The representation of the Muslims as threatening to India's body politic is central to the Hindu nationalist project of organizing a political... Læs mere
Through a case study of the Los Angeles city school district from the 1950s through the 1970s, Judith Kafka explores the intersection of race, politics, and the bureaucratic organization of schooling.
The Anti-Hero in the American Novel rereads major texts of the 1960s to offer an innovative re-evaluation of a set of canonical... Læs mere
Robert Frost, Elizabeth Bishop, and John Ashbery stand out among major American poets - all three shaped the direction and pushed the boundaries of contemporary poetry on an international scale.
In setting English figurations of Wales against the contrasted representations of the Welsh language tradition, this volume seeks to reverse this... Læs mere
Alice de Rouclif was a child heiress made to marry the illegitimate son of the local abbot and then abducted by her feudal superior. Alice Brathwell was a respectable widow who attracted the attentions of a supposedly aristocratic conman.
This book draws on a range of critical approaches, including cultural anthropology, psychoanalytic theory, political justice theory, and... Læs mere
Revenge Drama in European Renaissance and Japanese Theatre is a collection of essays that both explores the tradition of revenge drama in Japan and compares that tradition with that in European Renaissance drama.
This book, the first to study women's historical involvement in postwar reconciliation, examines how patriarchy and the international relations system operated simultaneously to ensure postwar male privilege.
Reinforcement of the core executive vis-à-vis ministerial departments ensured timely and accurate rule adoption, while a weak core executive resulted in uneven and incomplete legal change.
This book critically examines the origins of American diplomacy in the greater Persian Gulf region, arguing that it was the inability... Læs mere
Barbeau reconstructs the system of religion that Coleridge develops in Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit (1840).