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Violent Waters: Environmental Politics in Early Modern England

Violent Waters: Environmental Politics in Early Modern...

Author: Elly Robson Dezateux (Christ Church, Oxford)
ISBN: 9781009678902
Format: Hardback
$284.63

How were wetlands constructed and contested by sovereigns, floods, mapmakers, migrants, rioters, and writers during...  Read More >>

Disenchanting the Senses: Sulfuric Discourse and the World System

Disenchanting the Senses: Sulfuric Discourse and the...

Author: Andrew Kettler (University of South Carolina)
ISBN: 9781009532952
Format: Hardback
$142.31

The system of linguistic and material networks that capital constructs to deny humans the ability to sense environmental...  Read More >>

Gothic Poland and British Fiction, c. 1790–1830

Gothic Poland and British Fiction, c. 1790–1830

Author: Jakub Lipski (Kazimierz Wielki University)
ISBN: 9781009548212
Format: Hardback
$142.31

This Element shows how Poland became a gothic setting in British fiction between the 1790s and the 1830s as a result...  Read More >>

How Urbanism Changes Foodways

How Urbanism Changes Foodways

Author: Monica L. Smith (University of California, Los Angeles)
ISBN: 9781009564885
Format: Hardback
$142.31

The advent of urbanism had profound impacts on landscape management, agricultural production, food preservation,...  Read More >>

Race Class: Reading Mexican American Literature in the Era of Neoliberalism, 1981-1984

Race Class: Reading Mexican American Literature in the...

Author: José Antonio Arellano (United States Air Force Academy)
ISBN: 9781009532938
Format: Hardback
$142.31

Race Class identifies two competing aesthetics, the 'recognitional' and the 'redistributive,' that developed in...  Read More >>

Modelling the Divine

Modelling the Divine

Author: Ben Page (Eton College)
ISBN: 9781009709354
Format: Hardback
$142.31

There are different approaches to modelling the divine with each raising questions one needs to consider when employing...  Read More >>

Social Change across the End of the Aegean Bronze Age

Social Change across the End of the Aegean Bronze Age...

Author: Antonis Kotsonas (Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University)
ISBN: 9781009455138
Format: Hardback
$142.31

For a long time, scholarship on the end of the Aegean Bronze Age has been preoccupied with political, ethnic/racial,...  Read More >>

88-Hours War: India-Pakistan War of May 2025

88-Hours War: India-Pakistan War of May 2025

Author: Tom Cooper ,  Ravi Rikhye
ISBN: 9781806720859
Format: Paperback
$49.99

The short but fierce war between India and Pakistan fought in May 2025 has not only seen the deployment of some...  Read More >>

Empire, Extraction and Power in the Festivals of Britain of 1951 and 2022

Empire, Extraction and Power in the Festivals of Britain...

Author: Caoimhe Mader McGuinness (Kingston University London)
ISBN: 9781009461252
Format: Hardback
$142.31

This Element compares the 1951 Festival of Britain with the 2022 Unboxed Festival to explore both continuities and...  Read More >>

Hegel's Philosophy of Nature

Hegel's Philosophy of Nature

Author: Christian Martin (University of Stuttgart)
ISBN: 9781009557771
Format: Hardback
$142.31

This Element explores Hegel's philosophy of nature, examining its foundations and method in relation to Newtonian...  Read More >>

Political Meritocracy in the 21st Century

Political Meritocracy in the 21st Century

Author: Brian Kogelmann (Purdue University)
ISBN: 9781009605823
Format: Hardback
$142.31

Political meritocracy allocates power by virtue and competence. This monograph critiques three models: epistocracy...  Read More >>

The Elixir: A Posthumanist Approach to Alchemy in Akbarian Sufism and Islam

The Elixir: A Posthumanist Approach to Alchemy in Akbarian...

Author: Dunja Rašić (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society and Tampere University)
ISBN: 9781009777407
Format: Hardback
$142.31

Ibn ʿArabī (d. 1240) believed there is one Sharia for humans and another for minerals. This Element rethinks what...  Read More >>

Youth Culture and Religion in Twenty-First Century Japan: From Hyper-real to 2.5-Dimensional Religion

Youth Culture and Religion in Twenty-First Century Japan:...

Author: Satoko Fujiwara (University of Tokyo) ,  Hiroki Miura (University of Tokyo)
ISBN: 9781009550260
Format: Hardback
$142.31

This Element explores emerging forms of religiosity among Japanese young adults. It argues that existing frameworks...  Read More >>

Aristippus of Cyrene, Pleasure and the Present

Aristippus of Cyrene, Pleasure and the Present

Author: Georgia Mouroutsou (King's University College and Western University)
ISBN: 9781009766708
Format: Hardback
$142.31

This Element offers a new historical account of Aristippus the Elder's views on pleasure and the present. It supports...  Read More >>

Requiem for Reconstruction: Black Countermemory and the Legacy of the Lowcountry's Lost Political Generation

Requiem for Reconstruction: Black Countermemory and...

Author: Robert D. Bland
ISBN: 9781469691879
Format: Paperback
$71.50

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Co-Motion: Re-Thinking Power, Subjects, and Feminist and Queer Alliances

Co-Motion: Re-Thinking Power, Subjects, and Feminist...

Author: Paola Bacchetta
ISBN: 9781478032977
Format: Paperback
$60.50

Paola Bacchetta offers an innovative feminist and queer set of theories and approaches for analyzing power, subjects,...  Read More >>

The Invention of Order: On the Coloniality of Space

The Invention of Order: On the Coloniality of Space...

Author: Don Thomas Deere
ISBN: 9781478032878
Format: Paperback
$52.80

In The Invention of Order, Don Thomas Deere retraces the colonial origins of spatial organization in the Americas...  Read More >>

Chinatown: San Francisco's 1906 Earthquake and the Paradox of American Immigration Policy

Chinatown: San Francisco's 1906 Earthquake and the Paradox...

Author: Dafeng Xu
ISBN: 9781421453545
Format: Paperback
$125.00

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The Factory: The Official History of the Australian Signals Directorate, Vol 1

The Factory: The Official History of the Australian...

Author: John Fahey
ISBN: 9781761473500
Format: Paperback
$45.00

The story of the first 25 years of Australia's national signals intelligence organisation, told for the first time....  Read More >>

Meeting Jesus on the Road: A Lenten Study

Meeting Jesus on the Road: A Lenten Study

Author: Cynthia M Campbell ,  Christine Coy Fohr
ISBN: 9780664268855
Format: Paperback
$44.88

Meeting Jesus on the Road invites individuals and groups to journey with Jesus this Lenten season as they engage...  Read More >>

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