Reconfiguring Citizenship and National Identity in the North American Literary Imagination, Hardback - Kathy-Ann Tan

Literature has always played a central role in creating and disseminating culturally specific notions of citizenship, nationhood, and belonging. In...

Drawing on the intriguing interdisciplinary research on war commemoration, the book shows that war pervades the pages of the Bible because its auth...

DescriptionIn 1797 the bloodiest mutiny ever suffered by the Royal Navy took place on the British frigate HMS Hermione off the coast of Puerto Rico...

This book presents the remarkable constitutional reforms undertaken by the Blair and Brown governments in the UK. The reforms are remarkable in tha...

This book illuminates the history of popular dance, one of the most influential and widespread leisure practices in early twentieth-century Britain...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

This book is the first study of how the BBC, through radio, tried to represent what it meant to be British. The book combines an examination of the...

Mass Media, Consumerism and National Identity in Postwar Japan addresses Japan's evolving nationalism and national identity in relation to its newl...

Grace C. Huang reconsiders Chiang Kai-shek's leadership and legacy in an intriguing new portrait of this twentieth-century leader. Comparing his re...

Grace C. Huang reconsiders Chiang Kai-shek's leadership and legacy in an intriguing new portrait of this twentieth-century leader. Comparing his re...

Reducere. North American literary History I is an original attempt at redefining historicism and the way various contexts af literature may be re - interpret...

Stunning original photography from Mike Danneman, former art director of Trains magazine, celebrating the beauty and majesty of railways in the gre...

Reducere. From the late eighteenth century through the end of the Civil War, Choctaw and Chickasaw Indians bought, sold, and owned Africans and African Ameri...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Vassilis (University of Tartu, Estonia) PetsinisIllustration(s): 9 bw illusNumber of pages: 288Publi...

Wittlinger takes a fresh look at German national identity in the 21st century and shows that it has undergone considerable changes since unificatio...

Focuses on the slavery writings of three of Brazil's literary giants - Machado de Assis, Castro Alves, and Euclides da Cunha. Wood finds that all t...

Recording Kurdish voices from Istanbul and Diyarbak?r, Turkey's most important Kurdish-populated cities, this book documents Kurdish narratives of ...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Marco Benoit (University College London, UK) CarboneIllustration(s): 24 bw illusNumber of pages: 280...

The 2011 split of Sudan and the conflicts that have followed make it a case of ongoing significance for understanding state-building in Africa. Exa...

Argentine Cinema and National Identity covers the development of Argentine cinema since the late 1950s to the mid-1970s, concentrating on the histo...

This ground-breaking study provides an authoritative account of the career of this iconic star. It illuminates his early work, his role as James Bo...

A leading historian explores the myths that define Spain's view of its own past This book, the latest contribution by eminent historian Henry Kamen...

A powerful examination of ideas and images of home in Britain during a period of national decline and loss of imperial power. Its focus on the comp...

An examination of how two fundamental concepts of order influence our ideas about sovereignty, citizenship, law, and history

Following the transformations and conflicts of the first half of the twentieth century, Austria's emergence as an independent democracy heralded a ...

This book shines a light on Raymond Aron and his work on war and peace, ideological critique, the philosophy of history, international relations an...

The critically acclaimed author of Patriots offers profound insight into Vietnam's place in America's self-image How did the Vietnam War change the...

Reducere. More than forty years after the major victories of the civil rights movement, African Americans have a vexed relation to the civic myth of the Unit...

Reducere. A multi-disciplinary exploration of how masculinity in the MENA region is constructed in film, literature, and nationalist discourse Constructions ...

French Canadian workers who paddled canoes, transported goods, and staffed the interior posts of the northern North American fur trade became popul...

Publisher: MIT Press LtdAuthor(s): Ian McGonigleIllustration(s): 7 figuresNumber of pages: 216Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 152 x 309 x 16Cover...

Reducere. In this study of Christian Science and the culture in which it arose, Amy B. Voorhees emphasizes Mary Baker Eddy's foundational religious text, Sci...

This book shows how British Enlightenment writers and thinkers used science as a metaphor to reconfigure evidence and authority, to reimagine the s...