builds a dynamic understanding of
China's early medieval period (220-589) through an original
selection and arrangement of literary, historical, religious, and
critical texts. A tumultuous and formative era, these centuries saw
the longest stretch of political fragmentation in China's imperial
history, resulting in new ethnic configurations, the rise of
powerful clans, and a pervasive divide between north and south.
Deploying thematic categories, the editors sketch the period in a
novel way for students and, by featuring many texts translated into
English for the first time, recast the era for specialists.
Thematic topics include regional definitions and tensions,
governing mechanisms and social reality, ideas of self and other,
relations with the unseen world, everyday life, and cultural
concepts. Within each section, the editors and translators
introduce the selected texts and provide critical commentary on
their historical significance, along with suggestions for further
reading and research.
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