Does tradition clash with innovation? This study brings together insightful contributions that focus on the complex relationship between the two, viewing tradition as the cornerstone for the future.
Traditional Culture and Colonial Encounters
This volume explores how colonial encounters transformed Northeast India, disrupting its governance, economies, and culture. Fifteen chapters showcase local history and preserve community voices, addressing key questions of identity, governance, and development.
A valuable resource for specialists of science, history and the media, this book presents, for the first time, the general logic of the development of popular science in Russia in relation to the Western experience, during the periods of the both the Russian Empire and the USSR.
Training and Deployment of America’s Nuclear Cold Warriors in Asia
A near-launch that almost started a nuclear war. A lost hydrogen bomb. A fatal missile misfire. In these first-person accounts, soldiers at a 1960s nuclear base in Okinawa reveal how nuclear deployments, far from deterring, greatly increased the danger of war.
Trajectories of Memory
This volume offers new perspectives on remembering the Holocaust in history, literature, and theatre. It addresses changing representations across generations and asks: As survivors die, how do we transmit their difficult legacy and respond to the dictum: Never again?
These essays offer new perspectives on transatlantic cultural transfer from 1914 to 1964. They explore the networks through which intellectuals and artists communicated, arguing for a multi-directional exchange that shifts beyond U.S.-Europe relations to include Latin America.
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.
To breach the limits of the acceptable is to define them. But does this understanding still apply today? This collection explores the complex relationship between artistic transgression and the law through essays on cinema, art, philosophy, music, and literature.
Translations and Ruptures
This book examines the interplay of translation, theatre, and social reform in nineteenth-century Maharashtra. It reveals how translation was not just a literary activity, but a political tool used both to sustain caste hierarchies and to forge emancipatory possibilities.
This book interrogates the lived experience of gender across three generations. It penetrates the surface of change to uncover the invisible layers that transmit gender, challenging patriarchal dynamics and arguing for a power focused on developing our full human potential.
Trauma and Attachment in the Kindertransport Context
Based on in-depth case studies of five child Holocaust survivors, this study of the Kindertransport rescue operation explores the lifelong influence of trauma, the negotiation of identity, and sheds light on the plight of present-day child refugees.
Truths Breathed Through Silver
The Oxford Inklings believed old myths held truth to fortify humanity. This collection explores how Lewis, Tolkien, and Williams wove theology and literary craft to connect the mortal with the divine.
Twenty Years in Ukraine
For twenty years before the war, Ukraine was a land of turbulence. This compelling account is told through its five presidential terms, revealing a geopolitical chess game and the unyielding spirit of the Ukrainian people fighting for freedom, democracy, and a European future.
Un-representing the Great War
This collection of essays investigates the Great War as the event that opens the cultural history of the 20th century. Through cultural, philosophical, and literary analysis, the volume offers original insights into WWI that help to shed light on contemporary scenarios.
Peña-Acuña delves into the work of Steven Spielberg, considering the audiovisual and documentary material in his filmography and the biographical and sociological parameters that influence his cinematographic work and his values.
Undoing Plessy
Undoing Plessy explores the life of Charles Hamilton Houston, a “social engineer” who used the law to dismantle racial barriers. Houston understood the right to work was necessary for true freedom and built a strategy to win civil rights in the pre-Brown era.
IoT, AI, and Blockchain are transforming daily life, enhancing sectors like healthcare, cities, and agriculture. This comprehensive survey covers the integration of these technologies, their smart applications, and the open issues and future challenges ahead.
Unseen Enemy
In colonial Bengal, Europeans faced diseases their medicine failed to treat. This book follows English doctors, backed by the East India Company, in their struggle, culminating in Calcutta’s controversial experimental Mesmeric Hospital.
By focusing on colonial histories and legacies, this edited anthology breaks new ground in studying modernity in Islamicate contexts. From a range of perspectives, the authors probe ‘colonial modernity’ as being introduced into such contexts by European encroachment.
Untold Histories of Nigerian Women
This book frees women from the margins of Nigeria’s history, chronicling their resistance movements. From protests against colonial taxation to contemporary struggles against oil exploitation and mass abductions, it highlights the voice and agency of Nigerian women.
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