Around the Sacred Fire is a compelling cultural history of intertribal activism centered on the Indian Ecumenical Conference, an influential movement among native people in Canada and the U.S. during the Red Power era.
From accounts of Columbus and other early European voyagers to popular English plays two centuries later, Taylor traces a paradigm... Læs mere
Religious traditions have provided a seemingly endless supply of subject matter for film, from the Ten Commandments to the Mahabharata .
Zeikowitz explores both affirming and denigrating discourses of male same sex desire in diverse 14th-century chivalric texts and describes the sociopolitical forces motivating those discourses.
This book, instead, recognizes that there were a variety of responses to the eschatological years 1000 and 1033 and that these responses contributed to the broader social and religious developments associated with the birth of European civilization.
In early modern Europe, the circulation of visual and verbal transmissions of sati, or Hindu widow burning, not only informed... Læs mere
This book examines the state of women's rights across Europe, from the three-year research of the Network for European Women's Rights. Based on country reports and... Læs mere
A wide-ranging examination of popular and political attitudes towards East European Jews in Nineteenth and early Twentieth... Læs mere
This volume contains a range of contributions from top scholars in the field which use key archival evidence to provide a comprehensive overview of the Anti-Keynesian... Læs mere
The fourteen members of the African CFA Franc Zone represent the largest monetary unions in the southern hemisphere, predating the European Monetary Union by... Læs mere
Rather than focusing upon advanced countries, where civil society growth is seen as a post-market development, this volume explores developing countries, with case studies examining grassroots developments and experiences.
This volume investigates the specific role of transnational corporations in the process of globalization... Læs mere