Perspectives
Essays on Romantic, Victorian, and Modern literature, from Blake and Keats to Yeats. Marked by originality and simplicity, the discussion is as lucid and expository as it is deep and scholarly, making it accessible to non-specialist and academic readers.
This book describes the different forms of aid over the last 65 years and analyses why they changed. As old concepts reappear with new donors, professionals and students will benefit from studying this history. Is the pendulum swinging back?
Citizenship, the Self and the Other
This book analyzes citizenship in diverse societies by talking to educators in multi-ethnic Britain. It uses unique interdisciplinary research to uncover the surprising common ground educators share on values, beliefs, and aims, offering key lessons for navigating difference.
Written in response to extremists, this book argues that the present state of violence and injustice has nothing to do with Islam, but with man-made laws. It challenges Muslims to explore the purity of the faith to end hatred, bigotry, and intolerance.
China in the Frame
This ethnographic study of Chinese art displays in Italy highlights how representing the cultural Other becomes a process of self-expression. It shows how in representing China, Italy is induced to question and represent its own cultural identity.
Cold War Perceptions
This book investigates Romania’s early 1960s policy change towards the Soviet Union. Drawing on declassified archives, it argues the change was triggered by leaders’ perceptions of Soviet threats, focusing on CMEA reform and the Sino-Soviet dispute.
Language Contact
This volume discusses theoretical and methodological models of language contact, focusing on mobility and borders. It explores the social effects of migration on multilingualism, and the relation between language, culture, and identity from different perspectives.
Following an investigation that exposed municipal corporations as bastions of privilege, the 1835 Municipal Reform Act fundamentally altered local government, ending the urban Ancient Regime in England and Wales.
Passion and Precision
These essays bring passionate and precise attention to ten major poets from the fourteenth and twentieth centuries. The collection explores English and Irish writers from Chaucer and the Pearl-poet to T. S. Eliot, Yeats, and Seamus Heaney.
This volume explores the “multisensory” nature of moving images. Pairing the keywords “cinema” and “sensation,” contributors examine the palpable presence of bodies, haptic images, and the link between audiovisual perception and cognitive knowledge.
Spike Lee’s Bamboozled
This analysis of the film *Bamboozled* compares the original screenplay with the Italian dub. Focusing on compliments and insults, it reveals how cultural references and the linguistic traits of African American English are weakened or omitted in translation.
Income Justice in Ukraine
This book presents an empirical study of distributive justice attitudes in post-Soviet Ukraine. Bringing together fundamental theory and unique data, this study contributes to inequality studies and post-communist transformation research.
I Am
I Am: Remix Your Web Identity shows how to regain control of your digital identity. Design a personal website that aggregates your blog and social network posts in one location using RSS, WordPress, PHP, HTML5, and CSS3 to become a true “web author.”
Another Black Like Me
This book presents notable scenes from the long history of Blacks in Latin America. It provides a glimpse into their complex struggle to belong in societies where the definition of blackness was flexible, yet full recognition of their rights was denied.
Religion and Representation
This book examines the complex relationship between Islam and democracy. Beyond demonstrating compatibility, authors employ theological reasoning and empirical data to explore connections between religious beliefs and political behaviour in diverse contemporary settings.
A selection from the unpublished notebooks of Northrop Frye, Canada’s greatest literary critic. These insightful, startling, and unguarded passages reveal his fertile mind at work and showcase the seeds of the ideas he developed in his books and essays.
How are tourism and colonization related? This book explores the development of tourism in French Indochina from the early 1900s to WWII, revealing how it was used as a political tool to promote the colony and attract future colonists.
“We Learned that We are Indivisible”
A first-rate team of scholars examines the Shenandoah Valley’s Civil War story. This collection of essays explores leadership, key battles, the war’s impact on the diverse population, and postwar reconciliation efforts in the “Breadbasket of the Confederacy.”
Intersections
This book presents applied linguistics as a meeting place. Featuring 16 papers by global researchers, it focuses on the field’s intersections with diverse disciplines like education, law, medicine, and technology, extending the boundaries of the field.
A Short History of the Church of England
This book retraces the history of the Church of England, focusing on the complex relations between Church and State and the theological battles that have defined it. Today, its fragile unity is threatened by internal feuds and a secularizing society.
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