This book studies how the complex relationship between music, the avant-garde, and counterculture challenges all sorts of boundaries. By exploring the avant-garde as a thoughtful inquiry into experimentation, creativity, and originality, we bring to the fore the "invisible republics" of culture, the ephemeral, the s...

This open access book offers a new approach to understandings of welfare in modern Britain. Foregrounding the agency individuals and groups claimed through experiential expertise, it traces deep connections between personal experience, welfare, and activism across diverse settings in modern Britain. The experiential...

This edited collection examines the historical role of business actors in climate and environmental governance since the 1970s. Through a compilation of recent, evidence-based historical research, this book unveils the origins of contemporary challenges in regulating environmental pollution. With original case studi...

Translation und Subversion: Wie hängt beides zusammen? Das ist die Leitfrage dieses Sammelbands, der methodische Orientierungen und historische Studien zur Frühen Neuzeit in unterschiedlichen geographischen Settings und interlingualen Konstellationen vom 16. bis zum 18. Jahrhundert bietet. Translationswissenschaft, ...

General Dan McCoy was born in 1841, at the time of the Civil War started he rushed at the chance to enlist. This book will cover his rise through the ranks, stories of battle, combat, and his personal life.

This open access book argues that Japan-ROK security relations were formed in the process of adjusting the threat perception gap and policy conflict between the two countries. Conventional analyses using a “cooperation or conflict” dichotomy are too limited to capture the complex coordination of interests that secur...

Seventy years ago, more than six thousand Allied ships carried more than a million soldiers across the English Channel to a fifty-mile-wide strip of the Normandy coast in German-occupied France. It was the greatest sea-borne assault in human history. The code names given to the beaches where the ships landed the sol...

A historiografia brasileira, de forma geral, tem negligenciado a real abrangência das documentações propostas e analisadas por Afonso de Taunay. Neste livro, Karina Anhezini preenche essa significativa lacuna: recupera aquela documentação, localiza e critica os usos dados das informações e nos oferece uma obra abran...

Source de multiples passions, de conflits géopolitiques et d'enjeux économiques... Voici l'histoire méconnue de la route la plus importante du monde. Aujourd'hui, le canal de Suez est indispensable. Il suffit de s'intéresser aux conséquences de l'échouage du porte-conteneurs qui en a bloqué la navigation en mars 202...

The People We Watch explores the politics of contemporary media production from the point of view of the ordinary people it represents. Based upon a series of in-depth interviews and the author’s own professional experience of working in the television industry, this book examines how documentary contributors feel a...

Wallis, McNeill, Batley, Powles and the contributors examine the dynamics of Pacific Islands’ security cooperation, analysing how it helps address regional security challenges amid the broader strategic competition between China and the United States that is increasingly playing out in the region. Pacific Island cou...

À l’heure où il est fréquent d’entendre que la démocratie est en crise, il est essentiel de revenir en profondeur sur ce qui fut son événement fondateur. Souvent présentée comme un bloc, en quelque sorte « une et indivisible », la Révolution est en réalité plurielle. Est-ce de cette pluralité qu’elle a tiré sa force...

明代的女人們： 永樂朝徐皇后通曉中國傳統文學，協助丈夫宣揚綱常名教，倡導中國保守思想和傳統道徳觀念。以她名義發表的內府刊本有《古今列女傳》、《內訓》，以及《勸善書》，是位才徳兼備的後宮女主人。她死後，永樂在傷痛之餘，誓言不再立后。 黃娥是明代最有才華的女詩人，從小就開始讀古典文學、寫作文章。婚後十年，獨自回四川新都料...

Sigmund Freud was a catalyst who signaled a seat change in how humanity came to understand the world and how it relates to the human mind. And if you have ever had a "Freudian slip," you know full well that the concepts and theories of Mr. Freud are well ensconced in the modern lexicon. But as much as many of us are...

台灣文學的寫實傳統與情感韻味，以漫畫圖像全新改編 阮光民「台灣經典短篇小說圖像系列」首部曲 〈一桿秤仔〉名作改編，感動鉅獻！ 「當公義開始傾斜，幸福該如何度量？」 擅長刻劃常民生活、經營情感細節，筆觸極富人文關懷與本土風情的漫畫家阮光民，以細膩的圖像敘事、情節與時代感，重新詮釋日本時代「台灣新文學之父」頼和的短篇小說名...

台灣歷史書寫名家、知識的傳承者陳柔縉做為 政治記者與政治評論專欄作家的代表之作 ※經典紀念版※ 了解戰後五十年來，蔣氏父子統治與黨國體制一個重要的切角。 「時代相」令人著迷。我們總是身在其中，又被置在外。──陳柔縉 　　陳柔縉自二○○三年開始轉向，不再寫政治評論的專欄，她滿懷興致與好奇，投入了解日本時代，並持續發表《台灣西方文...