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Much has been written about the history of the Troubles in Northern Ireland, but one story remains untold: the story of the grassroots activism that maintained local communities in the face of...

This volume reflects how the field of comparative literary scholarship and study is itself faced with the reality of transition: the included contributions, ranging from medieval literature to...

One of the central challenges facing translators of legal texts is the ability to fully understand the requirements of the various legal systems worldwide. In this respect, comparative law plays an...

What is it to care for another human being? How do we show compassion for each other? Is 'social care' an activity only for paid professionals? This book sets out on a radical re-examination of the...

This volume offers a collection of articles by leading experts in the field that explore some of the current communication and information trends defining our contemporary world and impinging on the...

Le livre cherche ? comprendre pourquoi la lutte arm?e persiste dans la pays Basque apr?s la chute du franquisme en Hegoalde et na?t dans les ann?es 1970 en Iparralde. Author: Emanuel...

This is the first single volume in either English or Russian on the representation of Pushkin in Yuri Tynianov's novels. It demonstrates the percipience and originality of Tynianov's concept of...

How to read Walter Benjamin today? This book argues that the proper way is through an approach which recognizes and respects his own peculiar theorization of the act of reading and the politics of...

As well as providing a very readable and comprehensive study of the life and music of John Buckley,　Constellations also offers an up-to-date and informative catalogue of compositions, a...

Building on constructivist approaches to international relations this book develops a narrative theory of identity, action and foreign policy, which is then applied to account for the evolution of...

This book studies the various definitions of animal nature proposed by nineteenth-century currents of thought in France. It is based on an examination of a number of key thinkers and writers, some...

Late nineteenth-century Ireland saw the emergence of a thriving advertising industry and the Irish child played a vital role in establishing this nascent consumer state. Analysing advertisements,...

This book analyses articulations of cultural identity in the work of the twentieth-century Polish poet Jerzy Harasymowicz, concentrating on the ways in which his shifting perspectives on the...

Designed to cater for the growing interest in French studies, this volume assembles contributions about various aspects of change in a number of contemporary French-speaking societies. Using an...

This collection of new writing on contemporary Greek cinema explores key trends over the past 25 years, including documentary and avant-garde filmmaking, art house and popular cinema. The book seeks...

This collective volume explores the 'spatial turn' in literary and cultural studies and brings together studies of contemporary English-speaking literature that apply spatial theory to the analysis...

This book argues that power struggles between internal and diasporic elites play a central role in building political agendas that shift national borders. It takes Albania as the primary case study,...

La agenda de la rendici?n de cuentas democr?tica ha avanzado en el an?lisis de experiencias, pero carecemos de diagn?sticos de conjunto para comprender su posici?n en los contextos pol?ticos...

It is no longer a matter of debate to state that the practice of 'democracy' in different African nations is almost always experienced through violence or something near to it. The principal question...

This book examines recent debates on the political dynamics of cosmopolitanism, particularly in its connection with European civil society and the public sphere. Its aim is to trace to what extent...

The essays in this volume are based on papers given at an International Symposium held at the University of Nottingham in September 2001. They investigate aspects of German and central European...

This collection of essays is dedicated to John D. Lyons, Commonwealth Professor of French at the University of Virginia and a preeminent scholar of early modern France and Italy. The book is...

This is a very good argument, with impressive detail, clear structure, and vehement commitment. (M. McEldowney, Emeritus Professor of Planning) This book provides a post-Covid recovery strategy...

In Great Britain, discussions of the Coronavirus pandemic have frequently been intertwined with references to the Second World War. Bringing together scholars from a range of disciplines, this...

This book is about re-inventing Africa - it aims to induct a new cohort of dedicated professionals, guided not by material gains and power, but by personal commitment, in building a better society...

A powerful vision of how radical educational praxis based on genuine dialogue and solidarity can 'humanise' both learners' and teachers' experience of education and invigorate revolutionary and...

What an extraordinarily strong and beautiful collection of essays! Ranging from studies of the Bible and liturgy through various facets of theology and philosophy to political and interreligious...

This book's critical approach addresses the anachronism, essentialism and ethnocentrism that underlie contemporary theoretical and methodological uses of the term cosmopolitanism. It explores the...

The values and institutions of the Christian Church remained massively dominant in early modern English society and culture, but its theology, liturgy and unity were increasingly disputed. The period...

This book is the first ever full-length study of the reception of British cinema in post-war France, challenging Fran?ois Truffaut's infamous dismissal of British cinema as 'a contradiction in...