Who determines the ‘Centre’ of a culture and what the ‘Margins’? The Margins of one generation can become the Centre of another in a seismic cultural shift. How does this transformation occur and what does it reveal about the very nature of culture itself?
Divided we stand
In the 1950s, fears of a ‘new Wehrmacht’ clashed with the ambition for European integration, sparking passionate political debates. This book offers an innovative examination of the role non-state actors and political parties played in France and Italy.
This volume explores the relation between the Irish people and the printed word. It highlights the role of private presses, periodicals, and propaganda in circulating ideas and building a national identity. ‘A bold, wide-ranging introduction.’ – Declan Kiberd
This book reveals how Greek Enlightenment intellectuals forged a modern national identity. They reframed history to include Byzantium and transformed liberal Enlightenment ideas into a nationalist ideology, paving the way for the War of Independence in 1821.
Pursuits and Joys
This volume is a collection of updated papers exploring the remarkable Lukis family and their contemporaries. It examines their pioneering work and the evolution of archaeology as a discipline in the nineteenth century across Britain and Europe.
This collection reconsiders the history of science in nineteenth-century Britain. Moving away from a Darwin-focused history, these interdisciplinary essays offer fresh insights into scientific development through history, religion, literature, and art.
Few subjects are more controversial or important to today’s world than the British Empire. Using case studies, this book examines how the Empire ended, how independence was won and resisted, and what its collapse tells us about its legacy.
Echoes from the Greek Bronze Age
This book highlights Hecataeus’s work on Herodotus’ ‘known world’, alongside the thoughts of Anaxagoras and Xenophanes. It also presents Simonides’ art of memory, ‘the Loci’, and its influence years later on the heretic Giordano Bruno.
The 1960s in Australia
The 1960s is a heavily mythologised decade. This collection challenges that myth, showing that not everyone in Australia experienced it the same way. Expert historians explore the complex social realities, power, and politics of this significant time.
Commodore Squib
When England faced Napoleonic France, Sir William Congreve championed secret weapons, notably gunpowder rockets. His was a world of experimental warfare and espionage. Acclaimed and derided, his overlooked influence is commemorated in the American National Anthem.
This book combats modern scholarship’s marginalization of women in antiquity, proving their roles in the home, workplace, and society were essential for survival. Using archaeology and textual studies, it highlights women’s extensive accomplishments.
Explore the preaching and teaching of Rudolf Bultmann and Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Often misunderstood, this book objectively views their methods of biblical interpretation, showing how both sought to communicate the Gospel in a relevant manner during a challenging time.
Disability and Medieval Law
Disability and Medieval Law considers how medieval societies dealt with crime, punishment, and mental illness. When did law take disability into account? When did it choose to cause disabilities? How did authors use disability to discuss law and human nature?
Life Writing
In our age of testimony, what are we to make of all this telling of lives? This collection of essays from leading writers and academics demonstrates the fluidity and diversity of life writing, presenting both the state of the art and the spirit of our age.
Recovering Memory
This collection of essays examines representations of memory in Irish literature and culture. It explores public and private memory, the intersection between collective and individual, and the relation between memory, identity, and Ireland’s tragic past.
This interdisciplinary collection explores the connections between radicalism and localism across the globe. It questions how the local fosters new political possibilities, empowers under-represented groups, and shapes distinct cultural forms of resistance.
Purgatory between Kentucky and Canada
In the purgatory between Kentucky and Canada, ordinary African Americans in Ohio fought to create a space of peace. These histories reveal how individuals in the 19th and 20th centuries used social networks to secure education, voting rights, and liberty.
Working the System in Sub-Saharan Africa
How are democracy and development negotiated in sub-Saharan Africa? This volume offers context-based analyses showing how local practices have been ‘working the system’ of global ideas, a process with a rich historical dimension often overlooked.
Jacob Bryant was an eminent scholar and “the outstanding figure among mythagogues.” His work, “An Analysis of Antient Mythology,” is regarded as one of the most in-depth Classical works on Ancient Greece and the ancient world.
The Polish Swan Triumphant
This collection of essays covers several centuries of Polish literature and its reception abroad, from the Renaissance poet Jan Kochanowski and the Baroque to the great precursor of modern poetry, Cyprian Norwid. It explores their influence on foreign poets.
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