Social Sciences

The Libyan War 1911-1912

Edited By: Andrea Ungari

£44.99

The Italo-Ottoman war for Libya was a dress rehearsal for the First World War. Using new sources, these essays explore a conflict with profound repercussions for Italian and European politics that helped end the Belle Époque and raised the specter of a new war.

Aller(s)-Retour(s)

Nineteenth-Century France in Motion

Edited By: Loïc Guyon, Andrew Watts

£44.99

The nineteenth century was an age of movement. This volume explores the political, artistic, and social shifts that defined France as a society in perpetual motion, confronting its own extremes of progress and renewal, stagnancy and regression.

A Window on the Italian Female Modernist Subjectivity

From Neera to Laura Curino

Edited By: Rossella M. Riccobono

£44.99

These essays explore how women at the forefront of Italian modernity—in literature, photography, and theatre—redefined the self amid societal change, aiming to define a female Italian Modernism complementary to its male counterpart.

Space of a Garden – Space of Culture

Edited By: Grzegorz Gazda, Mariusz Golab

£44.99

This book presents the garden, comparing historical and contemporary models across literature, art, architecture, and philosophy. These contexts form “the metaphor of the garden”: a space where the order of Nature complements our understanding of reality.

Shakespeare Studies in Colonial Bengal

The Early Phase

By: Hema Dahiya

£44.99

This study explores Shakespeare in colonial Bengal, focusing on Hindu College. It highlights the pioneering teachers who accelerated the Bengal Renaissance and exposes distorted readings of Shakespeare, challenging reductive postcolonial theories.

Women’s History in Russia

(Re)Establishing the Field

Edited By: Marianna Muravyeva, Natalia Novikova

£44.99

This collection of essays by Russian scholars presents the theories of Russian gender and women’s history. Amidst an intense backlash against feminism and calls for "traditional values," these scholars explore the roots of such hostility and answer vital questions.

This collection of essays by Russian scholars presents the theories of Russian gender and women’s history. Amidst an intense backlash against feminism and calls for “traditional values,” these scholars explore the roots of such hostility and answer vital questions.

Social Informatics

Past, Present and Future

Edited By: Pnina Fichman, Howard Rosenbaum

£44.99

This state-of-the-art review of 21st century social informatics explores its past, present, and future. Emphasizing the core relationship among people, ICT, and social life, it demonstrates that this research is more necessary now than ever.

Inside Knowledge

(Un)doing Ways of Knowing in the Humanities

Edited By: Maria Boletsi, Itay Sapir, Carolyn Birdsall

£44.99

Can art produce knowledge? Is the body a medium for knowing? This collection of essays offers a fresh, interdisciplinary examination of how we know what we know in the humanities, challenging conventional methodologies through concrete case studies.

William Boyce

A Tercentenary Sourcebook and Compendium

By: Ian Bartlett, Robert J. Bruce

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This sourcebook on William Boyce, England’s leading 18th-century composer, brings together significant contemporary documents on his life and career, with critical commentaries. It includes the first comprehensive catalogue of his works and discography.

Women, Gender and Disease in Eighteenth-Century England and France

Edited By: Ann Kathleen Doig, Felicia B. Sturzer

£44.99

These essays explore women, gender, and disease in 18th-century England and France. Excluded from universities, women nonetheless contributed to anatomy, botany, and medicine, informing literary texts and raising questions about their role in the Enlightenment.

Traditional Chinese Philosophy and the Paradigm of Structure (Li 理)

By: Jana S. Rošker

£44.99

Discover ancient Chinese theories of knowledge, where a structured cosmos mirrors the mind. This book offers a vital epistemological alternative, challenging the dominance of Euro-American models and filling a crucial gap in Western thought.

The Fire Within

Desire in Modern and Contemporary Italian Literature

Edited By: Elena Borelli

£44.99

Hailed as the core of human identity, desire shapes our actions and dreams. This collection of essays explores how desire is portrayed in modern Italian literature, showing it to be the secret motor of the narrative in works of the last two centuries.

Mediating Religious Cultures in Early Modern Europe

Edited By: Torrance Kirby, Matthew Milner

£44.99

The lingua franca for cultural self-understanding in the early-modern period was ineluctably religious. Without religion we cannot comprehend its myriad facets, from markets and art to the very terminology of unbelief. This collection of essays explores these themes.

Landscape, Place and Culture

Linkages between Australia and India

Edited By: Deb Narayan Bandyopadhyay, Paul Brown

£44.99

This collection of essays explores the cultural, social, and ecological dimensions of the Australia-India relationship. Through comparative studies of colonial experience, migration, and shared environmental crisis, this work reassesses our relationship to place.

Gothic Legacies

Four Centuries of Tradition and Innovation in Art and Architecture

Edited By: Laura Cleaver, Ayla Lepine

£44.99

Gothic art and architecture were reinterpreted in diverse ways from the sixteenth century onwards. These essays explore what “Gothic” meant across different periods and cultures, and how it was used to shape personal, national, and international identities.

Whiteness and Social Change

Remnant Colonialisms and White Civility in Australia and Canada

By: Colin Salter

£44.99

Whiteness and Social Change compares the unearned privilege of whiteness in Australia and Canada. Examining community campaigns supporting First Peoples struggles, it identifies how collaborative struggle can destabilise whiteness and move towards a fair society.

Constructing the Literary Self

Race and Gender in Twentieth-Century Literature

Edited By: Patsy J. Daniels

£44.99

This volume explores the quest for self-definition among previously excluded groups. Its thirteen essays by recognized scholars depict strategies of escaping oppression through the lens of race, gender, sexuality, assimilation, and the family.

Reviewing Imperial Conflicts

Edited By: Cristina Baptista, Ana Cristina Mendes

£44.99

This volume of essays investigates the “European civilizing mission” through conflict. Centered on a controversial debate, contributors review colonial and postcolonial imperial conflicts to offer new perspectives on the British Empire.

Religious Anarchism

New Perspectives

Edited By: Alexandre J. M. E. Christoyannopoulos

From £24.99

This unique book presents fresh scholarship on the intersection of religion and anarchism. It explores diverse traditions from early Christianity to Daoism, Buddhism, and Islam, revealing innovative perspectives on the radical political implications of faith.

Standing in the Shadow of the Master? Chaucerian Influences and Interpretations

Edited By: Kathleen A. Bishop with a Foreword by David Matthews

£44.99

This collection of essays questions the traditional supremacy of Chaucer while reaffirming his lasting impact. Scholars explore his influence on writers like Shakespeare, offer a modern assessment of the Wife of Bath, and discuss making Chaucer relevant today.

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