Translation and Empire

Reducere. • Blackwell's Book of the Year • British Book Award Fiction Book of the Year • Daily Mail Best Book of 2022 Oxford, 1836. The city of dreaming spir...

Chosen peoples demonstrates how biblical themes, ideas and metaphors shaped racial, national and imperial identities in the long nineteenth century...

An advanced resource for a rapidly evolving research field, aimed at students and academics of translation studies and related fields such as appli...

Ultimately, Natures in Translation demonstrates that-far from being separate from the dominant concerns of British imperial culture-nature was inte...

Translation is everywhere and matters to everybody. Translation doesn't only give us foreign news, dubbed films and instructions for using the micr...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Marek Adam WozniakA military history of ancient Persia from its founding to the the end of the Sasanid Empire translated fr...

Reducere. Knowledge Translation in Nursing and Healthcare provides authoritative guidance on the implementation of evidence-informed practice, covering issue...

Reducere. The first six books of David Hadbawnik's astonishing modern translation of the Aeneid appeared from Shearsman Books in 2015. He now brings the whol...

Reducere. On the Deaths of the Persecutors is a work of considerable historical import containing details about the Roman Empire of the early 4th century AD ...

A translation of a classic 11th-century Persian text on behaviour and conduct in government, written between 1086 and 1091 by Nizam al-Mulk, who fo...

Reducere. "Hardly War, " Don Mee Choi's major second collection, defies history, national identity, and militarism. Using artifacts from Choi's father, a pro...

Reducere. Epic of the Forgotten is a Bulgarian poetic saga written by Ivan Vazov to commemorate the Bulgarian fight for freedom against the Ottoman Empire an...

An essential primary source on Roman history and a fascinating achievement of scholarship covering a critical period in the Empire As private secre...

An introductory text in linguistic semantics, uniquely balancing empirical coverage and formalism with development of intuition and methodology.Thi...

..". a major addition to the literature on oral traditions." Journal of Religion in AfricaThis 750-year-old epic celebrates the exploits of the leg...

Woven from poems, prose, photographs, and drawings, Don Mee Choi's DMZ Colony is a tour de force of personal and political reckoning set over eight...

'The irresistible power of money, a lever that can lift the world. Love and money are the only things.'Aristide Rougon, known as Saccard, is a fail...

Reducere. This lively translation accurately captures the wit and uncensored bawdiness of the epigrams of Martial, who satirized Roman society, both high and...

One of the greatest poems of the classical world Virgil's Georgics is a glorious celebration of the eternal beauty of the natural world, now brough...

The Ecclesiastical History of the English People (731 AD) is Bede's most famous work. As well as providing the authoritative Colgrave translation o...

Reducere. A native of western Flanders, Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq served in several posts as diplomatic representative for the Habsburg ruler Ferdinand I (Ki...

This volume is the much larger companion to Roger Blockley's similarly-titled monograph, published in 1981 (ARCA 6). The earlier volume gave a comm...

This book, the second of the two volumes that make up Religions of Rome, presents a wide range of documents illustrating religious life in the Roma...

A new, definitive translation of the quintessential Korean classic: the Robin Hood story of a magical boy who joins a group of robber bandits and b...

Reducere. Stryj was first populated by Jews in the middle 16thcentury. The permit to build the first synagogue was given in 1689. Since the beginning of thei...

Reducere. Translated by Stanley F Conrad. Set around the dawn of Christianity with amazing historical accuracy Quo Vadis? won Sienkiewicz the Nobel Prize. Wr...

In Symposium, a group of Athenian aristocrats attend a party and talk about love, until the drunken Alcibiades bursts in and decides to discuss Soc...

Reducere. From the editor of the widely praised The Landmark Thucydides, a new Landmark Edition of The Histories by Herodotus. Cicero called Herodotus "the f...

Reducere. The Latin term ?enchiridion? connotes a small, essential handbook that sums up a particular matter or subject. So it was with the well-regarded enc...

Reducere. Kant was one of the inventors of anthropology, and his lectures on anthropology were the most popular and among the most frequently given of his le...

This text outlines for the first time a structured articulation of an emerging Islamic orientation to psychotherapy, a framework presented and know...

Volumes 1-3, now in a collectors hardcover edition, and with a brand new translation You journeyed with Jint and Lafier through three volumes of in...

Reducere. As a Latin lexicon, this volume pursues two main objectives: to create a broad corpus of Latin terms related to textiles, accessories and personal ...

This volume provides the first comprehensive English translation, with a substantial introduction and notes, of the writings of Caffaro of Genoa, a...

'Abbe Faujas has arrived ' The arrival of Abbe Faujas in the provincial town of Plassans has profound consequences for the community, and for the f...

Reducere. THE BOOK OF ST. CYPRIAN: THE SORCERER'S TREASURE is a translation of one of the most complete Portuguese grimoires attributed to St. Cyprian of Ant...

Reducere. THE BOOK OF ST. CYPRIAN: THE SORCERER'S TREASURE is a translation of one of the most complete Portuguese grimoires attributed to St. Cyprian of Ant...

Reducere. First published in 1924, this classic four-volume work contains various Greek and Latin writings of religious or philosophic teachings ascribed to ...

This introduction to, commentary on, and translation into English of the first book of letters by Quintus Aurelius Symmachus shows the leading orat...

The Caucasus has an extremely rich folk literature, almost unknown among English speakers, which includes myths, legends, magical tales, anecdotes,...

Reducere. A fascinating exchange of letters between Garabed and Haroutiun Kojaian in the United States with their family back in Efkere/Kayseri (Turkey) 1912...

This highly accessible translation of the classic story of Sundiata, a real king who ruled the empire of Mali just south of the Sahara desert from ...

Reducere. Arrian's Campaigns of Alexander, widely considered the most authoritative history of the brilliant leader's great conquests, is the latest addition...

Reducere. DescriptionFirst published in 1202, Fibonacci's Liber abaci was one of the most important books on mathematics in the Middle Ages, introducing Arab...

In a Yiddish take on Notes from Underground, a dark love affair develops in an unnamed Eastern European city between the young, impoverished, viole...

Reducere. First published in 1202, Fibonacci's Liber Abaci was one of the most important books on mathematics in the Middle Ages, introducing Arabic numerals...

From the award-winning translator of The Iliad and The Odyssey comes a brilliant new translation of Virgil's great epic Fleeing the ashes of Troy, ...

In The Histories Cornelius Tacitus, widely regarded as the greatest of all Roman historians, describes with cynical power the murderous year of the...

Sophronios, born in Damascus around 560, was a highly educated monk and prolific writer who spent much of his life traveling in the Eastern Roman E...

Reducere. Posthumously published to wide acclaim, The Lettered City is a vitally important work by one of Latin America's most highly respected theorists. An...

His last work, regarded by many as the greatest work of contemporary scholarship, Tacitus' The Annals of Imperial Rome recount with depth and insig...

Reducere. In 1296 AD, Chinese traveler Zhou Daguan visited Angkor-capital of Cambodia's powerful Khmer Empire-as a member of a diplomatic mission sent by Emp...

Serious theology is systematic theology. Or so the story goes. Practical theology--with its focus on the church, its life and its practices--has so...

Originally published in the Journal of the American Oriental Society, this English translation of The Life of Saint Simeon the Stylite is a fascina...

Reducere. Gitanjali (1912) is a collection of poems by Rabindranath Tagore. Translated into English by Tagore and published with a groundbreaking introductio...

Reducere. In the course of the fourth century, millions of bronze coins were struck in the Roman Empire: an area extending from modern Britain to Egypt. The ...

Therese Raquin is a clinically observed, sinister tale of adultery and murder among the lower classes in nineteenth-century Paris. Zola's dispassio...

Reducere. First published in 1924, this classic four-volume work contains various Greek and Latin writings of religious or philosophic teachings ascribed to ...

Reducere. Du Fu (712-770) is one of the undisputed geniuses of Chinese poetry--still universally admired and read thirteen centuries after his death. Now Dav...

Boys & Murderers is the first collection of novellas and stories in English translation from Hermann Ungar, author of the highly-acclaimed novel Th...

Reducere. The Gardener (1915) is a collection of poems by Rabindranath Tagore. Translated into English by Tagore and dedicated to Irish poet W. B. Yeats, The...

Reducere. Transmission of Alchemy is a new literal Arabic to English translation from two versions of an ancient source-work known as The Epistle of Morienus...

Reducere. Camões (ca.1524/25-1580) is the national poet of Portugal, with a status in the Lusophone world akin to that of Shakespeare, Dante, Cervantes and G...

Reducere. THREE GREAT ABBASID POETS Abu Nuwas, al-Mutanabbi & al-Ma'arri Lives & Poems Translation & Introduction Paul Smith The Abbasid Caliphate that ruled...