University Of Wales Press imprint: 340 books
Search for the Nile's Source
The Ruined Reputation of John Petherick, Nineteenth-century Welsh Explorer
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2013
The source of the Nile had long eluded and tormented explorers, and John Hanning Speke’s discovery of Lake Victoria in 1858 elevated him to the pantheon of heroes of African exploration, alongside Livingstone and Stanley. But the part played by the Welsh mining engineer John Petherick in the discovery...
by Duncan Connors
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2016
A History of Money looks at how money as we know it developed through time. Starting with the barter system, the basic function of exchanging goods evolved into a monetary system based on coins made up of precious metals and, from the 1500s onwards, financial systems were established through which...
Radio in Small Nations
Production, Programmes, Audiences
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
This is the first title in a new series of volumes examining different dimensions of the media and culture in small nations. Whether at a local, national or international level, radio has played and continues to play a key role in nurturing or denying – even destroying – people’s sense of ‘belonging’...
From the Cradle to the Coalmine
The Story of Children in Welsh Mines
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
It is widely believed that the employment of children underground in coal mines ended in 1842. This book, in contrast, shows that young people remained an important part of the workforce up until the virtual demise of the industry in the late twentieth century. The Children’s Employment Commission...
Catalan Cartoons
A Cultural and Political History
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2016
In a world increasingly dominated by visual sensation, our understanding of the role and influence of comics and cartoon humor in popular culture has become essential. This book offers a critical and cognitive focus that captures the changing fortunes of Catalan humour production against the shifting...
Stories Set Forth with Fair Words
The Evolution of Medieval Romance in Iceland
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2017
This book is an investigation of the foundation and evolution of romance in Iceland. The narrative type arose from the introduction of French narratives into the alien literary environment of Iceland and the acculturation of the import to indigenous literary traditions. The study focuses on the oldest...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
This book explores the paradox that the Gothic (today’s werewolves, vampires, and horror movies) owe their origins (and their legitimacy) to eighteenth-century interpretations of Shakespeare. As Shakespeare was being established as the supreme British writer throughout the century, he was cited...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2011
This collection of articles studies the development of crime fiction in Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden since the 1960s, offering the first English-language study of this widely read and influential form. Since the first Martin-Beck novel of Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö appeared in 1965,...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2016
The sonnets written during the Spanish Golden Age of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries are among the finest poems written in the Spanish language. This book presents over one hundred of the best and most representative sonnets of that period, together with translations into English sonnets and...
The Arthur of the Italians
The Arthurian Legend in Medieval Italian Literature and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
This is the first comprehensive book on the Arthurian legend in medieval and Renaissance Italy since Edmund Gardner’s 1930 The Arthurian Legend in Italian Literature. Arthurian material reached all levels of Italian society, from princely courts with their luxury books and frescoed palaces, to the...
The Arthur of Medieval Latin Literature
The Development and Dissemination of the Arthurian Legend in Medieval Latin
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
King Arthur is arguably the most recognizable literary hero of the European Middle Ages. His stories survive in many genres and many languages, but while scholars and enthusiasts alike know something of his roots in Geoffrey of Monmouth's Latin History of the Kings of Britain, most are unaware that...
Body Gothic
Corporeal Transgression in Contemporary Literature and Horror Film
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
The gothic, particularly in its contemporary incarnations, is often constructed around largely disembodied concepts such as spectrality or the haunted. Body Gothic offers a counter-narrative that reinstates the importance of viscerality to the gothic mode. It argues that contemporary discourses surrounding...
The Mexican Transition
Politics, Culture & Democracy in the Twenty-first Century
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013
This book is a collection of essays on the Mexican transition to democracy that offers reflections on different aspects of civic culture, the political process, electoral struggles, and critical junctures. They were written at different points in time and even though they have been corrected and adapted,...
Saving the Pyramids
Twenty First Century Engineering and Egypts Ancient Monuments
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2018
Having worked on projects around the world, strengthening and restoring historically significant structures from Windsor Castle to the parliament buildings in Canada, Peter James brings insight to the structural engineering of ancient Egypt. After fourteen years working on the historic buildings and...