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Cultural domination has received attention inside and outside of academia, but it remains under-explored in recent philosophical debate. To fill this gap, this book brings together ten original research contributions…
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Axel Sommerfelt has been an important influence on Norwegian and Scandinavian anthropology, but his contributions are almost unknown. This book brings together some of his critical writings, newly written articles…
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Thomas More
Includes the full text of More’s 1516 classic, Utopia , together with a wide range of background contextual materials.
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Offers a traveller’s account of a newly-discovered island (Utopia) where the inhabitants enjoy a social order based on natural reason and justice, and human fulfillment is open to all.
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Dominic Thomas
Challenging the identity politics that sets immigrants against the mainstream, this book explores how black expressive culture has reformulated as global culture in the multicultural and multinational spaces of France…
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This stimulating and insightful book reveals how increased control over immigration has changed cultural and social production in theater, literature, and even museum construction. Dominic Thomas’s analysis unravels the complex…
Examines the role of literature in building states and citizens.
The history of European nation-building and identity formation is inextricably connected with museums; this book examines the contemporary debate surrounding the museum and museum collections in postcolonial Europe. This book…
Dominic Thomas-James
This book considers the ability of small jurisdictions with financial centres to meet the expectations of the international community in addressing the threats posed to themselves and others by their…
This volume explores the concept and possibility of a black European community by analysing the ways in which contemporary Francophone African writers articulate and interrogate their complex relationships with European…
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Abdourahman A. Waberi
" Shaped by the author's own experiences in Rwanda and by the stories shared by survivors, Harvest of Skulls stands twenty years after the genocide as an indisputable resource for…
Emmanuel Dongala
Through these collisions and clashes, Dongala suggests a pathway to racial harmony, peaceful co-existence, and individual liberty through artistic creation.
Alain Mabanckou
Embracing the challenges faced by ethnic minority communities today, The Tears of the Black Man looks to the future, arguing that the history of Africa has yet to be written…
A Companion to Comparative Literature presents a collection of more than thirty original essays from established and emerging scholars, which explore the history, current state, and future of comparative literary…
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This edited collection explores the complex formation and performance of race from the eighteenth through the early twentieth centuries. It features contributions from many disciplines, including history, sociology, disability studies…
John Conteh-Morgan
Staging a new politics of performance in the African diaspora
Aime Cesaire
Annette Smith and Dominic Thomas’s new translations of Aime Cesaire’s Like a Misunderstood Salvation and Solar Throat Slashed expose to a new audience a pivotal figure in twentieth-century French literature…
Wilfried N'Sonde
But how will she react to that story? Will the telling start Clovis on a path to redemption or alienate him further from French society? Wilfried N'Sonde's brave novel confronts…
Awarded the Prix des Cinq Continents de la Francophonie and the Prix Senghor for the originality of his work, the author captures the sounds, rhythms and pleas of a young…
Rebecca Peabody,Stephen Nelson,Dominic Thomas
An exploration of how an official French visual culture normalized France’s colonial project and exposed citizens and subjects to racialized ideas of life in the empire.
Thomas Diefenbach
Challenges the image of managers as the selfless pursuer of an organization’s survival and development. This book explains that individual interests and careers of managers are only part of a…
Thomas Hoppner
This reprint of an LL.M thesis completed in year 2004 analyses the EC competition law rules on the duty to supply competitors, and in particular the impact of the modern…
Dominic F. Doyle
Explores and enriches the tradition of Christian humanism and will be of great interest to many readers, including secular intellectuals, students of modernity, and Christian theologians. In this remarkable book…
Sony Labou Tansi
Sony Labou Tansi’s fi rst novel now translated into English
This first English translation by Dominic Thomas includes a foreword by Congolese writer Alain Mabanckou that contextualizes the novel’s importance in literary history and the significance of Sony Labou Tansi…
Thomas Wartenberg
Examining the ways in which philosophers from Plato onwards have used the concept of power, this work develops a field theory of power that rejects many of the reigning assumptions…
Incorporates autobiographical accounts to emphasise the complexity and symbolic nature of the ‘velvet underground’ of human sexuality. This work explores a variety of sub-worlds and identities: the professional dominatrix; prostitution…
Thomas Austin Dyson
Thomas Austin Dyson's Lives of Some of the Sons of St. Dominic: First Series is a collection of biographies of several of the most revered and influential members of the…
This innovative volume reconsiders the cultural, economic, political, and social realities facing global French citizens today and includes contributions by Achille Mbembe, Benjamin Stora, Francoise Verges, Alec Hargreaves, Elsa Dorlin…
In Koli Jean Bofane
is a searing tale about ecological, political, and economic failure.
Baylis Thomas
The thesis of The Dark Side of Zionism, arising from new histories neglected by the media, is that both the early Zionists and the Israelis sought their security through military…
Dominic Banez
Back in print after nearly six decades!
In the metaphysical treatise translated here, we see an effort in the late sixteenth century to pit an esse metaphysics against an essence…
Joseph Gordon, Dominic Legge
Offes an introduction to three questions on love according to St. Thomas Aquinas (Summa Theologiae I-II, qq. 26-28). These three questions reflect on the nature of love, the causes of…
Franck Quoex, Dominic M. Langevin, Zachary J. Thomas
In this volume, Fr Franck Quoex responds to Joseph Ratzinger's call for a renewed appreciation of liturgical rite. A student of Pierre Gy, he brings to this study of Aquinas's…
Publisher: Sadlier Publication date: 1883 Subjects: Religion / Christianity / Catholic Religion / Institutions
Thomas W. Rowland
A unique, thought-provoking examination of the world’s most popular individual sport. Analyzing the latest research, studies, and player and performance trends, Tennisology explores the factors that affect training, competition, and…
John Dart,Ray Riegert
This text, a translation of a gospel lost for 1600 years, offers an alternative view of Jesus and his message, one left untouched by subsequent myth and interpretation. The image…
