An original exploration of the radical English student movement of the 1960s. Based on new research and oral histories, this book tells the untold stories of England’s biggest student rebellion and its lessons for today.
This book analyzes madness in masterpieces of 19th and 20th-century Spanish literature. It explores how conceptions of madness intersect with love, religion, and politics in works by writers like Galdós, Unamuno, Pardo Bazán, and others.
Taming Risk
This work investigates late modernity through the interplay of risk and trust. It offers an integrative perspective aiming to reconcile the dimensions of individual agency and social structure in contemporary post-industrial societies.
The Three Waves of Globalization
This volume investigates how globalization changes communication genres. Combining a historical perspective with analysis of contemporary discourses, it asks: does this lead to homogenization into ‘global genres’ or the fragmentation and proliferation of new ones?
Language Skills
This volume offers an international perspective on language skills. It explores the development of spoken, reading, and writing skills, incorporating technology and original empirical studies. A vital resource for researchers, classroom teachers, and students.
Most writing on art is about creation. This volume addresses its relationship with destruction. It brings together distinct areas for enquiry, from artists whose making is driven by breaking down matter to unique approaches to representing mass destruction.
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.
Horse Breeds and Breeding in the Greco-Persian World
This book focuses on the origin and development of ancient horse breeds. It examines what happened when humans domesticated the horse, and through cross-breeding and training, created the famed breeds of the Greco-Persian world of the second and first millennia BC.
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.
The Farmer’s Boy by Robert Bloomfield
Robert Bloomfield’s bestselling poem, The Farmer’s Boy, was a polished rewrite that erased the author’s Suffolk voice. This edition reveals his true intentions for the first time, printing his original manuscript alongside the published version.
Labour Law and Industrial Relations in Recessionary Times
This volume of papers in English analyzes the many changes in the Italian labour market. The book provides an international readership with a frame of reference for Italian Labour Law and adds a comparative dimension to the national reform debate.
Manufacturing Otherness
Missionaries were key players in the “spiritual conquest” of the New World, imposing dominant values while also mediating between cultures. This book shows how Indigenous cultures entered these areas of negotiation to produce their own cultural subjectivity.
Digital By-Product Data in Web 2.0
Every online action is recorded as digital by-product data. This hidden information provides a road map to who we are and what we want. This book shows how social scientists can analyze this data to better understand our society and ourselves.
The Narcissism Conundrum
This psycho-biographic analysis dissects Hemingway’s works and letters to reveal the man behind the glamorous persona. It unearths a tradition of narcissistic self-fictionalization, enabling aficionados to decipher the conundrum of his mystic persona.
This volume offers a cross section of current directions in music analysis. Music analysis is presented as a vibrant, multi-faceted field of research that constantly re-examines its own postulates while establishing dialogues with other disciplines.
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.
Intercultural Horizons Volume II
This volume features a collection of papers on intercultural education. Authors provide faculty and student perspectives on developing intercultural competence in higher education, focusing on service-learning and the university’s engagement with the community.
Negotiating Privately for an Effective Role in Public Space
A 1992 quota thrust rural Indian women into politics. This book reveals how they negotiated their new roles, converting the strong patriarchal set-up into a support system and achieving social and economic empowerment.
Mnemosyne and Mars
Explore the enduring cultural legacy of war through its powerful representation in literature, film, theatre, and music.
This collection of papers by international scholars offers fresh views on education, language, literature, and culture. Viewing topical issues through a dynamic global prism, these essays will stimulate intellectual curiosity and the development of new ideas.
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