The book examines the intellectual history of the concept of sovereignty and argues that its essential value lies in its historical role as a political instrument to handle paradoxes of power. -- .
This edited collection focusses on the writing of ordinary, semi-literate people in history, emphasising the agency and voices of the subordinate classes and... Læs mere
This book explores the process by which the French Basque country acquired a folkloric regional identity in the long nineteenth... Læs mere
This book offers a new study of Hobbes’s reception among seventeenth- and eighteenth- century deists and freethinkers, showing... Læs mere
Shakespeare’s adolescents examines the varied representation of adolescent characters in... Læs mere
This book offers a unique perspective on one of today’s most disturbing convergences, the rise of the far right and the ongoing ecological crisis. Through case studies from around the world, the book interrogates the multifaceted ways these two trends intersect. -- .
This book offers a unique perspective on one of today’s most disturbing convergences, the rise of the far right and the ongoing ecological crisis. Through case studies from around the world, the book interrogates the multifaceted ways these two trends intersect. -- .
The book is the first extensive historical examination of motherhood in English prisons. It addresses the challenges mothers and babies have historically posed to prison systems not designed with their containment and the management of their health in mind. -- .
Starting with the astonishing lone-wolf terrorist attacks in Oslo and Utøyain July 2011 and the extraordinary mutation in security thinking that happened in its aftermath, this book develops an innovative theory of terrorism as the enchantment of danger. -- .
Decolonizing images focuses on Egypt’s local visual heritage and continues the urgent process of decolonizing the canon of... Læs mere
Is it possible for foreign things to be perceived as local? Transcultural things sets out to examine this seeming paradox, focusing on artefacts from the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. -- .
This book explores the relationship between art and various disciplines of knowledge from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present day. -- .