Crossroads of the Southwest
In southeastern Arizona, Hohokam, Mogollon, and Anasazi cultures intersected. Crossroads of the Southwest presents new archaeological research examining culture, identity, and migration. Top scholars use new data to study this long-overlooked region.
The Shattered Mirror
This book is a response to changing representations of Irish identity during the ‘Celtic Tiger’ (1990-2005). Through literature and film, it interrogates widespread social change—from prosperity to multiculturalism—arguing that Irish identity changed radically.
Based on pupils’ experiences, this book demonstrates that the education system has a disastrous effect on young people. It thwarts their intelligence, exploits their vulnerability to trauma, and fails to fulfil its own aims. The research points to clear conclusions.
Rights and Subjectivity
To understand the paradox of human rights—universal attributes that depend integrally upon the nation state for their recognition—this study investigates the pre-historical formation of the individual as an inherent bearer of rights.
Enriching the Lives of Children
Synthesizing decades of research, this book explores innovations in teaching to enrich the lives of children. It offers practical strategies for educators and parents based on whole child development, creativity, and the power of play. Essential reading.
Beyond Borders
How does scientific knowledge circulate? Is science a national or international endeavour? Challenging the fragmented state of the history of science, this book argues for pluralism and internationalism through a rich diversity of subjects, periods, and geographies.
Region, Nature, Frontiers
This collection of essays explores regional and national identities in literature from South Africa to the United States. Discussions include the American frontier, the relationship between non-fiction and place, and linguistic and postcolonial boundaries.
This collection of essays discusses conversation in the eighteenth century as concept and practice. At its heart is a key question: are eighteenth-century conceptualisations of conversation still relevant to scholars and thinkers today?
Russell Revisited
Bertrand Russell played a central role in modern philosophy. How do we account for the abiding interest in him? Accessibility. This collection of recent scholarship serves as a testament to the value of Russell’s diverse contributions to challenging philosophical issues.
You Gotta’ Stand Up
Texas humorist and First Amendment advocate John Henry Faulk consciously risked a lucrative television career to bust the 1950s media blacklist. Known as “the man who broke the blacklist,” he spent a life baffling those who tried to pigeonhole him.
This timely contribution explores the theme of evidence in anthropology. Using diverse case studies, these ethnographically-grounded essays ask: What constitutes viable evidence? Together, they challenge the boundaries of what anthropologists recognise and construct as evidence.
Right / Left / Right Revolving Commitments
This collection of essays examines the complex responses of British and French intellectuals to the political crises from the 1920s to WWII. It explores the radical shifts in allegiance as writers confronted the rise of fascism and communism.
Language, Literature and Education in Multicultural Societies
This book presents a vivid overview of linguistic, literary and educational issues in a multicultural context. Bringing together views from specialists from several parts of the world, it handles complex themes in an accessible manner for all readers.
Text, Body and Indeterminacy
This book forges a link between the philosophical self and the literary character. Using neo-pragmatist thought, it assesses Pater and Wilde’s characters, contrasting the textual self with the somatic to reveal the ethical gains of a self rooted in the body.
As societies face complex challenges like climate change, the role of academics as public intellectuals is vital. This book explores how they make specialized knowledge relevant, discussing historical and contemporary cases from Europe, the US, and beyond.
Christ Among Them
This essay newly interprets the rise of the individual in Italy, 1180-1300. As the idea of a tangible Christ as neighbor became consistent, worship became a form of individualism, a Christian praxis that shaped the later Renaissance and Reformation.
Place
This book explores tensions between global new media and local practices, focusing on artists in indigenous cultural settings. Through analysis of art and film, it asks how long-held attachments to place are transforming in the new media context.
Reconstructing Pain and Joy
How are pain and joy constructed, represented, and socially determined? This is the first interdisciplinary collection of essays to investigate how these multi-faceted experiences are reconstructed in language, literature, art, and culture.
Word and Image in the Long Eighteenth Century
This collection of essays explores the rich verbal-visual interaction in eighteenth-century Europe. Peaceful coexistence, mutual collaboration or striking collision—how do words and images interact? How do they reflect and communicate values, stereotypes and ideologies?
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