Through an analysis of Dante's story of Paolo and Francesco, this book combines contemporary ethical theory, literary interpretation, and historical narrative to defend the humanities as a source of moral guidance.
The dynamics, politics, and richness of knowledge production in social movements and social activist contexts... Læs mere
Globalization and technology have altered public fears and changed expectations of how government should make people safer. This... Læs mere
While some poets engage their literary forebears to exorcise anxiety and others use Hell to sharpen their cultural... Læs mere
A fresh biography of Mary Tudor which challenges conventional views of her as a weeping hysteric... Læs mere
This book debunks one of the greatest myths ever told in Caribbean history: that the indigenous peoples who... Læs mere
Rooted in close reading of texts, including the essays of E.B. White, this comprehensive assessment of the oft-slighted subform of the literary essay situates the familiar at the heart of the essay as form.
Conservative Intellectuals and Richard Nixon explores the relationship between postwar conservatives and the president from... Læs mere
This book is concerned with the three-way relationship between neoliberalism, women's education, and the spatialization of the state, and analyses this through an ethnography lens of women's education programs in India.
Constructing Mexico City: Colonial Conflicts over Culture, Space, and Authority examines the spatial, material, and cultural dimensions of life in eighteenth-century Mexico City, through programs that colonial leaders created to renovate and reshape urban environments.
In this volume, Lebbady has compiled and translated seven Andalusi women's tales from the north of Morocco, and analyzes them from a postcolonial theoretical perspective, finding in the women far more wit and agency than western stereotypes would suggest.
In 60 years the nuclear tipped South Asian enduring rivals, India and Pakistan have fought four wars and were close to a fifth one in 2001.