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This volume investigates the process of definition, evolution and representation of the figures of the prince and the condottiero in Italian Humanism and Renaissance. By adopting an interdisciplinary...

It has been generally assumed that the driving force behind German propaganda in World War Two was the Propaganda Ministry headed by Josef Goebbels, or the initiatives of various Nazi party...

This book critically examines David Tracy's well-known methodology of fundamental theology, namely his revisionist model as developed in his Blessed Rage for Order (1975), together with his...

This book surveys reimaginings of race by US American utopian novelists including Dorothy Bryant, Marge Piercy, Samuel Delany, Octavia Butler and Kim Stanley Robinson. It argues that our utopian...

Most research and writing on railway history has been undertaken in a way that disconnects it from the wider cultural milieu. Authors have been very effective at constructing specialist histories of...

Youth clubs became a trend in the UK in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and the Jewish community followed suit with their own clubs. This book looks at the records left behind by...

This book demonstrates a number of approaches made by biblical scholars to find a theology of the Christian Scripture. It then considers attempts to bridge the gap between exegesis and dogmatics by...

This study is based on an analysis of videos and transcripts of five films Fric-frac, Circonstances att?nuantes, Le Jour se l?ve, La R?gle du jeu and H?tel du Nord. These films are examples of...

The chapters in this book were first presented at the Women in French Biennial Conference held in Leeds in May 2004. The twelve essays explore the multifaceted commodification of the female body and...

This book represents a significant contribution to debates about identity, the arts and spirituality. Written in an autoethnographic style, the author charts his own journey into understanding the...

This book analyses Zola's fiction from a psychoanalytical standpoint, focusing in particular on the author's family secret. The study scans for sub-textual issues of sexual insecurity and anxiety,...

This book examines the impact of classical Chinese literature on Mao Zedong's political rhetoric and his vision of a tripolar geopolitical landscape at the peak of the Cold War. The historical novel...

This monograph examines the contributions of landscape design to authority and to organization of public life in imperial Russia. Analyzing how tsars and nobles inscribed their political aspirations...

After the fall of Czechoslovakia in 1939, some Czechoslovak Jews turned to Australia to seek refuge from Nazi persecution. Based on archival sources and original interviews, this book offers insights...

The Salley Gardens presents reflections from seventy-three heterosexual young women on growing up, forming sexual relationships and some becoming mothers in the last years of the 'Celtic Tiger'...

Why is Nordic Noir so popular? The story of its success owes much to its adaptation and evolution. This collection of original essays examines the phenomenon and the cultural, aesthetic and...

Compelling, informative, essential (Senator George Mitchell) Durkan was Hume's closest and most influential intellectual and political collaborator in an epic endeavour that culminated in the GFA...

The 7th Earl Beauchamp was a prominent figure in English public life in the years 1900-30, but his career ended in scandal. He was barred from English soil, lost his reputation and his papers were...

This fourth volume of essays under the title The Shaping of English Poetry consolidates the work of the previous three volumes. Ranging from The Battle of Maldon to The Canterbury Tales, it provides...

This book discusses the three golden poets of the Golden Age of English poetry in the second half of the fourteenth century, concentrating in particular on Chaucer's response to Aristotelian moral...

This third volume of essays under the title The Shaping of English Poetry continues to explore the work of the Gawain-poet, Langland, Chaucer and Spenser. It also includes analysis of Beowulf, a...

Michel Beheim (1420-ca. 1474), composer of almost 500 song-poems, explored a wide thematic and stylistic range, including lyrics on history and love, politics and travel, morals and warfare, Dracula...

The North-South divide in Europe represents a geographical and cultural boundary that has influenced how European nations think about their history and identity. This study explores German...

South Tyrol is a small, mountainous area located in the central Alps. Despite its modest geographical size, it has come to represent a success story in the protection of ethnic minorities in Europe...

The question of how music and politics interact has always aroused passionate debate, and it looms large in this study of the Soviet proletarian music movement. The proletarian music movement was the...

This book analyses a set of rarely described regional Spanish varieties spoken throughout the northern Peruvian Andes, shedding new light on how the regional varieties of Spanish in America were...

In the late nineteenth century, a spectre haunted Europe and the United States: the spectre of utopia. This book re-examines the rise of utopian thought at the fin de si?cle, situating it in the...

The Old French fabliaux may be notorious for their bawdy content, but few aspects of these medieval comic narratives are as astonishing as their depiction of the parish priest, whose fiscal and...

How did the post-war context of West Berlin in the 1960s impact the student protest movement in the city? This book seeks to understand how the world was viewed by the students and how the urban...

The appeal of the sublime in the minds of British critics and poets during the eighteenth century holds a unique position in the history of aesthetics. At no other time has aesthetics displayed a...