Since the early 1980s, China's rapid economic growth and social transformation have greatly altered the role of popular religion in the country. This book makes a new contribution to the research on t
"The Emergence of Leaon-Castile brings together the current research of colleagues, students and friends of Joseph F. O'Callaghan, a pioneer in the study of the kingdom of Leaon-Castile. The essays fo
"Air transport in the Asia Pacific has undergone significant transformation in the last three decades. What was once a region in the shadow of larger and more prosperous continents such as North Ameri
Opera in the first half of the eighteenth century saw the rise of the memorable composer and the memorable work. Recent research on this period has been especially fruitful, showing renewed interest i
Sanders' (English, U. of Hull, UK) sequel to her 2000 Records of Girlhood collection offers scholars a continuation of the earlier volume and a review of developments of critical interest in the genre
Writing Wales explores representations of Wales in English and Welsh literatures written across a broad sweep of history, from the union of Wales with England in 1536 to the beginnings of its industri
This volume describes and discusses recent advances in the study of traffic psychology, with a major focus on how the field contributes to the understanding of at-risk road-user behaviour. The intende
Academic autonomy has been a dominant issue among Latin American social studies, given that the production of knowledge in the region has been mostly suspected for its lack of originality and the repl
This volume brings together a set of key studies on the history of medieval Central Europe (Bohemia, Hungary, Poland), along with others specially commissioned for the book or translated, and a new in
Sir James Dewar was a major figure in British chemistry for around 40 years. He held the posts of Jacksonian Professor of Natural Philosophy at Cambridge (1875a€“1923) and Fullerian Professor of Chemi
A monograph that examines the depiction of reading women in French art of the early Third Republic. It evaluates the pictorial significance of this imagery, its critical reception, and its impact on n
St Anselm's archiepiscopal career, 1093-1109, spanned the reigns of two kings: William Rufus and the early years of Henry I. As the second archbishop of Canterbury after the Norman Conquest, Anselm st
St Anselm's archiepiscopal career, 1093-1109, spanned the reigns of two kings: William Rufus and the early years of Henry I. As the second archbishop of Canterbury after the Norman Conquest, Anselm st
The drama of Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-75) life and times has tended to overshadow the study of his music, says Rofe (music, U. College Falmouth, Britain), but people who know nothing
Originally published between 1981 and 2003, the thirteen essays collected here cover topics in medieval rhetoric from its origins in late antiquity through the end of the Middle Ages. Most of the essa
The prolific scholar-artist Chen Hongshou (d.1652) had the uneasy fate of living in interesting times, when change in ancient traditions and norms were brought about rapidly due to foreign rule, popul
This third collection of articles by John Dillon covers the period 1996-2006, the decade since the appearance of The Great Tradition. Once again, the subjects covered range from Plato himself and the
Overdue, this study focuses on the prolific, best-selling author Catherine Cookson (1905-1998), who published 100-plus novels set in England's industrial North East and was widely read in the late 20t
This book offers a critical re-thinking of the way in which traditional market logic a€“ derived from mainstream economics and managerial marketing a€“ has for decades commonly been applied in the the
Elizabeth Gaskell might have been amused to learn that the Victorian 'elegant economy' she mocked so poignantly in Cranford reached a new apogee in the mid-twentieth century and endured the invasion o
Szczepanski (ethnomusicology, Ohio State U.) draws on her field research in northern China in 2005 and 2006 to analyze the music at a Buddhist monastery. She covers the music of Manjusri's Mountain, m
The symposium that gave birth to the 12 papers was held in June 2009 at the University of Western Australia. Some historians of Australia, but mostly Australian scholars of European history and litera
Until recently the impact of the Lutheran Reformation has been largely regarded in political and socio-economic terms, yet for most people it was not the abstract theological debates that had the grea
Watkins (musicology, Catholic U. of America) describes the uses of sacred music to promote an image of the emperor in this superb study of the active art patron and historically much neglected Ferdina
Halpern (emeritus, Florida State U.) assembles published and unpublished documents to tell the story of the British Navy in the Mediterranean Sea during the decade after World War I, a period he says
Brown (Syracuse U.) explains that this book started first as an exhibition that traveled to many schools of architecture in the US and Australia as a means of raising awareness about "...ways feminist
When considering the successful design of cities, the focus tends to be on famous examples such as Paris or Rome, with equally successful but smaller and more remote examples being ignored. In additio
This book provides concrete examples of the ways in which shifting academic debates, policy and political approaches have impacted on a specific place over the past 30 years. It offers a critical anal
Walonen (Bethune-Cookman U., US) analyzes the dynamics of imagined alterity of socially produced space in the works of the expatriate authors who lived in Tangier and wrote about the Maghreb during 19
A universal part of Christian expression, the Psalms were a source of new music composition and performance in early modern Europe, as discussed in the 13 essays of this impressive collection. The edi
Critical spirituality is a way of naming a desire to work with what is meaningful in the context of enabling a socially just, diverse and inclusive society. Critical spirituality means seeing people h
This work explores the social foundation of evidence law in a specific historical social and cultural context - the debate concerning the proof of the crime of witchcraft in early modern England. In t
This is the fourth set of studies in the Variorum series by David King, a leading authority on the history of astronomy in Islamic civilization and on medieval astronomical instruments, European as we
Anne-Marie Quigg, an arts-management consultant in the UK, addresses what she finds to be a deficit of research into workplace-bullying in the arts. She suggests that stereotypes about performers and
This is a study of the role of disguise devices in early modern English drama that focuses on the theatrical or material performance of spectacle of disguise, which Hyland (early modern literature and
For graduate students who, like she once did, are embarking on research into Chaucer and are overwhelmed by the amount of scholarship on him, Cawsey (Dalhousie U., Canada) provides a means of sorting
This interesting volume on complex systems examines the way in which inherent and mission-necessary facets of a managed system may include the seeds of their own eventual failure. The work discusses a
Rosemarie Morgan is an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at St Andrews University, UK. She Is President of The Thomas Hardy Association, Vice President of the Thomas Hardy Society, and Editor of the bi
The 300th anniversary of Henry Purcell's death in 1995 stimulated a good deal of new research into his music, its sources, performance, reception and cultural context. The 23 articles in this volume h
Jayne (U. of Manchester, UK) et al. present this first ever study on the geographical perspectives on alcohol use and drunkenness. The authors report on studies conducted in the UK which consider geog
