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Whereas traditional scholarship assumed that William Shakespeare used the medieval past as a negative foil to legitimate the present, Shakespeare, Catholicism, and the Middle Ages offers a...

Shakespearean Celebrity in the Digital Age: Fan Cultures and RemediationAuthor: Anna BlackwellPublisher: Palgrave MacMillanPublication Date: Sep 06, 2018Number of Pages: 188 pagesBinding: Hardback or...

This book brings together the research findings of contemporary feminist age studies scholars, shame theorists, and feminist gerontologists in order to unfurl the affective dynamics of gendered...

Introduces the unique democratic visions of Olmsted, Wright, Moses, and several new urbanists to a broader academic audience, to treat them as theorists of democracy in their own rightBlends together...

Healthcare systems around the world are struggling under intense pressure. Ageing populations, declining workforce, funding restraints and spending cuts have combined to produce a challenging...

This book presents an analysis of the institutional development of selected social science and humanities (SSH) disciplines in Argentina, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden and...

This book explores the prospects and limits of international intervention in building peace and creating a new state in an ethnically divided society and fragmented international order. The book...

Shaping Social Identities After Violent Conflict: Youth in the Western BalkansAuthor: Felicia PrattoPublisher: Palgrave MacMillanPublication Date: Jan 25, 2018Number of Pages: 196 pagesBinding:...

Shaping Space and Mobilities in Contemporary Walking Narratives represents an exploration of the dynamic intersections between mobility, space, and literature. By focusing on walking as both a...

This book explores the images and perceptions of the EU in the eyes of their Strategic Partners. Spanning four continents, these ten important global actors - the BRICS together with the USA, Canada,...

This comparative law book aims at formulating a new analytical approach to constitutional comparisons, assuming as a starting point the different legal perspectives implied in the (Sunni) Islamic...

This multidisciplinary volume explores the role of Islamic law within the dynamic processes of postcolonial transformation, nation building, and social reform. Here, eleven international scholars...

This book is a compendium of the speeches and interviews of Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah, who reigned as Prime Minister of the State of Jammu and Kashmir from 1948 to 1953, and who was a large presence...

This book provides the first modern, in-depth analysis of Percy Bysshe Shelley?s engagement with the phenomenon of death. It argues that, for Shelley, this most nebulous of realities represents,...

This book is about the emergence of a stream of ideas in the 1930s and 1940s within Imamiyya Shiʿite context, focusing primarily on the thought of Shariʿat Sangelaji (1891-1944), who...

Shibata Renzaburō and the Reinvention of Modernism in Postwar Japanese Popular Literature explores the life and work of Shibata Renzaburō (柴田錬三郎,...

When the Act of Union was passed in 1707, Scottish parliament was dissolved and the nation's capital became London. While the general public balked at the perceived unfairness of the treaty, the...

Shifting Corporealities in Contemporary Performance: Danger, Im/Mobility and PoliticsAuthor: Marina GrzinicPublisher: Palgrave MacMillanPublication Date: Oct 16, 2018Number of Pages: 334...

This book explores shifting forms of continental colonialism in Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas, from the early modern period to the present. It offers an interdisciplinary approach bringing...

Shrinking Cities and First Suburbs: The Case of Detroit and Warren, MichiganAuthor: Anirban AdhyaPublisher: Palgrave MacMillanPublication Date: Mar 10, 2017Number of Pages: 90 pagesBinding: Hardback...

This book examines the economic, social and political thought of two highly influential cross-disciplinary contributors to the debate in the United Kingdom about welfare economics, social welfare,...

Silence in Modern Literature and Philosophy: Beckett, Barthes, Nancy, StevensAuthor: Thomas GouldPublisher: Palgrave MacMillanPublication Date: Jul 24, 2018Number of Pages: 199 pagesBinding: Hardback...

This book considers the relationship between sound and silence in the works of Joseph Conrad, along with their ties to Western and non-Western space. Throughout Conrad's works, a pattern emerges...

This edited collection delves into the multifaceted theme of 'Silenced Voices, ' showcasing a diverse array of perspectives from scholars around the globe. From historical reflections to contemporary...

The rising role of intra- and intergenerational transfers (e.g. basic income, child benefit and public pensions) characterises modern economies, yet most models depicting these transfers are too...

This open access book sets out simple solutions to managing complex catastrophes. It focusses on four kinds of crises ? climate change, crime-war cascades, epidemics and financial crises. These...

This open access book provides thought-provoking anthropology grounded in comparative ethnography. The theory captures the current historical moment, the long-term trends that led us here, and the...

This book investigates a range of major sociological debates and policy studies related to gender, family, marriage, health, intersectionality, and social exclusion of single mothers in Thailand. It...

This engrossing volume studies the poetics of evil in early modern English culture, reconciling the Renaissance belief that literature should uphold morality with the compelling and attractive...

This Palgrave Pivot book analyses the current state of economic and financial relations between China and the European Union. It illustrates the 'de-risking' strategy that informs much of financial...