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Victorian Traffic

Identity, Exchange, Performance

Edited By: Sue Thomas

£39.99

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 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.

Christ Among Them

Incarnation and Renaissance in Medieval Italian Culture

By: Edoardo Mungiello

£29.99

This essay newly interprets the rise of the individual in Italy, 1180-1300. As the idea of a tangible Christ as neighbor became consistent, worship became a form of individualism, a Christian praxis that shaped the later Renaissance and Reformation.

Right / Left / Right Revolving Commitments

France and Britain 1929-1950

Edited By: Stan Smith

£34.99

This collection of essays examines the complex responses of British and French intellectuals to the political crises from the 1920s to WWII. It explores the radical shifts in allegiance as writers confronted the rise of fascism and communism.

You Gotta’ Stand Up

The Life and High Times of John Henry Faulk

By: Chris Drake

£34.99

Texas humorist and First Amendment advocate John Henry Faulk consciously risked a lucrative television career to bust the 1950s media blacklist. Known as “the man who broke the blacklist,” he spent a life baffling those who tried to pigeonhole him.

Beyond Borders

Fresh Perspectives in History of Science

Edited By: Néstor Herran, Tayra Lanuza-Navarro, Josep Simon

£39.99

How does scientific knowledge circulate? Is science a national or international endeavour? Challenging the fragmented state of the history of science, this book argues for pluralism and internationalism through a rich diversity of subjects, periods, and geographies.

Reading a Dynamic Canvas

Adornment in the Ancient Mediterranean World

Edited By: Cynthia S. Colburn, Maura K. Heyn

£34.99

Personal adornment shapes identity, but can be manipulated to conceal or exaggerate reality. The essays in this volume explore this discourse through material evidence, covering a broad span from the ancient Near East to Roman Britain.

Interpreting the New Milenio

Edited By: M. Carmen Gómez Galisteo, José Antonio Gurpegui

£34.99

This collection of essays analyzes the past, present, and future of Chicano Literature. Covering well-known authors like Sandra Cisneros and lesser-known 19th-century Hispanic writers, it seeks the keys to interpret the challenges of the new millennium.

Astronomy and Astrophysics in Spain (1850-1914)

Edited By: Pedro Ruiz-Castell

£39.99

This book explores the progress of astronomy and astrophysics in Spain from the late 19th to the early 20th century. The eclipses of 1900 and 1905 were a crucial turning point, connecting Spanish scholars with the international community.

Truths Breathed Through Silver

The Inklings' Moral and Mythopoeic Legacy

Edited By: Joe R. Christopher, Jonathan Himes, Salwa Khoddam

£29.99

The Oxford Inklings believed old myths held truth to fortify humanity. This collection explores how Lewis, Tolkien, and Williams wove theology and literary craft to connect the mortal with the divine.

Only in the Common People

The Aesthetics of Class in Post-War Britain

By: Paul Long

£39.99

In post-war Britain, working-class culture became a key issue. This book investigates projects designed to describe, validate, and reclaim 'authentic' working-class culture, examining the assumptions, idealism, and prejudices that informed the New Left.

In post-war Britain, working-class culture became a key issue. This book investigates projects designed to describe, validate, and reclaim ‘authentic’ working-class culture, examining the assumptions, idealism, and prejudices that informed the New Left.

From Antiquary to Archaeologist

Frederick Corbin Lukis of Guernsey

By: Heather Sebire

£34.99

Based on the Guernsey Museum archive of antiquarian Frederick Corbin Lukis (1788-1871), this illustrated book explores his life, the history of antiquarianism, and the development of archaeology as a discipline in the nineteenth century.

Resisting Modernity

Counternarratives of Nation and Masculinity in pre-Independence India

By: Samir Dayal

£29.99

Samir Dayal’s Resisting Modernity is provocative. Drawing on postcolonial and psychoanalytic theory, Dayal complicates our understanding of Ramakrishna, Tagore, and Gandhi, seeing them as resisting the modernist rhetoric of sovereignty and rational nationalism.

Labor’s Canvas

American Working-Class History and the WPA Art of the 1930s

By: Laura Hapke

£34.99

Labor’s Canvas argues that New Deal art reveals important tensions. Artists saw themselves as cultural workers, yet struggled to reconcile social protest and aesthetics, often depicting laborers as bodies without minds and exposing cultural contradictions.

Internalising the Historical Past

Issues for Separation and Moving On

Edited By: Elaine Arnold, Bernadette Hawkes

£24.99

This book explores the traumatic effects of broken attachments resulting from the separation of families through slavery. Using attachment theory, it discusses the psychological trauma on descendants of the enslaved and its impact on their lives today.

Last Letters

Edited By: Sylvie Crinquand

£29.99

This collection of essays is devoted to last letters: notes to sever a relationship, messages written before death, and even fictional texts or poems. By focussing on these ultimate messages, the contributors provide an original approach to closure.

Womanhood in Anglophone Literary Culture

Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Perspectives

Edited By: Robin Hammerman

£39.99

This collection of essays examines how nineteenth and twentieth century women writers responded to patriarchal assumptions about literary merit while contributing to new conceptions of womanhood in Anglophone literary culture.

Sublimer Aspects

Interfaces between Literature, Aesthetics, and Theology

Edited By: Natasha Duquette

£34.99

How did eighteenth-century aesthetics influence Christian theology and practice? These essays answer this by examining interfaces between literature, aesthetics, and theology from 1715-1885, considering writers from Kant and Coleridge to rediscovered women writers.

Byron at the Theatre

Edited By: Peter Cochran, Shona M. Allan

£34.99

This collection of essays explores Byron’s dramas and relationship with the theatre. It covers Regency London’s squalid conditions, Alfieri's influence, and Byron as a dramatic performer. A vital book for anyone interested in this little-understood aspect of his work.

This collection of essays explores Byron’s dramas and relationship with the theatre. It covers Regency London’s squalid conditions, Alfieri’s influence, and Byron as a dramatic performer. A vital book for anyone interested in this little-understood aspect of his work.

Anglo-American Perceptions of Hellenism

Edited By: Tatiani Rapatzikou

£39.99

This book tackles Hellenism as a global entity through a comparative study of English and American literary, cultural, and artistic trends from the 18th to the 20th centuries. It proves the enduring, intercontinental appeal of Hellenism.

Fields of Expertise

A Comparative History of Expert Procedures in Paris and London, 1600 to present

Edited By: Christelle Rabier

£39.99

Fields of Expertise explores the relationship between experts and power from a historical perspective. Using case studies from Paris and London since 1600, it challenges traditional views on expertise in risk management, medicine, and economic policy.