This book outlines an analytical framework to understand power, influence, and statecraft in the Pacific Islands region. With contributions by scholars from the United States, Australia, China, New Zealand, and across the Pacific Islands region, it provides ‘both sides of the story’ of statecraft and explores how po...

Doing Feminist Urban Research introduces the reader to the newly emerging 21st-century global landscape of feminist urban research. It showcases decolonising practices, partnerships and teamwork, new standards such as EDI, geo-ethnographic methodologies, software-enhanced qualitative data analysis, and knowledge mob...

This book provides a holistic perspective on coastal dunes, highlighting new insights into present-day challenges to show that narratives, along with numbers, graphics, and computer models, have a role to play in climate change science, policymaking, and citizenship awareness. Adopting a cross-disciplinary approach,...

This book will mealy try to synthesize the findings of other writers more expert in this culture. Further this book looks at the pre-industrial Islamic cities with a focus on the eastern end of the Mediterranean. That being said we will look initially at the models of Islamic cities, look at the component parts in t...

This book investigates the relationship between the process of Europeanization – the expected rise of a common culture – and the role played by the media in the different regions. Drawing on a comparative model, the analysis is structured around frameworks related to the action of the media in shaping national ident...

This study offers a radically new perspective on Dutch Neorealism, one that emphasizes the role of film as an apparatus, the effects of which, when emulated in painting, can reproduce the affective experience of film-watching. More of a tendency than a tightly defined style or "ism," Neorealism is the Dutch variant ...

**“Kurlansky finds the world in a grain of salt.” - New York Times Book Review An unlikely world history from the bestselling author of Cod and The Basque History of the World** Best-selling author Mark Kurlansky turns his attention to a common household item with a long and intriguing history: salt. The only rock ...

From Appomattox to World War I, Black Americans continued their quest for a secure position in the American system. The problem was how to be both black and Americanーhow to find acceptance, or even toleration, in a society in which the boundaries of normative behavior, the values, and the very definition of what it...

This volume explores the life of Bjargey “Bíbí” Kristjánsdóttir (1927–1999), an Icelandic woman with intellectual disabilities, through analysis of her autobiography and personal archive on the basis of the research disciplines of critical disability studies and microhistory. Bíbí, who grew up in northern Iceland on...

The story of the westward expansion of this country does not stop with the hardships encountered by travelers on the Mormon Trail, the discomforts endured by early settlers in sod houses, the bravery of the Pony Express riders, the romantic solitude of the cowboys, or the sufferings of the Indians forced to abandon ...

A History of Rhetoric, Sound, and Health and Healing argues for medico-sonic knowledge ー systematically interpreted bodily sounds with medical knowledge mediated by rhetoric ー as an evolving corporeal practice with an incomparable, sprawling history. Taking a materialist-feminist perspective, the book rhetorically...

This book explores the close connections between populism and conspiracy theory. Populism and Conspiracy Theory contributes to filling the gap in the research in this area. The individual contributions in Part I provide in-depth analyses of specific configurations of populism and conspiracy theory. Part II includes ...

Discovered by chance in 1901, the Antikythera Mechanism has captivated scientists and historians with its intricate design and mysterious purpose. This ancient Greek device, often called the world's first computer, could predict celestial events and track the phases of the moon, showcasing the advanced knowledge of ...

This book examines ‘Southern Gothic’ - a term that describes some of the finest works of the American Imagination. But what do ‘Southern’ and ‘Gothic’ mean, and how are they related? Traditionally seen as drawing on the tragedy of slavery and loss, ‘Southern Gothic’ is now a richer, more complex subject. Thirty-five...

提起巫覡和巫術，一般人定然不會陌生，除了民間社會日常接觸到的童乩巫婆外，近年來《哈利波特》及《魔戒》的熱潮席捲全球，我們對這種文明世界裡的魔法師更是耳熟能詳。然而，男覡女巫，所指的究竟是那些人？巫術實際的內涵又是甚麼？古今中外的巫覡巫術是否都一樣？高度文明的社會裡又何以存在著這種跡近迷信的民俗？ 宋朝（960-1279年）常...

The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Sri Lanka offers a comprehensive survey of issues facing the island country and an overview delineating some key moments in the country’s contemporary polity, economy, and sociality. This book outlines aspects and influences foundational to understanding a country defined by it...