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Eisenstein on the Audiovisual
The Montage of Music, Image and Sound in Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2011
Eisenstein on the Audiovisual is winner of the Kraszna-Krausz Foundation's And/Or Award for the Best Moving Image Book of 2009. Chair of the judging panel Francine Stock commented: 'We had no hesitation in choosing the winner. Composer and filmmaker Robert Robertson achieves the near-impossible, shedding...
The Extraordinary Archive of Arthur J. Munby
Photographing Class and Gender in the Nineteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
In the mid-1860s Arthur J Munby began to collect the first mass-produced photographic images of working-class women in England, recording fascinating details about the women, the places he purchased the photographs and the raging debates on this new commercial practice of photography, in accompanying...
The Napoleonic Mediterranean
Enlightenment, Revolution and Empire
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
The Mediterranean was one of Napoleon's greatest spheres of influence. With territory in Spain, Italy and, of course, France, Napoleon's regime dominated the Great Sea for much of the early nineteenth century. The 'Napoleonic Mediterranean' was composed of almost the entirety of the western, European...
by Aaron P. Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
Eusebius of Caesarea (263-339 CE) is one of the most important intellectuals whose writings survive from late antiquity. His texts made lasting and wide-ranging contributions, from history-writing and apologetics to biblical commentary and Christian oratory. He was a master of many of the literary...
by Halvor Moxnes
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2014
Few documents in world history can match the inspirational impact of the New Testament. For all its variety – gospels, letters and visions – this first-century collection of texts keeps always at its centre the enigmatic figure of Joshua/Jesus: the Jewish prophet who gathered a group around him,...
Yugoslavia and Macedonia Before Tito
Between Repression and Integration
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2017
Held together by apparatchiks and, later, Tito's charisma, Yugoslavia never really incorporated separate Balkan nationalisms into the Pan-Slavic ideal. Macedonia - frequently ignored by Belgrade - had survived centuries of Turkish domination, Bulgarian invasion and Serbian assimilation before it became...
Democratic Peace Across the Middle East
Islam and Political Modernisation
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2016
Nuclear power has for the most part dominated Western media and academic analyses concerning Iranian foreign policy in recent years. This focus, however, can be misleading, especially as regards the early presidency of Mohammad Khatami (1997–2005). In a riposte to Samuel Huntington's 'Clash of Civilisations'...
Revolts and the Military in the Arab Spring
Popular Uprisings and the Politics of Repression
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018
The Arab Spring, which swept across the Middle East between 2010 and 2012, demonstrated the extent to which military structure and decision-making determine whether peaceful uprisings lead to democratisation, renewed authoritarianism, collapse or civil war.
Through detailed exploration of events...
Warsaw Pact Intervention in the Third World
Aid and Influence in the Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018
It was long assumed that the Soviet Union dictated Warsaw Pact policy in Africa, Asia, the Middle East and Latin America (known as the 'Third World' during the Cold War). Although the post-1991 opening of archives has demonstrated this to be untrue, there has still been no holistic volume examining...
Orwell and Marxism
The Political and Cultural Thinking of George Orwell
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2009
Whether as a fighter in the Spanish Civil War, an advocate of patriotic Socialism or a left-wing opponent of the Soviet Union, George Orwell was the ultimate outsider in politics - insecure, scornful of orthodoxies, cussedly independent.
Best known today as the author of Animal Farm and Nineteen...
Muslim Rule in Medieval India
Power and Religion in the Delhi Sultanate
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
The Delhi Sultanate ruled northern India for over three centuries. The era, marked by the desecration of temples and construction of mosques from temple-rubble, is for many South Asians a lightning rod for debates on communalism, religious identity and inter-faith conflict. Using Persian and Arabic...
Hafiz and His Contemporaries
Poetry, Performance and Patronage in Fourteenth Century Iran
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2019
Despite his towering presence in premodern Persian letters, Shams al-Din Muhammad Hafiz of Shiraz (d. 1390) remains an elusive and opaque character for many. In order to look behind the hyperbole that surrounds Hafiz's poetry and penetrate the quasi-hagiographical film that obscures the poet himself,...
Zion in Africa
The Jews of Zambia
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2017
This work represents the definitive account of the Jewish community in central Africa. It tells the story of the coming of the first Jews to the area in the late 19th century, the heyday of the Jewish community in the mid-20th century, and its decline since Zambian independence. Dealing primarily...
Speedy Motor
Travels across Asia and the Middle East in a Morgan
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2016
In the summer of 1974, against the backdrop of the Lebanese Civil War, ceramics expert and Morgan sports car enthusiast John Carswell set off with his young family from their home in Beirut on an expedition across Asia and the Middle East. Their mode of transport was their beloved motor car, a Morgan...