East Central Europe in Exile Volume 1
This two-volume series explores the East Central European émigré experience of the 19th and 20th centuries, from the reasons for migration and initial adaptation to the later negotiation of new identities while maintaining ties to the old country.
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.
Eat History
Eat History offers fascinating new insights into gastronomic studies and cultural history. Nine leading historians explore topics from vodka to patty cakes across the globe, engaging academics and general readers keen to discover how food opens up new areas of history.
Ebony Roots, Northern Soil
This powerful collection of critical essays explores the histories and cultural engagements of black Canadians. It challenges the myth of a racially benevolent Canada, dissecting institutional racism and defining a black Canadian identity distinct from American ideals.
This book voices individual stories of Syrians who sought shelter in Turkey. Rather than a dry scholarly account, it details the emotional odyssey of two academics who lived alongside Syrians in the Turkey-Syria borderland, presenting them as individuals, not a category.
Episodes from a History of Undoing
This volume illustrates women’s resistance to patriarchal norms. From mythical amazons and Renaissance monarchs to modern activists and academics, these women became trail-blazers by undoing, rewriting, and refashioning political and cultural concepts.
Exchanges and Correspondence
This challenging survey of “feminism-in-the-making” spans from the 18th century to the present, across the globe. A fascinating chorus of voices emerges, throwing light on women’s growing consciousness and the struggle for their rights.
Politics is not only about ideas, but practices. This book reveals how 19th-century exiles created the laboratory for modern politics, circulating not just ideals but the techniques of how to debate, vote, and run a party, resulting in a new political grammar.
This volume provides ground-breaking research on news reporting about Italy from 1600 to its unification. It examines not just what was reported in the European and American press, but the language, ideological bias, and strategies used to manipulate news for political purposes.
Following the Stasi, KGB, Eastern Front and SS
Trace the Wyrwoll family from 1920 onwards as they witness the Hitler regime’s rise and fall. Follow their emigration to Wales with other miners, the lengths they went to assimilate, and their decision never to return to Germany.
Gender, Agency and Violence
This volume centres on male and female perpetrators of violence in European literature, cinema, and art from the 16th to 20th century. It explores how the arts and media respond to historical turning points that challenge the link between gender, agency and violence.
This book explores what it means to re-assert an African identity to counter neo-colonialism. Drawing on Pan-Africanism and the spirit of Ubuntu, it revisits the dream of an African rebirth to inspire youth to build a better life on the continent.
This book gives an insightful account of Nigerian international migration. To harness migration for development, we must understand the forces of emigration, return, and kinship networks. A vital resource of theoretical and practical importance for nations worldwide.
Mapping the History of Folklore Studies
The articles here provide rich insights into the historical dynamics of folkloristic thought with its shifting geographies, shared spaces, centres and borderlands. By focusing on intellectual collaboration, they reveal the limitations inherent in current scholarship.
Masculinity and the Other
Men have been defined as much by their relations to other men as to women. This collection brings together scholars from fields including literature and history to examine the forms of ‘otherness’ against which ideas of masculinity have been defined.
Max Weber on China
Cotesta throws light on the problem-riddled Max Weber, a man lacerated by tragic contradictions, a great intellectual, nationalistic yet cosmopolitan. This investigation of his private life reveals a tender man, who, at a time of overwhelming conflict, sought true life in love.
Memory and Ethnicity
In museums and public spaces, ethnicity has become central to the Jewish and Israeli cultural imagination. Memory and Ethnicity explores how diverse Jewish groups represent their past, analyzing which memories are preserved and which are suppressed.
This volume brings together innovative research across Iberian Studies. The collection includes cutting-edge work on memory politics, dictatorships, the Spanish Civil War, and colonial exchanges, exploring themes of migration, resistance, trauma, sexuality, and feminism.
Migration and New International Actors
New migration studies focus on the political dimension of Diasporas and the trans-national character of migration, exploring their action as agents of para-diplomacy to move investigations beyond the narrow frame of the Nation State.
New Voices, New Visions
This interdisciplinary collection explores Australian identity, nation, and place. Linking old and new stories, it engages with contemporary issues like immigration and climate change through unique and accessible case studies from both historical and modern life.
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