Dr Johnson would walk to the ends of the earth to save him, yet others rejoiced at his death. How did a beautiful, privileged youth become infamous for causing a lice infestation? A friend to the Enlightenment’s leading figures, he lived life to the full.
Glimpsing Modernity
Glimpsing Modernity captures the metamorphosis of military medicine during the First World War in a series of vignettes. These stories provide new interpretations of known themes and examine less well-known, but truly important medical topics.
Julian Among the Books
This book explores the European background of Julian of Norwich’s manuscripts, arguing for ‘Holy Conversations’ where readers participate in her visions. It discusses her Benedictine context, links to other mystics, and preservation by exiled nuns who treasured her text.
The Importance of Place
How do we value historic urban landscape in order to intervene within it as designers? This is the central question of this volume, and is tackled by its 16 essays investigating different facets of value as bases of building and design practices on a range of spatial scales.
Yea, Alabama! A Peek into the Past of One of the Most Storied Universities in the Nation
Battles relates the narrative of the storied University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, in the United States, bringing to the fore many new facts, new stories, new characters, new revelations, and new photos that offer the fullest picture of the University provided to date.
Using and Abusing Science
This title explores how, and to what extent, science has been used by politicians to add legitimacy to their discourse over the past three centuries, and provides an illuminating illustration of the relationship between science and the political.
Mediterranean Heritage in Transit
Given the importance of Mediterranean itineraries in the shaping of the European Union’s cultural heritage, the papers brought together here help shed light on the multifaceted entities that constitute the vibrant socio-semiotic landscape of this region.
Timeless Experience
Offering unique insights into a key figure in the development of Gestalt therapy, this volume comprises Laura Perls’s heretofore unpublished writing, including journal entries, letters, poems, translations, short stories, and drafts for lectures and publications.
McElwee explores the under-representation of the poor rural worker in paintings of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, showing that depictions of the rural landscape rarely reflected the harsh realities of the life of the labourer.
This volume brings together, for the first time, essays authored by the influential British existential philosopher Colin Wilson on seventeen other philosophers from across the globe, including some of those he met personally to discuss their ideas.
Living War, Thinking Peace (1914-1924)
This volume offers first-hand accounts from women facing the horrors of war, explores the lives and thought of several key women activists who challenged inequalities, and examines the work of women who saw the outbreak of the First World War as an opportunity for emancipation.
The Italian Emigration of Modern Times
Patrizia Famà Stahle investigates diplomatic issues that arose between Italy and the United States over a series of lynchings of Italian immigrant labourers before World War I. The work explores a significant epoch in Italian economic and diplomatic history.
Jawless Fishes of the World
The first book to focus exclusively on various aspects of jawless fish species throughout the world, this volume provides an overview of a variety of related topics, including their taxonomy, zoogeography, phylogeny, molecular biology, evolution, and role in the ecosystem.
Roaming, Wandering, Deviation and Error
This title presents a comparative reading of John Milton’s epic Paradise Lost in relation to four novels by Salman Rushdie, namely The Satanic Verses, The Moor’s Last Sigh, Fury and The Ground Beneath Her Feet, confronting terms such as influence and inheritance.
Education in St. Maarten from 1954 to 2000
George narrates the development of education in St. Maarten over a period of nearly 50 years, tapping into the experience of the protagonists, giving postcolonial subjects, often bypassed or forgotten by most traditional historians, a voice in the recording of their own history.
From Colonies to Countries in the North Caribbean
This publication explores how military engineers in the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico reshaped the physical landscape for imperial reasons, laying the foundations for colonial development, and highlights the role of military engineers in articulating new American countries.
Empires, Nations and Private Lives
Bringing together papers presented at a conference devoted to little-known facets of the First World War’s cultural and social history, this collection examines the causes and consequences of the conflict from a perspective extending beyond the traditional focus on Europe.
The Fruits of Madness
This title brings together presentations given at a seminar held in 2014 as part of the Annual International Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, and offers fresh and thought-provoking perspectives on the ancient Israelite and early Jewish concern with prophecy.
(Re)collecting the Past
This title explores the role of memoria histórica in its broadest sense, bringing together studies of narrative, theatre, visual expressions, film, television, and radio that provide a comprehensive overview of contemporary cultural production in Spain in this regard.
This monograph explores the emotional conflicts of Aimee Mayne, a woman born in 1872 into a life of apparent privilege and opportunity, providing revealing analysis that includes revelations about women brought up in the late-Victorian period.
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