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This volume introduces students to the most controversial incident of the Vietnam War - the My Lai massacre when almost 400 Vietnamese civilians were killed in four hours. The narrative…
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The Spanish expression - la cultura cura (culture heals) - is an affirmation of the potential healing power of a variety of cultural practices that together constitute the ethos of…
This study considers writing by Caribbean women, such as the slave narrative of Mary Prince and the autobiography of Jamaican nurse Mary Seacole, and works by women whose travels to…
This interdisciplinary and international collection explores the role of the arts in shaping contemporary religion and politics. The collection shows that the arts are central to struggles over the shape…
Section 2 addresses law of the sea and governance issues, and includes studies on Greece and the law of the sea, maritime boundaries in the Mediterranean, the Imia Rocks crisis…
Covering over 200 years of American history, beginning in colonial America and ending with the present day, The Rise and Fall of the Media Establishment provides an overview of the…
Using excerpts primarily drawn from Bernal Diaz’s 1632 account of the Spanish victory and from testimonies - many recently uncovered - of indigenous Nahua survivors gathered by Bernardino de Sahagun…
Japan has consistently been pursuing the goal of a permanent UN Security Council seat for 30 years. It is therefore a study of the interior workings of the Japanese Foreign…
Development has been elusive for Latin America in the 1990s. Notwithstanding tough neoliberal reforms, defeated hyperinflation, and large capital inflows, development of productive capacity and social equity shows a poor…
This is a lively study of the autobiographical instinct in a variety of 16th and 17th century modes of writing in English, from letters and memoirs to pastoral, polemic and…
The second half offers a selection of Mao’s writings - including such seminal pieces as On the New Democracy and selections from the Little Red Book - and writings about…
For more than 1500 years, across more than 4000 miles, the Silk Roads connected East and West. Liu’s thoughtful introduction considers the many ways the peoples along the Silk Roads…
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Serial Television focuses on contemporary television drama, offering detailed accounts of hugely popular, influential, and groundbreaking shows such as The Sopranos, Queer as Folk, Sex and the City, Twin Peaks…
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This unique anthology chronicles the Plains Indians’ struggle to maintain their traditional way of life in the changing world of the nineteenth century. Its rich variety of 34 primary sources…
This book provides an excellent handbook to the Islamic movements in Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria, and Libya and fills a major gap in the scholarship on Islam and the Arab West.
Wars and Peace is a historical look at how Americans have tried to conceptualize peace during five national security crises: The Civil War, Spanish-American War, World War I, World War…
More has been written about the Beatles than any other performing artists of the twentieth century. It is essential reading for those wishing to understand not only the phenomenon of…
The work of Nizami Ganjavi, a classical poet of the twelfth century, is fueling new cultural debate in Iran in recent years. These essays explore Nizami s influential role and…
Marx is out of fashion in intellectual circles on the whole but he is increasingly seen as an astute and relevant guide to the spread of a new raw capitalism…
This definitive, annotated edition of Maggie is based on Crane’s original 1893 text and provides instructors with everything they need to teach the work in its historical and cultural context.
Combining documents with an interpretive essay, this book is the first to offer a much-needed guide to the emergence of the women’s rights movement within the anti-slavery activism of the…
This study of Hong Kong cult director Wong Kar-wai provides an overview of his career and in-depth analysis of his seven feature films to date. Teo probes Wong’s cinematic and…
Reflects on cultural change from Shakespeare to Derek Jarman, on the institutional forms of knowledge, on the links between popular and elite art, and on the role of the intellectual…
This book examines the effects of alcohol on gender relations in traditional Europe, focussing on England, France, and Italy in the late medieval and early modern periods, roughly 1300 to…
Despite being one of the biggest industries in the United States, indeed the World, the internal workings of the ‘dream factory’ that is Hollywood is little understood outside the business.
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Volume6 looks at the ways historians have written the history of the region depending upon their methods of interpretation and differing styles of communicating their findings. The second half of…
And because it is always changing, it makes an exciting and vibrant media form to study and analyse, raising interesting questions about representations, media language, institutions and audiences - the…
This book describes the emergence of ecological understanding among the English Romantic poets, arguing that this new holistic paradigm offered a conceptual and ideological basis for American environmentalism.
This report seeks to show different groups of people in contemporary society. It looks at families, and how they lead their lives in the UK today, as well as illustrating…
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This report presents the results of a survey carried out in 1996 on a sample of adults aged 16 to 65. The survey forms part of an international programme of…
An annual publication for the United Kingdom’s national account statistics, this title provides detailed estimates of national product, income and expenditure
A monthly guide to the state of the labour market, which contains statistics and analysis of the trends in employment, unemployment, earnings, hours, labour disputes and training. Each issue also…
A monthly guide to the state of the labour market, which contains statistics and analysis of the trends in employment, unemployment, earnings, hours, labour disputes and training. Here, each issue…
Twenty chapters of tables, cover the following topics: National accounts, including Gross Domestic Product (GDP); Population and vital statistics; Social services, Law enforcement; Agriculture, food, drinks and tobacco; Production, output…
This important reference work contains the latest business, economic and social data.Twenty chapters of tables, cover the following topics: National accounts, including Gross Domestic Product (GDP); Social services, Law enforcement…
The principle annual publication for national account statistics, the National Statistics Blue Book provides detailed estimates of the domestic national product, income and expenditure for the United Kingdom.
Travel Trends presents the main annual results of the International Passenger Survey (IPS) which collects information on travel to and from the UK. This title shows overseas residents’ visits to…
Contains 145 statistical tables covering topics on the 2001 census. Questions asked of all people covered: sex, date of birth and marital status; relationship to others in the household; whether…
This report has results for urban areas - towns, cities and major agglomerations - on all topics covered by the 2001 Census in England and Wales. It adds to earlier…
This report covers disabled children in private households and in communal establishments. It is concerned with the use made by children of services, equipment and adaptations, as well as their…
