This book tells the story of the bitter feud between the Duchess of Kingston and the actor, Samuel Foote, which resulted in a pair of scandalous trials in London in the revolutionary year of 1776.
An ethnographic study showing how Western women living in Pakistan as international development workers constructed new identities... Læs mere
Bringing together scholars from around the world, this first book in the Palgrave Macmillan Transnational History Series raises... Læs mere
Representing Others in Medieval Iberian Literature explores the ways Arabic, Jewish and Christian intellectuals in medieval Iberia (courtiers and clerics) adapt and transform the Andalusi go-between figure in order to represent their own role as cultural intermediaries.
Exploring five key texts from the emerging canon of second generation writing, this exciting new study brings together theories of autobiography, trauma, and fantasy to understand the how traumatic family histories are represented.
This book examines the political exigencies facing both the US and the Chinese Communist Party during the decisive years of the Chinese Civil War. The book offers a new and challenging perspective on America's infamous loss in China, and on the Communists' victory.
In this edited volume, leading scholars from US and China analyze the challenges and opportunities for China in the 21st century, each... Læs mere
This book examines general Nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) roles and comparative advantages in the broad fight to end global poverty, as well as roles and opportunities specific to particular Millennium Development Goals sectors.
This study offers an explicit theory of media pressure - what it is, how it works, how it can be measured - based in part on the... Læs mere
This book reveals how and why governance structures, outsourcing techniques and fluid enterprise boundaries... Læs mere
An examination of the interrelationship between gender, race, narrative, and nationalism in black politics specifically within American... Læs mere
This book looks at U.S.-Korea relations and argues that military alliances depend upon a combination of power distribution, material assets, and... Læs mere