Society and culture: general

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

Explores the profession of singing, operatic culture, and the representation of female performers on the nineteenth century French stage.

This book contains expansive, multifaceted narrative of British women''s literary and textual production from the Reformation to the Restoration.

Provides a new way of thinking about parties formed by social movements, and their evolution over time.

Shows that modernism was concocted out of surprising sources, and that one of them was Toryism during 1900–1920.

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

Links democracy with the process of overcoming severe social inequality, rather than with ideal forms of political debate.

Examines Iran''s Armenian community, shedding light on Muslim-Christian relations in Iran since the 1979 revolution.

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.

Offers an innovative study of visual traditions in modern medical history through debates about the causes, impact and spread of AIDS.

A cutting-edge description of subnational democracy combined with a ground breaking explanation for why some regions are much less democratic than others.

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.

A rich ethnographic account of young West African fisherfolk navigating a precarious social and economic environment shaped by ecological crisis, war, and secrecy.

Examines the clash between political systems and political action as the Roman Republic disintegrated.

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.

Examination of literacy and reading habits in nineteenth-century Ireland and implications for an emerging cultural nationalism.

Explores the relationship between the legitimacy, the efficacy, and the decision-making of national and transnational constitutional courts.

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

Explains how weakly institutionalized and male-dominant parties undermine descriptive representation in Brazil''s OLPR legislative elections.

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.

Explores Sino-Japanese relations through encounters that took place between each country''s people living at the margins of empire.

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

Examines the myriad consequences of World War II for racial attitudes and the presidential response to civil rights.

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

Argues that North American settler colonialism included episodes of genocide of Indigenous peoples as defined by the United Nations Genocide Convention.

Explores the role of linguistics in promoting justice and equality with regard to ethnic minorities, legal matters and civil rights.

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

A historical and comparative analysis investigating two hundred years of migration and citizenship laws in South America.

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

Develops a theory of collaborative capitalism that produces economic stability for businesses and workers in American urban cores.

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

A vivid ethnographic study of cattle traders, truckers, public contractors and NGO actors'' everyday encounters with state bureaucracies in Ngaoundéré, Cameroon.

Explores the interplay between law and religion in the area of hate speech, whether religion is the target or source.

Fischer uses evolutionary psychology to explain why people''s personality and values are both similar and different across cultures worldwide.

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

This book offers new perspectives on animals and animality from the vantage point of the rabbis of the Babylonian Talmud.

Provides a valuable transnational history of the African Diaspora through examination of British Afro-Caribbeans in Cuba.

Shows how migration influenced American foreign policy in Cuban-American relations during the Cold War.

This unique window into Muslim identities provides scholars and students with important up-to-date data about real Muslims living in Israel.

Explores aspects of the private lives and interpersonal ties, between the personal and communal domains of early Sufis.

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

Uses a comparative analysis of case law in leading common law nations to demonstrate how religious discrimination is culturally determined.

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

Develops a social psychological approach to revolutions through analyzes of cases from around the world and during different historical periods.

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

Analyzes the labor experience of Israeli Palestinian women, arguing that state policies and widespread discrimination hinder their labor force participation and success.

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