Reflections on the Greek Sovereign Debt Crisis
The 2007 financial crisis became a sovereign debt crisis, calling European integration into question. Focusing on Greece, where the crisis began, experts analyze flawed policies, contagion effects, the shadow economy, and the very future of the euro.
This collection brings together essays from a broad variety of disciplines to advance our understanding of race and ethnicity in Latin America. These studies examine how voices from the margins, based on gender and class, shape and reshape the Americas.
This book presents a panorama of language policy in the Mediterranean. It explores international law, bilingual education, language revival, and the issue of feminization in languages like French, Italian, Spanish, and Greek. An excellent source for scholars.
Agnolo Bronzino
An international assembly of scholars advances modern perceptions of Florentine artist Agnolo Bronzino. This volume applies fresh research not only to his well-known portraits, but also to frescoes and tapestries, addressing nudity, sexuality, and satire.
Universal Morality Reconsidered
This book bridges the great divide in moral discourse. It argues that universal morality is most successful when grounded in God, and unlike other works, it successfully integrates the newest empirical research from the sciences into a theological framework.
Language Politics under Colonialism
This book explores the interplay between caste power and colonialism in Western India. It offers a nuanced understanding of the collusive role indigenous elites played to preserve their dominance, strengthening the colonial regime without altering existing hierarchies.
The Intelligible World
Understanding Kant’s “pre-critical” philosophy is central to appreciating his three critiques. This early work is a hidden background, where his great cosmology informs the “thing-in-itself” and provides the ontological framework for his later ethics.
The Future of Post-Human Sports
Is winning the only thing? This book offers an alternative way to understand the future of sports. It presents a new theory to go beyond existing approaches and will fundamentally change the way we think about training and winning, with enormous implications.
Emerging from international collaboration, this collection of essays seeks to safeguard the ancient sung narratives of Southeast Asia. It explores the vitality of this Intangible Heritage in today’s changing world through pioneering studies and new technology.
Reverberations of Silence
Silence results from oppression, censorship, and trauma. Its provocative nature demands interpretation. This collection of scholarly essays offers answers by reading silence in literature and linguistics, from Renaissance texts to modern speech.
The Central and the Peripheral
The division between secure centres and unknown peripheries is obsolete. How can we find our way in a world where peripheries become centres and centres turn into peripheries? This book explores how this problem is dealt with in literature and culture.
Metaphor in Focus
This philosophical guide on metaphor use bridges the gap between theoretical and empirical research. It analyses the role of metaphor across diverse domains, presenting interdisciplinary connections with linguistics, cognitive science, economics, and more.
Identities, Cultures, Spaces
Globalisation has led to cultural encounters, which can be conflicts or opportunities for dialogue. This volume adopts a multidisciplinary approach to address issues at the confluence of identity and culture, discussing the role of shared spaces in forging identity.
Encountering Ephemera 1500-1800
This collection redefines ephemera by challenging the opposition between the transitory and the enduring. Essays explore how materials from broadside ballads to performance reveal the dynamic unfixity of early modern and eighteenth-century cultural practices.
The Crowe Memorandum
An “outsider” in the Foreign Office, Sir Eyre Crowe was one of Britain’s most significant public servants. His 1907 Memorandum on Germany had a profound influence on foreign policy for forty years, shaping events from WWI to the eve of WWII.
Things That Liberate
This collection of essays explores objects that changed Australian women’s lives and shaped the feminist movement since 1970. Combining personal narrative and historical analysis, it documents the material culture of liberation, from overalls to kombis.
Ex-centric Writing
This volume of essays examines postcolonial alienation through the anamorphic lens of madness. In fiction from Africa, the Caribbean, Australia, and Asia, the mad character’s vision is a warning against discourses that pass as the natural order of things.
A collection of essays by scholars and artists exploring theatre’s role in political awareness through the voice of the marginalized. It shows how the theatre of differences denounces prejudice and regains its role as the brain and lungs of the community.
Wiltshire Marriage Patterns 1754-1914
This first-of-its-kind study uses English pedigrees to uncover cousin marriage rates among ordinary people, revealing clear links to occupation, geographical mobility, and illegitimacy.
This book presents the idea that reviews can be substantive essays, an art form with its own “shelf-life.” It collects the reviews of scholar Max J. Skidmore, Sr. to illustrate how reviews have a life of their own, evolving beyond the original work.