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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.

Germaine Tillion, Lucie Aubrac, and the Politics of Memories of the French Resistance

By: Donald Reid

From £19.99

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.

Past Matters

Heritage and Planning History— Case Studies from the Pacific Rim

Edited By: Caroline Miller

£39.99

In a Pacific Rim setting, who benefits from urban planning? These case studies from Australia, New Zealand, and beyond explore difficulties faced by indigenous peoples and ask whose interests are at stake in urban heritage debates, challenging 'Metropolitan Theory'.

British-French Exchanges in the Eighteenth Century

Edited By: Kathleen Hardesty Doig, Dorothy Medlin

£39.99

In the 18th century, the flow of people and ideas between France and Britain became a flood. This collection of essays examines these exchanges through correspondences, translations, and personal sojourns, revealing intellectual influences in the arts and sciences.

(Re)Creating Science in Nineteenth-Century Britain

Edited By: Amanda Mordavsky Caleb

£39.99

This collection reconsiders the history of science in nineteenth-century Britain. Moving away from a Darwin-focused history, these interdisciplinary essays offer fresh insights into scientific development through history, religion, literature, and art.

The Mirror of Antiquity

20th Century British Travellers in Greece

By: David Wills

£29.99

This book exposes how 20th-century travel writers’ responses to Greece were conditioned by classical scholarship and history. David Wills shows how, in their hands, Greece became less a modern country and more a mirror of its ancient past.

Women’s Writing in Western Europe

Gender, Generation and Legacy

Edited By: Adalgisa Giorgio, Julia Waters

£44.99

The first study to investigate the legacy of a pioneering generation of women writers for contemporary authors across Western Europe. These studies uncover a complex web of intertextual links, offering new paradigms to think and read with.

Colonial and Global Interfacings

Imperial Hegemonies and Democratizing Resistances

Edited By: Gary Backhaus

£39.99

Colonial techniques of domination boomeranged back to the West, sustained by capitalist relations. As new movements challenge the world order, this book explores how global flows of people and ideas transform identity and power from the North to the South.

1848

The Year the World Turned?

Edited By: Kay Boardman, Christine Kinealy

£39.99

In 1848, the world failed to turn. Or did it? This book offers new insights by looking beyond the main revolutions to consider overlooked places from Ireland to Australia, the experiences of women, and the era’s rich cultural and intellectual ferment.

Jewish Space in Central and Eastern Europe

Day-to-Day History

Edited By: Larisa Lempertienė, Jurgita Šiaučiūnaitė-Verbickienė

£34.99

This collection reveals the Jewish space as diverse forms of life in 19th and 20th century Eastern Europe. Scholars explore social life, leisure, and coexistence, showing how this world transformed while preserving its authenticity and individuality.

Divided we stand

The French and Italian political parties and the rearmament of West Germany, 1949-1955

By: Linda Risso

£39.99

In the 1950s, fears of a ‘new Wehrmacht’ clashed with the ambition for European integration, sparking passionate political debates. This book offers an innovative examination of the role non-state actors and political parties played in France and Italy.

Fields of Expertise

A Comparative History of Expert Procedures in Paris and London, 1600 to present

Edited By: Christelle Rabier

£39.99

Fields of Expertise explores the relationship between experts and power from a historical perspective. Using case studies from Paris and London since 1600, it challenges traditional views on expertise in risk management, medicine, and economic policy.

Anglo-American Perceptions of Hellenism

Edited By: Tatiani Rapatzikou

£39.99

This book tackles Hellenism as a global entity through a comparative study of English and American literary, cultural, and artistic trends from the 18th to the 20th centuries. It proves the enduring, intercontinental appeal of Hellenism.

Byron at the Theatre

Edited By: Peter Cochran, Shona M. Allan

£34.99

This collection of essays explores Byron’s dramas and relationship with the theatre. It covers Regency London’s squalid conditions, Alfieri's influence, and Byron as a dramatic performer. A vital book for anyone interested in this little-understood aspect of his work.

This collection of essays explores Byron’s dramas and relationship with the theatre. It covers Regency London’s squalid conditions, Alfieri’s influence, and Byron as a dramatic performer. A vital book for anyone interested in this little-understood aspect of his work.

Sublimer Aspects

Interfaces between Literature, Aesthetics, and Theology

Edited By: Natasha Duquette

£34.99

How did eighteenth-century aesthetics influence Christian theology and practice? These essays answer this by examining interfaces between literature, aesthetics, and theology from 1715-1885, considering writers from Kant and Coleridge to rediscovered women writers.

Womanhood in Anglophone Literary Culture

Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Perspectives

Edited By: Robin Hammerman

£39.99

This collection of essays examines how nineteenth and twentieth century women writers responded to patriarchal assumptions about literary merit while contributing to new conceptions of womanhood in Anglophone literary culture.

Last Letters

Edited By: Sylvie Crinquand

£29.99

This collection of essays is devoted to last letters: notes to sever a relationship, messages written before death, and even fictional texts or poems. By focussing on these ultimate messages, the contributors provide an original approach to closure.

Internalising the Historical Past

Issues for Separation and Moving On

Edited By: Elaine Arnold, Bernadette Hawkes

£24.99

This book explores the traumatic effects of broken attachments resulting from the separation of families through slavery. Using attachment theory, it discusses the psychological trauma on descendants of the enslaved and its impact on their lives today.

Labor’s Canvas

American Working-Class History and the WPA Art of the 1930s

By: Laura Hapke

£34.99

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.

Resisting Modernity

Counternarratives of Nation and Masculinity in pre-Independence India

By: Samir Dayal

£29.99

Samir Dayal’s Resisting Modernity is provocative. Drawing on postcolonial and psychoanalytic theory, Dayal complicates our understanding of Ramakrishna, Tagore, and Gandhi, seeing them as resisting the modernist rhetoric of sovereignty and rational nationalism.