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Sarah Derbew brings into brilliant new focus varied portrayals of blackness in ancient Greek literature and art, while critiquing modern classical mis

Sarah Derbew brings into brilliant new focus varied portrayals of blackness in ancient Greek literature and art, while critiquing modern classical mis

Illustrates the practice of 'intersectional advocacy' by showing how organizations addressing gender-based violence are transforming the US policy sys

Illustrates the practice of 'intersectional advocacy' by showing how organizations addressing gender-based violence are transforming the US policy sys

The book shifts our focus to the studies of nationalism by examining the relationship between orality and nationalism. It expands our understanding of

Humanitarian Invasion is the first book of its kind: a ground-level inside account of what development and humanitarianism meant for Afghanistan, a co

China's Crisis of Success re-examines China's rise to superpower status, showing that, despite social and administrative strengths often unacknowledge

The author looks at the economic and political motivations behind Brazil's industrialization policy and their prohibition of car imports in the 1950s.

Offers the first systematic study of Roman vehicles in Latin literary texts. Examining key modes of transport including carts, carriages, chariots, an

The first political theory of post-Communism examines its implications for understanding liberty, rights, transitional justice, property rights, priva

Tambiah discusses the life of Edmund Leach (1910-1989), one of Britain's foremost social and cultural anthropologists. Leach's work includes kinship a

The development of European welfare states in the first half of this century has often been seen as a response to the rise of class politics. This stu

This book demonstrates that the ratification of treaties generally leads to better human rights practices. It argues that international human rights l

As capitalism defeated socialism in Eastern Europe, the market displaced the state in the developing world. Beyond the Miracle of the Market, first p

Through close readings of major poems, this book examines why the second-generation Romantic poets - Byron, Shelley, and Keats - stage so much of thei

In the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, new ways of storytelling and inventing fictions appeared in the French-speaking areas of Europe. This new art

Through close readings of major poems, this book examines why the second-generation Romantic poets - Byron, Shelley, and Keats - stage so much of thei

Focusing on South Africa from 1650-2000, this book examines the role of law in making democracy work in changing societies. Meierhenrich argues that l

When Schubert's contemporary reviewers first heard his modulations, they famously claimed that they were excessive, odd and unplanned. This book argue

Laura Nasrallah argues that early Christian literature addressed to Greeks and Romans is best understood when read in tandem with the archaeological r