Rethinking Thomas Jefferson’s Writings on Slavery and Race
For decades, Jeffersonian scholarship has uncritically depicted a less-than-human Jefferson: an inveterate hypocrite and racist. This book offers a provocative challenge to these stale revisionist claims, appealing to all who believe it is time to gain fresh insights.
Religion and Revolution
A study of spiritual and political Islām in Ernesto Cardenal, the great Latin American poet, priest, and revolutionary. The work examines his connection to Ṣūfism and details his trip to Iran during the triumph of the Islāmic Revolution.
Politics and Culture in 18th-Century Anglo-Italian Encounters
Exploring Anglo-Italian encounters in the Enlightenment, this book interweaves political and cultural history to compose a lively, unexplored map of a cosmopolitan European world. It offers valuable insight into the interconnected nature of the Age of Reason.
This volume explores entrepreneurship education and development in Southern Africa. Using case studies, it discusses how higher education institutions can empower youth with entrepreneurial skills to improve the economy and drive innovation.
Technology profoundly influences our social fabric. This book explores its impact across business, commerce, and lifestyle, examining both advantages and drawbacks. It guides readers through cutting-edge topics like blockchain, the Internet of Things, AI, and machine learning.
This book explores story, narrator, character, time, and space. It upgrades the theory of the unreliable narrator and introduces three new categories: commentators, interpreters, and evaluators.
This book traces the history of Chinese technical communication, exploring the philosophical traditions and classical texts that shaped it. Discover how these historical roots continue to influence contemporary practice and gain compelling perspectives on the field.
This book provides a framework and guidelines to help researchers produce high-quality manuscripts for high-impact journals. It offers precise tips and tricks to help students and researchers succeed in their publication endeavours.
Since films like Trainspotting, Scottish cinema has gained an international profile. This is the first collection of essays to examine the new films, filmmakers, and images of Scottishness, setting a new agenda for the study of Scotland on screen.
This collection of essays explores sacred groves in Africa and Asia, offering perspectives on the cultural and spiritual dimensions of biodiversity conservation. It brings center-stage the complex interaction between the ‘sacred’ and ‘secular’ in our threatened world.
This book explores Wilde’s ideas on the relation of Art to Life, examining The Importance of Being Earnest to discover whether its elegant artificiality aligns with his theories on beauty. It also considers the consequence of his assault on Victorian values.
Medieval and Early Modern England on the Contemporary Stage
This volume explores the connections between contemporary British theatre and the medieval and early modern periods. It assesses how adaptations and history plays offer a new perspective on our past, present, and future, exploring today’s burning social and political issues.
This book explores the British myth of Russia—a collection of images, stereotypes, and plots formed over centuries by cultural and historical forces. It describes the major stages of the myth’s development and analyzes the forms it takes in British fiction.
The Political Warfare Executive Syllabus Volume II
The Political Warfare Executive Syllabus reveals the dark arts of WWII’s elite propagandists. Believing propagandists were trained, not born, they taught how to deliver lethal propaganda, use murder to amplify a message, and planned for a shocking, British-led Europe.
This volume intersects the study of American literature and history with urgent environmental and global perspectives. It re-conceptualizes relationships based on an ecological ethics, exploring topics from ecofeminism and migration to animal studies and climate activism.
Pieter Codde (1599-1678)
This is the first complete study of the 17th century Dutch painter Pieter Codde. A contemporary of Rembrandt in Golden Age Amsterdam, this book offers a biography, a stylistic study of his work, and a critical oeuvre catalogue, making a significant contribution to art history.
A Concise History of Japan
Although modern Japan is well known, its long history of governance, rituals, and conflict is not. This book summarizes the history of Japan, including the incidents and monuments of historical significance, from the Jomon period to the end of the Heisei period.
The Shaping of Persian Art
The image of Persian art was not a pure creation of its civilization. It was largely defined by Euro-American collectors, scholars, and dealers who shaped how it should be viewed and displayed. This volume offers novel insight into this process.
Cinema and Politics
This volume presents varied approaches to the relation between cinema and politics, focusing on changing narratives and identities. It highlights filmmakers with ‘hybrid identities’ whose work goes beyond old limits toward the sensitivity of the New Europe.
‘Ethnic’ piano rolls are an important part of a still-neglected musical heritage. They encapsulate the musical life of several continents and various ethnic communities based in the USA. This volume represents the latest research on these unique and rare cultural artefacts.
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