Soviet Virtues aims to complicate scholarly understandings of Soviet subjectivity. Using an interdisciplinary approach, it traces the creation of the Soviet moral self in several children’s books from the 1930s.
This book is a detailed examination of condemned medieval heretic and author Marguerite Porete’s remarkable afterlife.
Fascists After Fascism traces how six former Fascist ministers in Italy escaped lasting punishment, reintegrated into a new democracy, and helped shape postwar memory and politics.
Discipline through Humiliation examines what it meant to live as a non-Russian author under Late Stalinism, showing how the regime worked with Ukrainian writers to enforce discipline and to bring Ukraine into conformance with Moscow’s cultural policies.
This book examines how mobile work in Canada’s natural resources sector reshapes communities and economies through the movement of workers, often across vast distances.
These volumes present the first translation into any modern language of one of Erasmus’ most voluminous polemics, written against Noël Béda, an influential theologian at the University of Paris.
An exploration of onomastic play in James Joyce’s writings up to and including Ulysses, Onomastic Joyce examines in a single alphabetical listing each of roughly a thousand personal names.
A Way Back Home tells the stories of those openly practising Jews, both real and fictitious, who defied official Spanish policy by returning to (and thriving in) seventeenth-century Madrid, the heart of their Iberian homeland.
Modernizing the Crown articulates the evolution of the Liquor Control Board of Ontario from a stodgy distributor of alcohol to the dynamic retailer we see today.
Dante bends the medieval exemplum until it breaks: what looks like a moral lesson refuses to teach, what seems clear sinks back into obscurity, what should persuade disorients. These broken, nonlinear examples make uncertainty the ground of protest, self-cognition, devotion.
This book adopts a consequential analysis to describe the evolution of geochemical systems on a new planet, replicating molecular ensembles that form the basis of all life.