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Sweet and Bitter Island
A History of the British in Cyprus
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2010
On a sweltering day in July 1878, the men of the 42nd Royal Highlanders - the Black Watch - waded ashore at Larnaca Bay to begin the British occupation of Cyprus. Today, Britons on sunbeds colonise the same stretch of sand, the latest visitors to an island which has long held a special place in the...
3D Warhol
Andy Warhol and Sculpture
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
Rain machines; alarmed kosher pickle jars filled with gemstones; replica cornflakes boxes; 'disco décor'; time capsules; art bombs; birthday presents; perfume bottles and floating silver pillows that are clouds; paintings that are also films; museum interventions; collected and curated projects;...
by Ralph Buck, Nicholas Rowe, Toni Shapiro-Phim
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
The South China Sea has a rich and turbulent history. Today territorial disputes in the region - including China, Taiwan, Vietnam, Philippines and Indonesia - make it potentially one of the most dangerous points of conflict in Asia and millions of people have crossed its waters in search of safer...
Fashion and Popular Print in Early Modern England
Depicting Dress in Black-Letter Ballads
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2017
Fashion featured in black-letter broadside ballads over a hundred years before fashion magazines appeared in England. In the seventeenth century, these single-sheet prints contained rhyming song texts and woodcut pictures, accessible to almost everyone in the country. Dress was a popular subject for...
The Greek Civil War
Strategy, Counterinsurgency and the Monarchy
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
The Greek Civil War (1946–9) was one of the few instances in the post-World War II era of a clear-cut and permanent victory by right-wing government forces over an insurgent communist movement. Spyridon Plakoudas here explores the factors which ultimately caused the downfall of the communist insurgency...
by Claire Elise Katz
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
How Jewish is modern Jewish philosophy? The question at first appears nonsensical, until we consider that the chief issues with which Jewish philosophers have engaged, from the Enlightenment through to the late 20th century, are the standard preoccupations of general philosophical inquiry. Questions...
Greece, the Decade of War
Occupation, Resistance and Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2016
During the 1940s Greece was torn apart twice, first by World War II and second by Civil War.Beginning in 1941, the occupation of Greece by Germany was intensely brutal. Children starved on the streets of Athens. The Jewish population was decimated in the Holocaust. Heroic acts of resistance - performed...
Myth Making in the Soviet Union and Modern Russia
Remembering World War II in Brezhnev’s Hero City
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
The 1943 battle to free the Soviet Black Sea port of Novorossiisk from German occupation was fought from the beach head of Malaia zemlia, where the young Colonel Leonid Brezhnev saw action. Despite widespread scepticism of the state's appropriation and inflation of this historical event, the heroes...
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...