Border Folk Balladeers
This book contains critical studies on Américo Paredes, a founder of Mexican American Studies. Renowned scholars analyze his pioneering work on border culture, from the traditional Texas-Mexican corrido to its contemporary offshoots like narcoballads and narconovels.
The Mystique of the Northwest Passage
Chylińska highlights the 16th-century English-Atlantic connections constructed on the basis of the world division defined by two fundamental documents of the late 15th century: namely, the papal bull Inter Caetera, and the Portuguese-Spanish Treaty of Tordesilla.
An Anatomy of an English Radical Newspaper
Curelly investigates the content of The Moderate, a radical newspaper of the British Civil Wars published in the pivotal years 1648-9. He captures the essence of this periodical, seen both as a political publication and a commercial product.
This volume examines the darker side of the famed American founder, Alexander Hamilton. A Gilded Age revival of his ideas helped inspire an assertive American role in the world, culminating in an overseas empire. The book reveals his elitist and military-commercial convictions.
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.
Offering an accessible framework for the student and general reader to study the Franco regime, Sangster explores the various views of the Spanish dictator provided by biographers and historians.
History Making a Difference
Timely direction and informed debate is given here, about the importance of history, considering why we should care about, teach, research and write history. The compilation offers new approaches that consider the ability and potential for history to ‘make a difference’ today.
Terrorism in Literature
This volume explores terrorism in literary works, celebrating literature as a subversive tool for change. With insights from scholars across the world and a foreword by acclaimed writer Tabish Khair on literature as a powerful tool for dissent and truth telling.
The Cultural Fabric of the Americas
Written by recognized authorities in their fields and by promising new scholars alike, this collection presents a wide assortment of viewpoints and research backgrounds to portray the Americas and its vast and diverse cultural fabric.
“Three women ruined the Kingdom: Eve, The Queen and the Countess of Derby.” This biography pieces together the life of Charlotte de La Trémoïlle, a Huguenot who defended Lathom House during a brutal siege and was the only woman sequestered by Oliver Cromwell’s Parliament.
People’s Diplomacy of Vietnam
The first book on “People’s Diplomacy.” During the Vietnam War, ordinary Vietnamese citizens connected with global anti-war movements, pressuring U.S. presidents to end the conflict. This informal diplomacy proved more effective than formal channels in winning Western support.
The Great War and Scottish Nurses’ Diaries
Nurses who worked in Scottish Women’s Hospitals in Romania during the Great War detailed their experiences, thoughts and opinions into journals; this research work analyses the representations of war within them from a perspective of autobiographical writing and war testimony.
The essays here offer a wide-ranging study of the continuing impact of the ‘English Urban Renaissance’ and investigate the wider impact of the concept beyond England. They reiterate the importance of provincial towns as hubs of economic, cultural and political activity.
French Historians in the Nineteenth Century
This study of nineteenth-century French historians reveals a major change of perspective. Early historians like Guizot looked to the past for guidance, while later historians saw it as a closed book to be opened, highlighting overlooked figures like Comtesse d’Agoult.
This first comprehensive volume explores the concept of the ‘home front’ in Greek and Roman Antiquity. Crossing borders between history, social sciences, and religious studies, it investigates the impact of war on the social and religious spheres of civilian communities.
Essays on the Medieval Period and the Renaissance
Spanning three centuries of English literature, from 15th-century texts to Milton, this collection reinterprets tradition with innovative methods. Essays explore genre experiments, contemporary Shakespearean adaptations, and new perspectives on Milton.
This compendium gathers perspectives on the history of labour in Ireland, as well as on Irish-American labor, particularly since the mass emigration prompted by the famine of the 1840s. It also examines the specific role that the Irish played in the Inland Northwest.
Explore the incredible and neglected history of Mogadishu, a prosperous medieval trading city and cultural crossroad. Rich and rare photographic evidence reveals its mosques, ruins, and residences—medieval treasures threatened by destruction and decline.
Iranian Women in the Memoir
This book investigates how Azar Nafisi’s Reading Lolita in Tehran and Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis empower Iranian women to reclaim their agency, transgress trauma, and reconstruct womanhood, portraying them not as victims but as active participants rewriting their own stories.
Philosophy in Ancient Rome
Vergeer describes the philosophy of ancient Rome in an original, convincing and, at the same time, captivating manner, showing that it is both a continuation of Greek philosophy and a substantially different way of thinking.
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