This book explores how Irish playwrights engaged with the Easter Rising, the Troubles, and other conflicts. It analyzes their plays in historical context, revealing insights into humanity and resilience amid deep republican, unionist, and denominational divides.
Reading Hobbes Backwards
Beyond Leviathan lies Hobbes the peace theorist. Unable to speak freely as a courtier’s client, he used clandestine philosophy and satire to attack the sectarian causes of religious war and champion classical civic humanism.
Economic Analyses of Prehistoric Greece
This collection of essays uses economic theory to investigate Greek archaeology, from the Neolithic to the Early Iron Age. Topics include the urbanization of Crete, Bronze Age shipping, the post-Mycenaean population collapse, the Sea Peoples, and piracy.
A Military History of Victoria, Australia 1803-1945
Discover why Victoria was known as the Gibraltar of the South. This untold story charts the evolution of Australia’s most complex defences, from a lone 19th-century sand fort to a formidable shield of air, sea, and land power armed with secret technology by 1945.
Science as a Quest for Truth
Challenging the myth of science vs. religion, this book argues that modern science is intertwined with the history of the university. It proposes a way to transcend the false alternatives of objectivistic certitude (“the Truth”) and relativistic resignation (“post-truth”).
Genetically Modified Organisms
The rejection of GMOs is fueled by a misdirected struggle that fosters public fear. This book explains this contemporary taboo and calls for the well-regulated use of all biotechnological innovations, ending a stalemate which stymies public research and its benefits.
The Jewish Leaderships in Slovakia and Hungary During the Holocaust Era
This study of the Holocaust in Slovakia and Hungary reveals that in 1944, Jewish leaders were fully informed about Auschwitz but did not warn their people. While the vast majority of Jews perished, almost all the leaders survived. Why did they choose to remain silent?
A collection of radical documents covering revolutionary and working-class politics in Great Britain. It covers movements in British history from ancient Britain (60 CE) to the rise of the modern labour movement in 1920.
Towards Fairer Geo-Spiritual Ecosystems
This book looks at society, education, and spirituality through a decolonial lens. As AI and biotech redefine our future, we must surmount narratives subservient to privilege and power to create more inclusive, fair, and sustainable futures for humanity.
Navigating the Nineteenth-Century Institution
At its core is the pauper voice. This volume explores the New Poor Law and asylums through themes of pauper agency, dissent, and defiance, revealing how the poor negotiated a system that was fluid rather than fixed.
This book focuses on the Control Data Corporation’s early systems, which reflected the design principles of Seymour Cray. CDC developed fast processors for scientific and engineering organizations, and this volume covers their architectures, software, and key applications.
Locating Agency
“Politics” is more than government—it is power and agency in the lives of ordinary people. These collected essays explore this popular politics in religion, culture, and everyday life, suggesting political activity was embedded in almost every aspect of life.
A new generation of scholars is concerned with questions traditionally beyond the scope of history. The authors come from a range of disciplines, including literary studies, art, music, and science. Their cutting-edge research represents the latest trends.
This book offers new insight into the French historians of 1860-1914 known as the école méthodique. It reassesses whether this school emerged in response to political developments or a shared philosophy, offering a counter-argument to postmodernist scholars.
Republican, First, Last, and Always
B. Carroll Reece, a 35-year congressman and RNC Chairman, pushed anti-communism to the forefront of Republican politics. Believing capitalism was America’s strongest defense, he attacked any threat—from government projects to powerful foundations.
Law, Morality, and Abolitionism
Brown University President Francis Wayland denounced slavery as sinful yet respected the laws protecting it. Events forced him to confront his own moral arguments: If slavery violates natural rights, how could he not act? This work explores his journey.
John Locke and the Native Americans
This book elucidates Locke’s law of nature and view of war, revealing how they justified colonialism. His theories favoured European land acquisition over native rights and allowed the militarily superior side to proclaim a just war, undermining his principles of freedom.
This volume explores the search for wholeness and spirituality in the writings of contemporary African American women. Across fiction, drama, and poetry, this search is analyzed as a source of creativity and agency, healing spirit and body by reconciling past and present.
The image of ‘the Turk’ was historically the negative of the European self-image. Assuming the role of the ‘defining other,’ this concept was a constitutive element of European cultural identity. This book explores this past to better understand it.
This collection of accessible articles explores spirituality and faith in the works of masters of world cinema. It examines canonical directors like Godard and Kurosawa alongside contemporary auteurs, broadening the understanding of faith on film.
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