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North and South

Essays on Gender, Race and Region

Edited By: Christine DeVine, Mary Ann Wilson

£44.99

This collection of essays crosses historical and disciplinary boundaries to ask if “north” and “south” represent real divisions. The essays interrogate boundaries—symbolic and literal, as communication and division—and explore how identity emerges across them.

A Body Politic to Govern

The Political Humanism of Elizabeth I

By: Ted Booth

£44.99

This work examines the influence of Italian Renaissance humanism on the political persona of Elizabeth I. To silence critics of a female monarch, Elizabeth used her classical education to defend and assert her right to rule through her letters and speeches.

Interwar Japan beyond the West

The Search for a New Subjectivity in World History

By: Oliviero Frattolilio

£39.99

To avoid the Western imperialist yoke, late nineteenth-century Japan embraced an imperial identity. This was justified by a philosophy that saw Japan’s hegemonic aspirations as a moral obligation: a duty to overcome modern civilization and promote a new culture.

Women Who Belong

Claiming a Female’s Right-Filled Place

Edited By: Marsha R. Robinson

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To fight the fallacious assumption that patriarchy is eternal, this book inverts history. By centering the ordinary woman, we find women, rich and poor, who used patriarchal laws to protect their rights and demand the powers due them.

Fundraising, Flirtation and Fancywork

Charity Bazaars in Nineteenth Century Australia

By: Annette Shiell

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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.

The Post-War Angola

Public Sphere, Political Regime and Democracy

By: Paulo C. J. Faria

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In post-war Angola, political reform is the key challenge. The state controls the 'public sphere,' but how do people speak truth to power? This book explores the public's role, using Foucault's ideas to look afresh at Angola's democratic future.

In post-war Angola, political reform is the key challenge. The state controls the ‘public sphere,’ but how do people speak truth to power? This book explores the public’s role, using Foucault’s ideas to look afresh at Angola’s democratic future.

Blue Black Sea

New Dimensions of History, Security, Strategy, Energy and Economy

Edited By: Giray Saynur Bozkurt

£59.99

Experts from the Black Sea states analyze the region’s complex security, political, and economic dynamics, offering essential assessments of the international policies shaping the area today.

Wicked Ladies

Provincial Women, Crime and the Eighteenth-Century English Justice System

By: Gregory J. Durston

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This book shifts the focus from London to explore female crime in 18th-century provincial England. It examines why women offended and their treatment by the justice system, comparing their experiences to those of men and their counterparts in the capital.

Purgatory between Kentucky and Canada

African Americans in Ohio

Edited By: Marsha R. Robinson

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In the purgatory between Kentucky and Canada, ordinary African Americans in Ohio fought to create a space of peace. These histories reveal how individuals in the 19th and 20th centuries used social networks to secure education, voting rights, and liberty.

Fresche fontanis

Studies in the Culture of Medieval and Early Modern Scotland

Edited By: J. Derrick McClure, Janet Hadley Williams

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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.

Mediterráneos

An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Cultures of the Mediterranean Sea

Edited By: Arturo Echavarren, Sergio Carro Martin, Esther Fernández Medina

£59.99

This book analyzes the political, religious, social, and artistic expressions that have flourished and converged in the Mediterranean and Near East, highlighting the scope of this blend of traditions from its earliest stages to the present.

Contact in Context

Edited By: Sandhya Patel

£39.99

This volume considers the European contexts framing cultural contact. Essays explore encounters far afield and ‘contact within’ Europe, as the arrival of other peoples displaced interaction from distant beaches to European towns and cities.

Esthetic Experiments

Interdisciplinary Challenges in American Studies

Edited By: Marek Wojtaszek

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This book investigates the cultural and political aspects of technology in American society. Presenting critical accounts of writing, media, surveillance, and war, these essays explore the coalescence of technology and text to reformulate the American experience.

The Chinese Chameleon Revisited

From the Jesuits to Zhang Yimou

Edited By: Zheng Yangwen 鄭揚文

£49.99

This volume examines portrayals of the Middle Kingdom by focusing on the “producers” and “consumers” of China's image. It shows how Western writers often reveal more about their own contexts, making the country a mirror for their anxieties and ambitions.

This volume examines portrayals of the Middle Kingdom by focusing on the “producers” and “consumers” of China’s image. It shows how Western writers often reveal more about their own contexts, making the country a mirror for their anxieties and ambitions.

Things That Liberate

An Australian Feminist Wunderkammer

Edited By: Alison Bartlett, Margaret Henderson

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This collection of essays explores objects that changed Australian women’s lives and shaped the feminist movement since 1970. Combining personal narrative and historical analysis, it documents the material culture of liberation, from overalls to kombis.

Narratives of Identity

The Syrian Orthodox Church and the Church of England 1895-1914

By: William Taylor

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From 1895 to 1914, the Syrian Orthodox Church and the Church of England developed a relationship that shaped their identities. Drawing on rare archives, this book explores their dialogue and search for recognition amid the growing instability of the Ottoman Empire.

Resistance and the Practice of Rationality

By: Martin W. Bauer, Rom Harré, Carl Jensen

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Resistance is a historical constant, not simply irrational behaviour. Fifteen authors from diverse disciplines, including physics, biology, and political science, explore concepts of ‘resistance’ and examine the potential of a general ‘resistology’.

The Old World and the New

The Marriage and Colonial Adventures of Lord and Lady Northcote

By: Elizabeth Taylor

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This biography tells the untold story of two British aristocrats. It details the drama of their personal lives and their rule in colonial India and Australia, examining the decline of an upper class and raising questions of Empire and social mobility.

Changes in Contemporary Ireland

Texts and Contexts

Edited By: Catherine Rees

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This interdisciplinary study explores the profound changes in Irish society since 1980. It juxtaposes the Celtic Tiger and the Good Friday Agreement with church scandals, new violence, and recession, asking what real progress can be traced in modern Ireland.

Islam and Democracy

Perspectives on the Arab Spring

Edited By: Aylin Ünver Noi

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After the Arab Spring, the success of Islamist parties raised fears for human rights and democracy. This book explores the complex challenges of democratic transition in the Middle East and the roles of Islam and democracy in these ongoing developments.