International Economic Law
Experts assess the past 20 years of international economic law and forecast its future. This book provides vital insights into how to respond to challenges, reform the WTO, and improve multilateral trading governance for the twenty-first century.
This volume offers original insights into lesser-known aspects of post-war Italian culture. It provides an interdisciplinary examination of Italian society since WWII, with innovative perspectives on literature, women’s studies, cinema, history, and politics.
Byron and Hobby-O
This is a frank and intimate study of the relationship between Byron and his best friend, John Cam Hobhouse. Initially collaborators and rivals, Byron rapidly outstretched Hobhouse in poetry, while Hobhouse, in the longer term, outstretched Byron in politics.
Remembering Television
This path-breaking book explores television’s social and cultural impacts, asking how its programming has been experienced, understood, and remembered. Leading scholars examine the intricate connections between history, memory, and television in today’s world.
Modern societies face a contradiction between the general good and private profit. Historically, states were stronger than corporations and imposed their goals on them. This book argues this trend has reversed, and considers the far-reaching consequences.
Women in the Arts
This pioneering collection of essays is a multi-disciplined celebration of women creators. It presents an interdisciplinary emphasis on the long-neglected contributions of women to music, visual arts, and literature, and the obstacles they overcame.
From Marx to Warner
Tittenbrun gives an in-depth analysis of several important theories of social class and stratification, both past and present. The central argument in his monograph is that there are only two classical theories of social class, namely those developed by Marx and Weber.
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.
The 1930s
This volume brings together papers presented at a conference marking the 75th anniversary of Hofstra University, and provides a wide-ranging exploration of the 1930s, discussing the role of the arts, entertainment, politics, literature, and science in that momentous decade.
American Multiculturalism in Context
This text brings together the reflections of a group of experts who met with the leading African American writer Ishmael Reed in 2015. It reports on Reed’s thoughts from the meeting, and looks at the concept “multiculturalism” in the United States, Europe and elsewhere.
Playing with Possibilities sits at the heart of all creative endeavours. This collection brings together thinkers and writers to explore the potential of play to shape who we are and the worlds we live in, asking us to celebrate fanciful approaches to living.
Women and Work
The essays in Women and Work explore how nineteenth- and twentieth-century US and British writers represent the work of being women—encompassing not only paid labor but also the work of performing femininity and domesticity.
Inside Arguments
This collection of essays by the finest specialists provides a decisive input to the study of logic and argumentation theory. The authors clarify the relationship between these concepts, taking stock of the most recent developments. An essential tool.
This book investigates aspects of translation, including its literary, legal, and machine forms, and covers a range of languages, from Arabic to French. It gives researchers interested in translation studies a detailed insight into translation as a product and a process.
Using extensive unpublished archival material, Bosco principally examines the first eighteen months of the Federal Union, during which time it was able to raise itself to the attention of the general public, and the political class, as the heir of the League of Nations.
Divided into two sections, this publication focuses, firstly, on theoretical linguistics, addressing issues in such areas as phonology, morphology and syntax. It then investigates the intricacies of language acquisition and discourse analysis, among other topics.
Responding to challenges arising from an increase in Chinese students at western universities, Burrows provides a guide on how to deal with such problems. She explores such issues as cultural differences, as well as suggesting how best to engage the student.
Populist Hearsay of 1939-45
Histories of WWII are often biased to justify a home nation. Britain claimed it “won the war” single-handedly; other countries have their own self-centered versions. This book confronts these nationalistic views and challenges accepted versions of traditional national histories.
The articles in this volume vitalize diaspora studies, challenging how we understand ‘culture’ beyond the nation-state. They examine recent literature, film, and art, interrogating seminal thinkers and offering alternative perspectives on diaspora theory.
Conversion in English
This book proposes that conversion in English is a semantic process driven by conceptual mappings. It questions previous interpretations that mistake the effect of conversion for its cause and helps settle long-standing debates on its directionality and productivity.
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