Illustrated by revealing interviews with women and men in the tourist resorts in the Sinai, Egypt, this book is ostensibly about western women who sleep with 'native' men while on holiday. Broadening
Utopias have long interested scholars of the intellectual and literary history of the early modern period. From the time of Thomas More's Utopia (1516), fictional utopias were indebted to contemporary
Aimed at social work students and practitioners this volume addresses the question of how social policy influences the practice of social work by focusing on the experience of Scotland since the devol
This is an ethnographic study of a neighborhood in the Southern Peruvian city of Arequipa primarily settled by rural migrants from the Andean highlands. The focus of the study is on processes of migra
This book explores the surprisingly disruptive role of religion for progressive and conservative ideologies in the tumultuous decade of the 1960s. Conservative movements were far more progressive than
While decisions for working overseas are often based on expectations and promises of better jobs, opportunities, economic gains and, eventually, a better future, such assumptions may not always be rea
Scholars of English literature, and Shakespeare in particular, look at links between his work and the England that has tended to be neglected since the turn towards British history and the recognition
Popular culture has recognized urban gay men's use of the Web over the last ten years, with gay Internet dating and Net-cruising featuring as narrative devices in hit television shows. Yet to date, th
In order to explore the formation of the literary canons in early modern France and England, Melehy (Romance languages, U. of North Carolina-Chapel Hill) looks at four authors whose work displays a co
Jowitt (literature, Nottingham Trent University) notes in her introduction to this study of English Renaissance piracy that, from Blackbeard to Captain Jack Sparrow, the perceived image of the pirate
Many developing countries pursue policies of rapid industrialization in order to achieve faster economic growth. Some policies cause displacement forcing many individuals to take up a fight against th
Frank (English, University of New England) takes the topic of the 1837 change in the testamentary laws in Britain as a springboard for her review of wills in Victorian and Edwardian fact and fiction.
Walsingham was medieval England's most important shrine to the Virgin Mary and a popular pilgrimage site. Following its modern revival it is also well known today. For nearly a thousand years, it has
Houngnikpo (National Defense U., US) has always been leery about military commitment to democratization in Africa, and recent reversals through military coups only reinforce his view that the subordin
In the last 50 years the guitar has gone from novelty to massive global popularity. Guitars are found and played everywhere, in a plethora of genres and cultures, for a multitude of cultural and polit
Providing a unique perspective on a fascinating aspect of early modern culture, this volume focuses on the role of food and diet as represented in the works of a range of European authors, including S
This book explores the emergence and growth of state responsibility for safer and healthier working practices in British mining and the responses of labour and industry to expanding regulation and con
Judicial equity developed in England during the medieval period, providing an alternative access to justice for cases that the rigid structures of the common law could not accommodate. Where the commo
The term 'record collecting' is shorthand for a variety of related practices. Foremost is the collection of sound recordings in various formats - although often with a marked preference for vinyl - by
Kuhn (musicology University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee) has composed a biographical study of the Quartets of Shostakovich using the philosophical theories of Shostakovich's contemporary Mikail Bakhtin. S
Statisticians know that results formulated by statistics depend totally on the variables put in. Gandy (communications, University of Pennsylvania, emeritus) is concerned by the trend to make decision
Outstanding and thought-provoking, this book provides up-to-date and in-depth analyses of current developments in international politics. It highlights the (unilateral) use of force in international r
In 1621, in one of the earliest campaigns of the Thirty Years' War, the South German principality of the Upper Palatinate was invaded and annexed by Maximilian of Bavaria, director of the Catholic Lea
This innovative study presents an in-depth political and sociological analysis of the internal power politics and imperial forms developed by the Russian neo-eurasianists and the neo-conservatives in
Shedding light on an important and neglected topic in childhood studies, Anja MA?ller interrogates how different concepts of childhood proliferated and were construed in several important eighteenth-c
Hunter (emeritus, information management, Liverpool John Moores U.) introduces faceted and hierarchical classification schemes, and explores the relationship between classification and alphabetical au
It's not just "frauds, hoaxes, and counterfeits," according to the author in his introduction, but also "falseness, the false, artifice, ruse, simulacrum, jokes, practical jokes, spoofs, deceptions, s
This intriguing study blends fictional representations of female murderers with transcripts, biographies and broadsides about real women convicted of murder. Saxton (English, Mills College, Oakland, C
Kitch (English, Bowdoin College) looks at the response of literature to changes in the ways that trade and the state were viewed in England from 1580 and 1630. Blending alterations in attitude toward
Technology is our conduit of power. In our modern world, technology is the gatekeeper deciding who shall have and who shall have not. Either technology works for you or you work for technology. It sha
This book is the first systematic attempt to describe a coherent and comprehensive Anglican understanding of Church. Rather than focusing on one school of thought, Dr Locke unites under one ecclesiolo
Multi-Sited Ethnography has established itself as a fully-fledged research method among anthropologists and sociologists in recent years. It responds to the challenge of combining multi-sited work wit
Weingarden (art history, Florida State U.), who has published extensively on Sullivan, has written a lengthy study that situates his architectural theory and practice in philosophical ideas of the tim
Todaya€?s biblical scholars and dogmaticians are giving a significant amount of attention to the topic of theological exegesis. A resource turned to for guidance and insight in this discussion is the
Complying with Colonialism presents a complex analysis of the habitual weak regard attributed to the colonial ties of Nordic Countries. It introduces the concept of a€?colonial complicitya€? to explai
"With a discussion of this everyday practice constituting both leisure and learning in this digital age, The Multiplicities of Internet Addiction informs our understanding of the discourses surroundin
This book offers a state-of-the-art discussion of the political issues surrounding unemployment in Europe. Its unique combination offers both a policy and institutional perspective, whilst studying th
Drawing from research he did on the island in 1997 and 2002, Emoff (music and anthropology, Ohio State U.-Newark) examines the musical practices of the people on the small island of Marie-Galante, par
Although Kierkegaard's reception was initially more or less limited to Scandinavia, it has for a long time now been a highly international affair. As his writings were translated into different langua
