Cultures of Trade
Indian Ocean Exchanges
The pre-colonial Indian Ocean hosted the first global economy, a history repeated today. Contributors narrate the cultures of exchange, showing how culture adds value to commodities and how trade created the complex religions and ethnicities of the region.
The pre-colonial Indian Ocean hosted the first global economy, a history repeated today. Contributors narrate the cultures of exchange, showing how culture adds value to commodities and how trade created the complex religions and ethnicities of the region.
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TechKnowledgies
New Imaginaries in the Humanities, Arts, and TechnoSciences
This collection of essays, art, and installations explores how science and technology interact with the arts and humanities. This fusion breaks down disciplinary silos to produce new imaginaries and integrated knowledges—what we call new TechKnowledgies.
This collection of essays, art, and installations explores how science and technology interact with the arts and humanities. This fusion breaks down disciplinary silos to produce new imaginaries and integrated knowledges—what we call new TechKnowledgies.
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Post-soviet rural reforms, intended to create a society of family farmers, instead led to the collapse of production and rural communities. This volume analyzes the transformation of post-socialist agriculture and efforts to revitalize rural areas.
Post-soviet rural reforms, intended to create a society of family farmers, instead led to the collapse of production and rural communities. This volume analyzes the transformation of post-socialist agriculture and efforts to revitalize rural areas.
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Music and Literary Modernism
Critical Essays and Comparative Studies
Scholars examine the intersections of music, literature, and language in modernism. Essays explore the place of music in the writing of Joyce, Woolf, and Pound, and the importance of literary art for composers from Messiaen to The Beatles.
Scholars examine the intersections of music, literature, and language in modernism. Essays explore the place of music in the writing of Joyce, Woolf, and Pound, and the importance of literary art for composers from Messiaen to The Beatles.
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The Power of Compassion
An Exploration of the Psychology of Compassion in the 21st Century
How do we make sense of our world, a world of increasing angst and despair? The essays in this book provide insight from health professionals as they discuss their ideas on compassion, offering you an opportunity to reflect and go forward with a sense of shared humanity.
How do we make sense of our world, a world of increasing angst and despair? The essays in this book provide insight from health professionals as they discuss their ideas on compassion, offering you an opportunity to reflect and go forward with a sense of shared humanity.
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Feminism and Multiculturalism
How Do They/We Work Together?
This book explores cultural pluralities and their effect on women’s lives. Can multiculturalism coexist with feminist principles? Does respect for cultural traditions take precedence over women’s rights? Important voices offer new perspectives on these questions.
This book explores cultural pluralities and their effect on women’s lives. Can multiculturalism coexist with feminist principles? Does respect for cultural traditions take precedence over women’s rights? Important voices offer new perspectives on these questions.
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Assaulting the Past
Violence and Civilization in Historical Context
This interdisciplinary book offers a comparative history of interpersonal violence since the early modern period. Drawing on records from five countries, it explores Norbert Elias’s theory of the civilizing process to offer new insights on violence and society.
This interdisciplinary book offers a comparative history of interpersonal violence since the early modern period. Drawing on records from five countries, it explores Norbert Elias’s theory of the civilizing process to offer new insights on violence and society.
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Reacting to The Da Vinci Code, scholars debate the feminist challenge to patriarchal authority and the textual construction of meaning. These essays examine resistance to the sacred feminine in religious, cultural, and literary histories.
Reacting to The Da Vinci Code, scholars debate the feminist challenge to patriarchal authority and the textual construction of meaning. These essays examine resistance to the sacred feminine in religious, cultural, and literary histories.
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This collection of articles explores globalization's impact on literary production. Featuring non-Eurocentric perspectives, it comments on today's literary market, highlighting unexpected global exchanges and challenging the ongoing debate on “world literature”.
This collection of articles explores globalization’s impact on literary production. Featuring non-Eurocentric perspectives, it comments on today’s literary market, highlighting unexpected global exchanges and challenging the ongoing debate on “world literature”.
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Beyond Nature And Nurture
Conceiving a Better Way to Understand Genes and Memes
Why are some individuals and countries more successful than others? The nature-nurture debate is misleading. Dr. Baofu shows how the two are intertwined and reveals a tremendous future: a "post-human" world where human genes will no longer exist.
Why are some individuals and countries more successful than others? The nature-nurture debate is misleading. Dr. Baofu shows how the two are intertwined and reveals a tremendous future: a “post-human” world where human genes will no longer exist.
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These essays examine the travel writer’s self, revealing the carefully crafted persona of the traveler as a fiction. Exploring genres from diaries to film, they show that the most interesting subject of any travel account is the author.
These essays examine the travel writer’s self, revealing the carefully crafted persona of the traveler as a fiction. Exploring genres from diaries to film, they show that the most interesting subject of any travel account is the author.
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This collection explores monarchy, family, suicide, and sodomy in eighteenth-century France. It argues that the private and public weakness of sovereigns and husbands undermined their legitimacy, challenging simplistic assumptions about absolutism and Revolution.
This collection explores monarchy, family, suicide, and sodomy in eighteenth-century France. It argues that the private and public weakness of sovereigns and husbands undermined their legitimacy, challenging simplistic assumptions about absolutism and Revolution.
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Crossing Places
New Research in African Studies
A new generation of scholars offers fresh approaches to African history and culture. This collection explores themes of crossing through time and space, encounters across generations, and the renegotiation of identity, with a geographical range from Algeria to Zimbabwe.
A new generation of scholars offers fresh approaches to African history and culture. This collection explores themes of crossing through time and space, encounters across generations, and the renegotiation of identity, with a geographical range from Algeria to Zimbabwe.
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Versions Of Ireland
Empire, Modernity And Resistance In Irish Culture
Versions of Ireland brings a postcolonial optic to Irish cultural studies, highlighting imperial modernity and resistance. More than just theory, it offers rich analyses of republican murals, poetry, gothic fiction, and nineteenth-century photography.
Versions of Ireland brings a postcolonial optic to Irish cultural studies, highlighting imperial modernity and resistance. More than just theory, it offers rich analyses of republican murals, poetry, gothic fiction, and nineteenth-century photography.
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Interrogating the War on Terror
Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Is the so-called war on terror justified? This book presents a critique of contemporary war culture, bringing together international political, philosophical, legal, and artistic perspectives to explore the devastating effects of this global conflict.
Is the so-called war on terror justified? This book presents a critique of contemporary war culture, bringing together international political, philosophical, legal, and artistic perspectives to explore the devastating effects of this global conflict.
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Open Book
Essays from the Vermont College Postgraduate Writers Conference
This book of essays is a meeting of minds passionate about tempting language from imagination onto the page. For writers at all levels, it will inspire your imagination and tune your craft as you make that leap from “What if?” to the page.
This book of essays is a meeting of minds passionate about tempting language from imagination onto the page. For writers at all levels, it will inspire your imagination and tune your craft as you make that leap from “What if?” to the page.
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Encounters | Materialities | Confrontations
Archaeologies of Social Space and Interaction
This collection provides a theoretical and methodological platform for studying social encounters in archaeology. A social encounter focuses on the confusion, tension, and social change that emerge when people and things interact, with often unpredictable effects.
This collection provides a theoretical and methodological platform for studying social encounters in archaeology. A social encounter focuses on the confusion, tension, and social change that emerge when people and things interact, with often unpredictable effects.
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This volume provides the latest pedagogical reflections from research to help language teachers update their teaching methodology. It covers key concepts, new directions like ICT, learner variables, the four skills, and a student-centred approach.
This volume provides the latest pedagogical reflections from research to help language teachers update their teaching methodology. It covers key concepts, new directions like ICT, learner variables, the four skills, and a student-centred approach.
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Narrating the Past
(Re)Constructing Memory, (Re)Negotiating
Narrative is an integral part of human existence, challenging the supremacy of empirical fact and our ability to know the past as it really was. Examining a wide range of texts, the essays in this volume reveal that all representations of the past are situated.
Narrative is an integral part of human existence, challenging the supremacy of empirical fact and our ability to know the past as it really was. Examining a wide range of texts, the essays in this volume reveal that all representations of the past are situated.
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The Paris of the left is an icon, but the Paris of the right has received far less attention. This book examines the relationship between Paris and the right, exploring how political leaders controlled the city and how it inspired right-wing novelists.
The Paris of the left is an icon, but the Paris of the right has received far less attention. This book examines the relationship between Paris and the right, exploring how political leaders controlled the city and how it inspired right-wing novelists.
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