Transcribing the Graves of All Saints Church, Fenagh, County Carlow, Ireland
Drawn from a journey of transcribing gravestones as a hobby, this monograph illustrates how information on headstones allows a glimpse at long-forgotten social conditions, politics, religion and grave robbing.
What if evolution provides our moral compass? This book argues that evolution’s true tenets—diversity and freedom—form a universal ethic. This framework can guide our future with humans, AI, and memes, uniting us to face our greatest challenges together.
Authored by British and Italian historians, this title addresses the Italian war so often ignored in western history, tackling the myth of Italian cowardice, and questions the myth of the special relationship between Great Britain and the USA.
Ritchie examines what remains an under-studied aspect of Samuel Johnson’s profile—his attitude to social improvement. The cross-disciplinary framework provided applies perspectives from social and cultural history, legal history, architectural history and English literature.
The Burning of Byron’s Memoirs
A collection of essays on Byron’s life and work, informed by primary texts. The title essay is hailed as the best-ever documentation of the disgraceful destruction of Byron’s Memoirs. For anyone interested in Byron, this is essential reading.
Colonies in Conflict
This book traces the little-known history of the British Overseas Territories, the last remnants of the British Empire. It reveals how today’s wars, scandals, and controversies are rooted in a past of conflict, corruption, and neglect by a two-speed Empire.
This conference proceedings represents papers given at the Seventh International Conference on Fantasy and Wonder, and demonstrates the continuing importance of the past in the present and, by extension, for the future.
Daughters of the Nile
Highlighting pioneering and ground-breaking Egyptian women that the media have overlooked and ignored, this collection shatters the monolithic and unflattering stereotype of contemporary Egyptian women as victims, uneducated and uncivilized, dominated by men.
A Sandy Path near the Lake
The autobiography of Kovit Khemananda, a Thai Buddhist artist and spiritual teacher. His insightful spiritual quest takes him from the monkhood to sojourns abroad, revealing a path of frustration and liberation that helps us crack the code of the human condition.
This book presents achievements in industrial and applied mathematics, offering new methods and algorithms for solving real-life problems. It promotes interdisciplinary collaboration and covers topics like numerical methods, control systems, and scientific computing.
The History of U.S. Information Control in Post-War Germany
Warkentin summarises the activities and methods of the American military’s Information Control Division. He also offers his perspective on how the US occupation of Germany in 1945 utilised psychologists, sociologists and others to vet candidates for media licenses in Germany.
Africa’s Many Divides and Africa’s Future
“If in the past the Sahara divided us, now it unites us,” Kwame Nkrumah declared. Determined to bridge Africa’s many divides, he proposed a pan-African government. This collection of papers contextualizes his vision in an era of globalization.
The First World War
The result of an international conference held in Rome 2014 to mark one hundred years since the beginning of the Great War, this volume uses archival documents from various countries to examine ideological debates and contemporary narratives of the war, and the use of propaganda.
From 1959 to 1973, writers B. S. Johnson and Zulfikar Ghose exchanged letters containing detailed analyses of their work. This correspondence offers personal revelations and provides insight into their lives, conjuring a picture of the London literary world of the 1960s.
Blest Gana via Machiavelli and Cervantes
Vilches reflects on the work of Chilean author Alberto Blest Gana (1830–1920) through the lens of Machiavelli and Cervantes. She delves into Chile’s emergence as a nation, and illustrates conflicts among the political parties and social classes in the early days of independence.
Constitutional Cultures
This volume explores constitutions in the Atlantic World, showing their connectedness. To fully understand a constitutional order, it is necessary to analyse not just the legal text, but its implementation, legitimisation, and especially its culture.
Daimonic Imagination
This volume of essays celebrates the daimonic presence—god, angel, muse, spirit—and its role in inspired creativity. Contributors evoke the daimon through history, literature, and encounter, exploring humanity’s relationship with mysterious and numinous reality.
In the Light and Shadow of an Emperor
These essays explore the decisive moments of the Jesuit mission in China during the Kangxi era, focusing on the neglected Tomás Pereira. A musician and diplomat closer to the emperor than any Westerner, his influence was ultimately undermined by a papal legation.
Late Antiquity (3rd–7th c.) was a first Renaissance, shaping the Western World. This volume combines diverse methodologies, with leading scholars offering a scientific update on new research in history, archaeology, philosophy, and classical studies.
While most analyses of state formation focus on Europe and North America, this volume pays particular attention to Latin America. It provides the first detailed perspective on the formation of the State’s bureaucracies and offers an innovative analysis.
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