This book explores the partnership between the French state and Disney to create Val d’Europe. It reveals why a welfarist state joined a capitalist giant and critically examines their ongoing efforts to build a massive urban tourism pole despite criticisms and challenges.
An innovative way to study American history from the colonial period to the 20th century. Learn how to analyze primary sources in a scholarly manner, then explore 20 historical texts, each with its own set of activities. A vital handbook for both students and professors.
By studying the temperance societies of Victorian and Edwardian England, this book opens a window onto middle-class and working-class society. These organizations of men, women, and children provided the backbone for temperance as both a social movement and a political lobby.
The Value of Work and Its Rules between Innovation and Tradition
Amid global challenges, this book examines the principle “labour is not a commodity” and its practical implications. It helps academics and practitioners understand today’s socio-economic changes, globalization, and the role of public and private institutions.
Paul C. Mocombe’s theory of phenomenological structuralism reveals language’s dual role: to capture reality and structure our world, even as we use ego-centered discourse to defer meaning.
Mobile Identities
Through international case studies, this volume uses border studies, postcolonial discourse, and globalization theory to explore identity. It argues that identities are mobile and in flux, challenging stereotypes and revealing ethnicity as a complex category.
International Perspectives on Multilingual Literatures
This collection of essays charts interactions between majority and minority languages. Through case studies of authors like Elena Ferrante, Yoko Tawada, and Dylan Thomas, it explores migration, self-translation, language death, and power in (post-)colonial contexts.
Global History, Visual Culture and Itinerancies
This chronologically ambitious book investigates globalization from Roman times to the present. It argues that itinerant agents carry cultural baggage, transporting and transmitting it to create interconnections and produce active changes in global history.
Understanding the Discourse of Aging
While most studies on aging focus on a single discipline, this book adds a fresh perspective. It addresses the communicative practices surrounding age, aging, and the elderly from a multidisciplinary view, covering their image in media, definitions of age, and gendered issues.
Sound Art and Music
This volume explores the mutually beneficial, but occasionally uneasy, relationship between sound art and music. With chapters from practitioners and theoreticians, it provides a snapshot of contemporary research across this exciting area of study.
Dissolving the Gettier Problem
This book dissolves the Gettier problem using Hintikka’s Socratic Epistemology. It treats Gettier’s counterexamples as a game of inquiry where agents use questioning and strategy to determine what they know, going beyond analysis to focus on actual problem-solving.
This book explores the molecular mechanism of phototherapy, studying its effects on blood oxygenation, metabolism, coagulation, and glucose. It considers the laws of blood photomodification and methods for controlling individual patient susceptibility to irradiation.
Scholars have dismissed Rutherford B. Hayes as an ineffective president. This work demolishes that wisdom, showing how Hayes overcame a hostile Congress to restore presidential prerogatives, laying the foundation for the strong executive branch we know today.
Trade Union Powers
Following Portugal’s austerity crisis (2011-2015), how did trade unions resist devastating impacts like wage cuts and unemployment? This book explores case studies in the metal, telecom, and transport sectors to reveal how some unions reinvented themselves while others imploded.
The Jewish Diaspora after 1945
For millennia, Jews played an integral role in the Arab world, Turkey, Iran, and North Africa. The 1948 establishment of Israel was a transformational event leading to their mass expulsion and emigration, ending the existence of these vital communities.
Retelling Cinderella
This collection demonstrates how the Cinderella story remains active in societies adapting to modern culture. The volume explores dating apps, prom nights, women’s roles, and gender identity through international perspectives on folklore, film, fashion, and literature.
Why Slavery Endures
Slavery, seemingly abolished in the nineteenth century, was never eradicated. With an estimated 21 to 46 million slaves today, its legacy endures. These essays critically examine the historical roots of slavery, the issue of reparations, and contemporary human trafficking.
This book argues the Kiev Leaflets, the oldest Slavic manuscript, do not originate from the Bulgarian-Macedonian area. Instead, linguistic and historical evidence, including a prayer against the Hungarians, points to the Eastern Obodrites in modern Ukraine between 894 and 900.
This book develops a formal treatment of causation in mathematical models, replacing existing treatments which are often vague and unsatisfactory. Theory is accompanied by extensive examples from economics, and will be extremely useful in economics, biology, and biomedicine.
The Shakespearean Search for Archetypes
Shakespeare’s mythopoetic figures are not transcendental but are batteries of condensed cultural meaning. This book finds in these archetypes the explanation for why his work responds through time to perspectives as different as psychological, feminist, and postcolonial.