Academics, Pompiers, Official Artists and the Arrière-garde
Defining Modern and Traditional in France, 1900-1960
This collection of essays challenges the modernist slant of 20th-century art history. It investigates the complex relationship both innovative and conservative artists had with tradition, re-evaluating artists pushed to the margins by polemical descriptors.
This collection of essays challenges the modernist slant of 20th-century art history. It investigates the complex relationship both innovative and conservative artists had with tradition, re-evaluating artists pushed to the margins by polemical descriptors.
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Decentralised Governance in Tribal India
Negotiating Space between the State, Community and Civil Society
This book studies tribal participation in Panchayat Raj since the PESA Act. Through field study, it explores the link between Democracy, Decentralisation, and Development, questioning whether real power has been devolved from Lok Sabha to Gram Sabha.
This book studies tribal participation in Panchayat Raj since the PESA Act. Through field study, it explores the link between Democracy, Decentralisation, and Development, questioning whether real power has been devolved from Lok Sabha to Gram Sabha.
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“The Wandering Life I Led”
Essays on Hortense Mancini, Duchess Mazarin and Early Modern Women’s Border Crossings
International scholars explore the literary, visual, and theatrical representations of Hortense Mancini. Her transgressions of geographical, gendered, cultural, and disciplinary boundaries enhance our understanding of early modern women and cultural formation.
International scholars explore the literary, visual, and theatrical representations of Hortense Mancini. Her transgressions of geographical, gendered, cultural, and disciplinary boundaries enhance our understanding of early modern women and cultural formation.
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This collection of essays focuses on the eroticized “look” and the sexualization of visual culture. From sexy female robots and Bridget Jones to Victorian fashion and feminist debates, these essays offer new conceptions of perception and representation.
This collection of essays focuses on the eroticized “look” and the sexualization of visual culture. From sexy female robots and Bridget Jones to Victorian fashion and feminist debates, these essays offer new conceptions of perception and representation.
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Future Prospects for Music Education
Corroborating Informal Learning Pedagogy
Inspired by Lucy Green's groundbreaking work, this anthology offers a critical examination of informal learning pedagogy in music education. An international community of scholars explores future prospects for music education with informal learning as its focal point.
Inspired by Lucy Green’s groundbreaking work, this anthology offers a critical examination of informal learning pedagogy in music education. An international community of scholars explores future prospects for music education with informal learning as its focal point.
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Colonial and Global Interfacings
Imperial Hegemonies and Democratizing Resistances
Colonial techniques of domination boomeranged back to the West, sustained by capitalist relations. As new movements challenge the world order, this book explores how global flows of people and ideas transform identity and power from the North to the South.
Colonial techniques of domination boomeranged back to the West, sustained by capitalist relations. As new movements challenge the world order, this book explores how global flows of people and ideas transform identity and power from the North to the South.
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In multi-ethnic societies, the threat is from within. Ethnic conflict is a time bomb, as nation-building often marginalizes groups and sparks violence. Can a democratic setting moderate these tensions and achieve peaceful resolution in Southeast Asia?
In multi-ethnic societies, the threat is from within. Ethnic conflict is a time bomb, as nation-building often marginalizes groups and sparks violence. Can a democratic setting moderate these tensions and achieve peaceful resolution in Southeast Asia?
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Eat History
Food and Drink in Australia and Beyond
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.
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.
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Drawing on psychoanalysis, comparative literature, and cultural studies, the contributors examine how the circulation of psychoanalysis across time and place reflects and shapes literature, offering fresh insights into their shared literary history.
Drawing on psychoanalysis, comparative literature, and cultural studies, the contributors examine how the circulation of psychoanalysis across time and place reflects and shapes literature, offering fresh insights into their shared literary history.
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Africa, Transport and the Millennium Development Goals
Achieving an Internationally Set Agenda
This volume addresses heretofore ignored dimensions of transport in Africa—mobility issues of the urban poor, women and children, and issues of access to employment, education and health services, aligning transport with the MDGs for policymakers.
This volume addresses heretofore ignored dimensions of transport in Africa—mobility issues of the urban poor, women and children, and issues of access to employment, education and health services, aligning transport with the MDGs for policymakers.
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Queer Exoticism
Examining the Queer Exotic Within
These essays examine the queer tendency to seek different subjects of desire in an effort to find oneself. This search for the exotic becomes a path to self-knowledge, where the outward gaze turns inward to reveal an inner exoticism.
These essays examine the queer tendency to seek different subjects of desire in an effort to find oneself. This search for the exotic becomes a path to self-knowledge, where the outward gaze turns inward to reveal an inner exoticism.
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“Show us what you’ve got”
Building and Managing Strong Brands in Ireland’s Service SMEs
This research addresses how owner/managers of Irish service small medium enterprises (SMEs) execute and manage brands. In an area of study in its infancy, this book provides evidence of the importance and relevance of branding to SMEs.
This research addresses how owner/managers of Irish service small medium enterprises (SMEs) execute and manage brands. In an area of study in its infancy, this book provides evidence of the importance and relevance of branding to SMEs.
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Developing countries stand to lose or gain from globalization. This book provides critical insights into trade competitiveness, foreign investment, and natural resources, provoking debate and leading to solutions that help improve their lot.
Developing countries stand to lose or gain from globalization. This book provides critical insights into trade competitiveness, foreign investment, and natural resources, provoking debate and leading to solutions that help improve their lot.
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Education Loan and Inclusive Growth
India in a Comparative Perspective
This book explores education loans as a tool for financing higher education in developing countries. Using India as a case study, it reveals how the system excludes the poor and formulates an action plan to make it an inclusive financing tool.
This book explores education loans as a tool for financing higher education in developing countries. Using India as a case study, it reveals how the system excludes the poor and formulates an action plan to make it an inclusive financing tool.
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Eminent scholars and administrators analyze fiscal federalism, centre-state relations, and decentralization. This collection addresses growing fiscal stress and offers strategies for sustainability for national and sub-national governments in a globalized world.
Eminent scholars and administrators analyze fiscal federalism, centre-state relations, and decentralization. This collection addresses growing fiscal stress and offers strategies for sustainability for national and sub-national governments in a globalized world.
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Brechtian Theatre of Contradictions
Providing Moral Strength under Conditions of Dictatorship
An opponent of the GDR's totalitarian regime, director Heinz-Uwe Haus used theatre to provide moral strength and survive dictatorship. This book collects his work to alert the present about a past too easily misrepresented, hushed up, and forgotten.
An opponent of the GDR’s totalitarian regime, director Heinz-Uwe Haus used theatre to provide moral strength and survive dictatorship. This book collects his work to alert the present about a past too easily misrepresented, hushed up, and forgotten.
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The Source of the Blue Nile
Water Rituals and Traditions in the Lake Tana Region
In Ethiopia, the Blue Nile is seen as the biblical river Gihon, flowing from Paradise. This book combines historic sources and new ethnography to present the rich myths, rituals, and cultural heritage structured around these sacred waters.
In Ethiopia, the Blue Nile is seen as the biblical river Gihon, flowing from Paradise. This book combines historic sources and new ethnography to present the rich myths, rituals, and cultural heritage structured around these sacred waters.
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This study of French discourse connectives challenges outdated paradigms. It proposes a new descriptive model within the Theory of Argumentation, using innovative tools like semantic blocks and discourse algorithms for a modern, 21st-century approach.
This study of French discourse connectives challenges outdated paradigms. It proposes a new descriptive model within the Theory of Argumentation, using innovative tools like semantic blocks and discourse algorithms for a modern, 21st-century approach.
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A Rich Field Full of Pleasant Surprises
Essays on Contemporary Literature in Honour of Professor Socorro Suárez Lafuente
A vibrant snapshot of English Studies today. These essays on literature, film, gender, and media celebrate global culture in a tribute to the inspiring teaching of Professor Socorro Suárez Lafuente.
A vibrant snapshot of English Studies today. These essays on literature, film, gender, and media celebrate global culture in a tribute to the inspiring teaching of Professor Socorro Suárez Lafuente.
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Experiments in Freedom
Explorations of Identity in New South African Drama
Experiments in Freedom examines identity in recent South African plays. It explores how drama can represent and transform identity through gender, nationalism, ethnicity, and race in a society grappling with the politics of its past.
Experiments in Freedom examines identity in recent South African plays. It explores how drama can represent and transform identity through gender, nationalism, ethnicity, and race in a society grappling with the politics of its past.
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