This is a comprehensive study of the archaeology of early medieval Essex, giving new insights into the dynamics of coastal societies in contemporary north-western Europe.
This book grapples with questions of the impact of marriage symbolism on both ideas and practice in the early Christian and medieval period.
This book, grounded in archival research and close examination of artworks from The Poor Clares convent of Corpus Domini, explores the visual culture and social history of an early modern Franciscan women’s community.
This book examines China's heritage practices since the 1990s heritage turn through diverse case studies using multiple disciplinary approaches
This original investigation of the hitherto-unexamined organization 'Chinese Communist Youth League' uses a... Læs mere
Drawing on ethnographic research conducted at Moscow's wholesale markets from 2013 to 2016, Vietnamese Migrants in Russia: Mobility in Times... Læs mere
The Uncanny Child in Transnational Cinema illustrates how global horror film depictions of children re-conceptualised childhood at the beginning of the twenty-first century, and considers the cultural conditions surrounding their emergence.
This book is a contribution to an aesthetics of cinema rooted in Marxist theory. Rather than focusing on the role that certain films, or the... Læs mere
Violence and Trolling on Social Media: History, Affect, and Effects of Online Vitriol unpacks discourses, metaphors, dynamics, and framing on social media. This book... Læs mere
This book encompasses the contributions presented at the scientific symposium of prominent scientists who gathered in 2016 in Husum, Germany, a landmark event in sharing knowledge on the common history, landscape, cultural heritage of the Wadden Sea Region.
This work reframes the Victorian encounter with the Dolomites through the lens of Grand Tour memories, revealing a distinctive Silver Age of Mountaineering defined by ethnographic rather than imperialistic approaches.
The case studies in this volume trace important developments in the shipbuilding and ship repair industries, as well as workers’ responses to these historic transformations.