Wittreich demonstrates why Milton may prove to be the poet for the new millennium, in a book of interest to scholars and general readers. It engages the... Læs mere
By the 1780s in the city of Barcelona alone, more than 150 factories shipped calicoes to every major city in Spain and across the Atlantic. This book narrates the lives of... Læs mere
This book compares shifting formulations of gender, interfaith, and ethnic relations across continents from antiquity to the Nineteenth century.... Læs mere
This history of coiffure in modern France illuminates a host of important twentieth-century issues: the course of fashion, the travails of small business in a... Læs mere
Pizzato focuses on the staging of Self and Other as phantom characters inside the brain (in the 'mind's eye', as Hamlet says). He explores the brain's... Læs mere
A discussion of political and religious crisis in Africa, this book covers such topics as democratic transition, good governance, civil society and the African... Læs mere
What is the appropriate role of religion in scholarship and teaching? Covering topics ranging from... Læs mere
Race and Identity in Hemingway s Fiction explores how Hemingway negotiates race as a defining element of American identity. His interest in race and racial... Læs mere
This book explores how Medieval and Early Modern writers reconstructed, and also how readers read, the contradictory meanings of "Lady" Wisdom.
Drawing on ancient texts and modern interpretations, this work explores the foundations for war in China's strategic culture Shih, Li and Tao. The work uses Shih theory to explain the anomalies that continue to perplex Euro-American observers in modern China's uses of force.
Focusing on how policy makers make decisions in foreign policy, this book examines how beliefs are causal... Læs mere
Focusing on the development of justificatory discourse on global governance, Steffek examines how differing conceptions of distributive and social justice have played a role in negotiations in the domains of security, economics, and protecting the environment.