Rethinking Thomas Jefferson’s Writings on Slavery and Race
For decades, Jeffersonian scholarship has uncritically depicted a less-than-human Jefferson: an inveterate hypocrite and racist. This book offers a provocative challenge to these stale revisionist claims, appealing to all who believe it is time to gain fresh insights.
Religion and Revolution
A study of spiritual and political Islām in Ernesto Cardenal, the great Latin American poet, priest, and revolutionary. The work examines his connection to Ṣūfism and details his trip to Iran during the triumph of the Islāmic Revolution.
Politics and Culture in 18th-Century Anglo-Italian Encounters
Exploring Anglo-Italian encounters in the Enlightenment, this book interweaves political and cultural history to compose a lively, unexplored map of a cosmopolitan European world. It offers valuable insight into the interconnected nature of the Age of Reason.
This volume explores entrepreneurship education and development in Southern Africa. Using case studies, it discusses how higher education institutions can empower youth with entrepreneurial skills to improve the economy and drive innovation.
Technology profoundly influences our social fabric. This book explores its impact across business, commerce, and lifestyle, examining both advantages and drawbacks. It guides readers through cutting-edge topics like blockchain, the Internet of Things, AI, and machine learning.
This book explores story, narrator, character, time, and space. It upgrades the theory of the unreliable narrator and introduces three new categories: commentators, interpreters, and evaluators.
This book traces the history of Chinese technical communication, exploring the philosophical traditions and classical texts that shaped it. Discover how these historical roots continue to influence contemporary practice and gain compelling perspectives on the field.
This book provides a framework and guidelines to help researchers produce high-quality manuscripts for high-impact journals. It offers precise tips and tricks to help students and researchers succeed in their publication endeavours.
Since films like Trainspotting, Scottish cinema has gained an international profile. This is the first collection of essays to examine the new films, filmmakers, and images of Scottishness, setting a new agenda for the study of Scotland on screen.
Explore resonator spectroscopy for analysing atmospheric microwave absorption. This guide details the most efficient method, from molecular spectroscopy basics to landmark investigations in the millimetre and submillimetre-wave range.
This historical account traces the discovery of a singular wave in 1834 to the development of modern soliton theory. It describes deep connections between soliton theory and nonlinear continuum mechanics, with wide applications for research scientists and advanced students.
Recent Developments in Plant Biotechnology
This volume explores advances in plant biotechnology, focusing on the use of lipids and proteins from plant tissues in industrial applications. The book discusses an emerging field of research and will appeal to readers in medical, biochemical, and biotechnological disciplines.
This collection of essays explores sacred groves in Africa and Asia, offering perspectives on the cultural and spiritual dimensions of biodiversity conservation. It brings center-stage the complex interaction between the ‘sacred’ and ‘secular’ in our threatened world.
This book explores Wilde’s ideas on the relation of Art to Life, examining The Importance of Being Earnest to discover whether its elegant artificiality aligns with his theories on beauty. It also considers the consequence of his assault on Victorian values.
Medieval and Early Modern England on the Contemporary Stage
This volume explores the connections between contemporary British theatre and the medieval and early modern periods. It assesses how adaptations and history plays offer a new perspective on our past, present, and future, exploring today’s burning social and political issues.
This book explores the British myth of Russia—a collection of images, stereotypes, and plots formed over centuries by cultural and historical forces. It describes the major stages of the myth’s development and analyzes the forms it takes in British fiction.
The Political Warfare Executive Syllabus Volume II
The Political Warfare Executive Syllabus reveals the dark arts of WWII’s elite propagandists. Believing propagandists were trained, not born, they taught how to deliver lethal propaganda, use murder to amplify a message, and planned for a shocking, British-led Europe.
This volume intersects the study of American literature and history with urgent environmental and global perspectives. It re-conceptualizes relationships based on an ecological ethics, exploring topics from ecofeminism and migration to animal studies and climate activism.
Pieter Codde (1599-1678)
This is the first complete study of the 17th century Dutch painter Pieter Codde. A contemporary of Rembrandt in Golden Age Amsterdam, this book offers a biography, a stylistic study of his work, and a critical oeuvre catalogue, making a significant contribution to art history.
A Concise History of Japan
Although modern Japan is well known, its long history of governance, rituals, and conflict is not. This book summarizes the history of Japan, including the incidents and monuments of historical significance, from the Jomon period to the end of the Heisei period.
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