Italian-Soviet Relations from 1943-1946
After Mussolini’s government collapsed and Italy surrendered to the Allies, the nation was torn. Two rival Italian governments faced each other as the Allies advanced. Amidst this chaos, relations with the Soviet Union resumed. This book reconstructs this delicate moment.
This first comprehensive volume explores the concept of the ‘home front’ in Greek and Roman Antiquity. Crossing borders between history, social sciences, and religious studies, it investigates the impact of war on the social and religious spheres of civilian communities.
French Historians in the Nineteenth Century
This study of nineteenth-century French historians reveals a major change of perspective. Early historians like Guizot looked to the past for guidance, while later historians saw it as a closed book to be opened, highlighting overlooked figures like Comtesse d’Agoult.
The Great War and Scottish Nurses’ Diaries
Nurses who worked in Scottish Women’s Hospitals in Romania during the Great War detailed their experiences, thoughts and opinions into journals; this research work analyses the representations of war within them from a perspective of autobiographical writing and war testimony.
People’s Diplomacy of Vietnam
The first book on “People’s Diplomacy.” During the Vietnam War, ordinary Vietnamese citizens connected with global anti-war movements, pressuring U.S. presidents to end the conflict. This informal diplomacy proved more effective than formal channels in winning Western support.
Terrorism in Literature
This volume explores terrorism in literary works, celebrating literature as a subversive tool for change. With insights from scholars across the world and a foreword by acclaimed writer Tabish Khair on literature as a powerful tool for dissent and truth telling.
Colonising Te Whanganui ā Tara and Marketing Wellington, 1840-1849
In the 1840s, the New Zealand Company used powerful images to lure English settlers to Wellington, a land already home to Māori. This book explores how these visuals were complicit in transferring Māori land into English ownership, investigating processes of redress and hope.
This book features 24 papers on ancient Greek science and technology, covering mathematics, physics, and engineering. Topics range from Plato’s mathematical concepts and Aristotle’s Physics to the Trojan Horse reconstruction and telecommunications in ancient Greece.
A Scholiast’s Quill
The Latin American poet, essayist, and literary theorist Alfonso Reyes (1889-1959) wrote about every important topic and intellectual current that defined his beleaguered times. The original readings of his work contained here reassess his legacy from a 21st century perspective.
The term “Intermarium” has a long historical tradition and was commonly used to define the area between the Baltic and Black Seas. Its connotations, historical usage, aspects, and its potential, are discussed here from geopolitical, economic and cultural perspectives.
Democrats into Nazis
How did middle-class Germans support extreme nationalism? This study of a Bavarian town after WWI shows how devastating crises discredited democracy and handed the initiative to the radical Right, as inhabitants came to see events as part of a broader “European Civil War.”
Forensic science pioneer Ralph Turner’s work was the basis for drunk driving laws. He founded the field’s leading professional organization and was one of the first persons to question the Warren Commission Report on the assassination of President Kennedy.
The Nation and its Margins
This volume questions the nation-state as the only form of community, challenging its control over belonging. It explores cross-cultural encounters in the Global South, allowing invisible narratives to emerge and revealing radically innovative forms of cohesion and identity.
The genre of chemical biography has enjoyed a revival. But as scientists communicate by email and compose documents on computers, are we facing a modern equivalent of the destruction of the Library of Alexandria? This book explores the emerging questions faced by biographers.
The Homeric Citadel is a cosmogonic and philosophical symbol. This enquiry reveals Mycenaean architecture as a scene for psychological transformation, where elements like the column and megaron are archetypal images on the journey towards ‘self-realization’.
On Theory
This book demystifies theory—the ubiquitous, flawed thing that undergirds humanity’s greatest successes and failures. For anyone studying, writing, critiquing, or applying theory, it unifies the sciences in terms of goals and duties and explains the responsibilities it entails.
World Cities, City Worlds
When living and working in cities, we need to make sense of them in order to get by. We must delve below their surface to understand how we can best engage with them. Solesbury argues that three tropes can help us here: namely, metaphors, icons and perspectives.
The Americas and the New World Order
Written by leading experts and new scholars, this collection of essays portrays the Americas’ place in the world. Spanning the Colonial Era to the present, it explores vital issues like migration, crime, economics, and relations between Asia and the Americas.
Comparative Literature in Europe
Researchers from across Europe explain how comparative literature works in their countries. This unique book offers an expansive panorama with emphasis on usually “invisible” countries. A handbook for the present and a laboratory for the future of the discipline.
Kwame Nkrumah and Félix Houphouët-Boigny
This book discusses the divergent approaches to African independence of two great leaders, Kwame Nkrumah and Félix Houphouët-Boigny. It identifies the impact their differences had on Africa and explores why, despite vast resources, it remains the world’s poorest continent.
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