Masks of Identity
This collection reveals how Otherness, a legacy of colonization, shapes Latin American society. Essays explore how the identities of indigenous peoples, women, and others are constructed, visually represented, performed, and contested.
Living History
This book analyses the memorializing of slavery as a transnational movement. It explores how reconstructing the past legitimizes demands for recognition and reparations through monuments, museums, and public apologies across the Americas, Africa, and Europe.
Learning Abroad
Since 1959, Commonwealth scholarships have moved 25,000 people across borders, launching them into influence. This book tells the story of the plan, asking who was selected and why, and assesses the long-term impact to answer a key question: was it good value?
Governing Diversities
How should we govern diverse populations? This volume addresses this core political question by engaging with the history of ideas on democracy and diversity, from ancient Greece to modern-day Mexico, with contributions from innovative and leading scholars.
Victorian Traffic
This collection explores “traffic”—a key concept for the Victorian era’s imperial expansion. With a global range, these essays address the two-way, cross-cultural exchange of ideas, images, and identity, revealing it as relational and always in motion.
This book showcases new approaches to postclassical comedy. The contributions approach New Comedy as theatrical performance and a dynamic player in socio-political discourse, emphasizing its progressiveness and importance for Hellenistic and Roman culture.
Rebellion and Revolution
This collection of essays by scholars of history, literature, and film offers new perspectives on key moments of German rebellion. It takes a multidisciplinary approach to analyze events from the 1525 Peasants’ War to the fall of the GDR.
Crossing Colonial Historiographies
This book offers an innovative engagement with the diverse histories of colonial and indigenous medicines across Asia, Africa, and the Americas. It explores new conceptual perspectives and highlights thematic commonalities and divergences across regions.
Time Images
The “time-image” concept holds broad potential for the historical interpretation of cultural works. This book applies this innovative concept to theory, literature, and cinema, revealing the historical character of works not ordinarily seen as historical.
This collection explores the British labour movement’s neglected relationship with imperialism from 1800–1982. It engages with themes from trade union interaction with empire to post-colonialism, making a substantial contribution to the debates on imperialism’s legacy.
The history of rhetoric has continued to exist in a binary of West and Rest, silencing many voices within the West itself. This book expands the conversation by examining the traditions that lost the cultural competition and have been shrouded in shadow.
Divine Sounds from the Heart—Singing Unfettered in their Own Voices
In a world dominated by male voices, medieval women saints embraced bhakti (devotion) as a form of resistance. They questioned society, family, and relationships, rejecting patriarchal control and finding their own voices by reimagining God as a lover, a husband, and a friend.
Challenging most historians, this book suggests the struggle to establish a Jewish state was less a response to international challenges and more a struggle for power within the future state, providing new insights into pivotal historic events.
Toward, Around, and Away from Tahrir
The 2011 revolution complicated questions about Egyptian identity. This volume focuses on written and oral expression, viewed through the lenses of rhetoric and communication, to understand how the demand for change altered Egyptians’ perceptions of themselves.
New Perspectives on Anarchism, Labour and Syndicalism
This collection presents new research on the history of anarchist movements and revolutionary syndicalism in Europe. It revisits national histories through transnational perspectives, exploring cross-border interactions and the fascinating itineraries of individual activists.
Cosmic Order and Cultural Astronomy
In India, sacredscapes arise where culture, geography, and cosmos create transcendent power. This volume’s essays explore cultural astronomy and cosmic order through case studies of sacred sites like Khajuraho, Gaya, Kashi, Vindhyachal, and Chitrakut.
In response to Britain’s economic decline, the Conservative Government of 1959-1964 effected a series of striking and controversial policy transformations. This book examines their ambitious aim: to fashion a modern nation and ensure their continuation in power.
Scouting Frontiers
Scouting Frontiers is the first book to discuss the history of the Boy Scout and Girl Guide movements on an international scale. It examines how the world’s greatest youth movement transformed as it faced frontiers of nation, empire, religion, and gender.
Historical Knowledge
This book offers theoretical and methodological building blocks for historical research. It addresses the challenges of evidence and interpreting the past, featuring texts by eminent historians Natalie Zemon Davis, Carlo Ginzburg, and Giovanni Levi.
West of Eden
West of Eden is a study of botanical discourse in colonial and post-colonial contexts. It explores the loss of roots and identity when plants were brought along the slave-route. The loss of a plant may also mean the loss of its name, putting a rich eco-literature at risk.
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