This book reveals the complex positive and negative interaction between Europe and the Orient, arguing that the European concept of Oriental despotism was based not on arbitrary prejudicial observation, but…

This book focuses on apse mosaics in Rome commissioned by popes between the sixth and ninth centuries CE. Erik Thuno situates the apse mosaics within the context of viewership, the…

Uncertainty is inevitable in close relationships, arising in response to a variety of relational circumstances. This book is for scholars, researchers, practitioners, and students who seek empirical, theoretical, and practical…

This book considers the persistence of the Nordic (Scandinavian) Model, especially on the Anglo-American left. The emphasis is on three areas: human (especially women’s) rights, environment, and cultural innovation. Three…

Jason Stanley presents a series of essays which develop a theory of how the situation in which we speak interacts with the words we use to help produce what we…

Once the major success story of a troubled continuent, Kenya came in the early 1990s to be regarded as its fallen star. This book challenges such images of reversal and…

A study of Eliot’s philosophical writings and assesses their impact on both his early poetry and his literary criticism. It sheds light on his views on language, tradition, impersonality and…

Lynch explores eighteenth-century British conceptions of the Renaissance, and the historical, intellectual, and cultural uses to which the past was put during the period. This interdisciplinary study will be of…