History – Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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A New Look at African Diaspora Studies

Edited By: Vanessa K. Valdés

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This collection of essays from new voices in African Diaspora Studies explores art, literature, film, and music across the Americas and Europe. Scholars interrogate themes of memory, power, and identity to uncover forgotten episodes of history.

Post-Apartheid Dance

Many Bodies Many Voices Many Stories

Edited By: Sharon Friedman

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This ground-breaking work presents perspectives on post-apartheid dance in South Africa. Reflecting a multiplicity of voices, it juxtaposes contentious issues to draw attention to the complexity of dancing on the ashes of apartheid.

Medieval Art and Architecture after the Middle Ages

Edited By: Alyce A. Jordan, Janet T. Marquardt

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This collection of essays explores the enduring afterlife of medieval art and architecture. It examines how medieval works were preserved, restored, and appropriated from the 16th to 20th centuries to shape modern political, religious, and cultural practices.

The Glory of the Garden

Regional Theatre and the Arts Council 1984-2009

Edited By: Kate Dorney, Ros Merkin

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The Glory of the Garden examines regional theatre, a constant source of anxiety and pride. It moves the debate beyond the cliché of crisis to examine the politics and policy of making performance outside London, combining essays with case studies.

Patterns in the Production of Apulian Red-Figure Pottery

By: Edward Herring

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Most of the previous scholarship on Apulian red-figure pottery has focused on the cataloguing of collections and stylistic matters. Herring takes a different approach by identifying patterns in the decoration of Apulian vases that cast light on the choices made by vase-producers.

Depictions of the Three Orders and Estates around the Year 1500

Triplex Status Mundi

By: Tomislav Vignjević

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This volume highlights the copious depictions of society's three orders—the oratores, bellatores, and laboratores—in the Late Middle Ages and Early Modern Period. The vast visual material proves this trifunctional division was a widespread ideological foundation.

This volume highlights the copious depictions of society’s three orders—the oratores, bellatores, and laboratores—in the Late Middle Ages and Early Modern Period. The vast visual material proves this trifunctional division was a widespread ideological foundation.

We Are What We Remember

The American Past Through Commemoration

Edited By: Laura Mattoon D’Amore, Jeffrey Meriwether

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Commemoration doesn't just capture history—it creates new narratives that reflect our current values. As our views on race, gender, and class change, so do our commemorations. How do we repair the damage of the past and name forgotten histories?

Commemoration doesn’t just capture history—it creates new narratives that reflect our current values. As our views on race, gender, and class change, so do our commemorations. How do we repair the damage of the past and name forgotten histories?

Querying Difference in Theatre History

Edited By: Ann Haugo, Scott Magelssen

£29.99

As terms like race and ethnicity become problematic in our “post-multicultural” world, this volume offers new approaches to difference in theatre history. Essays examine topics from race, gender, and sexuality to nationalism and class with new theories.

Kerouac Ascending

Memorabilia of the Decade of On the Road

Edited By: Elbert Lenrow

£29.99

A memoir by Elbert Lenrow about his relationship with his students Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg. Lenrow reveals Kerouac’s academic side through papers, letters, and poems shared as they emerged as writers. With an introduction by Howard Cunnell.

Design for Visual Communication

Challenges and Priorities

Edited By: Mary C. Dyson, Klimis Mastoridis, Niki Sioki

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Based on ideas discussed within the framework of the 2016 International Conference on Typography and Visual Communication (ICTVC), this anthology investigates both current and future challenges and priorities in the field of design for visual communication.

Tracing the Landscape of Dance in Greece

By: Katia Savrami

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This volume explores dance’s role in modern Greek society, from ballet to contemporary genres. It uncovers factors affecting its development over the last century and asks why dance has yet to be established as an academic discipline, inspiring future artists to advocate for it.

The Visual Perception of Deities from the Palaeolithic to the Present

Faces of Gods

By: Sirpa Aalto, Uta Herzog, Peter Hupfauf, Rudolf Simek

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For 30,000 years, humans have created visual expressions of their sacred beings. This book investigates these interpretations of deities throughout history, exploring the psychological necessity for us to create gods and goddesses in a human-like form.

Theatres of Rebellion in Nicaragua

From the Colony to the Sandinista Revolution

By: Alberto Guevara

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To understand Nicaragua today, we must look at its theatrical performances of power and resistance. This book examines the nation's history, from the colonial period to the Sandinista Revolution, to reveal the critical connection between revolt and cultural performance.

To understand Nicaragua today, we must look at its theatrical performances of power and resistance. This book examines the nation’s history, from the colonial period to the Sandinista Revolution, to reveal the critical connection between revolt and cultural performance.

Placing the Origins of the Buddha

An Island, Its People, and an Orientalist Odyssey

By: Bhadrajee S. Hewage

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For two centuries, the Buddha’s origin story has been accepted as fact. But is it built on a flawed foundation? This book exposes the stunning inconsistencies in the evidence, demanding a radical rethinking of early Buddhism’s true beginnings.

Memory, Place and Autobiography

Experiments in Documentary Filmmaking

By: Jill Daniels

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In autobiographical film, the filmmaker—as maker and subject—acts as a cultural guide. This book explores how memory is evoked through hybrid strategies like fictional enactment, and charts the history of British independent filmmaking from the 1970s to the age of new media.

Photography as Power

Dominance and Resistance through the Italian Lens

Edited By: Marco Andreani, Nicoletta Pazzaglia

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This book explores the relationship between photography and power in Italian history. It examines how photography has been used as an instrument of dominance—from war propaganda to fascism—and as a critical medium to resist hegemonic discourses and create counter-narratives.

Film and the Historian

The British Experience

By: Philip Gillett

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Films are not just for audiences. A film exposes the attitudes people took for granted. This volume surveys British cinema from the Second World War to the early 1970s, exploring societal change through films from the well-known Odd Man Out to the forgotten It’s Hard to be Good.

Rhapsody of Northern Art

By: Peter Hupfauf

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While ancient objects from Northern Europe are usually seen as historical documents, many should be regarded as works of fine art. This book encourages readers to appreciate Bronze Age and early Medieval artefacts as they do works by well-known contemporary artists.

Le Corbusier, the Dishonest Architect

By: Malcolm Millais

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Millais exposes the myths that surround Le Corbusier, detailing the endless failures of his proposals and his projects and arguing that his influence on architecture was disastrous, as traditional buildings were destroyed and replaced by featureless boxes of varying sizes.

Arts, Politics and Social Movements

In the Fields and in the Streets

Edited By: Elena Raviola, Elen Riot, Claudia Schnugg

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This collection describes artistic and activist actions challenging the existing order. With case studies from Europe and the US, it questions contemporary ideas in the face of the Great Transition, proposing utopian forms and asking the vital question: "what is to be done?"