This book explores the varied ways in which modernist and postcolonial innovations in fiction are motivated by crises and…

The author develops an original interpretation of foreign aid by analysing it as a particular domain of international…

This volume takes a decentered look at early modern empires and rejects the center/periphery divide. With an unconventional…

Norbert Elias has been recognized as one of the key social scientists of the 20th century at least in sociology, political…

This first full-length scholarly study about animal horror cinema defines the popular subgenre and describes its origin and…

The first critical survey of an unjustly neglected body of literature: the autobiographies and memoirs of writers of Irish…

This book is about the ways that traditional cultural practices either change or persist in the face of social and economic…

This book brings together for the first time a large collection of essays (including three new ones) of a leading writer on…

This book explores the multiple portrayals of the actor and theatre manager Colley Cibber, king of the dunces, professional…

An exploration of Turkey's future role and impact on European energy security, looking at the connection between…

Evil and barbarism continue to be associated with the totalitarian 'extremes' of twentieth-century Europe. Addressing…

Presenting International Studies as a wide, plural and inherently interdisciplinary field of research, this book shows its…

Japan is imagined routinely in American discourse as a supernatural entity. Gothic tales from these two cultures have been…

Salsa is both an American and transnational phenomenon, however women in salsa have been neglected. To explore how female…

A collection of essays which develop Professor Nell's economic theory of transformational growth. The author's previous…

Being Shaken is a multifaceted meditation by leading philosophers from Europe and North America on ways in which events…

This project examines the concept of fraud loss measurement by critiquing existing measurement methodologies, and argues for…

American Modernist Poetry and the Chinese Encounteroffers a framework for understanding the variety of imagined encounters…

Spanning the history of American leadership, the book examines all facets of American thought leaders and innovators along…

This study investigates the extent to which personal welfare state experiences affect general political orientations and…

Hand-Made Television explores the ongoing enchantment of many of the much-loved stop-frame children's television programmes…

An exploration of how the EU is influenced by multilateral institutions. There has recently been a dramatic increase in…

Authenticity in our globalized world is a paradox. This collection examines how authenticity relates to cultural products,…

Novels by significant Modernist authors can be described as romans clef , providing insight into restrictions governing the…

A political and managerial brief on Chinese global power, this new book puts into a modern context the Chinese opportunities…

This introduction to the theatre also attempts to offer a meditation on the theatricality of the Incarnation. Arguing that…

This book studies the circulation of social knowledge by focusing on the reception of Niklas Luhmann's systems theory in…

Looking at writers such as Will Self, Hani Kureishi, JG Ballard, and Iain Sinclair, Kim Duff's new book examines…

This book brings together the newest and the most innovative scholarship on Nigerian children-one of the least researched…

The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) is attracting significant attention from governments and scholars. This study…

This book analyzes and offers fresh insights into the trickster tradition including African American, American Indian,…

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This book provides a comparative analysis of the impact of 'soft Europeanization' on higher education governance in Western…

Designed as a critique of the key failures of international development, this book brings together practitioners,…

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Listening in a second language is challenge for students and teachers alike. This book provides a personal account of an…

The Mystery of Moral Authority argues for a sceptical and pragmatic view of morality as an all-too-human institution.…

The authors explore the fresh water crisis of Himalayan Asia. While the region hosts some of the world's mightiest rivers,…

An original investigation of the nature of the forces that make members and representatives both loyal and beneficial to a…

The book examines the problems that plague contemporary American democracy. Written from the standpoint of democratic…

Adopting a perspective inspired by Henri Lefebvre, this book considers the spread of multiculture from the central city to…

This book examines the iconography of the Virgin of Guadalupe as a force for social justice and feminist emancipation within…

Does empathy help us to be moral? The author argues that empathy is often instrumental to meeting the demands of morality as…

Politics without Reason explores the roots of contemporary hostility toward liberalism. The thesis of the book is that…

Drawing on previously unseen archival material, The Beginnings of University English explores the innovative and scholarly…

This collection of essays traces the emergence of the Western poem from the standpoint of its collision with "American"…

Why do screen narratives remain so different in an age of convergence and globalisation that many think is blurring…

Representing a detailed analysis of footballers' wives and their role in contemporary British culture, this books explores…

An interdisciplinary approach to the study of women and property, combining literature, history, and economics. By looking…

Drawing from rationalist and constructivist approaches The Europeanization of Cyprus identifies mechanisms and processes of…