Cultural Heritage in a Comparative Approach
Adopting a comparative approach, looking at a variety of experiences developed for the management of cultural heritage since the emergence of the protectionist movement, Ragusa analyses UNESCO cultural heritage legislation.
Explore the surprising links between Ireland and Latin America. This collection examines the political and cultural influence of the Irish diaspora through literature, film, and history, revealing two cultures linked by shared destinies and a forgotten aspect of Irish heritage.
This book explores how immigrants in Caribbean Colombia shaped the city of Barranquilla. It examines customs and cultural beliefs reflected in the region’s housing, art, and culture, aiming to reconcile diverse groups and create bonds of shared responsibility.
This book exposes the hidden history of Central-Eastern Europe: a tiny minority dominating a vast majority through a culture of intolerance. It dismantles long-held myths, presenting a truth now irrefutably confirmed by modern genetic science.
Culture, Power, and Security
A diverse group of historians grapples with the notion of “security” across time and geography. Drawing on new sources, these engaging essays offer fresh perspectives on military, political, intelligence, and foreign relations history.
Daimonic Imagination
This volume of essays celebrates the daimonic presence—god, angel, muse, spirit—and its role in inspired creativity. Contributors evoke the daimon through history, literature, and encounter, exploring humanity’s relationship with mysterious and numinous reality.
Dante as Political Theorist
Originating from the First International Symposium of the Global Dante Project of New York held in 2015, the chapters here investigate Dante’s political treatise Monarchia, addressing diverse issues associated with this work from multiple, innovative methodological perspectives.
Daring Dynasty
Through impressive archival research over several decades and a provocative perspective, Horowitz illuminates the transformation of England into an emerging modern state under Henry VII, by exploring key aspects of his reign, which included a dark side to royal policy.
Data, New Technologies, and Global Imbalances
The idea that technology is neutral is untenable. Pervasive data shapes our world, creating innovation but also deep imbalances. This book explores these risks and asks: How can policymakers address this? Should data be public? Do we need a global data-governance structure?
Daughters of the Nile
Highlighting pioneering and ground-breaking Egyptian women that the media have overlooked and ignored, this collection shatters the monolithic and unflattering stereotype of contemporary Egyptian women as victims, uneducated and uncivilized, dominated by men.
This book shows that behavioural finance began not in the 1980s, but over 300 years ago. It offers the first comprehensive assessment of Joseph de la Vega’s Confusion of Confusions (1688), demonstrating it is the true precursor to modern behavioural finance.
Dawn of Discovery
This book focuses on three British travellers—‘lost pioneers’ who researched Bronze Age Crete before Sir Arthur Evans. By following their footsteps and comparing their journals to what is there today, the author uncovers their contributions with intriguing results.
Death on the Move
This volume explores the different aspects of the management of death, dying and mortality by migrants in Southern Europe, through deconstructing persistent idiosyncratic beliefs, myths, narratives, silences, and constraints.
Though the Indian Constitution provides for local self-government, state politics often undermine it. This book, a study of Karnataka, examines the gap between policy and practice in decentralised planning, with lessons for other states and developing countries.
Decolonising the Mediterranean
Centring on North African, Maghreb and Mashrek countries’ colonial legacies, this collection investigates borders from a transnational perspective. While the research directions and topics in each chapter are different, they all suggest a specific path for decolonising knowledge.
Decolonizing Science
Science denial is rising, partly because science, falsely portrayed as a European invention, alienates most of the world. This book traces how colonial agendas shaped science’s history, embedding racial and gendered prejudices into its concepts and divorcing it from reality.
Defending against Climate Risk
The climate wars are not fiction. This book teaches you how to engage in the debate by thinking coherently about climate risk. It presents lessons in risk management drawn from the author’s experiences working with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
Democrats into Nazis
How did middle-class Germans support extreme nationalism? This study of a Bavarian town after WWI shows how devastating crises discredited democracy and handed the initiative to the radical Right, as inhabitants came to see events as part of a broader “European Civil War.”
This book analyzes Zionism, from its origins in European antisemitism to its implantation in historic Palestine. It maps its development since the creation of Israel and examines the consequences: the occupation, the violation of inhabitants’ rights, and Hamas’s response.
Dialogues on the Delta
This interdisciplinary collection examines Stockton, California. Once ground zero for the housing crisis and the first major American city to declare bankruptcy, it cannot be framed by misfortune alone. Discover a vibrant community with a rich, diverse, and vital history.