Cultural studies

Interest in this topic is growing rapidly, both as a field of academic research and as people with African American and American Indian backgrounds voice interest in their heritage.

In this book Peter Burke adopts a socio-cultural approach to examine the changes in the organization of knowledge in Europe from the invention of printing to the publication of the French Encyclop die.

'A groundbreaking and important book that will surely reframe our understanding of the Great War' David Lammy'A genuinely groundbreaking piece of research' BBC History'Meticulously researched and beautifully written' Military History MonthlyIn a sweeping narrative, David Olusoga describes how Europe's Great War became the World's War a multi-racial, multi-national struggle, fought in Africa and Asia as well as in Europe, which pulled in men and resources from across the globe.

Rhetoric appears to be a marginal topic for the Bakhtin School and for most Bakhtin scholars, but many rhetorical critics, theorists, and teachers have nonetheless found the school's work compelling and challenging.

Mickey thought she had experienced quite a bit for a kid her age.

This book sheds light on Kant''s claim that the Critique of Pure Reason is a ''treatise'' or ''doctrine'' of method.

Facebook is now used by nearly 500 million people throughout the world, many of whom spend several hours a day on this site.

I was born in the years of the baby boomers.

Melissa Fuster thinks expansively about the multiple meanings of comida, food, from something as simple as a meal to something as complex as one's identity.

Tajikistan is a key state in Central Asia, and will become crucial to the regional power balance as it transitions away from Soviet government systems and responds to the rise of Chinese financial power alongside the continuing presence of Russian military might and instability in neighboring Afghanistan.

This is the first comprehensive analysis of the work of Fredric Jameson, one of the most important cultural critics writing today.

This book aims to understand the different readings of Castiglione's Cortegiano or Book of the Courtier from the Renaissance to the twentieth century.

With the publication of this remarkable book in 1998, Gustavo Esteva and Madhu Suri Prakash instigated a complete epistemological rupture.

All major western countries today contain groups that differ in their religious beliefs, customary practices or ideas about the right way in which to live.

Democracy and democratization are now high on the political agenda, but there is growing indifference to the gap between rich and poor.

Against long odds,the Anishinaabeg resisted removal, retaining thousands of acres of their homeland in what is now Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota.

An art expert takes a critical look at restaurant menus—from style and layout to content, pricing and more—to reveal the hidden influence of menu design.

Given its features as a modern mass medium and thus closely related to the nation, cinema has rightly been regarded as a privileged site for putting forward contesting representations of national identity, or in short, as a main area in which narratives of national identity are negotiated.

When Freud wrote his classic Civilization and its Discontents, he was concerned with repression.

The rise of digital photography and imaging has transformed the landscape of visual communication and culture.

Until now, in-depth cultural information on Pakistan, a predominantly Muslim country formed in 1947 after the dissolution of British rule in India, has been scarce.

This much-needed book is a concise and accessible account of the contribution of feminist thinking to the study of crime.

Lauren Gillingham reveals how a modern notion of fashion helped to transform the novel in nineteenth-century Britain.

Therapy for Kings promotes the value of introspection for all people, offering an alternative understanding of therapy.

Multiculturalism is controversial in the liberal state and has frequently been declared dead, even in countries that have never had a policy under that name.

The true story of an Alaska Native village destroyed by flooding and erosion caused by climate change-and how they fought for help.

At a time when so many cracks have emerged within the imagined community of the West', this important new book, by one of the leading social scientists in Europe, examines the intellectual history of comparing Europe and the United States.

Alexander Korda's masterpiece "e;The Private Life of Henry VIII"e; was arguably the most important British film of the pre-war period and a phenomenal, critical and box-office success.

Franco Moretti's Graphs, Maps, Trees: Abstract Models for Literary History is one of the most provocative recent works of literary history.

This book presents serious academic scholarship on Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

An innovative approach to rethinking sciences of mind at the turn of the twenty-first century via the texts of philosopher and psychologist William James.

Redefining the face of the American farmer The growing trend of organic farming and homesteading is changing the way the farmer is portrayed in mainstream media, and yet, farmers of color are still largely left out of the picture.

The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music Volume 1 provides an overview of media, industry, and technology and its relationship to popular music.

The over-the-top musicals of Bollywood may be the most familiar aspect of Indian popular culture, but there are many more, all explored in this fascinating volume.

In this lively and accessible study, David Lyon explores the relationship between religion and postmodernity, through the central metaphor of 'Jesus in Disneyland.

In this major theoretical statement, the author offers a new and provocative interpretation of the institutional transformations associated with modernity.

Experience Africa's vibrant and volatile struggle at the crossroads between tradition and modernity .

America, like other modern nations, is characterized by its diversity and can be seen as a complex and fragmented nation-state.

A star-studded collection of essays from acclaimed and bestselling authors and celebrities that illuminates the lasting power of desire and longing, and celebrates our initiation into the euphoria, pain, and mystery that is our first celebrity crush.

The Spiritual Travelers Travel GuideA must read before a trip.

The creative industries are the subject of growing attention among policy-makers, academics, activists, artists and development specialists worldwide.

“Provocative and diverse” essays on the image—and the reality—of feminism in the twenty-first century (Christine A.

In Brazil, where forest meets savanna, new towns, agribusiness and hydroelectric plants form a patchwork with the indigenous territories.

Signataire en 1971 du Manifeste des 343 en faveur de l’avortement libre, Claudine Monteil a eu la chance de militer aux côtés de Simone de Beauvoir pour les droits des femmes.

Of all the topics of interest in the digital humanities, the network has received comparatively little attention.

Race in 20th-century German history is an inescapable topic, one that has been defined overwhelmingly by the narratives of degeneracy that prefigured the Nuremberg Laws and death camps of the Third Reich.

This book examines the ideas of the Founders with regard to establishing a national university.

What are the relations between feminism and history, feminist politics and historical practice?