As the site of literary pilgrimage since the eighteenth century, the home of the Royal Shakespeare Company and the topic of hundreds of imaginary portrayals, Stratford is ripe for analysis, both in terms of its factual existence and its fictional afterlife.
In the years leading up to the Second World War, increasingly desperate European Jews looked to far-flung destinations... Læs mere
Drawing on a wealth of heretofore neglected sources from multiple languages, this book gives a fascinating account of how vampires-whose various incarnations... Læs mere
How have African regimes changed since the early 1990s? Regimes of Responsibility in Africa analyses the transformations that discourses and practices of responsibility have undergone in Africa.
Focused on the German-speaking parts of the former Habsburg Empire, this book offers a series of analyses of the... Læs mere
Amid the Cold War and global student protests, transnational forces significantly shaped the modernization of... Læs mere
Unsustainable practices since the Industrial Revolution still impact our everyday lives. This book looks at how we can achieve sustainable... Læs mere
This innovative study develops the concept of “retro” to describe the nuanced and ironic depiction of the past as... Læs mere
This book offers an account of local stakeholder strategies as they unfolded at Frieda over forty years and provides a strong and novel commentary on sustainability and social accountability of the mining industry operating in indigenous territories.
Germany has one of the most lively and well-developed punk scenes in the world. However, punk in this country is... Læs mere
Responding to the renewed emphasis on the significance of village studies, this book focuses on aging bachelorhood as a site of intolerable angst when faced with rural... Læs mere
More than Mere Spectacle brings together new research on the numerous... Læs mere