What have Lumière in common with Wachowski? About the attractiveness and usefulness of the term “cinema of attractions” for both pre-classical and post-classical cinema.
This unique guidebook offers concise information about five 20th-century cases of genocide, as well as the response of international justice.
This volume brings together a number of contributors to look at how and why certain writers have attained celebrity throughout history.
This book combines archaeobotanical and archaeozoological data with information from excavations, field surveys, and ancient written texts to place the relationship between people and landscapes in a broad geographical and chronological framework.
This fine translation of the poetry of the Dutch Golden Age poet Constantijn Huygens offers a selection of the best of his work written in a number of languages.
This book builds on more than a decade of fieldwork, providing an unprecedented overview of urban and rural development in the late medieval period.
This is an exhaustive examination of the rise and spread of the Tablighi Jama't, arguably the world's largest Islamic missionary movement, locates it in the larger perspective of global Islam and developments in the Muslim societies.
Bodies in Protest reveals how hunger strikes and music ranging from gospel songs to rock anthems can efficiently convey political messages and mobilize the masses.
This book offers a critical analysis of modelscapes, using case studies from Israel, to show how miniature representations of contested physical space participate in the construction of a sense of national identity and appropriation of the land and its history.
This collection gathers a stellar roster of contributors to offer a range of perspectives from different disciplines to attempt to understand the pervasiveness of genocidal violence.
Explores the multifaceted role of Islam in Indonesia from a variety of different perspectives.
This collection surveys recent transformations in Islamic Studies, taking stock of the field and showing new paths forward.