This study considers writing by Caribbean women, such as the slave narrative of Mary Prince and the autobiography of Jamaican nurse Mary Seacole, and works by women whose travels to the Caribbean had enormous impacts on their own lives, such as Aphra Behn and Zora Neale Hurston.
The contributors reinterpret the lives of the famous such as George Antonius and Doria Shafiq and rediscover the lives of... Læs mere
The Spanish expression - la cultura cura (culture heals) - is an affirmation of the potential healing power of a variety of cultural practices that together constitute the ethos of a people.
They also examine why it is essential to take on the sources of 'mass public education.' Academia needs to understand that the popular press and... Læs mere
The contributors to this volume take a hard look at Roosevelt's reaction to the Holocaust.
Focus on People and Migration paints a comprehensive picture of the UK's population, both now and in the future. It then focuses on the age structure of the UK population,... Læs mere
This edition of Shakespeare s The Merchant of Venice reprints the Bevington edition of the play accompanied by four sets of thematically arranged primary... Læs mere
This is a lively study of the autobiographical instinct in a variety of 16th and 17th century modes of writing in English,... Læs mere
A decade ago, playwright dissident Václav Havel led an almost bloodless revolution against Czechoslovakia's hardline communist regime. This book examines... Læs mere
Policy-makers in Pittsburgh, Birmingham and Rotterdam are confronted with rapidly changing social and economic environments.
Development has been elusive for Latin America in the 1990s. Notwithstanding tough neoliberal reforms, defeated hyperinflation, and... Læs mere
Japan has consistently been pursuing the goal of a permanent UN Security Council seat for 30 years. It is therefore a study of the interior workings of the Japanese Foreign Ministry as well as of the country's underdeveloped multilateral diplomacy.