Decolonising the Mediterranean
Centring on North African, Maghreb and Mashrek countries’ colonial legacies, this collection investigates borders from a transnational perspective. While the research directions and topics in each chapter are different, they all suggest a specific path for decolonising knowledge.
Ritchie examines what remains an under-studied aspect of Samuel Johnson’s profile—his attitude to social improvement. The cross-disciplinary framework provided applies perspectives from social and cultural history, legal history, architectural history and English literature.
Holocaust Resistance in Europe and America
Eleven essays are brought together here to investigate different aspects of resistance to the Holocaust, which took many forms, including armed and passive resistance. They analyse resistance to the Nazi regime and motivations to fight against Nazi Germany during World War II.
Science Research and Education in Africa
This conference proceedings discusses how Africa may be about to undergo a profound change in scientific and medical development. Its themes include health research improvement and disease surveillance education, and deadly epidemic diseases.
Late Nineteenth-Century Italy in Africa
Bruner looks at an 1891 affair concerning a claim that officials in Italy’s Red Sea colony ordered the secret and brutal killing of certain indigenous notables. He studies how this affair re-shaped the Italian outlook on colonialism, opening the door to conflicts and battles.
The Recovery of Palestine, 1917
Weintraub illustrates how General Edmund Allenby, having been raised on the Bible, exploited Prime Minister David Lloyd George’s request for help to capture Jerusalem in 1917. He explains how, despite a hard-fought desert war Jerusalem finally fell, with its sacred sites intact.
This anthology studies the subject of islands, their essence and identity, their isolation and their relationships in the Ancient world. It researches Greek and Roman concepts of insularity, and their consequences for the political, economic and social life of the Empire.
Examples of social practice in the Central European region from the 19th century to the 1950s are presented here. The volume responds to the current economic and social crisis, including the welfare state crisis, which raises the need to seek solutions from the past and present.
This conference proceedings sheds new light on the debate surrounding the periodization of Late Antiquity. It recalls key moments of the discovery of the world of Late Antiquity, and shows how it is possible to reach a definition of an age.
This volume examines how self-presentation can facilitate our understanding of how individuals present their identities. Topics covered include identities shaped through the self-presentation of authors in Latin literature, and explorations on epigraphy and historical analyses.
Ever since the courtroom doors closed in 1919, the tragic Charlotte Streetcar Strike has haunted the collective memory of the Carolina Piedmont region. This monograph represents the result of over ten years’ worth of primary research about the strike.
The Witches of Selwood Forest
Pickering presents the first comprehensive study of Selwood forest’s rich history of demonological beliefs and witchcraft persecution in the early modern period. He investigates connections between important theological texts written in the region and notable witchcraft episodes.
By exploring the nature of book production and changing images of peasants in Livonia and Courland in the 18th and 19th centuries, Daija investigates the complex historical relationship between Latvians and Baltic Germans and the regional specifics of the Baltic Enlightenment.
Louise Lightfoot in Search of India
Sarwal unites Louise Lightfoot’s 33 essays, reflecting her broader worldview as a successful dancer, choreographer, and impresario. Her articles segue into each other and echo her various encounters with India and its diverse cultural conditions, beliefs and philosophies.
Though much has been written on the Grenada Revolution and its untimely demise, the majority of authors have been non-Grenadian. All the contributors here, except one, are Grenadian, giving voice to persons who were active participants, children, teenagers, and young adults.
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.
War on the Human
The essays here explore the question of the human, both as a contested concept and as it relates to the wider global conjuncture. They explore the theoretical underpinnings of the term “human,” inviting the reader to reflect upon the contemporary human condition.
Renovating the Sacred
In this exploration of the cultural context of the English Reformation, Larking places the emphasis not just on law makers or the major players, but also, and more importantly, on those individuals and parish communities that lived through the twists and turns of reform.
Cultural Heritage in a Comparative Approach
Adopting a comparative approach, looking at a variety of experiences developed for the management of cultural heritage since the emergence of the protectionist movement, Ragusa analyses UNESCO cultural heritage legislation.
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.
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