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Florida Studies

Proceedings of the 2006 Annual Meeting of the Florida College English Association

Edited By: General Editor, Claudia Slate

£39.99

Florida's long and colorful past is matched by its literary production, yet critical assessment has lagged. This volume corrects that oversight with papers on every aspect of Florida literature, including its African-American figures and teaching suggestions.

Florida’s long and colorful past is matched by its literary production, yet critical assessment has lagged. This volume corrects that oversight with papers on every aspect of Florida literature, including its African-American figures and teaching suggestions.

Food Sovereignty and Land Grabbing

Edited By: Gabriele Proglio

From £31.99

This book explores the relationship between food sovereignty and land grabbing. Through multidisciplinary case studies from around the world, it sheds light on the rush for land, extractivism, and the subsequent popular and indigenous resistance by local communities.

For God and Country

Butler's 1944 Education Act

By: Elizabeth "Libi" Sundermann

£41.99

This study on England’s 1944 Education Act examines how politicians and educationalists promoted Christian-civic humanism as the primary educational philosophy in order to shape an education system that promoted a national identity based on ideals of tradition and progress.

Forgotten Temperance Reformers

By: David M. Fahey

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This book is a collection of biographies of forgotten leaders in the temperance movement. Recovering the lives and works of these reformers enhances our understanding of the movement and is for anyone interested in the lost history of social movements.

Franciscan Missions and the Chumash Uprising

La Purisima Concepcion Mission in California

By: Robert H. Jackson

£77.99

In 1824, a brutal flogging sparked a Chumash rebellion against California's Franciscan missions. This book explores the uprising's true causes, from years of deteriorating conditions to the final bloody conflict at Mission La Purísima, where the rebels made their last stand.

In 1824, a brutal flogging sparked a Chumash rebellion against California’s Franciscan missions. This book explores the uprising’s true causes, from years of deteriorating conditions to the final bloody conflict at Mission La Purísima, where the rebels made their last stand.

Free at Last? Reflections on Freedom and the Abolition of the British Transatlantic Slave Trade

Edited By: Cecily Jones, Amar Nahab

£34.99

This interdisciplinary collection examines the fight to abolish the British slave trade. It explores the struggles of enslaved peoples and activists, the contested line between slavery and freedom, and abolition's enduring legacy of inequality.

French Historians in the Nineteenth Century

Providence and History

By: F.L. van Holthoon

From £30.99

This study of nineteenth-century French historians reveals a major change of perspective. Early historians like Guizot looked to the past for guidance, while later historians saw it as a closed book to be opened, highlighting overlooked figures like Comtesse d’Agoult.

Fresche fontanis

Studies in the Culture of Medieval and Early Modern Scotland

Edited By: J. Derrick McClure, Janet Hadley Williams

£59.99

Fresche fontanis presents major new research by leading scholars on Scottish culture of the 14th-17th centuries. Essays analyze writers, romances, chronicles, and manuscripts, making a significant contribution to this imaginatively productive period.

From Antiquary to Archaeologist

Frederick Corbin Lukis of Guernsey

By: Heather Sebire

£34.99

Based on the Guernsey Museum archive of antiquarian Frederick Corbin Lukis (1788-1871), this illustrated book explores his life, the history of antiquarianism, and the development of archaeology as a discipline in the nineteenth century.

From Béarn to Southern Africa or The Amazing Destiny of Eugène Casalis

By: Marie-Claude Mosimann-Barbier

£44.99

In 1832, French missionary Eugène Casalis forged an extraordinary friendship with King Moshoeshoe of Lesotho, becoming his trusted advisor and a key ally in the desperate struggle to save his kingdom from Boer expansionism.

From Distant Tales

Archaeology and Ethnohistory in the Highlands of Sumatra

Edited By: Dominik Bonatz, John Miksic, J. David Neidel

£54.99

The most comprehensive book on Sumatra in over half a century. Despite its major role in world trade for 2,000 years, its rich culture and archaeology have been surprisingly neglected. This volume by leading authorities remedies this defect.

From Here to Diversity

Globalization and Intercultural Dialogues

Edited By: Clara Sarmento

£49.99

From Here to Diversity sees interculturalism as movement without borders. It examines the dynamics of cultural interaction by amplifying new voices: women, non-occidentals, the non-powerful, and forgotten narratives of a past as intercultural as the present.

From Ottoman to Turk

The Transition from Caliphate to Secular Republic in Turkey

By: Qaisar Mohammad

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This work focuses on the factors that were responsible for the collapse and downfall of the Ottoman Empire. It explores how its society and politics led to the paradigm shift giving rise to the making of the Turkish Republic which emerged out of the empire’s ashes.

From Queens to Slaves

Pope Gregory’s Special Concern for Women

By: John R. C. Martyn

£39.99

This book is a study of the women involved with Pope Gregory the Great. It covers everyone from royal and aristocratic women to abbesses, nuns, widows, and even women escaping slavery, exploring their legal cases and relationships with the pope.

From the Ancient Near East to Christian Byzantium

Kings, Symbols, and Cities

By: Mario Baghos

From £25.99

This book combines the history of religions with Byzantine studies to analyze kings, symbols, and cities. It demonstrates how the ancient pagan ruler cult was gradually replaced by the ruler becoming subordinate to Christ, the ‘Master of All’ (Pantokrator).

From the Entente Cordiale to New Ententes

Edited By: Elizabeth Gibson-Morgan, Géraldine Gadbin-George

£72.99

With contributions from academics, legal practitioners and diplomats, this book offers a fresh, multidisciplinary perspective on the Entente Cordiale in post-Brexit Britain. It explores the Entente’s origin, what it means today, and what it might mean tomorrow.

From Weimar to Christiania

German and Scandinavian Studies in Context

Edited By: Florence Feiereisen, Kyle Frackman

£29.99

From Weimar to Christiania is a compilation of graduate student work in German and Scandinavian Studies. These essays use a variety of disciplinary approaches to connect the fields, delivering compelling research that expands knowledge in northern European studies.

Fundraising, Flirtation and Fancywork

Charity Bazaars in Nineteenth Century Australia

By: Annette Shiell

£44.99

The 19th-century charity bazaar was a paradox. While it funded Australia's major institutions, it encouraged a loosening of social restraint, giving women a public role where commerce, gambling, and even flirtation were actively encouraged.

The 19th-century charity bazaar was a paradox. While it funded Australia’s major institutions, it encouraged a loosening of social restraint, giving women a public role where commerce, gambling, and even flirtation were actively encouraged.

Gags and Greasepaint

A Tribute to the Irish "Fit-Ups"

Edited By: Vikki Jackson

From £14.99

A personal memoir of Vic, the “Sequin Queen” of Irish repertory theatre, recounted by her granddaughter, one of the last travelling artistes. A hymn to the artist whose home was the road… one final tread of the magic footboard.

Gardens of Madeira—Gardens of the World

Contemporary Approaches

Edited By: Beata Elżbieta Cieszyńska, José Eduardo Franco, Ana Cristina da Costa Gomes

£44.99

This book explores gardens as cultural and literary expressions of the human condition. Ranging from Madeira to Africa, Asia, and the Americas, it shows how past discourses meet the quests of modern societies for paradises of asylum and encounter.