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Making Protest: The Role of Protest Brokers in South Africa's Urban Landscape

Making Protest: The Role of Protest Brokers in South...

Author: Sarah J. Lockwood (University of Bristol)
ISBN: 9781009555845
Format: Hardback
$245.81

Introducing the critical and previously overlooked role played by protest brokers in South Africa, this study explores...  Read More >>

Order, Authority, Nation: Neo-Socialism, Fascism, and Political Conversion in Interwar France

Order, Authority, Nation: Neo-Socialism, Fascism, and...

Author: Mathieu Hikaru Desan (University of Colorado Boulder)
ISBN: 9781009691383
Format: Hardback
$245.81

This book offers a sociological account of the political conversion from democratic socialism to fascism in interwar-France....  Read More >>

The Big Picture as an Approach to the Study of International Relations: Thinking With and Beyond Barry Buzan

The Big Picture as an Approach to the Study of International...

Author: Rita Floyd (University of Birmingham) ,  Laust Schouenborg (Roskilde Universitet, Denmark)
ISBN: 9781009580311
Format: Hardback
$245.81

A leading group of scholars debate the 'big picture' approach in an engagement with renowned scholar Barry Buzan....  Read More >>

Life, Death, and Migration in the Early Modern City: The Urban Historical Demography of Würzburg

Life, Death, and Migration in the Early Modern City:...

Author: Jan de Vries (University of California, Berkeley)
ISBN: 9781009641517
Format: Hardback
$245.81

In this rich study of the pre-industrial city in early modern Europe, Jan de Vries uses modern demographic techniques...  Read More >>

The Cambridge Guide to World Theatre History

The Cambridge Guide to World Theatre History

Author: Steve Tillis (Saint Mary's College of California)
ISBN: 9781009703444
Format: Hardback
$181.13

A panoramic, non-Eurocentric view of theatre history that emphasizes the variety of connections among the world's...  Read More >>

Sweet Home Feliciana: Family, Slavery, and the Hauntings of History

Sweet Home Feliciana: Family, Slavery, and the Hauntings...

Author: Rashauna Johnson (The University of Chicago)
ISBN: 9781009668323
Format: Hardback
$69.86

Drawing from the author's family history, this book charts the intimate and global transformation of a rural region...  Read More >>

Conflict and Maternal Health: Linking the Gendered Causes and Gendered Consequences of War

Conflict and Maternal Health: Linking the Gendered Causes...

Author: Susan Hannah Allen (University of Mississippi) ,  Frank C. Thames (Texas Tech University)
ISBN: 9781009539586
Format: Hardback
$142.31

War is far more likely to occur in countries where women lack equal standing in society. Focusing on gendered political...  Read More >>

Kant on Citizenship and Poverty

Kant on Citizenship and Poverty

Author: Nicholas Vrousalis (Erasmus University Rotterdam)
ISBN: 9781009671361
Format: Hardback
$142.31

According to Immanuel Kant, citizenship amounts to freedom, equality, and civil self-sufficiency. This Element provides...  Read More >>

Clothing Bodies: Weaving and Textiles in the Aegean Bronze Age

Clothing Bodies: Weaving and Textiles in the Aegean...

Author: Sophia Vakirtzi (Hellenic Ministry of Culture, HOCRED (ODAP))
ISBN: 9781009679091
Format: Hardback
$142.31

This Element explores the textile crafts and cloth cultures of the Aegean Bronze Age, focusing on excavated textiles...  Read More >>

The Rediscovery of Huaca Pintada: Why Traditional Ecological Knowledge Matters Within Archaeological Environments in Peru

The Rediscovery of Huaca Pintada: Why Traditional Ecological...

Author: Sâm Ghavami (University of Fribourg, Switzerland) ,  Christian Cancho Ruiz (University of Virginia, VA)
ISBN: 9781009583718
Format: Hardback
$142.31

This Element presents a case study of the authors' partnership with the Pintada community in their excavation of...  Read More >>

Charismatic Nations: A Cultural History of Nationalism in Europe from 1800 to the Present

Charismatic Nations: A Cultural History of Nationalism...

Author: Joep Leerssen (University of Amsterdam)
ISBN: 9781009667159
Format: Hardback
$103.50

This gripping history offers a unique understanding of the pervasive influence of nationalism in both politics and...  Read More >>

Unwilling To Know: Male Homosexuality at the Crossroads of Europe, 1870–1965

Unwilling To Know: Male Homosexuality at the Crossroads...

Author: Wannes Dupont (University of Edinburgh)
ISBN: 9781009570121
Format: Hardback
$232.88

Debates about homosexuality are historically shaped by national specificities. In comparative and empirically rich...  Read More >>

The Imago Dei: A Holistic Account

The Imago Dei: A Holistic Account

Author: Ximian Xu (University of Cambridge)
ISBN: 9781009642521
Format: Hardback
$142.31

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Nietzsche on Suffering

Nietzsche on Suffering

Author: Christopher Janaway (University of Southampton)
ISBN: 9781009644396
Format: Hardback
$142.31

This Element explores Nietzsche's provocative views on suffering not as a flaw in life, but as essential to growth...  Read More >>

Hans Urs von Balthasar: Introduction and Sourcebook

Hans Urs von Balthasar: Introduction and Sourcebook...

Author: Dr Stephen M. Garrett (Global Scholars, USA)
ISBN: 9780567663559
Format: Hardback
$264.00

Hans Urs von Balthasar's work has had an increasingly significant impact on theology of 20th century. This anthology...  Read More >>

Literature and Cultural Identity during the Korean War: Comparing North and South Korean Writing

Literature and Cultural Identity during the Korean War:...

Author: Jerome de Wit (University of Tübingen, Germany)
ISBN: 9781350106529
Format: Hardback
$170.00

Through an in-depth analysis of wartime essays and literary works, Literature and Cultural Identity during the Korean...  Read More >>

The Military organization of Moldavia and Wallachia in the Phanariot era, 1709-1821

The Military organization of Moldavia and Wallachia...

Author: Claudiu-Ion Neagoe
ISBN: 9781804518199
Format: Paperback
$75.00

This paper is intended to be a reconstruction, as accurate as possible, based on the historical documentary and...  Read More >>

The Harvey Girl

The Harvey Girl

Author: Dana Stabenow
ISBN: 9781035916665
Format: Hardback
$42.99

This thrilling historical mystery sees a young female Pinkerton detective take on the lawless American frontier...  Read More >>

The African Kingdom of Gold: Britain and the Asante Treasure

The African Kingdom of Gold: Britain and the Asante...

Author: Barnaby Phillips
ISBN: 9781836431336
Format: Hardback
$49.99

Gold, greed, empire – the hidden history of Britain’s stolen West African treasure  Read More >>

Farewell to Russia: A Journey Through the Former USSR

Farewell to Russia: A Journey Through the Former USSR...

Author: Joe Luc Barnes
ISBN: 9781783969401
Format: Hardback
$42.99

A razor-sharp, utterly immersive political travelogue that reveals one of the world’s most enigmatic regions  Read More >>

Chasing Freedom: Coming of Age at the End of Empire

Chasing Freedom: Coming of Age at the End of Empire...

Author: Simukai Chigudu
ISBN: 9781847927194
Format: Hardback
$49.99

A stunning memoir that transforms our understanding of a generation In my home country, they call me a 'bornfree'....  Read More >>

The Coming Storm: Power, Conflict and Warnings from History

The Coming Storm: Power, Conflict and Warnings from...

Author: Odd Arne Westad
ISBN: 9780241770573
Format: Hardback
$49.99

A prescient, thoughtful and chilling examination of the current state of the world If there are lessons from history,...  Read More >>

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