This book traces W.E.B. Du Bois’s fictionalization of history in his five major works of fiction and the short story The Souls of Black Folk through a thematic framework of cosmopolitanism. Thes
This collection explores the influence of girls’ series books on popular American culture and girls’ everyday experiences. It explores the cultural work that the series genre performs, con
The Pursuit of the Chinese Dream in America examines the hopes, expectations, challenges, and aspirations of the current generation of Chinese students as they pursue higher education at American univ
This book examines Latina/o college student leadership and leadership development in higher education. Lozano analyzes emerging frameworks, empirical research, leadership models, essays, and promising
This book takes a cross-national and comparative approach, beyond American models, to examine how members of a single ethnic group adapt differently to distinct host societies. In her study of Korean
This book explores the Chinese language used in law and analyzes the associated linguistic matters in both monolingual Chinese context and cross-linguistically. It investigates the linguistic and cult
This book is aimed at both philosophers and scholars of American literature who wish to reexamine the philosophical depth of Melville’s writings. Contributions deal with various philosophical as
This study provides an interdisciplinary examination of media portrayals of ethnic and religious minorities in Germany. Using years of combined quantitative and qualitative research, the author compar
This volume examines the significance of the Chinese Buddhist canon in modern East Asian Buddhism. Exploring how the Chinese Buddhist canon has evolved and how it is currently utilized, each chapter o
This book provides a comprehensive overview of the concept of takfir in Islamic thought. It discusses the concept in the doctrines of the major theological schools and in the thought of prominent medi
The way American communities address the issue of low literacy has changed with the development of literacy coalitions. The authors examine in detail how this happened and explore potential emerging b
This volume surveys the contribution of German literature and culture to the evolution of ecological thought from the age of Goethe to the present. In a broad spectrum of essays from different periods
This book outlines the scale and scope of ableist bias, as it manifests both institutionally and intergenerationally. Ranging across disability studies, continental philosophy, and bioethics, the phil
Despite support from Western states and international organizations, many postcolonial African states are far from being stable. This book uses a multidisciplinary approach with a theoretical ground f
The book examines the interpretations, functions and interactions of the Fall — physical, moral, artistic and otherwise — as represented through animals, or through human–animal interactions, in vario
Don DeLillo after the Millennium: Currents and Currencies examines all the author’s work published in the twenty-first century from a wide variety of critical perspectives to provide an in depth
This volume presents case studies in the shifting representations of yogic themes and figures in worldwide popular culture from the middle of the nineteenth century to contemporary times. The authors
This collection examines the spread and popularity of South Korean popular culture and its global effects over the last twenty years. The contributors analyze the theoretical and institutional history
This book analyzes white early literacy teachers’ experiences in low-income school communities. Through in-depth interviews that excavate the teachers’ sense of identity and their life exp
Money, Interest, and the Structure of Production argues that what modern economic theory lacks is a solid capital theory. This book attempts to fill the gap in the theory of production structure by of
This book focuses on one of the greatest saint/avataras of all time: Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu. This charismatic religious leader popularized song and dance as a yogic science and conveyed teachings as
Kalman J. Kaplan and Paul Cantz offer a biblically-based approach to suicide prevention, designed to overcome suicidogenic patterns in fourteen patients fitting into seven Graeco-Roman suicidal syndro
As the first scholarly anthology of its kind, Settled Views: The Shorter Writings of Catherine Booth provides fresh insight into the life and thought of the Salvation Army’s cofounder. Above all
Whether on the big screen or small, films featuring the American Civil War have provided the setting, ideologies, and character archetypes for cinematic narratives of morality, race, gender, and natio
This book examines the current development of high tech industrial hemp applications by investigating rich historical precedent. In antiquity, hemp production influenced economic growth and cultural n
This book is the first to offer explicitly feminist views on the shared histories of the advertising industry and women’s movement. Contributors consider the ways advertisers encode race, ethnic
This study provides a cultural history of cemeteries and their changing role from the 1830s through the early twentieth century. The author examines how cemeteries became places for leisure, communing
This book explores the new administrative implications of local governments as they are interconnected with other governments and nongovernmental organizations in governance systems. The focus is on l
This book examines the journeys of 114 veterans as they seek to make sense of their military experiences and their new post service pacifist and/or antiwar identity. Focusing on the identity change pr
The book offers a close examination of the rhetoric and discourses around the Bhopal disaster through a reading of numerous cultural texts—from fiction to protest effigies and posters – an
Clementine K. Fujimura and Simone Nommensen discuss the ethical treatment of animals and provide an overview of current and past uses of animals to enhance human well-being in Germany, the United Stat
This book provides a detailed analysis of recent agricultural development in selected countries of Latin America, Africa, and Asia within the context of globalization. It reveals the different and oft
This interdisciplinary collection explores Victorian literature and its connection to various fields such as environmental history, ecology, and evolutionary biology. Further, the edition features sem
This book uniquely presents the evolution of EU–New Zealand relations as presented in high-level speeches by both EU and New Zealand political leaders since the start of the millennium. It exami
This book addresses contemporary urban life through ethnographic examinations of mundane experience. International in scope, authors explore the city as image, movement, history, and relationship.
Through an analysis of the environments of Rousseau and Marx, this book explores the tradition of political thought as highly regulated stream of information shaped by historical writing systems and c
This book focuses on Greek–Turkish relations with an emphasis on their recent past. Different aspects of their bilateral relations are analyzed in order to understand the present climate and pro
This book brings together humanitarianism, arms control, and disarmament in the field of global governance and focuses on the International Committee of the Red Cross as a leading humanitarian actor.
This book examines China’s bilateral relations with its established suppliers of crude petroleum and other petroleum products. It highlights the nature and depth of China’s involvement wit
This book examines the fiction, poetry, drama, and feminist theory of Nigerian writer Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo. The book expands post-colonial discourse to illuminate the ways in which Akachi Adimora-Ez
