This volume, a collection of essays by a number of high-profile personalities working in philosophy, literature,... Læs mere
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Religion, Art, and Visual Culture is a cross-cultural exploration of the study of visuality and the arts from a religious perspective. This... Læs mere
In the 1890s, Assistant Secretary of the Navy Theodore Roosevelt led a campaign to modernize the navy. Theodore Roosevelt, the U.S. Navy and... Læs mere
Together these chapters demonstrate that the ideas of progress, rationality, order, and development encompassed by 'modernity' are profoundly gendered, whether conveyed by mass media images of consumption, agendas of nation-building, or legal discourse.
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This interdisciplinary anthology takes as its starting point the belief that, as the material grounds of lived experience, material culture provides an avenue of historical access to women's lives, extending beyond the reaches of textual evidence.
Required reading for students and scholars of Duras, this book will interest specialists in the fields of contemporary French and Francophone... Læs mere
Addressing the need for a comprehensive map collection for reference and classroom use, this volume includes fifty two two-colour full page maps... Læs mere
Addressing the need for a comprehensive map collection for reference and classroom use, this volume includes fifty two two-colour full page maps... Læs mere
The dramatic, tumultuous and often tragic human events that erupted in the Balkan Peninsula following the collapse of communism between 1989 and 1991 have captured the Western world's attention throughout the past decade.