Performative Inter-Actions in African Theatre 1
This book explores how plays of the African diaspora acknowledge home cultures while interacting with host cultures. Contributions attest that the diaspora is not solely outside the continent, but can be found in performances within Africa that engage with the world.
Insanity and Genius
The truths we need come from a way of knowing not of logic, but of expression—a world that takes us beyond the grasp of reason. This book is an exploration of the greatest minds and how they have struggled to find the deepest truths about the human condition.
Fundraising, Flirtation and Fancywork
The 19th-century charity bazaar was a paradox. While it funded Australia’s major institutions, it encouraged a loosening of social restraint, giving women a public role where commerce, gambling, and even flirtation were actively encouraged.
This book examines the foreign policy debates shaping the UK-US “special relationship” from 1992-2008. It reveals a bond founded not on shared values, but on something more surprising, shedding new light on the two nations and their partnership.
French Romantic Ballets
This collection presents music from La Sylphide, Giselle, and Le Corsaire—three of the most important scores from the Golden Age of ballet in Paris. Explore tales of fatal love, supernatural spirits, and spectacular drama.
Bernard Williams, one of the most influential philosophers of the last century, argued for refinements in our basic ideas about persons, ethics, and politics. This anthology showcases scholars continuing his reflective and skeptical tradition.
This volume investigates how accounts of the Arctic have shaped history. It examines the discourse of “Arcticism,” modelled on Orientalism, and intersecting narratives of imperialism, science, and indigeneity across a wide range of genres.
This book examines the triangular relations between China, Japan, and Southeast Asia. It argues that Southeast Asian states are not strategic pawns, but instead actively manoeuvre between these great powers, driving East Asian multilateralism.
China and Europe in 21st Century Global Politics
China and Europe shape global politics through partnership and competition. This volume investigates their “co-evolution”—cooperating where possible to minimize conflict. With balanced perspectives from Chinese and European scholars, it covers security, economics, and energy.
This book examines the political response to environmental concerns in the British Isles. It explores debates on climate change and nuclear energy, the link between landscape and identity, and the discrepancy between political promises and implemented policies.
Within and Without Empire
This volume treats Scotland as a ‘theoretical borderland’ to question disciplinary borders. By bringing Scottish and postcolonial studies into dialogue, it fosters new paradigms for a deeper understanding of a world in dramatic flux and growing interdependence.
Anti-Tales
The anti-tale is the fairy tale’s evil twin. It subverts, inverts, and deconstructs familiar stories. In this collection, Red Riding Hood retaliates, Cinderella’s stepmother tells her side, and Snow White becomes a postmodern vampire.
Essays
More than a location, the Caribbean is a global crossroads. This collection traces the flows of people, literature, and ideas that connect the West Indies to the world, revealing the islands as powerful makers of international culture and meaning.
This is the only study on the acquisition of the Spanish Determiner Phrase by Bantu speakers. It contributes to Second Language Acquisition and Creole formation by comparing the interlanguage of Swahili speakers with Spanish-lexifier Creoles for the first time.
Reason’s Developing Self-Revelation
This book expounds Christianity as the unfolding of Reason’s Developing Self-Revelation. It frees orthodoxy from figurative representation, progressing through Hegelian Logic to a final question: “Christianity without (or within) God?”
Byron’s Romantic Politics
Byron exists as romantic myth: a passionate lover, staunch friend, and fighter for democracy. This book proves the truth is the opposite. Using letters never before transcribed, it argues Byron was an unscrupulous sponger who despised democracy and the Greeks.
Civil Law Studies
As a rising superpower, India must engage with the Civil Law System dominant in the global market. In “Civil Law Studies,” scholars from India, Lisbon, and Coimbra collaborate to strengthen the study of Civil Law for its future prospects in India.
Islam and Democracy
After the Arab Spring, the success of Islamist parties raised fears for human rights and democracy. This book explores the complex challenges of democratic transition in the Middle East and the roles of Islam and democracy in these ongoing developments.
This collection synthesizes research in Mayan linguistics, balancing recent linguistic theories with rich, new empirical data gathered from fieldwork. The findings have implications for understanding Mayan grammars and for universal linguistic theory.
This book explores drama as an intervention in conflict. It maps theatre’s transformative role in contexts from South Africa to New Zealand, addressing violence in prisons, cities, and families. Includes two new play scripts on xenophobia and family violence.
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