Crossed Correspondences
This collection of essays analyses letters between literary peers in which writers comment not only on the production of their correspondent, but also on their own artistic approach and their own work while it is still in progress or not yet published.
Inspired by the renewed interest in Medieval culture, literature and society evident in recent fictional works, this collection of essays discusses a wide range of issues related to Medieval England, from the Beowulf saga to echoes of Medieval literature in contemporary fiction.
The First World War
The result of an international conference held in Rome 2014 to mark one hundred years since the beginning of the Great War, this volume uses archival documents from various countries to examine ideological debates and contemporary narratives of the war, and the use of propaganda.
Challenging Ideas
This volume focuses on how the relationship between past and present informs theory and empirical research. Divided into two parts, it looks at the memory turn in the field of history and the intersections between social science, political theory and the writing of history.
For God and Country
This study on England’s 1944 Education Act examines how politicians and educationalists promoted Christian-civic humanism as the primary educational philosophy in order to shape an education system that promoted a national identity based on ideals of tradition and progress.
This book provides an engaging history of classical education in English schools, beginning in 1500 with massive educational developments in England as humanist studies reached the country from abroad, and ending with the headmastership of Thomas Arnold of Rugby School.
This collection of essays provides insights into the culturally conditioned structure of Asian societies, questioning Eurocentric views of modernity that assume that Confucianism would have to be abandoned if East Asia wanted to develop a dynamic, modern society.
‘Intimately Associated for Many Years’
This volume contains the correspondence of Anglican Bishop George Bell and the General Secretary of the World Council of Churches, Willem Visser’t Hooft, and reflects efforts made across the ecumenical movement to unite the Christian churches in an age of international crisis.
Thrice a Stranger
By focusing on the real story of a family against a background of historical events, this book shows how the pseudo-theories of so-called international relations can be demolished, and brings to life some vital aspects of modern European history.
‘Intimately Associated for Many Years’
The letters of Bishop George Bell and Willem Visser’t Hooft mirror efforts by the World Council of Churches to unite Christianity and confront an age of crisis. To mitigate political tensions, they raised their voices to presidents and prime ministers.
Views from the Parish
This collection of essays explores churchwardens’ accounts in a number of parishes in England, Wales and Ireland. These accounts offer an invaluable source of information about the maintenance of the church fabric, and the nature of parish worship and community life in general.
Enemies Within
This volume provides historical perspectives on the debate on forms of government and political legitimacy in the Hispanic dimension of the Atlantic world, where modern politics was based on a series of exclusions that were explained as natural and necessary.
Uses and Abuses of Culture
This monograph investigates the impact of the European crisis on perceptions of Greek identity and cultural memory, focusing on the contradictions between intrinsic components of Greek cultural and national identities and the country’s adopted European identity.
Studies on Karachi
This book, a landmark in scholarship on Karachi, explores the city’s development from a sleepy settlement into a mega-city. It depicts a city that, despite its vibrancy, is afflicted with problems ranging from poor planning to colossal mismanagement.
Exploring the qualifications that social actors use to support themselves when engaging in common actions, this inquiry highlights the ways in which these actors communalise certain aspects of their life and produce justifications that give sense to their actions.
Using insights from Bulgarian history, Tzaneva views the construction of Bulgarian national identity as a process intimately affected by social circumstances in nineteenth-century Bulgaria, and explores how the concept of ethnosymbolism contributes to identity dynamics.
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.
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.
This collection investigates Portuguese presence in Guinea, Cape Verde, Angola, São Tomé, Brazil and Goa, and the resultant formation of mixed or creole communities which were influenced culturally both by Portugal and indigenous societies.
This book investigates social policy in Iraqi Kurdistan, introducing a “clientelistic model of policy implementation.” It argues that politicians interfere, distributing social security benefits based on socio-political status, not socio-economic need.
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