This book advances research into the government-forced labor used widely in colonial Kenya from 1930 to 1963 after the passage of the International Labor Organization’s Forced Labour Convention.
This work seeks to take a fresh look at the contentious question of the longevity and popularity of Mussolini's regime... Læs mere
A detailed exploration of the influence and utility of Thomas Malthus' model of population growth and economic changes... Læs mere
This book examines evolution of medieval patience literature from a focus on male and female sufferers to a focus on female... Læs mere
Becoming the Gentleman explains why British citizens in the long eighteenth century were haunted by the... Læs mere
American Modernist Poetry and the Chinese Encounteroffers a framework for understanding the variety of imagined encounters by eight different American poets with their imagined 'Chinese' subject.
Market Power explores society and economy in medieval Iberia, examining the intersection of regional commercial interests, lordship, and royal authority as part of the evolution of a small village into a rural market town.
This book addresses the development of 'civil' anti-Semitism in twentieth-century Britain, a crucial and often critically neglected strand of... Læs mere
Examining work from Ford and Conrad's pre-war impressionism through Rhys's fiction of the late 1930s, the author shows how modernist... Læs mere
This collection brings together international scholars pursuing cutting-edge research on spatial identities under National Socialism.... Læs mere
This book explores the conflicted relationship writers have with their public image, particularly when they have written about... Læs mere
Engaging in a comprehensive examination of reality TV's advertising and promotional strategies, as well as the commodification of viewers, Consuming Reality dissects the unique and startling relation between mediation and consumption.