This volume is a critical interrogation of the concept, meaning and experience of disaster in 21st-century Japan. Throughout the chapters, a central theme and guiding theoretical perspective is the recognition of the human element in disasters.
This book engages Karl Barth’s Christological anthropology in order to provide a Christian account of identity that affirms both humanity’s universally-shared identity in Jesus and each person’s particular identities, especially regarding sex, gender, and sexuality.
Focusing on the figure of the pirate as a literary phenomenon in the late 17th and early 18th centuries, Piracy... Læs mere
Since it first mesmerised Western audiences, Balinese masked dance–drama (Topeng) has drawn sustained scholarly attention. Yet until now, much of... Læs mere
This book outlines major trends in language use by early modern diplomats, mainly in the European context, through a series of case studies and overviews of regional diplomatic traditions.
A History of Medieval Astrology analyses the contributions of the Kraków Astronomy and Astrology School, part of the University of Kraków – one of the fastest growing universities in fifteenth-century Europe.
This collection of nine essays presents new research exploring the significance and forms of labour involved in food production across the early modern world from c. 1500 to 1800.
This book highlights significant social and political developments in the late antique Mediterranean world. It will appeal to scholars and... Læs mere
This interdisciplinary volume offers an essential and decolonizing understanding of digital media cultures and histories from an African perspective.
This book offers a key to a sophisticated analysis of television’s economic and institutional diversification in the contemporary platform ecology.
This book investigates the “Golden Age” of Yugoslav cinema and sheds light on it from a fresh... Læs mere
This book is a pioneer study of the image of the Jew in Dutch cinema within the context of national cinema and identity.