The 21st century is marked by a geopolitical power shift from West to East, creating challenges more difficult than any in the past. Will this new era be defined by rivalry between a weakening US and a rising China? This volume provides expert insights.
Diverse Spaces
An interdisciplinary group of scholars interrogate how ‘Canadian-ness’ is represented, disputed, and negotiated in public culture. This volume examines official spaces and alternative narratives that assert voice, highlighting the conflicts and successes that emerge.
Re-Reading Zola and Worldwide Naturalism
Beyond Zola and France. This collection traces naturalism’s global journey and evolution, tracking its transformations across Europe, the Americas, and Asia into the twenty-first century.
Political Theory
Paradoxically, political theory is being marginalized in the academy. This volume addresses this situation. What are the problems and challenges it faces today? What is its importance? Its greatest strength is that it operates across disciplinary boundaries.
Horizons North
In Canada’s North, competing cultural paradigms collide. This collection of academic and personal essays investigates Aboriginal justice, challenges of pedagogy, and problems of identity created by Canada’s colonial past, offering insights on social transition.
Names in the Economy
Onomastic research has expanded towards names that reflect our commercial culture. Culture produces names and names produce culture. This multidisciplinary book contemplates commercial names from the viewpoints of linguistics, onomastics, marketing, and branding.
This book argues the Faustian pact with demonic forces is a motif explored not only in Doctor Faustus, but throughout Marlowe’s tragedies. It examines this pact in psychological and cultural terms, demonstrating its relevance for modern society.
International Relations and Islam
This book seeks common ground between International Relations and Islamic Studies. It offers diverse perspectives on topics like the Islamic veil, feminism, Muslim integration, and democracy, with a section specifically examining Turkey’s foreign policy.
As cultural boundaries blur, ideas of space and location—physical or metaphysical, real or imaginary—are evolving. This volume of interdisciplinary essays explores topics like globalization, diaspora, and the body across visual art, literature, and cinema.
The Archbishops of Cyprus in the Modern Age
Cypriot archbishops have long wielded political power. Most remember the nationalist politician and first President, Archbishop Makarios III. But were they all like him? This unique study explores the role of the archbishop-ethnarch.
Who owns commingled securities? This book tackles property rights uncertainty under English law, showing how trusts can secure title and arguing for a careful shift in legal priority to protect good faith purchasers.
Pangs of Love and Longing
This book explores historic attitudes towards sexuality, pleasure, and bodies as represented in European literature from Antiquity to the Early Modern period. Its aim is to demonstrate the plurality of premodern desire and offer fresh perspectives on our present.
East Central Europe in Exile Volume 2
This two-volume series examines the East Central European émigré experience. The first volume focuses on the reasons for migration and adaptation, while the second explores the negotiation of new identities and maintaining ties to the abandoned homeland.
This is the first comparative study of Kant and Herschel. Their model of the world dismissed the idea of a finite, static cosmos and introduced an evolutionary perspective that had a crucial influence on nineteenth- and twentieth-century astronomy.
Cases of Intervention
Cases of Intervention offers new perspectives on the case study in British cultural studies. In this volume, the method takes centre stage as scholars apply theory to diverse topics like the cup of tea, CCTV, and monarchs on film.
While most analyses of state formation focus on Europe and North America, this volume pays particular attention to Latin America. It provides the first detailed perspective on the formation of the State’s bureaucracies and offers an innovative analysis.
Retold Stories, Untold Histories
This text explores how Maxine Hong Kingston and Leslie Marmon Silko challenge official history. Coming from marginalized groups, both writers use creative writing to reconstruct silenced pasts and counter stereotypical narratives of American identity.
The growth of Creative Writing has generated new ways of thinking about the craft. This book presents fresh explorations that treat writing as a dynamic activity, not a static object, offering practical ways to develop your own work.
The Secret History of the Soul
What if the soul wasn’t an abstract entity but a physical force? This book examines forgotten models from the ancient world where spirit was a potent, transferable energy that blurred the line between body and soul and was used to effect magical cures.
Searching for the American Dream
This groundbreaking guide offers practical advice for planning and leading international study tours, revealing the rewards of taking students beyond the classroom.
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