In this new critical introduction, Professor Turner provides information on the history and social life of Madrid in the…

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Victor Hugo (1802-1885) is best known as the author of the novel Les Miserables, but he also wrote several plays, of which…

This study first examines the concept of the Son of man against its Jewish background and then details the most important…

Professor Hinsley's book offers a general survey of the history of the theory of sovereignty, which seeks to illuminate the…

This book examines the relationship between foreign companies and government within the Indonesian oil industry. Dr Khong…

This is the first full-length study of James Joyce to subject his work to ethical and political analysis. It addresses…

This collection of essays addresses foundational questions about reasons for belief and uses new research to explore…

This is an important book because of the exceptional combination of historical and theoretical perspectives Dr Maguire…

This book gives a biography and character sketch of FĂ©nelon, author of TĂ©lĂ©maque and royal tutor, and examines his…

Over the past century economic policy orders have been shaped by a paradoxical dynamic - intellectual stability has caused…

In this 2000 collection, an international team of contributors examine relationships between modernist poetry and place in…

This innovative analysis of Carolingian moral norms demonstrates how gender interacted with political and religious thought…

Rochelle Lieber discusses the lexical semantics of word formation in a systematic way, allowing the reader to explore the…

This is a series of reflective essays which pose fundamental and deceptively simple questions about Prussia, which for over…

Over the last two decades a major revaluation has been taking place of the colonial Puritan imagination. With the growth of…

An historical and theoretical analysis of the way gender and race become objects of academic inquiry.…

This volume focuses on the effects of the internationalization of national markets on domestic politics.…

Paul Keal argues for the recognition of indigenous peoples as 'peoples' with the right of self-determination in…

This book is a case study, based on the Montpellier region in southern France, which analyses charity and poor relief from…

James Paxson offers a critical and theoretical appraisal of literary personification in the light of developments in…

A century ago, just as today, working women faced oppression both as women and as workers. On which front would they fight?…

In this study, Madiha Madfai explores Jordan's role in the USA's peacemaking efforts during the Carter, Reagan and Bush…

In histories of early-modern European technology and science, Spain has consistently been overlooked; yet the assumption…

This 1968 monograph is a descriptive grammar of a dialect of ?j?or (Ijaw), a language spoken in the Niger Delta area of…

In this re-evaluation of the writings of Joseph Conrad, Michael Greaney places language and narrative at the heart of his…

This is a digital reprint of Mme de Mourgues' critical introduction to the work of Racine. It concentrates entirely on the…

Media and Political Conflict is the first book that offers a dynamic and comprehensive approach to studying the role of the…

This book, which reports on fieldwork done in an exceedingly densely populated locality of rural Hausaland (Dorayi) in…

This collection of essays by an internationally prominent group of scholars addresses themes central to the tradition of…

This highly original study is concerned with the theory of knowledge. It approaches the subject in a new way by exploring…

Gender and Rhetoric in Plato's Thought explores the relation between Plato's Republic and Laws on the set of issues that the…

In this book, Jeanette Malkin considers a broad spectrum of post-war plays in which characters are created, coerced and…

Drawing on a multi-method study, from the late-nineteenth century to the present, of the stark variations in educational and…

Kuchar explains how the discourses of 'devout melancholy' helped generate some of the most engaging religious verse of the…

Jeffrey Blustein provides a rigorous account of a morality of memory. He offers a novel examination of memory and our…

The authors demonstrate that state policies are highly responsive to public opinion through the analysis of state policies…

Thomas Arnold, headmaster of Rugby School from 1828 till his death, is famous as the reformer of public schools. Dr Bamford…

This book presents a systematic challenge to the widely-held view that Marxism is unable to deal adequately with…

Richard Salmon offers a major study of the development of professional authorship in Victorian Britain. Drawing on detailed…

The main body of this book is devoted to interpretative essays on individual Novellen by Kleist, Tieck, Hoffmann,…

This Companion to Schubert examines the career, music, and reception of one of the most misunderstood and elusive composers.…

Forms of thought are involved whenever we name, describe, or identify things, and distinguish between what is, might, or…

How does mind fit into nature? No contemporary philosopher has done more to clarify this question than Jaegwon Kim, a…

Kenneth Craik was one of the first psychologists to realise that the machines of his and our day share some of the…

The intellectual relationship between Henry James and his father proved to be an influential resource for the novelist.…

Readings in Medieval Poetry is a linked collection of essays on such poems as the Song of Roland, King Horn, Havelok, Sir…

The instinctive behaviour of crowds is still a mysterious phenomenon. Mary Fairclough discovers that in the Romantic period,…

Fox examines state involvement in religion across the globe. He reveals government involvement in religion in nearly all of…