Anthony King

Launched on a wave of euphoria in 1981, the SDP aroused the hopes and enthusiasm of millions of people. Promising to break the mould of British politics, its leaders included four of the most respected figures in British public life - Roy Jenkins, David Owen, Shirley Williams and Bill Rodgers. But the SDP failed. Despite winning, with the Liberals, a quarter of the vote in two general elections, by the autumn of 1987 it had disintegrated amidst acrimony and bitter infighting. This book, based on unprecedented access to the SDP's archive, analyses in detail the reasons for its early success and its ultimate demise.

"Classic representations of the city have focused on simplistic urban dichotomies such as renewal or decline, poverty or prosperity, and vice or vigor. We are left with the question of what actually constitutes a city and what makes it and its people succeed or fail. Recent writing on the city, however, has begun to question the images, metaphors, and discourses through which the contemporary city is represented.". "Discussing recent visual, architectural and spatial transformations in New York and other major world cities in relation to the themes of ethnicity, capital, and culture, Re-Presenting the City moves between interpretive representations of the newly emerging metropolis and the theoretical and methodological questions raised by the task of such representations. Contributors with backgrounds in urban planning, sociology, cultural studies, architecture, art history, geography, and philosophy reflect on the construction of both the real and the unreal city, the images, metaphors and discourses through which the contemporary city is represented, and the texts which both mediate our experience of, as well as contribute to producing, the city of the future."--BOOK JACKET.

"This study by eminent scholars on both sides of the Atlantic suggests that the conventional wisdom is wrong. Survey research conducted in recent decades indicates that relatively few voters are swayed by candidates' personal characteristics. Far more important are voters' long-standing party loyalties, their views on issues, and their judgments of how well or badly presidents and parties have performed - or will perform - in office. The votes of even the few electors who are swayed by candidates' personalities usually cancel each other out." "The implications of the authors' analyses are profound. They suggest that modern democratic politics is not nearly as candidate-centered and personality-oriented as is often supposed. They also suggest that parties' policies and their performance in office usually count for more than the men and women they choose as their leaders. Not least, the authors suggest that the efforts of political consultants, advertising agencies, and spin-doctors are often misdirected."--Jacket.

This book brings together new work, from a wide range of disciplinary vantages, on pre-Christian religion in the Celtic-speaking provinces of the Roman Empire. The chapters are the work of international experts in the fields of classics, ancient history, archaeology, and Celtic studies. It is fully illustrated with black & white and colour maps, site plans, photographs and drawings of ancient inscriptions and images of Romano-Celtic gods. The collection is based on the thirteenth workshop of the F.E.R.C.AN. project (fontes epigraphici religionum Celticarum antiquarum), which was held in 2014 in Lampeter, Wales.

"An outstanding interdisciplinary introduction to urban warfare in the contemporary world"--

"Although the 2001 British general election was possibly one of the dullest in recent history, uninteresting it was not. One notable outcome was that for the first time a Labour government was returned to power for a second term. That Labour achieved a handsome victory when Tony Blair's government was neither popular nor well respected is further cause for explanation. Finally, voter turnout in 2001 was at a record low, and this fact alone marks out the 2001 election from every other general election since the war.". "Continuing a tradition of excellence in postelection analysis, Anthony King leads a distinguished team of political experts to provide a "first-cut" explanation of the election outcome with reflections on long-term consequences. In addition, a broad and detailed description of Tony Blair's first term is provided with accounts of the key developments within each of the major political parties since 1997."--BOOK JACKET.