This collection focuses on the multi-layered links between international events and identity discourses. With a unique…

From a multi-sited ethnography with Swedish migrant women in the United States, Singapore and Spain, the book explores…

Drawing on a broad concept of desire, informed by poststructuralist theorists this book examines the range of Hardy's work.…

This book argues that the term 'Romanticism' should be more culturally-inclusive, recognizing the importance of scientific…

By the dawn of the 21st century, more than half of the world's population was living in urban areas. This volume explores…

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This is a collection of essays by leading economists surveying and assessing the contribution made to the development of…

Using a cultural approach to classical myths, this book examines how they affect psychoanalytic theory, historical…

Reimagining the Immigrant examines integrative practices by residents towards Mexican immigrants in a small farm town in…

This book argues that a well-educated citizenry and freer flow of information has contributed to a state of "hyperdemocracy"…

A book that combines moral and political philosophy with traditions of activism and literature in a background of scientific…

This book explores new forms of private, mutual municipal, public-private and 'reverse' state funding of public investments,…

Historian and minister William Robertson was a central Scottish Enlightenment figure whose influence reached well beyond the…

The past century of labor was definitively captured by theories like Fordism and Taylorism, or scientific managment, but how…

Leading scholars from both sides of the Atlantic explore translations as a key agent of change in the wider religious,…

The question of ignorance occupies a central place in anthropological theory and practice. Ultimately, The Anthropology of…

The first scholarly study of the rich body of poetry that emerged from the post-war American suburbs, Gill evaluates the…

By exploring how financial, legal and wider socio-economic systems can accelerate or decelerate the harmonization in…

Beginning with the Renaissance and extending to the present, authors under discussion include: Beaumont and Fletcher, Lope…

This book explores young people's 'nested' and 'political' ecological relationships with crime through an empirical…

This book examines evolution of medieval patience literature from a focus on male and female sufferers to a focus on female…

Methodological weaknesses abound in studies of the purported effects of alcohol advertising and other forms of marketing and…

An accessible yet thorough look at how historians and social scientists have thought and written about the history of the…

An examination of the policy of the US Administration of Jimmy Carter towards Vietnam between 1977 and 1980. Using a belief…

This book brings together different perspectives on ELT materials from a range of international contexts and a variety of…

Chinese American authors often find it necessary to represent Asian history in their literary works. Tracing the development…

The sixteenth century was an age of politically powerful women. Debating Women, Politics, and Power in Early Modern Europe…

Sir Arthur Lewis was the first development economist, the first Afro-Caribbean to hold a professorial chair at a British…

This book takes you on a journey through post-crisis regulatory reform, highlighting the unintended consequences of some of…

Bringing together the leading future figures in ethics broadly construed with essays ranging from metaethics and normative…

Since the recent international crises, the role and significance of international financial institutions (IFI) have been…

Andy Green develops on his earlier historical work on Education and State Formation in a study of education and the nation…

This is a study of the parliamentary history of the Whigs during the Age of Reform, describing the extent to which both Grey…

Arising from a research project on depression in the eighteenth century, this book discusses the experience of depressive…

This collection traces women educators' professional lives and the extent to which they challenged the gendered terrain they…

The Bush administration was remarkably successful in dominating the debate over why we had to go to war with Iraq, but it…

Written by the author of "Browning and the Fictions of Identity," this is a study of the discourse of self in Victorian…

It is during the nineteenth-century, the age of machinery, that we begin to witness a sustained exploration of the literal…

The first detailed and systematic study of the social science of poverty as practiced by the Victorian experts who had so…

In this book, Ibrahim employs Bourdieu's key concepts in order to explain the complex dynamics of social movements by…

This volume is both a tribute to and study of the French economist Jean-Paul Fitoussi. Fitoussi's pluralistic scholarship…

Belief is a fundamental concept within many branches of contemporary philosophy and an important subject in its own right.…

Focusing in particular on pairings of writers within the larger grouping of poets, this book suggests how literary…

Children have been exploited as performers and wooed energetically as consumers throughout history. These essays offer…

Thus, arguing against a conventional comparative approach, this book proposes reading practices that resist the tendency…

Evaluates the capacity of Fairtrade® labeling to enhance the livelihoods of marginalized producers in developing countries.…

Presents an account of the regulatory state and governance. This book examines both key concepts and theories, and important…

Transformative learning is a process in which we question all the assumptions about the world and ourselves that make up our…

Drawing together interview material, medical publications, and first-hand accounts, this book shows that what is being…