Modern mainstream economics is attracting an increasing number of critics of its high degree of abstraction and lack of relevance to economic reality.
Steven Kettell analyzes the development of exchange rate policymaking from a Marxist perspective.
This new, corpus-driven approach to the study of language and style of literary texts makes use of the Dickens' 4.6 million-word corpus for a detailed examination of patterns of lexical collocations.
This volume concerns the missionary philanthropic movement which burst onto the social scene in early nineteenth century in England, becoming a popular provincial movement which sought no less than national and global reformation.
The horror of this devastating disorder which upturned the household, turned gentle mothers into disruptive and dangerous mad women, was magnified by it occurring at a time when it was anticipated that women would be most happy in the fulfillment of their role as mothers.
This lively collection of essays presents a range of innovative research on the history of the private sphere in Liberal and Fascist... Læs mere
This study places Kipling's fiction in its original cultural, intellectual and historical contexts, exploring the impact of India, America, South Africa and Edwardian England on his imperialist narratives.
This book explores the impact of Keats on authors and artists from 1821 to the end of the First World War. It examines the work... Læs mere
The key arguments and debates about globalization have raised searching questions about the significance of national and regional borders for the competitive strategies of individuals, firms and industries.
The U.S. dollar has served as the key currency of the international economic/financial system for over fifty years. This study... Læs mere
God is said to be Spirit, but the language of spirit is ignored in contemporary philosophy of religion. As well as exploring the notion of spirit in Hegel, Romanticism and... Læs mere
It situates the problem of skepticism in the context of the history of philosophy and explores its significance for the modern crisis of reason manifested in post-Kantian philosophy, which presaged the critical turn toward social theory.