Essays on the Medieval Period and the Renaissance
Spanning three centuries of English literature, from 15th-century texts to Milton, this collection reinterprets tradition with innovative methods. Essays explore genre experiments, contemporary Shakespearean adaptations, and new perspectives on Milton.
This book examines the severe post-WWII conflict over immigration to Palestine and Britain’s policy of deporting immigrants to detention camps in Cyprus. It explores the perspectives of British officials, Jewish underground forces, and Palestinian Arabs.
Esthetic Experiments
This book investigates the cultural and political aspects of technology in American society. Presenting critical accounts of writing, media, surveillance, and war, these essays explore the coalescence of technology and text to reformulate the American experience.
Using insights from Bulgarian history, Tzaneva views the construction of Bulgarian national identity as a process intimately affected by social circumstances in nineteenth-century Bulgaria, and explores how the concept of ethnosymbolism contributes to identity dynamics.
Because of the lack of written records, archaeologists must become shrewd detectives. This book inspects the material evidence to present an entirely fresh, overlooked image of Etruria—one deeply rooted in the land and its natural environment.
European Dictatorships
How did Europe become a “Europe of the Dictatorships“? To understand this process, one must look at the transitions. This book traces Europe’s history from WWI, through the shift from fascist to communist states, to the history of the Eastern Bloc.
The so-called “spiritual conquest” of Mexico was no easy victory. Native populations overtly and covertly resisted the imposition of Catholicism, incorporating the new faith on their own terms. These essays examine this centuries-long cultural war.
Evolutionary Analogies
This book presents a serious challenge to the analogy between biological and scientific change. It argues that such theories are sketchy or unpersuasive, shedding new light on one of the dominant theories of scientific progress.
Evolutionary Theist
The culmination of fifty years of research on American liberal religious thought, this study of Minot J. Savage completes the author’s work on the empirical tradition within the Free Religious Association.
This book features 24 papers on ancient Greek science and technology, covering mathematics, physics, and engineering. Topics range from Plato’s mathematical concepts and Aristotle’s Physics to the Trojan Horse reconstruction and telecommunications in ancient Greece.
This is the first English-language study on Italy’s cultural relationships with China and Japan across the centuries. This collection explores topics from travel and the creative arts to politics and religion, featuring transcultural research from a global team of scholars.
Exchanges of Culture, Policy, and Goods from 1492 to the Future
This anthology of essays on international relations focuses on Latin America’s place on the world stage. Featuring contributions by recognized authorities and new scholars, it provides a global view of the intricate relationships between nations, cultures, and global politics.
Explore the incredible and neglected history of Mogadishu, a prosperous medieval trading city and cultural crossroad. Rich and rare photographic evidence reveals its mosques, ruins, and residences—medieval treasures threatened by destruction and decline.
This volume tackles the concept of fear in a range of time periods in cultural and literary history, from the Archaic Period and Greco-Roman Classical Antiquity to the modern and postmodern periods.
F.F. Bosworth
F.F. Bosworth (1877-1958) was a Pentecostal pioneer and famous healing evangelist who led over a million people to Christ. While many know his book, Christ the Healer, few know the man. This book is the first critical analysis of his life and ministry.
Modern industrial society is a fluke of history. This book argues our world is the result of accidental events, not inherent European values. Our advanced civilization is an unexpected explosion, unique and unlikely to be found anywhere else in the universe.
This collection of accessible articles explores spirituality and faith in the works of masters of world cinema. It examines canonical directors like Godard and Kurosawa alongside contemporary auteurs, broadening the understanding of faith on film.
Faith of Our Fathers
This volume of essays explores popular culture and belief in England, Ireland and Wales from the Reformation onwards. Linked by the nexus between religion and popular culture, these interdisciplinary contributions reveal the remarkable resilience of popular traditions.
Family History in Lancashire
Leading historians explore the family in Lancashire during industrialisation. This book shows how the family was society’s most effective shock absorber, adapting to the social stresses created by immense economic change.
Fascism and History
The term “fascism” (or “fascist”) appears with regularity in accounts of past and contemporary politics. This accessible volume deals with the term as a concept, and traces its evolution over almost a century, as it has been employed virtually every place on the globe.
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