Italian Architects and Builders in the Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey
This collection covers a complex cultural and political geography spanning from the Danubian principalities to Anatolia and the Aegean region. It explores a rich transcultural field of encounters and interactions, analysed on the basis of hitherto uncovered archival materials.
Railway Discourse
Adami considers the train trope in a variety of cultural, literary and linguistic contexts, from contemporary crime fiction and dystopian graphic narratives to postcolonial railway travelogues, by employing a range of methods and frameworks.
Das Sarkhel explores how Achebe’s novels articulate his knowledge of his own people and the manner in which he participates in the politics of representation, showing that he critiques the postcolonial methodology, and provides an alternative narrative of such an experience.
Large Dams in India
This book reviews large dams in India, analysing the proposed Tipaimukh dam project to reveal the strong connections between risk, technology, politics and environmentalism.
This publication is composed of several articles that explore complexity in its most varied aspects. The solution of contemporary problems, whatever they may be, requires a multifaceted vision, far beyond the reductionist perspective.
This book theorises the evolution of English in post-colonial India and the rise of Indian English. It explores the debate: Is this distinct variety a standardized form suitable for teaching, or only for informal use? Through a survey, this book examines its acceptability.
This book promotes formal methods for problem-solving in architecture and urbanism. It presents theoretically driven techniques, from millennial geometry to current shape grammars, to produce better solutions with less testing time in direct confrontation with reality.
Honors education celebrates excellence, but sorting students by attainment raises questions of diversity, equity, and inclusion. How can honors programs be fair and inclusive? This book, born from a National Society for Minorities in Honors conference, explores solutions.
This compendium advances analytical perspectives regarding a highly transcultural and changing African continent enmeshed in the vestiges of slavery and the complex dynamics of post-colonialism, with particular emphasis on Africa and its Lusophone and Afro-Hispanic diaspora.
Over the course of eighteen chapters, this title engages with a range of social justice and legal education themes, including clinical legal education, innocence projects, access to justice, cause lawyering, LGBTQ identities, and sustainability in law schools.
Psoni shows the importance of, and the various roles played by, the feminine figure in the work of both W.B. Yeats and Angelos Sikelianos, highlighting the essential role assumed by the gynocentric mythology permeating the work of the two poets.
Power and Truth in Political Discourse
Anastassov deals with the linguistic base of political discourse, providing a theoretical model of the imbalance of power in human interaction. He also uses the basic principles of social semiotics to create a match between sociolinguistics and political science.
This volume challenges established knowledge in Dance Studies, exploring how dance can affect change and politics. It ‘undisciplines’ academic thinking, creating alternative modes for perceiving and making through choreographic practices, somatics, and critical dance pedagogies.
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.
Artisans Rule
Here, seven case studies covering a chronological span from the Neolithic to La Tène Europe explore the notions of standardization and specialization in craft production, while two ethnoarchaeological studies focus on the organization of production of a number of artisans.
Chakhachiro challenges entrenched literary views that promote the impracticality of linguistic, stylistic and functional approaches to the translation of irony, considering these fields of enquiry as the building blocks on which ironic devices in English and Arabic are grounded.
This conference proceedings considers how literature and art explore different systems of values and principles of conduct, and how they can teach us to cope at times of trial. The essays here address themes of virtue and character formation from the Bronze Age to the present.
The essays here offer a wide-ranging study of the continuing impact of the ‘English Urban Renaissance’ and investigate the wider impact of the concept beyond England. They reiterate the importance of provincial towns as hubs of economic, cultural and political activity.
The Study of Musical Performance in Antiquity
This collection of essays provides valuable insights into the richness of sources dealing with music and musical performance scattered over 3000 years and covering a wide range of geographies, from Syria to Iberia, through Greece and Rome.
Modern medicine in England today is chiefly the product of the scientific developments of the nineteenth century. This title focuses on the history of medicine in Lancaster and a community of practice amongst a few medical professionals who shaped its medical landscape.
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