Beyond the Battlefields
Beyond the Battlefields explores the relationship between warfare and society in the Graeco-Roman world. This collection of essays examines the political, social, and artistic affects of war, covering topics from espionage to fantasies of peace in the Iliad.
Irish Childhoods
This book explores how contemporary Irish children’s fiction engages with the past. It reveals how constructions of childhood in novels and films are used to explore complex questions of Irish history, culture, and identity.
Looking Through Gender
This book explores the shaping and performing of gender identity in British and Irish theatres since the 1980s. From a queer theory standpoint, it reads several plays to unmask exploiting mechanisms of gender regulation and resist confining notions of identity.
Social History, Local History, and Historiography
These wide-ranging essays on early modern English history explore social change, the Revolution, Puritanism, and historical writing. Stressing the inter-connectedness of social and local history, this rewarding volume will interest specialists and non-specialists.
This new approach to G. Eliot’s thought focuses on her profound religious and spiritual quest in Silas Marner. The author shows how Eliot distinguishes religion from superstition and offers a new definition of faith, stressing the qualities of her art.
This book deconstructs the ‘otherizing’ of the marginalized by offering an alternative reading of the body and desire. It investigates bodies with ‘unnatural’ desires to expose and subvert the subtle political ideologies behind stereotypes.
Anthropological Fieldwork
The contributors to this volume argue that participant observation is an embodied process mediated by emotions. For fieldwork to attain its fullest potential, emotional reflexivity is essential. They propose new ways of practising it to enhance anthropological knowledge.
This pioneering study applies generative grammar to Lithuanian in a contrastive analysis of small clauses in English and Lithuanian. The work addresses whether these constructions express a subject-predicate relationship and function as a clause.
Past Matters
In a Pacific Rim setting, who benefits from urban planning? These case studies from Australia, New Zealand, and beyond explore difficulties faced by indigenous peoples and ask whose interests are at stake in urban heritage debates, challenging ‘Metropolitan Theory’.
Archaeology has long dominated “heritage” policy. This book asks whether archaeological data is actually heritage, and if archaeological knowledge reflects the values it carries for diverse communities. Academics and activists debate these critical issues.
This compilation of 21 case studies from leading researchers explores communication about sex in relationships. It provides tangible skills to improve relationships, encourage safer sex, and navigate difficult topics like media, health, and culture.
The Body of the Postmodernist Narrator
This book reads postmodern fiction through the bodies of its narrators. Using Lacanian psychoanalysis and feminist theory, it explores trauma, murder, and desire, exposing the body as the site of repressed knowledge, resistance, and artistic resolution.
This study traces the picaresque from its Spanish roots to contemporary novels, arguing it has never left the British literary scene. Postcolonial authors also favour this genre for their own stories of displaced characters and modern-day rogues.
Of Mice and Men
This collection of essays by international scholars examines human views of animals. Addressing topics from animal rights and ecology to feminism and domestication, the book considers global issues from ancient to contemporary times.
The Dialectics of Globalization
Harris challenges the view that nation-states define international relations. He argues a transnational capitalist class now heads a unified world system, creating new conflicts as we transition from national to global capitalism.
This collection explores language in the “New World Order,” raising consciousness about how discourse constructs identities and empowers users. A significant contribution to the critical discussion, it highlights the socially transformative role of language.
Peacemaking, Peacemakers and Diplomacy, 1880-1939
Leading scholars explore the ‘new diplomacy’ conducted before, during, and after the First World War. These essays examine its origins, the changing view of war as a diplomatic tool, and how the Paris Peace Conference was viewed inside and outside Europe.
Historical crime fiction serves the double purpose of entertaining while it teaches. It brings the past to the present, making characters alive and events interesting. Writers fill in human motivations where records don’t exist, recovering the past.
Shifting Landscapes
An innovative understanding of Europe’s rapidly changing film and media scene. Eighteen analyses re-examine what “European” media means in an era of technological change, globalization, and shifting cultural and geographical borders.
Political Theory
Paradoxically, political theory is being marginalized in the academy. This volume addresses this situation. What are the problems and challenges it faces today? What is its importance? Its greatest strength is that it operates across disciplinary boundaries.
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