Focusing on the condition of public authority in Africa, Twilight Institutions investigates how, when confronted with state failure, public institutions attempt to gain authority; operating in the twilight between state and society, between public and private.
* A compelling history of theories of reading, a common component of literary theory and history of the book courses at undergraduate level. * This is the first major work to bring insights from book history to bear on literary history and theory.
This ground--breaking book addresses transformations in the understanding of time and the generation and degeneration of value at the cutting edge of modernity and postmodernity.
International terrorism and the 'war' against it have come to define the age in which we live. The threat of terrorist attacks and the measures taken by governments around the world to prevent such atrocities are now part of our daily lives.
Comprises nearly 100 critical essays written by the twentieth century's most influential playwrights, directors, scholars, and philosophers Features the writings of Oscar Wilde, Georg Lukacs, Bertolt Brecht, Gertrude Stein, Zora Neale Hurston, T.S.
This timely and passionate book is the first to address itself to Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz's controversial arguments for the limited use of interrogational torture and its legalisation.
Featuring contributions from some of the major critics of contemporary poetry, Twentieth-Century British and Irish Poetry offers an accessible, imaginative, and highly stimulating body of critical work on the evolution of British and Irish poetry in the twentieth-century.
In the hope of shedding light on questions that continue to spark debate among historians and students of Lincoln, Brooks Simpson... Læs mere
In preparing the long-awaited second edition of his well-liked text, Kent Newmyer consulted the best and most relevant of the recent scholarship on the antebellum Court, prompting him to revise important points in the story of the Court's evolution.
Over the last twenty years the Journal of Historical Sociology has redefined what historical sociology can be. These essays by internationally distinguished historians, sociologists, anthropologists and geographers bring together the very best of the JHS.
Adolescence is often thought of as a period during which parent-child... Læs mere
The Cold War, the black freedom struggle, Vietnam, the sexual revolution, conservative backlash, and the new millennium are just a few of the events that have shaped the lives of Americans since 1945.