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Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2017
Este libro analiza las relaciones históricas y políticas entre Europa y América, y el proceso de integración europea desde el punto de vista de las relaciones transatlánticas de la UE con un enfoque multidisciplinario. Es el resultado de un Seminario de Doctorado sobre ese tema organizado por...
Europe between Imperial Decline and Quest for Integration
Pro-European Groups and the French, Belgian and British Empires (19471957)
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2016
The book assesses the role of three pro-European pressure groups (the European Union of Federalists, the Socialist Movement for the United States of Europe and the European League for Economic Cooperation) and their impact in fostering new relations between Europe and the colonies between 1947 and...
The Vanished Musicians
Jewish Refugees in Australia
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
About 9,000 Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany settled in Australia between 1933 and 1945, a small fraction of the hundreds of thousands who fled. Although initially greeted with a mixed reception as «enemy aliens», some of these refugees remained and made a significant impact on multicultural Australia....
LEurope et la question énergétique
Les années 1960/1980
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2016
Au-delà des deux dates charnières de 1973 et 1979, il importe de considérer les évolutions qui ont touché l’Europe de l’ouest comme des mutations nécessaires dans un monde de moins en moins bipolaire. À travers ses épreuves et ses hésitations, la Communauté européenne construit malgré...
Electronic Communication
Political, Social and Educational uses
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
Whether they are citizens or political, client or company, learner or teacher, men now converse with a variety of stakeholders by using ICT. All these electronic tools promote uses and practices which give them considerable power of speech, strong freedom of expression and choice. So each of us participates...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2014
The figure of the child has long been a mainstay of Italian cinema, conventionally interpreted as a witness of adult shortcomings, a vessel of innocence, hope and renewal, or an avatar of nostalgia for the (cinematic) past. New Visions of the Child in Italian Cinema challenges these settled categories...
The South in the German Imaginary
The Italian Journeys of Goethe and Heine
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2015
The division between North and South in Europe represents a geographical as well as a cultural boundary that has influenced the way many European nations think about their history and identity. This divide is particularly prominent in the cultural dialogue between Germany and Italy and has played...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2014
This book explores the differences between ‘high’ and ‘low’ cultures in an Irish context, arguing that these differences require constant revision and redefinition. The volume includes analysis of famous Irish writers such as Bram Stoker, Oscar Wilde, W.B. Yeats, James Joyce and Samuel Beckett,...
Politics of Cross-Cultural Reading
Tagore, Ben Jelloun and Fo in English
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015
The last two decades have witnessed an upsurge in scholarship on world literature. In most of this work world literature is understood as a concept in intellectual history, as a cultural system or as a curriculum to be taught. Grounded in three empirical case studies, this book complements such approaches...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
This collection of essays examines the relationship between the media and cosmopolitanism in an increasingly fragmented and globalizing world. This relationship is presented from multiple perspectives and the essays cover, amongst other themes, cosmopolitanization in everyday life, the mediation of...
Only Connect
E. M. Forsters Legacies in British Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2017
Since Forster’s death in 1970, many British novelists and film directors have acknowledged and even claimed the influence of the novelist of the English soul (in Woolf’s terms) and of a renewed faith in both human relationships and a quintessentially British liberal-humanism. After the ethical...
Lectures croisées
Essays by Alan Raitt
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014
This selection of essays by Alan Raitt provides a series of cross-readings of nineteenth-century French literary authors and texts. The collection revolves around Flaubert and Villiers de l’Isle-Adam, the two authors with whom Raitt is most associated, situating them and their principal works in...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
Les fratries ont-elles une histoire ? Longtemps oubliées par l’historiographie, elles suscitent aujourd’hui un intérêt grandissant chez les historiens, dont témoigne cet ouvrage collectif riche d’une trentaine de contributions issues de deux colloques internationaux. Mal connus, frères...
The Life and Ministry of Prophet Garrick Sokari Braide
Elijah the Second of Niger Delta, Nigeria (c. 1882-1918)
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2014
This study investigates the life and activities of Garrick Sokari Idikatima Braide, an African prophet, missionary and revivalist, in the evangelization of the Niger Delta area of Nigeria from 1890 to 1920. The book focuses on Braide’s revival movement and its impact on the mainstream churches and...