Cultural studies

Using extensive research, this book argues that successful African leaders consolidate their rule by developing strategic rural coalitions.

The first holistic study of Roman literature and literary culture under Nerva, Trajan and Hadrian (AD 96–138).

A major illustrated collection offering a fresh interdisciplinary reading of Chinese women''s periodicals and history in the long twentieth century.

This volume looks at the effects of interaction and the nature of identity construction in a frontier or contact zone through the analysis of material culture, especially in mortuary settings.

This lively and erudite cultural history examines how Scottish identity was experienced and represented in novel ways.

How do immigration and refugee laws work ''in action'' in Russia?

Examines the influence of Islam, as a religion, a practice, and a tradition, on Egypt''s visual and literary modernity.

While dominant narratives emphasize war''s destructive effects, this book demonstrates how war can open up unexpected opportunities for women''s political mobilization.

Kessler-Mata argues for a constitutive theory of tribal sovereignty based on the interconnected relationships between tribes and non-federal governments.

Comprehensive account of Melissus of Samos and his contribution to the philosophy of monism in early Greek thinking.

Aimed at political sciences students and teachers, Ferreras presents the new idea of ''economic bicameralism'' to redefine firms as political entities.

Global Gifts considers the role that the circulation of material culture played in the establishment of early modern global diplomacy.

Investigates the idea of the human within Brontë sisters'' work, offering new insight on their writing and cultural contexts.

Pressures emanating from China''s scale, regulatory politics, and need to feed itself has led to its decade''s long food safety crisis.

Leading scholars of political thought demonstrate how the history of political ideas makes sense of environmental politics and climate change.

Offers a more complex and nuanced understanding of the Russian justice system than stereotypes and preconceptions lead us to believe.

Tsui reveals the peculiarities of the Guomindang''s revolutionary enterprise, resituating Nationalist China in the moment of global radical right ascendancy.

Cutting-edge scholarship on post-war Arab intellectual history that challenges conventional thinking about authoritarianism, religion and revolution in the modern Middle East.

Shows that Homer was a philosophic thinker who played a crucial role in the thought of Plato, Machiavelli, and Nietzsche.

Argues that Peirce wrote philosophy as a scientist, expanded empiricism, and conceived of science as responsible for its own philosophy.

An in-depth introduction to Merleau-Ponty''s greatest work that foregrounds his theory of our projectively embodied being in the world.

Demonstrates the importance of music in ancient Roman political culture and social relations.

Eve Tignol investigates the impact of collective grief on Muslim community formation in north India from 1857 to the 1940s.

The author argues that Doric architecture originated in a disruptive shift in urbanism, land use, and colonization in Archaic Greece.

Was macht einen Film groß?

Was macht einen Film groß?

Wild and strange stories have been told about the female body since antiquity.

This book promotes a novel and nuanced understanding of how the practices of comparative literature have engaged with the politics of nation-building in postcolonial Southeast Asia.

This book promotes a novel and nuanced understanding of how the practices of comparative literature have engaged with the politics of nation-building in postcolonial Southeast Asia.

Dass die Welt verletzt, womöglich niemals mehr repariert werden kann, und dass die Menschen verletzlich sind, auch arg verletzend sein können – all dies ist in den Kulturen des POP und des Populären eingehend zur Sprache gebracht worden.

Dass die Welt verletzt, womöglich niemals mehr repariert werden kann, und dass die Menschen verletzlich sind, auch arg verletzend sein können – all dies ist in den Kulturen des POP und des Populären eingehend zur Sprache gebracht worden.

In den Bänden dieser Reihe werden erstmalig detailliert die wichtigsten Strömungen und Themen der ungemein fruchtbaren Periode der Soziologie der Zwischenkriegszeit im deutschen Sprachraum in theoretischer, empirischer und institutioneller Hinsicht dargelegt und die eingehende Erörterung Spezieller Soziologien durch die Bezugnahme auf Nachbardisziplinen vertieft.

In den Bänden dieser Reihe werden erstmalig detailliert die wichtigsten Strömungen und Themen der ungemein fruchtbaren Periode der Soziologie der Zwischenkriegszeit im deutschen Sprachraum in theoretischer, empirischer und institutioneller Hinsicht dargelegt und die eingehende Erörterung Spezieller Soziologien durch die Bezugnahme auf Nachbardisziplinen vertieft.

This interdisciplinary edited volume for scholars of migration, transnationalism and care provides a unique, praxis-informed perspective on the often-unrecognised labour of care given and received between migrants.

This interdisciplinary edited volume for scholars of migration, transnationalism and care provides a unique, praxis-informed perspective on the often-unrecognised labour of care given and received between migrants.

This book offers a nuanced exploration of Donetsk and Luhansk regions prior to the 2014 Russian invasion.

This 3-volume set examines how suburban spaces shape and reflect human experiences in North America, Europe, and Asia, bringing together works by an international group of scholars who explore suburbia through critical analyses of literature, culture, sociology, history, politics, and urban planning.

Die Entwicklung des Sozialismus von der Utopie zur Wissenschaft gehort zu den bedeutendsten Schriften Friedrich Engels'.

The fundamental assumption behind the volume is that the current civilizational crisis, manifested in such phenomena as climate change, environmental catastrophes, pandemics and wars, puts into question the biopolitical means of optimizing the life of populations and individuals.

Ein ungewöhnlicher Auftrag führt ein Team aus Köchin, Fotograf und Kulturhistoriker auf eine Reise nach Italien: Ein barockes Schauessen soll re-inszeniert werden.

Die "Denkfabrik Schalom Aleikum" schaut auf der Suche nach Glaubensspuren durch ein selten geöffnetes Fenster: jüdische, muslimische und christliche Lebensrealitäten in Ostdeutschland.

Freiheit und Menschenwürde werden viel beschworen.

Die autonome Kunst der Moderne setzte auf Differenzerfahrung: das Kunstwerk als das Andere, Außeralltägliche, das verwirrt, aufrüttelt und bestenfalls zu Korrekturen am Entwurf von Selbst und Gesellschaft anregt.

"Niemand will Antisemit sein.

Neue Essays Alfred Brendels – zu Musik, Literatur und über das Altern.

Rhetorik als Waffe – über Putins Reden als Mittel der Politik.