Why Europe Will Not Run the 21st Century
What future awaits Europe? To halt its inexorable decline, the EU requires radical reform. This book argues only a federal Europe, with a common Constitution and central government, can overcome its inability to face internal and external threats.
This book examines how doctors responded to trench diseases in the Great War. Faced with “new” conditions, a majority view emerged that they were a product of the trenches. This enabled an effective response using public health methods and military discipline.
Peaceful Surrender
In the 20th century, Spain experienced one of Europe’s most intense processes of rural depopulation. This book explains how the adaptive strategies of rural populations led to a “peaceful surrender” of traditional society, a view distanced from simple nostalgia.
Postcolonial Odysseys
This study charts Derek Walcott’s postcolonial voyage through Homer’s *Odyssey*. It explores the tension between the outward journey and the homecoming, revealing how a modern master can reclaim and transform an ancient epic.
Spanning the Easter Rising to the Troubles, these essays reveal the nexus of Irish art and politics. Discover how literary giants like Joyce, Yeats, and Beckett and popular icons like Father Ted shaped a nation.
Ethics is not just ‘being good’, but living a ‘good life’. This book highlights that being good is a matter of acting good—of performing certain roles and duties. It explores this relationship between ethics and performance from natality to fatality.
This collection of essays by Caribbean scholars offers novel perspectives on the region’s literature and culture. It cuts across disciplines to explore the diaspora, identity, gender, artistic expression, and the writer’s role as a political activist.
The Plastic Venuses
Consumerism and virtual reality are transforming archaeology. When ancient sites become theme parks and finds are exhibited in casinos, what is authenticity? This book is an innovative, critical, and stimulating appraisal of our relationship with the past.
Modes of British Imperial Control of Africa
Uncovering the legacy of British rule in Uganda, this book argues that informal imperial control encouraged leaders to seek external legitimacy, fueling human rights violations by removing the need for popular consent.
Shakespeare on Love
Plato’s vision of universal love, alchemy, and Christian ideas strongly influenced Shakespeare’s Sonnets. He inserted these themes into his plays, creating a paradoxical combination of erotic mysticism with real lovers. The Dark Lady finds her supreme realisation in Cleopatra.
This analysis of Hardy’s tragedies finds his famed pessimism is a mask for evolutionary ethics. Women’s suffering is an adapted parental investment in survival, a force of superiority granting greater fitness than the heroic deeds of men.
Latin Elegy and Hellenistic Epigram
This volume explores the impact of Hellenistic Greek epigram on Latin erotic elegy in light of new papyrus discoveries. Chapters examine the reception of epigrams in Propertius and Ovid and the appropriation of their thematic and structural motifs.
Amid rapid economic and political change, this volume investigates the impact of global reality and EU integration on the Balkan and Black Sea countries, and explores the possibilities and perspectives for their economies.
This book investigates how Chinese adolescents construct and negotiate gender identity while learning English. It shows how the EFL classroom can open a space for students to become aware of gender, highlighting a new educational function for language learning.
Jung on Synchronicity and Yijing
Jung’s archetypal theory illuminates the Yijing, defining the experience of the divine as an unconscious process. Yet this Western view, rooted in Plato and Kant, clashes with Yijing cosmology, creating a tension between timeless archetypes and subjective experience.
Out of the Burning House
A Marxist historian and a behaviourist psychologist revisit their university days, exploring the overlooked social forces that shaped a generation: Scientific Humanism, The New Left, and precursors of the Women’s Liberation Movement.
Primogeniture and Entail in England
This book examines the history and literary representation of primogeniture, the English custom making the eldest son sole heir. Denounced as unjust yet fiercely defended, it dominated social life for centuries, sparking a major ideological debate.
Daniel-François-Esprit Auber
Auber’s grand opera La Muette de Portici is a key work in operatic history. Set against the 1647 revolt in Naples, its revolutionary tale was so potent that a performance in Brussels on 25 August 1830 sparked the uprising for Belgian independence.
Daniel-François-Esprit Auber
19th-century French composer Auber and librettist Scribe formed one of musical history’s most successful partnerships. Their opera *Manon Lescaut* features a unique final scene: a powerfully expressive dramatic symphony of simple grandeur and real emotion.
Songs at Twilight
A visually impaired author and thirty contributors explore their experiences of living with a visual impairment and its effect on their identity. Through collaborative narrative, they challenge sighted assumptions about blindness.
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