Cultural and media studies

Introduces citizens to solutions for reforming the American campaign finance system.

Investigates early modern women philosophers'' views on reality, matter, time and mind, uncovering neglected perspectives and demonstrating their historical importance.

A fresh descriptive and normative perspective on law and religion supported by comparative case studies of Greater China.

Provides a unified account of the notion of law - both natural and moral - in Kant''s abstract and empirical philosophy.

Race, Gender, and Disability in Puppetry and Material Performance investigates and expands the multifaceted how and what of puppetry and material performance.

Race, Gender, and Disability in Puppetry and Material Performance investigates and expands the multifaceted how and what of puppetry and material performance.

Offers a pluralist reading of transitional justice to deal with conflicts constructively and to enable diversity in approaches.

Traces the development of Kant''s views on free will from earlier writings through the three Critiques and beyond.

New essays on Kant''s complex work, considering its place in his oeuvre and in the history of science.

Shows how the scientific question, ''Are we automata?

A collection of essays on the foundational themes of freedom and spontaneity in Immanuel Kant''s philosophy.

A comprehensive and novel interpretation of Spinoza''s political writings that reveals the significance of the affects for political life.

Makes a significant contribution to substantive representation, and examines the various political identities of justices in the American political system.

Maps an apartheid-era Zulu Radio station as it grew to become one of the largest stations in Africa, countering censorship and propaganda.

An explanation of the foundations of Kant''s philosophy of mathematics and its connection to his account of human experience.

The notion of ''representative democracy'' seems unquestionably familiar today, but how did the Victorians understand democracy, parliamentary representation, and diversity?

Examines the practice and purposes of presenting the small-scale in literature, material culture and theories of cognition.

Apocalyptic rhetoric creates dangerous politics; three great thinkers show how clear-eyed realism is our best hope.

Explores how global youth push the boundaries of standard language and exploit the potential of their multilingual repertoires online.

Provides the first formal account and theory of endurance as a practice in performance art and protest.

Based on long-term research in northern Chad, this book provides a unique account of mobility, wealth, and aspirations to political autonomy at the heart of the contemporary Sahara.

History mattered to the political elite in ancient China.

A detailed and innovative study of Kant''s engagement with the ideas and methods of previously neglected philosophical figures in eighteenth-century Germany.

Investigates how stories are shared in online contexts and provides a method for studying them.

Sheds new light on the presence and impact of Continental European literary traditions in post-Napoleonic Britain.

Offers a structuralist critique of the relationship between pragmatism and liberalism in American legal thought.

Demonstrates flattery''s importance for political theory, addressing representation, republicanism, and rhetoric through classical, early modern, and eighteenth-century thought.

Historically and philosophically informed introduction to the embryological, zoological, and medical views presented in this sophisticated and challenging text.

This innovative book reveals children''s experiences and how they became victims and actors during the twentieth century''s biggest conflicts.

Proposes an original framework for comparative media research, and uses it to provide fascinating insights into television under communist rule.

Shows how Joyce''s narrative styles and his protagonists'' perceptions are shaped by visual technologies, including dioramas, stereoscopes, mutoscopes and film.

The first volume to explore the role of race and empire in political theory debates over global justice.

This book focuses on the material practice of ancient literacy through a contextual examination of Roman writing equipment.

Renowned scholars explore and discuss Nietzsche''s desire to challenge the very conception of philosophy, and his methods of doing so.

This book is the first collection in twenty years in English to address the whole of Bergson''s philosophy.

This is a novel, transnational exploration of the major Chinese intellectual debates on radicalism in history, culture, and politics after 1989.

This book traces how early Americans imagined what a ''nation'' meant during the first fifty years of the country''s existence.

An interdisciplinary approach to the foundations of moral agency, focusing on different forms and roles of fellow feeling.

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.