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Film and Identity in Kazakhstan
Soviet and Post-Soviet Culture in Central Asia
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2018
Cinema and nationalism are two fundamentally modern phenomena, but how have films shaped our understanding of the creation -the 'imagining' - of Central-Asian nations? Here, Rico Isaacs uses cinema as an analytical lens to explore how the Kazakh national identity has been constructed and contested....
By the Olive Groves
A Calabrian Childhood
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
In 1939 a girl was born in the Aspromonte mountains of Calabria, a beautiful land steeped in history and suffused with tradition but weighed down by poverty and the 'Ndrangheta – Calabria's Mafia. As the tremors of World War II shake the heart of Calabria, so the little girl's childhood unfolds....
by Dr Helen L. Parish
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2018
When, in October 1517, Martin Luther pinned his Ninety-Five Theses to the door of All Saints' Church in Wittenberg he shattered the foundations of western Christendom. The Reformation of doctrine and practice that followed Luther's seismic action, and protest against the sale of indulgences, fragmented...
To Boldly Go
Marketing the Myth of Star Trek
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
Today's media, cinema and TV screens are host to new manifestations of myth, their modes of storytelling radically transformed from those of ancient Greece. They present us with narratives of contemporary customs and belief systems: our modern-day myths. This book argues that the tools of transmedia...
Racism, Ethnicity and the Media in Africa
Mediating Conflict in the Twenty-first Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
In today's Africa racism and ethnicity have been implicated in serious conflicts – from Egypt to Darfur to South Africa that have cost lives and undermined efforts to achieve national cohesion and meaningful development. Racism, Ethnicity and
The Syria-Iran Axis
Cultural Diplomacy and International Relations in the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2013
Since the Iranian Revolution of 1979, the close alliance between Syria and Iran has endured for over three decades, based on geopolitical interests between the two states and often framed in the language of resistance. In view of their strong relationship at a state-level, what have Syria and Iran...
America & Islam
Soundbites, Suicide Bombs and the Road to Donald Trump
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2019
Donald Trump's first term as the 45th President of the United States of America has shocked the world. His attitudes towards Islam became a key point of contention on the campaign trail, and in power Trump has continued his war of divisive words and deeds. Here, acclaimed journalist Lawrence Pintak...
East Asian Cinemas
Exploring Transnational Connections on Film
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2010
Cinemas from East Asia are among the most exciting and influential in the world. They are attracting popular and critical attention on a global scale, with films from the region circulating as arthouse, cult, blockbuster and 'extreme' cinema, or as Hollywood remakes. This book explores developments...
Kosovo, A Documentary History
From the Balkan Wars to World War II
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018
The question of Kosovan sovereignty and independence has a history which stretches far back beyond the outbreak of war in 1998. This volume is a compilation of key documents on Kosovo from the first half of the twentieth century. These texts, including numerous diplomatic despatches from the British...
Hitler's Island War
The Men Who Fought for Leros
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2017
In September 1943, at the height of World War II, the Aegean island of Leros became the site of the most pivotal battle of the Dodecanese campaign as the British tried, in vain, to retain control of the island. Over the course of two short months – from 15 September 1943 to 17 November 1943 –...
Beyond Brexit
Towards a British Constitution
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2019
Entry into the European Community in 1973 was a momentous event - with seismic consequences for the politics and constitution of Britain. Discussion of Brexit, equally momentous, has been confined almost wholly to looking at the economic consequences of Britain's withdrawal from Europe. But what will...
The US, the UK and Saudi Arabia in World War II
The Middle East and the Origins of a Special Relationship
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2016
The story of Anglo-American relations in Saudi Arabia during the Second World War has generally been viewed as one of discord and hegemonic rivalry, a perspective reinforced by a tendency to consider Britain's decline and the ascent of US power as inevitable. In this engaging and timely study, Matthew...
Iran and the First World War
Battleground of the Great Powers
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2006
The First World War, leading to the overthrow of the Qajar regime and replacement by Reza Shah, was pivotal in the history of modern Iran. The Constitutional Revolution of 1906-09 aimed to abolish the arbitrary regime and bring in a modern constitution and parliament. But growing provincial unrest...
The Religious Nile
Water, Ritual and Society Since Ancient Egypt
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2018
The Nile is arguably the most famous river in the world. For millennia, the search for its source defeated emperors and explorers. Yet the search for its source also contained a religious quest - a search for the origin of its divine and life-giving waters. Terje Oestigaard reveals how the beliefs...