Search
Search Results
-
Joseph Conrad, Cosmopolitanism and Transnationalism
In 1908, Joseph Conrad was criticised by a reviewer for being a man ‘without either country or language’: even his shipboard communities were the...
-
Music, Words, and Nationalism National Anthems and Songs in the Modern Era
Music, Words and Nationalism: National Anthems and Songs in the Modern Eraconsiders the concept of nationalism from 1780 to 2020 through anthems and...
-
Memory and Social Movements in Modern and Contemporary History Remembering Past Struggles and Resourcing Protest
Reflecting the growing interest of historians in memory studies, this edited collection examines the relationship between memory and global social...
-
Ronald Reagan’s 1984 Politics, Policy, and Culture
Forty years after Ronald Reagan’s successful re-election campaign, this book explores the significance of the year 1984 in the making of Reagan’s...
-
Staging Restoration Comedy The Royal Shakespeare Company, 1967-2019
Since its 1967 production of Vanbrugh’s The Relapse, the Royal Shakespeare Company has been the world’s leading producer of Restoration Comedies. This...
-
Punk, Ageing and Time
To date there has been no plotting of punk scholarship which speaks to ‘time’, yet there are some clear bodies of work pertaining to particular...
-
The Othering Museum A Case for Non-Selective Curation
The term “othering” refers to a persistent Us and Themdynamic between museums and their participating public. To reframe this historically...
-
The Matteotti Murder and Mussolini The Anatomy of a Fascist Crime
This much-awarded work by one of Italy’s most esteemed historians of fascism, Mauro Canali, is now available in English translation. Based on a...
-
The Reception of Ancient Egypt in Venice, 1400-1800 Travelers, Adventurers, and Collectors
This book examines for the first time how ancient Egypt is reflected in early modern Venetian sources. As a center of the printing industry, Venice...
-
A History of the Humanities in the Modern University A Productive Crisis
This book challenges commonplace assertions that the humanities are presently undergoing a severe crisis as a result of a longstanding decline....
-
Environment, Agency, and Technology in Urban Life since c.1750 Technonatures in the Global North
This book explores the historical relationship between ‘technonatures’ and urban transformations in the Global North. In recent years, various...
-
Dante and His Circle Education, Script and Image
In this book, Julia Bolton Holloway makes use of primary materials in documents, manuscripts and stone monuments in Florence, to place Dante's...
-
Contender States and Modern Chinese International Thought From the Republican era until the ‘Chinese School of International Relations’
This book contends that the development of modern Chinese international thought has been profoundly shaped by the distinctive nature of the Chinese...
-
Deicide in Ch’orti’ Maya Myth and Ritual
Among the Ch’orti’ Maya, turkeys are associated with ritual sacrifice and deicide. In this study, I discuss the intimate links between the turkey and...
-
Blood Tribute, Earth Offerings, and the Formative Origins of Ritual Human Sacrifice in Mesoamerica
Mesoamerica has long been identified with a range of ritualized practices or ritual diversity centered on both animal and human sacrifices. In...
-
Ritual Human Sacrifice Among the Tarascans of West Mexico
This chapter reports on evidence of large-scale ritual violence recovered at Tzintzuntzan, Michoacán, the Postclassic (1300–1522 A.D.) Tarascan civic...
-
The Myth of the Willing Human Sacrificial Victim: The Complex Nature of Human Sacrifice in Aztec Ceremonialism
Mesoamerican scholarship is a collaborative effort that consistently delivers fresh theoretical interpretations based on new findings, but on...
-
Indigenous Sacrifice in the Christian Language Among the Communities of the Northern Mixteca of Oaxaca, Mexico
Traditions of human sacrifice among the peoples of the Northern Mixteca survived the Spanish Conquest. The Postclassic period’s emphasis on warrior...
-
‘Rending the Veil of Mortal Frailty’: Queen Mab (1813)
This chapter, focusing on Queen Mab (1813), arguesShelley, Percy Bysshe that Shelley’s early vision of death is informed by a distinct amalgam of...
-
‘While Yet a Boy I Sought for Ghosts’: Contexts
This introductory, contextualising chapter provides close readings of Shelley’s youthful writings on death, including ‘To St Irvyne’ (1810), ‘How...