Moving from Infancy to Young Adulthood
A review of the Virgin Islands’ (BVI) economic and political development over the past 60 years. This book explores future possibilities and comments on present systems, making it a must-read for island scholars, policy makers, and students.
Muses, Mistresses and Mates
This book challenges the sexist stereotype of the passive Muse. The essays collected here focus on “Muses, Mistresses and Mates” whose own exceptional talent brought them into creative partnership, dissecting myths to offer a corrective view of these women.
Museums and Communities
This volume brings together seventeen essays critically reflecting on the collaborative work of the contemporary ethnographic museum with diverse communities. It represents an opportunity to think about the roles and values of museums internationally.
This volume addresses innovative ways to present cultural heritage primarily in ethnographic and social history museums through recent exhibitions. Essential political issues related to power and the strong influences of the museum are addressed in each section.
Museums beyond the Crises
The predominant model of the museum is collapsing. The old paradigm is being replaced by a new one that still needs to be defined. This book investigates what such a new paradigm may entail and its consequences for the preservation of heritage.
This history of computing from 1950 to 1970 reveals how an arithmetic machine evolved into a cornerstone of global society. Pioneers laid the platform for a social revolution, leading to the phone in your pocket and the PC on your desk. No one saw this coming.
My Life as A Forensic Sociologist
A forensic sociologist involved in criminal trials, Dr. Erickson acts as an expert witness for the defence or prosecution. This is the real-life story of her involvement with violent crime, visiting scenes in the dead of night to uncover discoveries for her testimony.
Myth
Myth presents interdisciplinary research on myths in German and Scandinavian societies. These essays analyze how cultural and social practices influence each other, showcasing new inquiries and methods across fields from history to film studies.
Offering perspectives from under-discussed linguistic contexts, including Spain and Austria, in addition to more prominent countries such as the UK, this title explores tensions between the local and the global in education, investigating its increasing commodification.
Myths and Memories
This book examines European travellers’ perceptions of southern Western Australia between 1850 and 1914. Shaped by power and privilege, their narrow narratives created a mythical “pioneer” community, ignoring the inequalities of colonial life.
Authored by British and Italian historians, this title addresses the Italian war so often ignored in western history, tackling the myth of Italian cowardice, and questions the myth of the special relationship between Great Britain and the USA.
Naked and Alone in a Strange New World
This analysis of early modern captivity narratives argues the harrowing tales are not historically accurate. Instead, they are cultural artifacts that offer insight into the mentalities of the age, aiding understanding of sixteenth-century peoples and societies.
This book uses personal naming to challenge the narrative of cultural change in England after the Norman Conquest. It reveals that far from a single uniform culture, there existed complex, residual, and resistant regional cultures.
Narrating the Past
Narrative is an integral part of human existence, challenging the supremacy of empirical fact and our ability to know the past as it really was. Examining a wide range of texts, the essays in this volume reveal that all representations of the past are situated.
Narrative Criminology
This guide on narrative criminology shows how academia and entertainment can blend. For true crime creators and criminology students, it is an insider’s guide to crafting compelling, responsible narratives that educate and entertain without lowering academic standards.
Spalding sets out a challenging re-interpretation of the politics of Labour’s left-wing, highlighting how the Left developed a range of simplistic, self-sustaining narratives, rather than supported analyses, to guide its actions in the aftermath of the political crisis of 1931.
Narratives of Identity
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.
Nature Alive
Inspired by the work of Alfred North Whitehead and his metaphysical “lens,” the contributors here bring a multiplicity of philosophical orientations to the table in challenging the mechanistic and reductionistic neo-Darwinian paradigm still dominant today in the life sciences.
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.
Nawãr (Savages)
The Syrian revolution was the most complicated of the Arab Spring. This book examines the intellectual and behavioral changes Syrian society experienced under the Assad totalitarian regime and how they reshaped society, influencing the revolution and its outcome.