Founded 2,600 years ago on a massive limestone eminence, the city of Arles has been the home of Roman emperors and captured slaves, pagan temples and Christian spires, bloody revolutionaries and powerful papists.
This collection focuses on the role of religious leaders and religious institutions in supporting or resisting the democratization process in Zimbabwe.
The City That Is Leaving Forever is a unique twenty-first-century time capsule: an instant-message exchange between Kashmir and British Columbia spanning more than five years in the lives of two Muslim Kashmiri women poets.
The Complete History of the Pirates gathers four vivid books of maritime crime into a single illustrated volume, recounting the robberies, stratagems, trials, and violent ends of figures such as Blackbeard, Bartholomew Roberts, and Anne Bonny.
This book examines how Lampedusa, Italy's southernmost island, has become a transnational symbol representing migration to Europe from the Global South.
"Am Anfang war die ganze Welt Amerika" hatte der englische Aufklärer John Locke geschrieben und damit gemeint, dass sich am Beispiel Amerikas eine zweite Schöpfung beobachten ließe.
This book examines how Lampedusa, Italy's southernmost island, has become a transnational symbol representing migration to Europe from the Global South.
Both Britain and the United States have had a long history of harbouring foreign political exiles, who often set up periodicals which significantly contributed to community-building and political debates.
Laurence Sterne's magnum opus, 'The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman', is a groundbreaking work that defies traditional narrative structures and challenges the conventions of the 18th-century novel.
In 'The Pirate Island & A Pirate of the Caribbees', Harry Collingwood takes the reader on a thrilling journey filled with adventure, danger, and hidden treasures.
Als in den Jahren 1861 bis 1865 der Amerikanische Bürgerkrieg tobte und die Vereinigten Staaten zu zerreißen drohte, kämpften neben gebürtigen Amerikanern auch mehr als eine halbe Million Einwanderer, darunter etwa 200.
The Sunday Times Bestseller'A wondrous wonderful achievement' STEPHEN FRYLonglisted for The Anglo-Hellenic League Runciman Award 2025The Seven Wonders of the World were staggeringly audacious impositions on our planet.
The real and potential power of China, the world's most populous nation, has long been seen as a threat by its smaller neighbors and global powers alike.
Titus Burckhardt's masterpiece, Introduction to Sufi Doctrine, explores the essence of Islamic mysticism, or Sufism, presenting its central doctrines and methods to a Western audience in a highly intelligible form.
The Palgrave Handbook of European Migration in Literature and Culture engages with migration to, within, and from Europe, foregrounding migration through the lenses of historical migratory movement and flows associated with colonialism and postcolonialism.
