Receiving the komos. ancient and modern receptions of the victory ode (bics supplement 112)

Traslados/translations

Provides an investigation of some of the enduring preoccupations of one of the UK's foremost Latin Americanists. This title features essays that reflect a number of Jason Wilson's many research interests.

The ties that bind

The Ties That Bind presents a fascinating study of a dozen cross-class family papers from Tebtunis, an ancient village formerly located in lower Egypt. Dating to the second century AD, this unique documentation provides a rare opportunity to explore how local elites under Roman rule exploited the...

Communicating observations in early modern letters (1500-1675): epistolography and epistemology in the age of the scientific revolution

Names on terra sigillata. volume 6. masclus i-balbus to oxittus (bics supplement 102.6)

Magic and the classical tradition

Classics in practice. studies in the history of scholarship (bics supplement 128)

The 1922 general election reconsidered

Making use of newly available archival collections and digitised resources, this book captures the high and low politics of the pivotal 1922 General Election to show how it marked the birth of the modern British general election as we know it today.

Quebec and the heritage of franco-america

This book marks the 400th anniversary of the founding of Quebec. It consists of six essays by a team of contributors drawn from Quebec, the United States, France, and the United Kingdom.

Memory, migration and (de)colonisation in the caribbean and beyond

Memory, Migration and (De)Colonisation furthers our understanding of Caribbean migrations and migrants in relation to the histories and cultures of countries of the Northern Atlantic. It focuses on the relationship between Caribbean migrants and processes of decolonisation. At the heart of this b...

The victoria history of hampshire: steventon

Steventon, a chalkland village near Basingstoke, is best known because Jane Austen, the famous novelist and daughter of the local rector, spent the first 25 years of her life here. Unlike Chawton and Bath, no house or museum commemorates the author’s memory in Steventon but this new history expla...

Names on terra sigillata. volume 4. f to klumi (bics supplement 102.4)

Books, readers and libraries in fiction

This volume explores the depiction of books, libraries and reading in fiction from the medieval period to the present. Its varied case studies address common themes such as gender, genre and the relation between reading and writing itself and examine what fictional representations of reading tell...

The political power of the word

A collection of seven essays on the development of the press and the significance of political oratory in nineteenth-century Latin America. The authors discuss developments in Mexico, Guatemala, Colombia, Venezuela, Peru, Chile and Agentina, while paying attention to influences and comparisons wi...

Three lectures on leonardo

Aby Warburg delivered his Lectures on Leonardo in 1899 to introduce himself as a young art historian and private scholar to the wider public. These texts are now published for the first time, fully illustrated and translated into English. The lectures give an insight into Warburg as a public spea...

Regional integration in latin america and the caribbean

This collection studies regional integration in Latin America and the Caribbean from four perspectives: economic, political, institutional, and in relation to the rest of the world.

The victoria history of herefordshire: eastnor

Eastnor is the first parish history to be produced by the Trust for the Victoria County History of Herefordshire, and complements some of the work on Ledbury undertaken for the Heritage Lottery-funded England’s Past for Everyone project between 2005 and 2009. In its expanded treatment of the pari...

Possible worlds: jorge luis borges's (pseudo-) translations of virginia woolf and franz kafka

'In this well-conceived study, Rebecca Maria Dewald delves into the hierarchy between the perception of original texts and that of translations, and explores why this hierarchy is so often upheld, as well as possible alternatives to this limiting hierarchy. In her well-researched work, Dewald foc...

'she said she was in the family way': pregnancy and infancy in modern ireland

'She said she was in the family way' examines the subject of pregnancy and infancy in Ireland from the seventeenth to the twentieth century. It draws on exciting and innovative research by early-career and established academics, and consider topics that have been largely ignored by historians in ...

European socialists across borders

From post-war debates on institutionalised cooperation in Western Europe to the ambitions of the European Union in the post-Cold War era, this volume investigates the impact of transnational socialist networks on European construction and integration, as well as the role of European socialism in ...

Terrorism, italian style: representations of political violence in contemporary italian cinema

The legacy of Italy's experience of political violence and terrorism in the anni di piombo ('years of lead', c. 1969-83) continues to exercise the Italian imagination to an extraordinary degree. Cinema has played a particularly prominent role in articulating the ongoing impact of the anni di piom...

Coal country

This is the first book-length account of deindustrialization in the Scottish coalfields. The flooding and subsequent closure of Scotland’s last deep coal mine in 2002 brought a centuries long saga to an end. Colliery closures and job losses were not just experienced in economic terms: they had pr...

Creating ethnicities & identities in the roman world

The expansion of Rome entailed encounters with a wide range of peoples, many of which had well-established pre-conquest ethnic identities which can be compared with Roman perceptions of them. In other cases, people have been perceived almost entirely through a Roman lens. The formation of such id...

The social and political life of latin american infrastructures

This cross-disciplinary book makes a novel contribution to global infrastructure debates and provides important new insights into Latin America’s history and politics. It captures the characteristics, limits and vibrancy of Latin America’s infrastructures, exploring irrigation networks in Peru to...

Talking history

A fascinating overview of the history and practice of seminars held at the Institute of Historical Research (IHR) at the University of London over the twentieth and early twenty-first century. This original book delivers fresh insight into the evolution of historical research and its role in wide...

Voice, silence and gender in south africa's anti-apartheid struggle

Tracing the political life of Masabatha Loate, a young black woman activist who testified at the trial of the ‘Soweto Eleven’ in 1978, this book examines the history of South Africa’s liberation struggle through the lens of voice, speech and silence, and what this reveals about the gendered dynam...

Gender in medieval places, spaces and thresholds

This book addresses the concept of gender in the Middle Ages through the study of place and space, exploring how gender and space may be mutually constructive and how individuals and communities make and are made by the places and spaces they inhabit. Interrogating the thresholds between sacred a...

Reading inscriptions and writing ancient history: historical scholarship in the late renaissance (bics supplement 86)

Cultures of anti-racism in latin america and the caribbean

This volume asks whether cultural works from the Latin American and Caribbean context showing how racism can co-exist with racial mixture and conviviality have a particular role to play within discourses and practices of anti-racism. It also places Latin American and Caribbean racial formations w...

Electra, ancient and modern: aspects of the reception of the tragic heroine (bics supplement 113)

Designed for play: children’s playgrounds and the politics of urban space, 1840–2010

An original and accessible history of the modern playground in Britain and beyond. Charting its journey from marginal obscurity to popular ubiquity, this title demonstrates how a diverse set of actors across the philanthropic, voluntary, state and commercial sectors all sought to reimagine and re...

Studies in the formation of the nation-state in latin america

Adopts a variety of disciplinary, thematic and country-based approaches to the complex and contested issues around the character of the nation-state in Latin America. The text seeks to develop debate on the topic through: case studies; historiographical review; and early notions of development.

Provincialising nature: multidisciplinary approaches to the politics of the environment in latin america

This book offers a timely analysis of some of the crucial challenges, contradictions and promises within current environmental discourses and practices within Latin America. Two interconnected analytical frameworks guide the discussions in the book: the relationship between nature, knowledge and ...

The victoria history of essex: newport

The parish of Newport lies in the valley of the river Cam in north-west Essex about three and a half miles south-west of the market town of Saffron Walden, and a short distance from the Hertfordshire and Cambridgeshire borders. It probably originated in the early 10th century as a royal foundatio...

Recasting commodity and spectacle in the indigenous americas

Features color illustrations throughout, examines the ways in which contemporary indigenous peoples in different parts of the Americas have harnessed performance practices to resist imposed stereotypes and shape their own complex identities.

Seeing red: new economic and social perspectives on gallo-roman terra sigilata (bics supplement 102)

Ancient history and the antiquarian

Vernacular aristotelianism in italy from the fourteenth to the seventeenth century

This volume is based on an international colloquium held at the Warburg Institute, London, on 21–2 June 2013, and entitled ‘Philosophy and Knowledge in the Renaissance: Interpreting Aristotle in the Vernacular’. It situates and explores vernacular Aristotelianism in a broad chronological context,...

Reading, gender and identity in seventeenth-century england

Offering a more complete picture of women’s reading experiences in seventeenth-century England, this book examines attitudes to women’s reading both within early modern gender discourse and from women readers themselves. It draws on diaries, letters, annotated books and other archival sources to ...

The concept of the book: the production, progression and dissemination of information

If we push the definition of a ‘book’ beyond the traditional form of the codex to encompass cuneiform tablets, papyri, as well as the printed and digital book- just what is the essence of its purpose? The volume analyses the role of the book as a tool of communication. It covers an impressive tim...

The terms of our surrender

Canada is seen as a liberal democracy and staunch upholder of human rights across the world. Yet the domestic scene is different when it comes to indigenous peoples. Based on extensive fieldwork and oral history, The Terms of Our Surrender is a powerful critical appraisal of unceded indigenous la...

The optics of ibn al-haytham books iv–v

The Optics by Ibn al-Haytham, perhaps the greatest mathematician and physicist of the medieval Arabic/Islamic world, set the scene for the entire development of the science of optics both within the Islamicate realm and subsequently in the Western world. This new English translation of Books IV–V...

Masculinity and danger on the eighteenth-century grand tour

The Grand Tour was a journey to continental Europe undertaken by British nobility and wealthy landed gentry during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. As a rite of passage, the Tour also played an important role in the formation of contemporary notions of elite masculinity. Examining letter...

Menander 'perikeiromene' or 'the shorn head'

Menander’s Perikeiromene, or the ‘Woman with shorn head’ tells the story of the soldier Polemon, who returns home from service to discover, as he thinks, that his girl, Glykera, has found another lover. Blindly jealous, he shears off her hair and goes off to drown his sorrows with companions. But...

Electronic signatures in law

This fourth edition of the well-established practitioner text sets out what constitutes an electronic signature, the form an electronic signature can take, and discusses the issues relating to evidence – illustrated by analysis of relevant case law and legislation from a wide range of common law ...