Pink Ink
Calder traces the evolution of Australia’s gay and lesbian publications from smudgy porn sold in brown paper bags to glossy coffee-table magazines proudly on display, and discusses the impact of the Internet on the industry.
The Book of the Mirror
Essays from art, literature, history, and science give new insights into the mirror as a material object and cultural image. This book demonstrates the active role imagery and technologies have always played in our thoughts, lives and worlds.
Culinary Aspects of Ancient Rome
A thrilling gastronomic journey through the Roman Empire. This book explores the cookery of social elites and common households, shedding light on the significance of the banquet and the simple act of sharing food, while offering new findings on ancient recipes and technologies.
Revisiting Centres and Peripheries in Iberian Studies
This volume gathers fresh research from international scholars investigating the multiple tensions between the centre and periphery of the Iberian cultural system. Topics range from the situation in Catalonia to transoceanic postcolonial relations, history, memory, and fiction.
Politics is not only about ideas, but practices. This book reveals how 19th-century exiles created the laboratory for modern politics, circulating not just ideals but the techniques of how to debate, vote, and run a party, resulting in a new political grammar.
A Journey of Ethnicity
The Cham are descendants of the glorious Champa kingdom, whose ancient temples attest to its past glory. This book is a journey to understand what it means to be Cham in modern Vietnam, exploring the complexity and dynamics of their identity through prolonged interactions.
This book explores what it means to re-assert an African identity to counter neo-colonialism. Drawing on Pan-Africanism and the spirit of Ubuntu, it revisits the dream of an African rebirth to inspire youth to build a better life on the continent.
Reinventing Capitalism in New Zealand
White settlers began to arrive in New Zealand in numbers during the 1840s, and sought with their colonial ambitions to reinvent capitalism in a new land. Wilkes traces the shape of this reinvention, and the slow emergence of New Zealand’s particular form of class structure.
News over Five Millennia
Concentrating on the past 200 years, this book studies messengers and newsmen, focusing on news agency journalists. The book will appeal to historians, social scientists, linguists, media professionals and “news addicts”.
Ebony Roots, Northern Soil
This powerful collection of critical essays explores the histories and cultural engagements of black Canadians. It challenges the myth of a racially benevolent Canada, dissecting institutional racism and defining a black Canadian identity distinct from American ideals.
This volume of innovative research in Iberian Studies extends beyond Spain and Portugal to explore transnational connections with Europe, Africa, and the Americas. Its scope ranges from the nineteenth century to the effects of the Catalan independence crisis and Brexit.
The people of a small town absorbed by Mexico City share memories of the games, food, and streets of their past. This book presents a way to build a future that rescues the community’s identity, which still binds them together in spite of the city’s segregating trends.
This volume brings together innovative research across Iberian Studies. The collection includes cutting-edge work on memory politics, dictatorships, the Spanish Civil War, and colonial exchanges, exploring themes of migration, resistance, trauma, sexuality, and feminism.
The New York Yankees in the Twentieth Century
This is not for baseball fans only. This exploration of Yankee history examines how design, corporatism, and philosophy created a global franchise. It reveals the distinction between looking and seeing by exploring the meaning of the pinstripes, the stadium, and the iconic cap.
Masculinity and the Other
Men have been defined as much by their relations to other men as to women. This collection brings together scholars from fields including literature and history to examine the forms of ‘otherness’ against which ideas of masculinity have been defined.
Artists and Migration 1400-1850
This collection thematically analyses the migrant artist’s experience in Europe and its colonies from the early modern period to the Industrial Revolution. It studies the influence of the transient artist, both on their adoptive country and their own oeuvre and native culture.
The Minorities of Cyprus
This book examines the history of Cyprus’s minorities: Maronites, Armenians, and Latins. It charts their evolving relationship with the dominant Greek and Turkish communities, their subsequent ‘internal exclusion’, and what the future holds for them.
Contested Histories and Politics of People
Subaltern Studies unearths subsumed narratives and subjugated knowledges to counter hegemonic domination. It critiques power manipulated by colonialism and elite nationalists, and challenges the neo-colonial politics that continue to alter history.
Celebrity Colonialism
Celebrity Colonialism explores the entanglements of fame and power in colonial and postcolonial settings. It demonstrates the ambivalent roles played by famous personalities, providing a powerful lens for understanding what colonialism was and what it has become.
The Beginnings of International Soccer
Why did England’s fortunes turn against Scotland in the late 19th century? Was it the founding of Corinthian FC or the onset of professionalism? This book brings together the narrative of early international soccer in Britain, comparing the four competing home nations.