The Balkans and Caucasus
Parallel Processes on the Opposite Sides of the Black Sea
The Black Sea is a bridge between peoples and a border between powers. This volume brings together scholars to ask: Is this a coherent zone whose past, present, and future suggest a shared destiny?
The Black Sea is a bridge between peoples and a border between powers. This volume brings together scholars to ask: Is this a coherent zone whose past, present, and future suggest a shared destiny?
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The Italo-Ottoman war for Libya was a dress rehearsal for the First World War. Using new sources, these essays explore a conflict with profound repercussions for Italian and European politics that helped end the Belle Époque and raised the specter of a new war.
The Italo-Ottoman war for Libya was a dress rehearsal for the First World War. Using new sources, these essays explore a conflict with profound repercussions for Italian and European politics that helped end the Belle Époque and raised the specter of a new war.
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Women’s History in Russia
(Re)Establishing the Field
This collection of essays by Russian scholars presents the theories of Russian gender and women’s history. Amidst an intense backlash against feminism and calls for "traditional values," these scholars explore the roots of such hostility and answer vital questions.
This collection of essays by Russian scholars presents the theories of Russian gender and women’s history. Amidst an intense backlash against feminism and calls for “traditional values,” these scholars explore the roots of such hostility and answer vital questions.
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Landscape, Place and Culture
Linkages between Australia and India
This collection of essays explores the cultural, social, and ecological dimensions of the Australia-India relationship. Through comparative studies of colonial experience, migration, and shared environmental crisis, this work reassesses our relationship to place.
This collection of essays explores the cultural, social, and ecological dimensions of the Australia-India relationship. Through comparative studies of colonial experience, migration, and shared environmental crisis, this work reassesses our relationship to place.
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Gardens of Madeira—Gardens of the World
Contemporary Approaches
This book explores gardens as cultural and literary expressions of the human condition. Ranging from Madeira to Africa, Asia, and the Americas, it shows how past discourses meet the quests of modern societies for paradises of asylum and encounter.
This book explores gardens as cultural and literary expressions of the human condition. Ranging from Madeira to Africa, Asia, and the Americas, it shows how past discourses meet the quests of modern societies for paradises of asylum and encounter.
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Changes in Contemporary Ireland
Texts and Contexts
This interdisciplinary study explores the profound changes in Irish society since 1980. It juxtaposes the Celtic Tiger and the Good Friday Agreement with church scandals, new violence, and recession, asking what real progress can be traced in modern Ireland.
This interdisciplinary study explores the profound changes in Irish society since 1980. It juxtaposes the Celtic Tiger and the Good Friday Agreement with church scandals, new violence, and recession, asking what real progress can be traced in modern Ireland.
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Great Power Politics in Cyprus
Foreign Interventions and Domestic Perceptions
This volume approaches foreign interventions in Cyprus from two angles: a case-by-case historical analysis and the implementation of systemic models. It also deals with domestic perceptions and their impact on the politics and public rhetoric of the Cyprus problem.
This volume approaches foreign interventions in Cyprus from two angles: a case-by-case historical analysis and the implementation of systemic models. It also deals with domestic perceptions and their impact on the politics and public rhetoric of the Cyprus problem.
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The Respectability of Late Victorian Workers
A Case Study of York, 1867-1914
This study of Victorian York's working classes places respectability at the heart of their culture. Through personal testimony, it shows how workers creatively built identities and communities, defining the respectable citizen in their own moral terms.
This study of Victorian York’s working classes places respectability at the heart of their culture. Through personal testimony, it shows how workers creatively built identities and communities, defining the respectable citizen in their own moral terms.
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This work traces how Oxford and Cambridge colleges, founded for celibate men, clung to a monastic way of life into the nineteenth century. It explores the struggle of courageous individuals who finally overturned the statutes in 1882, allowing Fellows to marry.
This work traces how Oxford and Cambridge colleges, founded for celibate men, clung to a monastic way of life into the nineteenth century. It explores the struggle of courageous individuals who finally overturned the statutes in 1882, allowing Fellows to marry.
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Americanization of History
Conflation of Time and Culture in Film and Television
This collection of essays explores how history and literature are translated into film. From Walt Disney to the Wild West, mobsters to vampire slayers, these articles analyze how movies and TV reflect the time and place of their own creation.
This collection of essays explores how history and literature are translated into film. From Walt Disney to the Wild West, mobsters to vampire slayers, these articles analyze how movies and TV reflect the time and place of their own creation.
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The Work of Avishai Ehrlich
Political Sociologist, Activist and Public Intellectual
This book is about Avishai Ehrlich’s life’s work in political sociology and his role as a public intellectual. Chapters include his articles, commentaries, and personal memories from distinguished academics, friends, and students who knew his influence well.
This book is about Avishai Ehrlich’s life’s work in political sociology and his role as a public intellectual. Chapters include his articles, commentaries, and personal memories from distinguished academics, friends, and students who knew his influence well.
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Let’s Talk About Sex
Histories of Sexuality in Australia from Federation to the Pill
Uncovering the hidden desires and public fears of Australia from 1901 to 1961, this history reveals how sex became a battleground of crucial social, cultural, and political importance.
Uncovering the hidden desires and public fears of Australia from 1901 to 1961, this history reveals how sex became a battleground of crucial social, cultural, and political importance.
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Ireland in Crisis?
Analyses and Proposed Solutions
These proceedings from the International Congress of Irish Studies explore the reinstatement of Irish identity in our present, vastly-changed political and cultural landscape.
These proceedings from the International Congress of Irish Studies explore the reinstatement of Irish identity in our present, vastly-changed political and cultural landscape.
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British Culture and Society in the 1970s
The Lost Decade
This collection of essays explores the revolutionary culture of the 1970s, a period of extraordinary social, sexual and political change. This interdisciplinary account offers an exciting interpretation of a momentous and colourful period in cultural history.
This collection of essays explores the revolutionary culture of the 1970s, a period of extraordinary social, sexual and political change. This interdisciplinary account offers an exciting interpretation of a momentous and colourful period in cultural history.
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Greek Science in the Long Run
Essays on the Greek Scientific Tradition (4th c. BCE-17th c. CE)
Renowned experts reflect on the prominence of Greek scientific models. This collection of essays revisits how these traditions originated, were transmitted, and received within diverse socio-cultural contexts from the 4th c. BCE to the 17th c. CE.
Renowned experts reflect on the prominence of Greek scientific models. This collection of essays revisits how these traditions originated, were transmitted, and received within diverse socio-cultural contexts from the 4th c. BCE to the 17th c. CE.
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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.
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.
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African Zion
Studies in Black Judaism
Forged in slavery, exile, and subjugation, some black African and American societies have adopted a Judaic identity. This book explores the historical mosaic of black Judaism, reshaping the standard accounts of their collective religious experience.
Forged in slavery, exile, and subjugation, some black African and American societies have adopted a Judaic identity. This book explores the historical mosaic of black Judaism, reshaping the standard accounts of their collective religious experience.
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Barriers, Borders and Crossings in British Postcolonial Fiction
A Gender Perspective
A perceptive and innovative study of female versus male responses to postmodernity in British postcolonial fiction, highlighting the opposition between the tragic vision of male authors and the comic vision of women writers. An invaluable contribution.
A perceptive and innovative study of female versus male responses to postmodernity in British postcolonial fiction, highlighting the opposition between the tragic vision of male authors and the comic vision of women writers. An invaluable contribution.
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Waterford’s Anglicans
Religion and Politics, 1819-1872
As Catholic democracy eroded the power of Waterford’s Church of Ireland community, they retreated into denominationalism. This study focuses on their controversial bishop, Robert Daly, a ‘Protestant Pope’ who strove to resist the Catholic Church's advances.
As Catholic democracy eroded the power of Waterford’s Church of Ireland community, they retreated into denominationalism. This study focuses on their controversial bishop, Robert Daly, a ‘Protestant Pope’ who strove to resist the Catholic Church’s advances.
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Challenging Change
Literary and Linguistic Responses
Challenging Change: Literary and Linguistic Responses is a collection of articles examining change as the need to redefine theories, histories, and language. Authors from around the world respond to this challenge from the perspectives of literary studies and linguistics.
Challenging Change: Literary and Linguistic Responses is a collection of articles examining change as the need to redefine theories, histories, and language. Authors from around the world respond to this challenge from the perspectives of literary studies and linguistics.
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