Digital Diversities
Digital Diversities is a study of the ‘digital turn’s’ impact on global mobility and everyday life. It explores the shift to remote relationships, new forms of political expression, and intercultural encounters in the digital global hive.
Rural Tourism
Rural tourism is seen as a solution to rural decline, but its benefits are often overstated and unrealistic. This collection questions the contribution tourism makes to rural regions through diverse, research-driven case studies.
Science, Gender and History
This study offers fresh readings of Mary Shelley and Margaret Atwood, comparing Frankenstein and The Last Man with The Handmaid’s Tale and Oryx and Crake to reveal an ongoing critique of oppressive science, gender ideologies, and environmental ruin.
This volume offers a cross-disciplinary insight into language contact research, bringing together studies on language variation, second language acquisition, and translation. It creates a dialogue between researchers, viewing language contact from a broader perspective.
Across the Great Divide
Modernist artists reveled in the exchange of motifs between different media to spark new and surprising experiences. This collection of essays explores this intermediality, from Futurism’s art of noise to Andy Warhol’s “Exploding Plastic Inevitable”.
Building Socialism, Constructing People
This book explores the radical shift in Romanian identity during the Sovietisation of the 1940s-50s. Analyzing the press as a propaganda tool, it reveals how “cultural colonisation” deconstructed and reconstructed personal and political identities.
Strategic Regions in 21st Century Power Politics
In a world of resource wars and global power shifts, geography still matters. This book addresses the geopolitical “great game” in East and South-East Asia, focusing on the intensifying rivalry between China and the United States in this unstable region.
This book explores the literary grotesque in 19th-century Europe, with special emphasis on Charles Dickens. It compares his work with that of key writers like Hugo, Gogol, and Hardy, examining the grotesque as a tool for questioning society.
Language, Literature and Style in Africa
This book brings together scholars to study language, literature and style in Africa. It is a timely response to the neglect of stylistic analysis of African prose, offering innovative discussions that illuminate the field and call for its revival.
Shirley Gorelick (1924–2000)
The first in-depth study of Shirley Gorelick (1924–2000), a master of psychological realism. This book illuminates her compelling, large-scale portraits that captured the complex inner lives of her subjects. A major artistic voice, rediscovered.
Visualizing the Miraculous, Visualizing the Sacred
Contrary to a facile spiritual conquest, native peoples in Mexico incorporated Catholicism on their own terms. This study examines visual evidence of the persistence of traditional religious practices, from pre-hispanic stones in churches to pagan iconography in murals.
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.
This is the first work in English on the historical grammar of Romanian from a modern theoretical perspective. It addresses key morphological and syntactic issues in Romanian’s development, filling a gap in current research on the Romance languages.
Power, Politics and Episcopal Authority
This book assesses the shifts in bishops’ power in Lincoln and Cremona from the 11th to the 14th century. The comparison highlights the differences between the role of a prelate in England’s largest diocese and the struggle for authority in a communal Italian city.
English, Colonial, Modern and Maori
How do works enter a public art collection? Who decides what hangs on the walls? This cultural biography of Christchurch’s Robert McDougall Art Gallery explores 70 years of collection, controversy, and the influential personalities who shaped a nation’s art.
Spaces of Knowledge
Medieval thought is more than its intellectual elite. This volume explores its extraordinary wealth and variety, from major philosophical works to technical treatises involving all social strata. It offers a new approach to the knowledge of an era.
Bush Telegraph
A “bush telegraph” is an informal communication network. The concept describes what this book provides: a discussion of salient points in English language use. Its 20 chapters teach, analyse, and discuss crucial aspects of English writing culture.
472 Days Captive of the Abu Sayyaf
Australian Warren Rodwell was kidnapped in the Philippines and held captive by terrorists for 472 days. Surviving a gunshot wound, starvation, and the constant threat of beheading, his is the amazing story of a determination to overcome all odds and live.
Recollecting History beyond Borders
This book unearths the forgotten histories of Moroccan captives, acrobats, and dancers in America. Drawing on neglected archives, it explores their transatlantic journeys and cultural encounters, adding a new dimension to Moroccan-American history.
CDA and PDA Made Simple
CDA and PDA Made Simple explores power, control, and ideology in discourse. It provides the theoretical background and analytical tools to see how these forces are linguistically realized in English and Arabic through transitivity, modality, and metadiscourse.
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