The Politics of Nuclear Power in Finland
A Finnish nuclear deal with Russia’s Rosatom reveals the invisible bonds of trust that hold a community together. An eye-opening look into the cultural roots and hidden forces that drive high-stakes political decision-making.
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.
Activating the Past
Activating the Past explores how memories of the slave trade in the Black Atlantic retreat into ritual. Though rarely acknowledged, these repressed histories are activated during public festivals and spirit possession in West Africa and the Americas.
The term “Intermarium” has a long historical tradition and was commonly used to define the area between the Baltic and Black Seas. Its connotations, historical usage, aspects, and its potential, are discussed here from geopolitical, economic and cultural perspectives.
The Wooden Carpentry of Roofs in Mediterranean Antiquity
The truss is an extremely efficient structure that has gone through the centuries almost unchanged. But when was it born? This is the first book to address this question, tracing the evolution of roof carpentry that led to the invention across the whole of Antiquity.
Kenya, Zimbabwe, and South Africa traded colonial oppression for corrupt, authoritarian rule. This book contrasts their betrayed revolutions with Tunisia, where a determined civil society forged a path to open democracy against all odds.
Aldo Capitini on Opposition and Liberation
Imprisoned as an anti-fascist, philosopher Aldo Capitini developed a civil rights movement between that of Martin Luther King and Gandhi. He championed nonviolence and social change from the bottom-up, proving that “today’s utopia can be tomorrow’s reality”.
This book uses quantitative methods to study 10 medieval Swedish laws (c. 1225–1350). This novel framework reassesses long-standing problems in legal history, revealing a shift from criminal to civil law and a clear transition from casuistic to more abstract legal provisions.
Living, Dying, Death, and Bereavement (Volume One)
This unique book offers in-depth interviews with pioneers in thanatology—the study of dying, death, and grief. Their compelling life stories provide a comprehensive, insightful, and personal review of the field for clinicians, researchers, and interested lay persons.
Claude Duneton was a French writer whose greatest delight was the weekly language articles he wrote for Le Figaro littéraire from 1994 to 2010. The title, Le plaisir des mots, was fitting, since words—their meaning, etymology, and amusing history—were his grande passion.
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.
Ancient Warfare
This collection presents current research on ancient warfare, covering a wide range of themes and neglected topics. Readable and engaging, it offers a high standard of scholarship appealing to historians, students, and a wider audience.
Witnessing 100 years of Romanian political thinking since the Great Union, this volume celebrates the fundamental historical event of 1918. It appeals to academics, students, and any reader interested in history, political philosophy, and international relations.
The Control Data Corporation’s Supercomputer Systems
This volume focuses on Control Data Corporation’s supercomputers, which brought Seymour Cray’s design principles to maturity. For over 25 years, CDC sold some of the fastest machines for science and engineering, and this book covers their systems, software, and key applications.
Colonising Te Whanganui ā Tara and Marketing Wellington, 1840-1849
In the 1840s, the New Zealand Company used powerful images to lure English settlers to Wellington, a land already home to Māori. This book explores how these visuals were complicit in transferring Māori land into English ownership, investigating processes of redress and hope.
Kyrgyzstan and the Legacies of Collectivisation
Soviet rule in Kyrgyzstan was enabled by collectivisation and forcible population displacement. These strategies of colonisation reconfigured the population but were met with resistance. The book explores these changes and how independent Kyrgyzstan struggles with their legacy.
Constitutional Cultures
This volume explores constitutions in the Atlantic World, showing their connectedness. To fully understand a constitutional order, it is necessary to analyse not just the legal text, but its implementation, legitimisation, and especially its culture.
This book combats modern scholarship’s marginalization of women in antiquity, proving their roles in the home, workplace, and society were essential for survival. Using archaeology and textual studies, it highlights women’s extensive accomplishments.
To Write as a Boxer
In 1907, Andrew Jeptha became the first black boxer to win a British title—a victory that cost him his sight. He responded by writing a book. This is the story of how a fighter learned to see and fight back in a world that refused to see him.
Labor’s Canvas
Labor’s Canvas argues that New Deal art reveals important tensions. Artists saw themselves as cultural workers, yet struggled to reconcile social protest and aesthetics, often depicting laborers as bodies without minds and exposing cultural contradictions.
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