Geographical Thoughts in India
This book explores the roots of Indian geographical thought through its history, culture, and sacred ecology. It examines heritagescapes, belief systems, and the Ganga river, reconsidering India’s development in light of its rich cultural legacy.
Figures like Germaine Tillion, the Aubracs, and Marc Bloch made the radical decision to resist. This collection of essays addresses how resisters made sense of their world, and how later generations have engaged with the complex legacy of the Resistance.
Glimpsing Modernity
Glimpsing Modernity captures the metamorphosis of military medicine during the First World War in a series of vignettes. These stories provide new interpretations of known themes and examine less well-known, but truly important medical topics.
Global Safari
Global Safari is a memoir-travelogue chronicling a journey from a local village in the Congo to the global village. It is a story of courage, international friendship, hope, and homecoming—the quest and conquest of a new self through transits and transitions.
Globalization and posthumanism, through the interface of humans and machines, may undermine our innate consciousness. This book argues that combining biotechnology with globalization will diminish our capacity to experience the self, leading to global crime and sickness.
Göbbels, Himmler and Göring
In this study of Hitler’s three henchmen, Göbbels, Himmler and Göring, Sangster utilises both older biographies, because of their insights, and more recent scholarly publications, as well as diaries. He also examines their mental stability in the light of psychopathic studies.
Governing Diversities
How should we govern diverse populations? This volume addresses this core political question by engaging with the history of ideas on democracy and diversity, from ancient Greece to modern-day Mexico, with contributions from innovative and leading scholars.
Governing Sex, Building the Nation
Exploring the sexual politics of Chinese nationalism in Taiwan, this book focuses on the politicisation of prostitution and its role in postcolonial nationhood. It uncovers the interlinkages between colonialism, prostitution and nationalism in East Asia.
Grassroots Feminist Economies
Grassroots feminist economies champion social justice against systemic barriers. Rooted in the African principle of utu-ubuntu—“I am because you are”—women mobilize collective strengths, fostering solidarity and communal well-being to craft a more equitable economic landscape.
The first collection to survey great books by African authors across the academic disciplines. Expert contributors select and analyze five landmark texts in their fields, exploring their profound influence on individuals and society.
Great Power Politics in Cyprus
This volume approaches foreign interventions in Cyprus from two angles: a case-by-case historical analysis and the implementation of systemic models. It also deals with domestic perceptions and their impact on the politics and public rhetoric of the Cyprus problem.
Greek Festivals, Modern and Ancient
Håland’s two-volume book represents a cross-period product of fieldwork conducted in contemporary Greece in combination with ancient sources. It investigates the importance of cults connected with the Greek female sphere and its relation to the official male-dominated ideology.
Greek Festivals, Modern and Ancient
Håland’s two-volume book represents a cross-period product of fieldwork conducted in contemporary Greece in combination with ancient sources. It investigates the importance of cults connected with the Greek female sphere and its relation to the official male-dominated ideology.
Greek Science in the Long Run
Renowned experts reflect on the prominence of Greek scientific models. This collection of essays revisits how these traditions originated, were transmitted, and received within diverse socio-cultural contexts from the 4th c. BCE to the 17th c. CE.
Gregory and Leander
Gregory the Great and Leander were close friends with similar lives, works, and deaths. This book explores their shared theological influence across Italy and Spain and their role in spreading the Christian Church. Both extraordinary men were very much on the side of women.
This book chronicles America’s “Golden Age” from a Baby Boomer’s perspective to provide a balanced view of that time. It then explores the “Age of AI,” where Generative AI poses an existential threat to our prosperity and democracy, but also the potential for a new Golden Age.
An innovative way to study American history from the colonial period to the 20th century. Learn how to analyze primary sources in a scholarly manner, then explore 20 historical texts, each with its own set of activities. A vital handbook for both students and professors.
Harbors, Flows, and Migrations
Here, thirty-two American Studies scholars from around the world interrogate the manifold significance of ports and the exchanges they enable or restrain, casting a decentered look onto the complex positioning of the United States in its relationships with the rest of the world.
Health and Hazard
The nineteenth-century European spa was an intersection of social class and medical ideas. It offers a unique opportunity to study a key shift: the rise of the order-giving physician over the compliant patient, and the turn from liberalism toward authoritarianism.
Shimamoto illustrates that Henry A. Wallace’s idea of international atomic controls with Soviet partnership could prevent a postwar nuclear proliferation. She details how Wallace’s failed concept of postwar world order led to his own alienation and ousting from Truman’s cabinet.