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Peter Hitchcock
Peter Hitchcock was writing this book at the time of his death in 2019. It is his story of a lifetime of connection with Australia's tall eucalypt forests and rainforests…
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Can transnationalism be separated from capitalist globalization? Can an artist create cultural space and rethink the nation state simultaneously? This title explores such questions to invigorate the analysis of cultural…
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The Long Space examines how time and space have a crucial impact on the form of the postcolonial novel.
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This book is a cultural critique of labor and globalization that considers whether one can represent the other.
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What keeps materialism moving? At a moment of crisis in materialism, in the wake of materialist practice once known as socialist revolution, this bold and innovative book presents oscillation as…
Offering original research on Mikhail Bakhtin by leading scholars, this special issue of South Atlantic Quarterly both celebrates the recent centennial of Bakhtin’s birth and elaborates significant new strains in…
Anonymous
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the…
Peter Ackroyd
So how did this fearful figure become the one of the most respected film directors of the twentieth century? As an adult, Hitch rigorously controlled the press’s portrait of himself…
Biopolitics is one of the most influential paradigms in the human sciences and humanities today. This volume offers new ways to think of biopolitics as an explanatory model. Its contributors…
What are the theoretical parameters that produce the category public intellectual? The essays in this collection provide a number of different ways to imagine the fate of public intellectuals and…
This collection of essays, by some of the most distinguished public intellectuals and cultural critics in America explores various dimensions of what it means to live in the age of…
Over the last twenty years more and more historians of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries have turned their eyes away from the records of central administration, towards local archives…
Causation is a central topic in many areas of philosophy, including metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of mind, ethics, history of philosophy, and philosophy of science. Thirty-seven specially written chapters by some…
In light of negotiations now going on between people who rely on wild plants and animals and the governments of their territories about civil, political, social, economic, and cultural rights…
The main focus of this volume is on the internal dynamics and political strategies of hunting and gathering societies in areas of self-determination and self-representation. More specifically, it examines areas…
Noir Affect defines noir in relationship to negative affect. It traces noir’s negativity as it manifests in different national contexts and a range of different media. The forms of affect…
This volume invokes the postcolonial contemporary in order to recognize and reflect upon the emphatically postcolonial character of the contemporary conjuncture, as well as to inquire into whether postcolonial criticism…
The late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Spanish literature discussed in this volume falls into two main categories: the work of the Galician novelist, short-story writer and critic, Emilia Pardo Bazan…
C. Leo Hitchcock,Arthur Cronquist
Flora of the Pacific Northwest, first published in 1973, became an instant classic for its innovative style of providing species descriptions in the identification keys and for its comprehensive illustrations…
