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View book details for Catholics during the English Revolution, 1642-1660
Politics, Sequestration and Loyalty
Examines the experiences of Catholics during the period when England was ruled by Puritan Protestants.This is the first book to examine thoroughly the ways in which Catholics adapted to political and social change during the turbulent years of the English …
Brings new insights to the music of well-known European composers by telling a fascinating, little-known story about French music publishing, specifically through the lens of Jacques Durand's Edition Classique.French composers, performers and musicologists acted as editors of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century …
View book details for The Criminal Baroque
Lawbreaking, Peacekeeping, and Theatricality in Early Modern Spain
A close examination of the representation of criminals in the understudied theatrical genres of the jacara and comedias de valentones.Early Modern Spanish theatre is viewed by many scholars as entertaining propaganda that channelled the emotions and beliefs of the masses …
View book details for Romance and its Contexts in Fifteenth-Century England
Politics, Piety and Penitence
Examination of romance texts from late medieval England, linking them firmly to their political and social context.Although the anonymous pious Middle English romances and Sir Thomas Malory's Morte Darthur have rarely been studied in relation to each other, they in …
View book details for The South Sea Bubble and Ireland
Money, Banking and Investment, 1690-1721
A study of the first great global stock market crash and and its impact on the peripheries of the British stateIn late September 1720 the South Sea bubble burst. The collapse of the South Sea Company's share price caused the …
View book details for Territories of Conflict
Traversing Colombia through Cultural Studies
This interdisciplinary volume investigates the cultural and political landscapes of Colombia through citizenship, displacement, local and global cultures, grass-root movements, political activism, human rights, environmentalism, and media productions.Territories of Conflict offers a comprehensive view of the cultural and political landscapes …
Compelling memoir of Flora Veit-Wild and her relationship with the Zimbabwean novelist, poet, playwright, and essayist Dambudzo Marechera, one of Africa's most innovative and subversive writers and a significant voice in contemporary world literature.How shall I tell our story? I …
New essays on topics in the literature of Goethe and the Goethezeit, including contributions by both eminent scholars and new voices.The Goethe Yearbook is a publication of the Goethe Society of North America, encouraging North American Goethe scholarship by publishing …
A study of the content and methods of royalist propaganda via newsbooks in the crucial period following the end of the first civil war.This is a study of a remarkable set of royalist newsbooks produced in conditions of strict secrecy …
Multi-disciplinary investigation of Anglo-Saxon funerary traditions.Burial evidence provides the richest record we possess for the centuries following the retreat of Roman authority. The locations and manner in which communities chose to bury their dead, within the constraints of the environmentaland …
This book provides a detailed account of how Bristol was transformed by a growing population, industrial change, technological innovation and urban expansion over the course of the nineteenth century.Overshadowed by more economically vibrant towns of the industrial north, Bristol's prospects …
A comprehensive survey of the economy and society of late medieval Suffolk.Suffolk was one of the most important regions of England in the middle ages. Even by 1200 it was wealthy, densely populated, highly commercialised and urbanised; and it survived …
View book details for Taking Stock of German Studies in the United States
The New Millennium
Examines the challenges facing German-language study in the new millennium and highlights how creative, innovative, inspired approaches have allowed it to weather many of them.In the last decade, cuts have been made to foreign-language programs in the United States across …
Why Catalans insist on their identity.The tragic fate of the millenary personality of Catalonia has rarely been fully appreciated abroad. Since the early eighteenth century its national voice has been submerged and fractured by a centralist state intent on its …
Arthurian Literature has established its position as the home for a great diversity of new research into Arthurian matters. It delivers fascinating material across genres, periods, and theoretical issues. TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENTThe influence and significance of the legend of Arthur …
View book details for Islam, Power, and Dependency in the Gambia River Basin
The Politics of Land Control, 1790-1940
An original, rigorously researched volume that questions long-accepted paradigms concerning land ownership and its use in Africa.Islam, Power, and Dependency in the Gambia River Basin draws on new sources to offer an original approach to the study of land in …
View book details for Goethe's <I>Faust</I> and European Epic
Forgetting the Future
A reassessment of genre that fills a major gap in Goethe's oeuvre and initiates a radically new reading of Faust.Goethe has long been enshrined as the greatest German poet, but his admirers have always been uneasy with the idea that …
View book details for Mexican Genders, Mexican Genres
Cinema, Television, and Streaming Since 2010
Gender and the contemporary audio-visual landscape of MexicoThis book focusses on gender and the audio-visual landscape of Mexico since 2010, examining popular culture as expressed in the still distinct but rapidly converging media forms of cinema, television, and streaming platforms. …
Exploring a wide range of material including dramatic works, medieval morality drama, and lyric poetry this book argues for the central significance of literary material to the history of emotions.Early modern English writing about pity evidences a social culture built …
Examination of the influence of James I on the religious and cultural life of England.James I and the Religious Culture of England is a study of King James's influence, both direct and indirect, on various aspects of religious life in …
View book details for Reimagining Psychiatric Epidemiology in a Global Frame
Toward a Social and Conceptual History
Examines psychiatric epidemiology's unique evolution, conceptually and socially, within and between diverse regions and cultures, underscoring its growing influence on the biopolitics of nations and worldwide health campaigns.Psychiatric epidemiology, like the epidemiology of cancer, heart disease, or AIDS, contributes increasingly …
Arthurian Literature has established its position as the home for a great diversity of new research into Arthurian matters. It delivers fascinating material across genres, periods, and theoretical issues. TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENTThe essays collected here put considerable emphasis on Arthurian …
View book details for The Road to Soweto
Resistance and the Uprising of 16 June 1976
A new history of the 1976 Soweto Uprising and the events leading to it in the preceding decade, that will transform our understanding of the historical evolution of the struggle against apartheid.This revisionary account of the Soweto Uprising of June …
View book details for Must Close Saturday
The Decline and Fall of the British Musical Flop
The first book to deal exclusively with British musical flops, Must Close Saturday presents a rolling panorama of the good, the bad and the ugly, reassessing their place in theatrical history.The ominous announcement "Must Close Saturday" too often heralded the …
Provides a detailed picture of the lives of the commanders and those around them, both at home and at sea.An original and evocative window onto the lives of men who bridged the two worlds of eighteenth century Europe and the …
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