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Arctic Governance: Volume 2
Energy, Living Marine Resources and Shipping
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018
The Polar North is known to be home to large gas and oil reserves and its position holds significant trading and military advantages, yet the maritime boundaries of the region remain ill-defined. In the twenty-first century the Arctic is undergoing profound change. As the sea ice melts, a result of...
The Georgian Menagerie
Exotic Animals in Eighteenth-Century London
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2015
In the eighteenth century, it would not have been impossible for a visitor to London to encounter an elephant or a kangaroo making its way down the Strand, heading towards the menagerie of Mr Pidcock at the Exeter Change. Pidcock's was just one of a number of commercial menagerists who plied their...
Women and Borders
Refugees, Migrants and Communities
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2017
Borders - whether settled or contested, violent or calm, closed or open - may have a direct, and often acute, human impact. Those affected may be people living nearby, those attempting to cross them and even those who succeed in doing so. At the border, vulnerable refugee and migrant communities,...
Medieval Central Asia and the Persianate World
Iranian Tradition and Islamic Civilisation
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2017
From the political dissolution of the Abbasid Caliphate in the mid-ninth century to the beginning of the thirteenth century, the Persianate dynasties of Islamic Central Asia constituted the political and military stronghold of Sunni Islam. It was in this region, historically known as Khurasan and...
by Christoph Baumer
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2018
For more than a hundred years, Central Asia was the heartland of the mightiest military power on the planet. But after the fragmentation of the all-conquering Mongol polity, the region began a steep decline which rendered this former domain of horse lords peripheral to world affairs. The process of...
The History of Central Asia
The Age of Islam and the Mongols
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2016
Between the ninth and the fifteenth centuries, Central Asia was a major political, economic and cultural hub on the Eurasian continent. In the first half of the thirteenth century it was also the pre-eminent centre of power in the largest land-based empire the world has ever seen. This third volume...
The Church of the East
An Illustrated History of Assyrian Christianity
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2016
The so-called 'Nestorian' Church (officially known as the Apostolic Assyrian Church of the East, with its See in Baghdad) was one of the most significant Christian communities to develop east of the Roman Empire. In its heyday the Church had 8 million adherents and stretched from the Mediterranean...
Britain and America After World War II
Bilateral Relations and the Beginnings of the Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
The period immediately after World War II was a vital one for diplomatic relations and, with the Soviet Union emerging as a new superpower, it was particularly important for Britain's relations with America. The subject has unsurprisingly already received much scholarly attention, but this is the...
Sofia Coppola
A Cinema of Girlhood
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2017
Sofia Coppola is widely regarded as one of the most astute, provocative and visionary directors in the contemporary film industry. She has received numerous accolades including an Academy Award and two Golden Globes, and in 2004 became the first ever American woman to be nominated for a Best Director...
Sounds of Fear and Wonder
Music in Cult TV
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2016
How does music enrich and define cult television series? The book analyses theme tunes and scoring on television to reveal how composers construct a series' identity using musical idioms and instruments. Characters and plot developments, similarly, are enhanced by their musical accompaniment. The...
by Prof James Chapman
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Film historian James Chapman has mined Hitchcock's own papers to investigate fully for the first time the spy thrillers of the world's most famous filmmaker. Hitchcock made his name as director of the spy movie. He returned repeatedly to the genre from the British classics of the 1930s, including...
From Steam to Screen
Cinema, the Railways and Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
In late nineteenth and early twentieth century Britain, there was widespread fascination with the technological transformations wrought by modernity. Films, newspapers and literature told astonishing stories about technology, such as locomotives breaking speed records and moving images seemingly springing...
Greek to Me
A Memoir of Academic Life
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2017
The 1960s were a tumultuous period in the history of Greece, as its democracy fell under the forced establishment of a military dictatorship. The regime of the Colonels was the culmination of national division and hostility between communist forces and right wing militants. It was in these extraordinary...
Echoes of Empire
Memory, Identity and Colonial Legacies
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2014
How does our colonial past echo through today's global politics? How have former empire-builders sought vindication or atonement, and formerly colonised states reversal or retribution? This ground-breaking book presents a panoramic view of attitudes to empires past and present, seen not only through...