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This volume gathers together articles by leading international scholars of nineteenth-century culture in Europe. The contributions were originally presented at the conference 'Textual Intersections...

This book analyses the ideas of memory, truth and justice in the context of the trials for crimes against humanity in Argentina, from the presidency of Ra?l Alfons?n to current developments under...

Este libro examina c?mo se producen y cambian las diferencias de identidades individuales y agendas socio-educativas en las escuelas. En segundo lugar, se analiza c?mo las escuelas pueden o no crear...

Due to its strategic Mediterranean position, Italy is a crossroad of complex transnational movements, a unique context for the study of contemporary migration. This book brings together scholars from...

This is a vivid biography of Indonesia's foremost national hero, of the story of a remarkable figure whose life spanned Indonesia's troubled transition to the modern world. It will profitably be read...

This book combines a social constructionist view of academic writing with a pedagogical orientation seeking to explore the dialogic relationship between the culture of academic discourse communities...

Many universities have adopted criticality as a general aim of higher education, in order to meet the demands of an increasingly globalised world. But what is criticality, and how does it develop in...

In 1987 Tony Blair's New Labour won a landslide victory in the British elections. To show it meant business, the new government immediately embarked on a major legislative programme, granting...

Raina's documentation provides invaluable insight into the high-powered and high-level political calculations that made it happen. It is perhaps the most signal achievement of the era and this...

Addressing a range of poets who are associated with Wales by either birth or residence and have been significantly active in the post-1997 period, it seeks to understand the various ways in which...

Este libro representa una propuesta de revisi?n de la literatura espa?ola del Siglo de Oro en sus traslaciones al cine y la televisi?n, con especial atenci?n a los novedosos focos interpretativos que...

From Hegel to the present, the humanities and social sciences have revealed the volatile power of third agency. The articles in this volume trace the role of triadic figures across a broad range of...

Das Buch illustriert die Entwicklung der Dorfgeschichte in den letzten 200 Jahren. Inhaltliche Wandlungen reflektieren geschichtliche ?nderungen von Emanzipationsbestrebungen ?ber Nationalismus zu...

The book is the first major study to bring together the two early twentieth-century theologians Dietrich Bonhoeffer, German Lutheran pastor, and Simone Weil, French philosopher and convert to...

This book starts from the premise that human rights are grounded in the dignity and worth of the human person. Drawing on key philosophical and theological sources on dignity, it builds a vision of...

'Digressions, incontestably, are the sunshine; - they are the life, the soul of reading'. So declared Laurence Sterne in his Tristram Shandy, the greatest of all monuments to digression. The modern...

This book argues that unreasonable dogmatic beliefs are expressions of socially structured patterns of prejudice. Specifically, prejudice is explained as being produced and dispersed within the...

The papers comprising this volume are selected from presentations made at the 2001 Conference of the British Association of Lecturers in English for Academic Purposes, which was held at the...

In the biblical tradition revelation from God is frequently mediated through certain gifted individuals. Disclosure and hiddenness are both integral to revelation and this study explores how Matthew...

Filmmaker Bill Forsyth is one of the most important and fondly regarded of all living Scottish artists. His filmmaking career, beginning with That Sinking Feeling (1979), paved the way for the...

Discovering Women's History brings to light the work of a selection of German-speaking women journalists from the first half of the twentieth century who made significant contributions to German life...

How have media constructions around terrorism changed since 9.11? This book analyses the ways that language is employed in the media to reference discourses around terrorism in different social...

How did understandings of Europe change and evolve after the Second World War? During this time, two Polish exiles, Jerzy Stempowski and Andrzej Bobkowski, discussed and redefined their ideas of...

Why is it important to take a critical approach to your work? And what are the consequences if your critical voice is suppressed? These are the questions that lie at the heart of Disenfranchisement,...

This book offers a significant, original and timely contribution to the study of one of the most important and notorious Latin American authors of the twentieth century: Reinaldo Arenas. The text...

This book explores the concept of displacement in the fiction produced by the Chilean writer Isabel Allende between 1982 and 2000. Close readings of her texts reconcile two apparently contradictory...

This is an innovative investigation of pluralism in health care. Using both extensive archival material and oral histories it examines relationships between indigenous healing, missionary medicine,...

This volume brings together two core concepts - intersectionality and diversity - that are central to the understanding of the social and public significance of religions and theologies in the...

This book examines the triumphs and tribulations of the Zimbabwean national project, providing a radical and critical analysis of the fossilisation of Zimbabwean nationalism against the wider context...

This book examines the ecology of Finland's documentary filmmaking milieu by framing and analysing a series of encounters with its most important financiers, producers and directors. What emerges is...