Recollecting History beyond Borders
This book unearths the forgotten histories of Moroccan captives, acrobats, and dancers in America. Drawing on neglected archives, it explores their transatlantic journeys and cultural encounters, adding a new dimension to Moroccan-American history.
God and the Financial Crisis
This volume of essays brings together contributions by theologians and social scientists to explore the theological, economic, and moral implications of the financial crisis of 2008 and the years that followed.
Money of the Russian Revolution
During the Russian Revolution, over 20,000 kinds of banknotes were issued by competing authorities. Using new archival data and unique illustrations, this book revises the established view of daily life and dispels myths about the economy during the Civil War.
This book explores the dispute over the role images play in contemporary society and over their values and purposes. The contributions here, by theorizing images in their aesthetic, historical, and technological guises, pave the way for the future of visual culture.
Xenophon, a historian and man of action, developed his own theory of moral education, distinct from that of philosophers like Plato and Aristotle. This work explores his innovative, influential thought and its extensive impact on European cultural history.
Foreign Accent Perception
Coinciding with the increased attention given to foreign accents and their perception, Bryła-Cruz’s study represents the largest qualitative and quantitative investigation into the acceptability, intelligibility and comprehensibility of Polish English by various native speakers.
This volume brings together multiple research perspectives on best practices for constructing spoken corpora. It unites scholars from discourse analysis and data infrastructure to address the concerns of data providers, curators, and data users.
This book shows how a whole of community approach can redesign inadequate services to support families. Drawing on research and experience, it provides key ingredients to break cycles of trauma and build communities where children can flourish.
Emerging Services Sector and Inclusiveness
India’s services sector drives GDP and exports, but its failure to create jobs questions its inclusive growth. This book analyzes the sector’s role in the Indian economy, examining key issues like employment, trade, and foreign direct investment.
McElwee explores the under-representation of the poor rural worker in paintings of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, showing that depictions of the rural landscape rarely reflected the harsh realities of the life of the labourer.
Liminal Dickens
This collection of essays cast new light on some surprisingly neglected areas of Dickens’s writings, namely the rites of passage represented by such transitional moments and ceremonies as birth/christenings, weddings/marriages, and death.
Competing on Talent in Today’s Business World
In a rapidly changing landscape, acquiring top talent is a competitive advantage. This book provides a roadmap to transform recruitment from a reactive process to a strategic program, learning from best practices to consistently source and recruit the very best people available.
This volume explores extension—a fundamental, yet largely unexplored, aspect of language. Contributors investigate its regularities, limits, and influence on grammar and meaning, using rich examples from English, French, Polish, Russian, and German.
Subtitling Today
Subtitling now serves many purposes, and comes in various forms. The contributions to this volume discuss these different manifestations, and offer a snapshot of this dynamic field of study, considering various languages, such as Chinese, Finnish, French, Japanese and Polish.
In Search of the Classical World
An introduction to the ancient Aegean, from the Minoans, Mycenaeans, and Trojans to the Classical Greeks. Explore their history, the wars against Persia, the strife between Athens and Sparta, and how Homeric heroes shaped their literature and drama.
Ekphrasis in American Poetry
Providing a sample of the chronological range and stylistic variety of poetry that engages with visual art, this volume shows how ekphrasis has been a part of American poetry from its inception, and will be of interest to scholars of both literature and art.
Social Inequality and Leading Principles in Welfare States
Since the 1990s, European welfare states have undergone a paradigmatic shift. This book analyzes these fundamental reforms, showing how marketization and fragmentation have redefined society and changed the mechanisms and visibility of social inequality.
Reading Communities
This book represents the product of long-term collaboration between French and American scholars sharing a common preoccupation with reading canonical and contemporary works of literature and cinema in a theoretical and pedagogical context.
Words of Crisis, Crisis of Words
Authored by specialists in Irish Studies, this title provides reflections on the broad topic of crisis and Ireland, its description and representation, and the different ways in which difficulties have been discussed, imagined, or even solved within the Irish context.
Ingressive and Egressive Verbs in English
The first study to consider the language-external factors responsible for the configurations of English aspectual verbs, this title explores the semantic-pragmatic and cognitive causes of the various structural representations of ingressive and egressive verbs.