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Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011
How did Iran remain distinctively Iranian in the centuries which followed the Arab Conquest? How did it retain its cultural distinctiveness after the displacement of Zoroastrianism - state religion of the Persian empire - by Islam? This latest volume in The Idea of Iran series traces that critical...
Technovisuality
Cultural Re-enchantment and the Experience of Technology
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2015
How should we regard the contemporary proliferation of images? Today, visual information is available as projected, printed and on-screen imagery, in the forms of video games, scientific data, virtual environments and architectural renderings. Fearful and anti-visualist responses to this phenomenon...
Empire and Holy War in the Mediterranean
The Galley and Maritime Conflict between the Habsburgs and Ottomans
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014
In the century after 1530 the empires of the Habsburgs of Spain and the Ottoman Turks fought a maritime war that seemed destined to lead nowhere:: lasting peace was as unlikely as final triumph, in part because the salient feature of this conflict was a violent form of piracy practiced by the 'corsairs'...
Russia in the Time of Cholera
Disease under Romanovs and Soviets
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2018
As the nineteenth century drew to a close and epidemics in western Europe were waning, the deadly cholera vibrio continued to wreak havoc in Russia, outlasting the Romanovs. Scholars have since argued that cholera eventually fell prey to better sanitation and strict quarantine under the Soviets, citing...
Reporting Genocide
Media, Mass Violence and Human Rights
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2017
The Western world's responses to genocide have been slow, unwieldly and sometimes unfit for purpose. So argues David Patrick in this essential new contribution to the aid and intervention debate. While the UK and US have historically been committed to the ideals of human rights, freedom and equality,...
Dragon Lords
The History and Legends of Viking England
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Why did the Vikings sail to England? Were they indiscriminate raiders, motivated solely by bloodlust and plunder? One narrative, the stereotypical one, might have it so. But locked away in the buried history of the British Isles are other, far richer and more nuanced, stories; and these hidden tales...
Folk Fashion
Understanding Homemade Clothes
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
A dynamic resurgence in sewing and knitting is under way, with many people enjoying making and mending their own garments at home. However, stories abound of homemade clothes languishing at the back of the wardrobe. Amy Twigger Holroyd draws on ideas of fashion, culture and craft to explore makers'...
Media in Lebanon
Fragmentation and Conflict in the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2019
Lebanese society is famously, and even notoriously, fragmented, along both class and sectarian lines. Here, Nabil Dajani looks at how this societal division impacts on the nature of the mass media in Lebanon. Implementing the wider theory that the structure and content of mass media is unique to the...
Drugs, Deviancy and Democracy in Iran
The Interaction of State and Civil Society
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2011
In the aftermath of the Iranian Revolution, the government initiated a stringent anti-drug campaign that included fining addicts, imprisonment, physical punishment and even the death penalty. Despite these measures, drug use was and is still commonplace. Based on her most recent fieldwork in Iran,...
The Zaza Kurds of Turkey
A Middle Eastern Minority in a Globalised Society
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2011
Turkey, at the very intersection of Europe and the Middle East, comprises a plethora of ethnicities and minority groups. There is however very little official data about many of its chief minorities. The Zazas are one such group: a Kurdish people speaking the Zaza dialect, and living as a distinct...
Allopathy Goes Native
Traditional Versus Modern Medicine in Iran
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2017
Allopathy is often described as 'western' medicine, the antithesis of homeopathy, yet all medical systems are infused with culture-specific values, ideas and beliefs. Agnes Loeffler's insightful and original book investigates how allopathic knowledge, theories and practice guidelines come to be understood...
Cyborg Theology
Humans, Technology and God
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
The concept of the cyborg, or cybernetic organism, has led to notably creative explorations of the ambiguous relationship between human beings and technology. In particular, Donna Haraway argued in her famous 1991 'Cyborg Manifesto' that people, since they are so often now detached and separated from...
Dziga Vertov
Defining Documentary Film
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2007
Pioneer of political documentary and inventor of cinéma vérite, Dziga Vertov has exerted a decisive influence on directors from Eisenstein to Godard. Yet his reputation long rested upon a lone masterpiece, 'Man with a Movie Camera'. Recently, however Vertov has begun to be recognised as the creator...
After Dracula
The 1930s Horror Film
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2013
After Dracula tells of films set in London usic halls and Yorkshire coal mines, South Sea Islands and Hungarian modernist houses of horror, with narrators that survey the outskirts of contemporary Paris and travel back in time to ancient Egypt. Alison Peirse argues that Dracula (1931) has been canonised...