This book examines the rise and collapse of Mongol rule in Iran and Iraq, and its revival by a family of sultans who claimed to be the... Læs mere
This collection provides a thorough representation of the early and ongoing conversation between Gothic and theory – philosophical, aesthetic, psychological and cultural.
Reflects on women participating in Islamic scholarly traditions from the classical period to the present
Drawing on a series of case studies, this collective work sheds light on six national trajectories of Islamism. Contributors look at... Læs mere
Modernism, Fashion and Interwar Women Writers demonstrates how five female novelists of the interwar period engaged with an emerging fashion discourse that... Læs mere
This collection provides a thorough representation of the early and ongoing conversation between Gothic and theory – philosophical, aesthetic, psychological and cultural.
Chronicles volumes the variety of performance in film noir, defined by the dialectic between dynamic star images and the demands of individual roles.
This sympathetic critical analysis corrects some popular myths about Kropotkin's thought, highlights the important and unique contribution he made to the history of socialist ideas and sheds new light on the nature of anarchist ideology.
An understanding of military occupation as a distinct phenomenon first emerged in the 18th century. This book shows how this understanding developed and the problems that the occupiers, the occupied, commentators and the courts encountered.
What exactly are words? Are they the things that get listed in dictionaries, or are they the basic units of sentence structure? Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy explores the implications of these different approaches to words in English.
World Cinema and the Essay Film examines the ways in which essay film practices are deployed by non-Western filmmakers in specific local and national contexts, in an interconnected world.
Explores a new understanding of gender, agency and military power through the lived experiences of army wives, based on unprecedented ethnographic access to a British Army regiment as a unit of social and cultural belonging.