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Imagining the Arctic
Heroism, Spectacle and Polar Exploration
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2017
Imagining the Arctic explores the culture and politics of polar exploration and the making of its heroes. Leading explorers, the celebrity figures of their day, went to great lengths to convince their contemporaries of the merits of polar voyages. Much of exploration was in fact theatre: a series...
by Professor Kenneth Morgan
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2016
From 1501, when the first slaves arrived in Hispaniola, until the nineteenth century, some twelve million people were abducted from west Africa and shipped across thousands of miles of ocean – the infamous Middle Passage – to work in the colonies of the New World. Perhaps two million Africans...
Crossmappings
On Visual Culture
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2018
The great, influential cultural critic, Elisabeth Bronfen, sets out in this book a conversation between literature, cinema and visual culture. The crossmappings facilitated in and between these essays address the cultural survival of image formulas involving portraiture and the uncanny relation between...
Geographies of Peace
New Approaches to Boundaries, Diplomacy and Conflict Resolution
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2014
From handshakes on the White House lawn to Picasso's iconic dove of peace, the images and stereotypes of peace are powerful, widespread and easily recognizable. Yet if we try to offer a concise definition of peace it is altogether a more complicated exercise. Not only is peace an emotive and value-laden...
The Discovery of Albania
Travel Writing and Anthropology in the Nineteenth Century Balkans
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2015
Johann Georg von Hahn – a nineteenth-century Austrian diplomat and explorer - is generally considered to be the founder of Albanian Studies as a scholarly discipline. It was he who first studied the Balkan country and its people, and who brought them to the attention of the academic world. Despite...
The World According to Xi
Everything You Need to Know About the New China
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2018
China is now the most powerful country on earth. Its manufacturing underpins the world's economy; its military is growing at the fastest rate of any nation and its leader - Xi Jinping - is to set the pace and tone of world affairs for decades.
In 2017 Xi Jinping became part of the constitution - an...
Mission Accomplished?
The Crisis of International Intervention
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2015
Why do politicians send troops to foreign soil, to fight battles they rarely win? Is it old-fashioned imperialism tainted with a crusader complex? Or is the West a partisan for the helpless?
The fall of the Soviet Union left the West aimless. With no conflicting dogma to reinforce its sense...
Miss Palmer's Diary
The Secret Journals of a Victorian Lady
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2017
In 1847, seventeen-year-old Miss Ellen Palmer had the world at her feet. A debutante at the start of her first London season, Ellen was beautiful, rich and accomplished and eager to experience the world of dances, opera visits and dinner parties which were a rite-of-passage for young women of her...
Chaplin's Music Hall
The Chaplins and their Circle in the Limelight
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2012
Charlie Chaplin grew up in and around the music hall. His parents, aunt and their friends all earned their precarious livings on the stage and Chaplin himself started out his career touring music halls with a dance troupe. His experiences of the culture of the music hall were a major influence, shaping...
TV's Betty Goes Global
From Telenovela to International Brand
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2012
Premiering in 2006, the stylish and award winning US hit show Ugly Betty, about kind-hearted ugly duckling Betty Suarez (America Ferrera), is the latest incarnation of a truly global phenomenon that started life as a Colombian telenovela, Yo soy Betty, la fea, back in 1999. The tale has since taken...
Fashioning the City
Paris, Fashion and the Media
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2009
The fashion media have been central to the consecration of the city of Paris on the fashion map, as well as its celebration in the collective imagination. Indeed, with its conjunction of images and words, the fashion press constitutes a rich platform for an interrogation of how Paris has come to be...
Gendering Culture in Greater Syria
Intellectuals and Ideology in the Late Ottoman Period
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2014
The Nahda (lit. 'the Awakening') was one of the most significant cultural movements in modern Arab history. By focusing on the neglected role of women in the intellectual Islamic renaissance of the late Ottoman Period, Fruma Zachs and Sharon Halevi provide a refreshingly interdisciplinary exploration...
Nationalism and the Politics of Fear in Israel
Race and Identity on the Border with Lebanon
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015
Kiryat Shmona, located on the Israeli-Lebanese border, often makes the news whenever there is an outbreak of violence between the two countries. Israel's northernmost city, its residents are mostly Mizrahi descent, that is, Jews from Arab and Muslim lands. Cathrine Furberg Moe uses the dynamics at...
Performing Femininity
Woman as Performer in Early Russian Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
Oriental dancers, ballerinas, actresses and opera singers - the figure of the female performer is ubiquitous in the cinema of pre-Revolutionary Russia. From the first feature film, Romashkov's Stenka Razin (1908), through the sophisticated melodramas of the 1910s, to Viskovsky's The Last Tango (1918),...