This book examines the CBC’s impact on art music in Canada (1936-1986) through the work of one man: John Peter Lee Roberts. For thirty years, he brought the music of Canada to the world and the world of music to Canadians, commissioning and promoting new Canadian composers.
John Rothenstein in the Interwar Years
Sir John Rothenstein, the Tate’s first director to embrace modern art, is now a byword for conservatism. Why? From the outset, he refused to bow to the avant-garde, championing a brilliant generation of British realists in an age of abstraction. This book charts his efforts.
This book explores the relationship between Ruskin and Turner through their mutual fascination with water, focusing on The Harbours of England. It reveals how water became a multifaceted symbol of tradition, progress, and nationalism in the nineteenth century.
John Steinbeck in East European Translation
Čerče narrows a huge gap in regard to Steinbeck translations in Eastern Europe, here considered in terms of the political division between Western Europe and the Soviet East. As the only book of its kind, it makes a major contribution to Steinbeck and American literature studies.
John Wayne’s iconic status was forged in post-WWII anxieties over civil rights. This book uncovers his political legacy: a model of white masculinity that continues from Reagan to today’s superheroes.
Joining Complexity Science and Social Simulation for Innovation Policy
This book investigates how complexity science and social simulation can be used to improve and inform policy-making in both research and innovation, and discusses a research initiative funded by the Irish government focusing on innovation policy simulation for economic recovery.
Joining, Staying in, and Leaving the European Union
This book explores the legal, political, and economic perspectives of a Member State’s “circle of life” in the EU: accession, participation, and potential exit in the form of withdrawal or expulsion.
Jordan’s Proverbs as a Window into Arab Popular Culture
Discover Arab popular culture through 400 annotated Jordanian proverbs. Covering daily life and universal morals, this book provides a deeper understanding of Jordanian/Arab mentality, encouraging intercultural communication and helping remove socially-biased stereotypes.
José Antonio Villarreal and Pocho
This blend of biography, history, and literary criticism analyzes José Antonio Villarreal’s evocative, semi-autobiographical novel, *Pocho*. Its hero is Richard Rubio, a Mexican American youth of Indigenous and Mexican heritage whose appearance casts him as a social outsider.
Discover Joseph Wright of Derby in the context of his life and times. This book reveals fresh information—from the flute music he played to the ‘graveyard’ poetry he read—and argues he is the author of ‘The Final Farewell’. For all admirers of this famously retiring artist.
Andrew Graciano’s study re-evaluates Joseph Wright’s career, connecting his art to contemporary science, industry, and economics. Graciano reveals Wright as an intellectual painter and a gentleman whose social standing has been ignored by scholars.
For the first time in a book, these three lectures by American philosopher Josiah Royce are essential for a complete picture of his philosophy of loyalty. They constitute a “missing link” between his 1908 classic The Philosophy of Loyalty and his subsequent major works.
This journal provides a space for marketers, researchers, and scholars across the world to exchange perspectives on China in its dynamic market. It will appeal to those interested in the ever-evolving marketing practices and theories in China.
This journal provides a space for marketers, researchers, and scholars across the world to exchange perspectives on China in its dynamic market. It will appeal to those interested in the ever-evolving marketing practices and theories in China.
Journalism and Politics in Nigeria
This book offers fresh insight into the impact of British colonial rule on contemporary Nigerian politics and journalism. It explores the enduring effects of this inheritance and the unintended consequences that remain problematic more than 100 years later.
Journalism Standards of Work Today
In an age of new technology, are journalism ethics still relevant? This book examines the first national code of ethics from 1923, finding timeless values that can be applied to media today to equip citizens for representative governance without abandoning essential principles.
Journalistic Translation
A breakthrough in the field of journalistic translation between English and Kurdish, this volume painstakingly formulates a composite model of translation procedures that covers both the linguistic and cultural aspects inherent in translation.
Journeys and Destinations
This collection brings together scholarship from diverse fields to explore how journeying is a core component of the fabric of identity and meaning.
Journeys through the Ideological Unconscious
This book introduces the concept of the ideological unconscious, analyzing its expression in Spanish literature from feudalism to capitalism. It uncovers the historical intertwining of the ideological and the libidinal, upending assumptions in history and cultural theory.
Jovial Bigotry
The late 19th-century debate over manners and morals in France, Britain, and the US was truly about gender and sexuality. Commentators used stereotypes of women to discuss their roles, but this analysis reveals a common outlook: an agreement on patriarchy.
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