Why, despite their similar goals, do the policy preferences of the European Union and United States diverge on so many multilateral issues?... Læs mere
Terrorism is not a new phenomenon but has been present for over two thousand years. This book places terrorism in a historical and analytical context. It will also... Læs mere
The Real History of Tom Jones revivifies historical materials from which Henry Fielding constructed the greatest comic novel of the eighteenth century.
The Figure of the Crowd in Early Modern London examines the cultural phenomenon of the urban crowd in the context of early modern London's population crisis.
In High Theory/Low Culture , Brottman uses the tools of 'high' cultural theory to examine many areas of today's popular culture, including style magazines, sport, shopping, tabloid newspapers, horror movies and pornography.
Novels about growing up have long been loved by ordinary readers and analyzed, sometimes with more heat than light, by scholars.
Tracking the major symbolic and emotional themes of the ceremony to their sources in everyday Kaluli life, Schieffelin shows how the central values and passions of Kaluli experience are governed by the basic forms of social reciprocity.
At the end of the Eighteenth century, British writers began to celebrate work in a strangely indirect way. The Work of The Sun traces the emergence of this model of work, exploring its sources in middle-class consciousness and its implications for British literature and science.
This book describes the adaptation of American women to cross-cultural situations in Hong Kong from 1921 to 1969. The Maryknoll Sisters were first American Catholic community of women founded for overseas missionary work, and were the first American sisters in Hong Kong.
Like many European Jews, Sam Iwry began his life in Poland, but at the age of ten fled with his family to Russia... Læs mere
Americans in the 1950s faced the challenge of negotiating the new medium's place in the home and in American culture in general. Using... Læs mere
This book tells the story of Kwame Nkrumah, the first post-colonial president of an independent African country. The book... Læs mere