Currency & exchange in ancient pompeii

The victoria history of hampshire: medieval basingstoke

Though Basingstoke is often seen as the product of the last decades of the 20th century, its beginnings go back to c.1000. By 1500 it was among the top 60 towns in England by wealth and taxpayers, and the centre of a major industrial area, whose manufactured cloths formed part of international pa...

The digital classicist 2013

This wide-ranging volume is a collection of papers that initially emanated from presentations at Digital Classicist seminars and conference panels and showcases exemplary applications of digital scholarship to the ancient world. It critically examines the many challenges and opportunities afforde...

Sifting the soil of greece. the early years of the british school at athens (1886–1919) (bics supplement 111)

The victoria history of essex: harwich, dovercourt and parkeston in the 19th century

This book explores the changing character of Harwich, Dovercourt and Parkeston over the course of the 19th century, including the borough’s economic, social and political history. Its coastal location dictated its prominent role as a port and naval base from the 14th century onwards, and it retai...

Contemporary challenges in securing human rights

This volume is published in celebration of the 20th anniversary of the MA in Understanding and Securing Human Rights offered at the School of Advanced Study, University of London. The chapters reflect on cutting-edge challenges in the field of human rights. Topics include refugee protection, wome...

Guilds, society and economy in london 1450-1800

This book is made up of a collection of papers from the 'Revisiting the livery companies of early modern London' conference held in April 2000 by the CMH, exploring the history of London livery companies from a variety of perspectives. Employing historical and interdisciplinary approaches, it exa...

Anti-communism in britain during the early cold war

A revisionist history of anti-communism in Britain during the early Cold War, this is the first book to examine how British Cold War anti-communism transpired and manifested. Drawing from a wealth of archival material, it argues that an overreaction to the communist threat occurred and explores, ...

Out of arcadia: classics and politics in germany in the age of burckhardt, nietzsche and wilamowitz (bics supplement 79)

Cinemas and cinema-going in the united kingdom

In the first half of the twentieth century, cinema-going was the most popular commercial leisure activity century. But with the transition to peacetime, leisure habits changed. During the 1950s increased affluence, the growth of television ownership and the diversification of leisure led to rapid...

Themes in plato, aristotle, and hellenistic philosophy

The present volume collects together papers based on the annual Keeling Memorial Lecture in ancient philosophy given at University College London, over 2011-18 (and one from 2004, previously unpublished). It contains contributions to theoretical as well as practical ancient philosophy, and in som...

Before grenfell

On 14 June 2017, flames engulfed Grenfell Tower, a residential block of flats in West London. Seventy-two people lost their lives and many hundreds more were traumatised as a national ‘cladding crisis’ unfolded. Before Grenfell traces the underlying causes of the fire through more than four decad...

Erôs and the polis: love in context

The articles in this volume share a historicizing approach to the conventions and expectations of erôs in the context of the polis. They pursue a variety of issues, including: the link between homosexual erôs and politics; sexual practices that fell outside societal norms; and the roles of sophro...

World crisis effects on social security in latin america and the caribbean

Assesses the effects of the world economic crisis on social security and welfare in the region. This book identifies the strengths and weakness of Latin American social security before the global crisis. It evaluates the event's actual and potential effects on pensions, health care, and social as...

A british book collector

Based on a major exhibition at Two Temple Place in London, A British Book Collector celebrates one of the finest collections of manuscripts and rare books in the north-west of England.

Rethinking past and present in cuba

This volume comprises of essays and research articles written in homage to the seminal influence and contribution made by the late Alistair Hennessy towards the development of Cuban studies. Following Hennessy’s own cross-disciplinary and open-minded approach to the study of the history of Cuba, ...

A critical encounter: bataille and blanchot

Vanishing acts on ancient greek amulets

The victoria history of leicestershire: lutterworth

From the controversial theological writer John Wyclif to the origins of the jet engine, the history of Lutterworth, a small market town in the south-west of the county, has been both rich and varied. This work charts the evolution and development of Lutterworth from small beginnings before the No...

Chile and the inter-american human rights system

The afterlife of apuleius

Apuleius’ literary and philosophical fortune has been considerable since antiquity, mostly through the reception of The Golden Ass. The aim of this collection is to highlight a few major aspects of this afterlife, from the High Middle Ages to early Romanticism, in the fields of literature, lingui...

Healthcare reform and poverty in latin america

This volume identifies key problems facing healthcare systems in Latin America and evaluates the reforms that have been implemented to date. It pays particular attention to problems of implementation and the impact that changes to health policy are having on poor and vulnerable groups.

Vicissitudes: histories and destinies of psychoanalysis

Academics, analysts and artists are gathered together in this illustrated volume, which celebrates the culmination of a two-year project at the Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies to discover and debate current issues in psychoanalysis in the arts and humanities across five language-field...

Britannia latina: latin in the culture of great britain from the middle ages to the twentieth century.

Word on the street

At the site of everyday social interaction, the street has always provided a source of inspiration for writers, artists and musicians. It has also become the focus for critical theorists such as Walter Benjamin and Michel de Certeau in their attempt to push the limits of textual analysis beyond l...

Classical arabic philosophy

America's americans: population issues in u.s. society and politics

Space in greek tragedy (bics supplement 131)

The victoria history of leicestershire: ibstock

Ibstock is a large village 15 miles north-west of Leicester and has a long history of trade, manufacture and agriculture that covers framework-knitting, coal mines, and brick making. It was also a hub of Nonconformity, taking in Anglican, Baptist, Primitive Methodist, Wesleyan Methodist and Wesle...

Caribbean literature after independence

Earl Lovelace was one of the greatest Trinidadian writers. Lovelace was an early enthusiast for Black Power and an indefatigable critic of the inequalities bequeathed by the post-Independence state. This book assesses Lovelace's fiction and also his role in Caribbean letters.

Thou shalt forget

Following a decade-long research project, this devastating book examines colonial state imperatives to sideline indigenous peoples and history from mainstream national narratives. Through the study of his community, the Essipiunnuat or, ‘People of the Brook Shells River’, the author hopes to comb...

International responses to mass atrocities in africa

In International Responses to Mass Atrocities in Africa, Kurt Mills develops a typology of responses to mass atrocities, investigates the limitations of these responses, and calls for such responses to be implemented in a more timely and thoughtful manner. Although all the typologies are intended...

Roman military diplomas: v. 4 (bics supplement 82)

Some other amazonians

The purpose of this book is to indicate the diversity of Amazonian societies and to try to contribute to the extension of the anthropology of Amazonia beyond its traditional limits.

Development prospects in cuba

The 1990s witnessed significant changes in the Cuban economy. Here, the authors deal with questions of immediate relevance to the Cuban economy and its recent past, with emphasis on the implications for long-term prospects for development.

The marriage of philology and scepticism: uncertainty and conjecture in early modern scholarship and thought

This volume addresses the question of uncertainty in early modern scholarship and thought. The eight papers confront an array of problems, texts, scholars and intellectual contexts, from introductory assessments of the nature of Greek scepticism, particularly in its relation to ancient grammar an...

In the age of al-farabi: arabic philosophy in the fourth/tenth century

Imagines italicae (3 vols) (bics supplement 110)

Codices boethiani: italy and the vatican city v. 3

Names on terra sigillata. volume 3. certianus to exsobano (bics supplement 102.3)

Marginal scholarship and textual deviance (bics supplement 84)

Aristotle and the stoics reading plato (bics supplement 107)

More-than-human histories of latin america and the caribbean

The Latin American and Caribbean regions’ historical trajectories have been shaped by complex human-nonhuman interactions. In these histories people are important, even crucial, actors, but not the only ones. Offering a novel approach to the writing of Latin American history, this book responds t...

People, texts and artefacts

This volume seeks to enhance interdisciplinary and international dialogue between those who work on the Normans and their conquests in northern and southern Europe in an original way. It has as its central theme issues related to cultural transfer, treated as being of a pan-European kind across t...

Octavia hill, social activism and the remaking of british society

Octavia Hill was a housing reformer, open space campaigner, co-founder of the National Trust, founder of the Army Cadet Force, and the first woman to be invited to sit on a royal commission. Yet despite her early pre-eminence, and the remarkable success of the institutions which she helped to fou...

Amazonia at the crossroads

This is an examination of past patterns of destructive resource extraction in Amazonia, and an examination of newer initiatives that offer more sustainable options.

London and beyond: essays in honour of derek keene

This fascinating new volume brings together seventeen authors from across disciplines to offer a detailed and comprehensive history of the European city. Dedicated to the late Derek Keene (1942-2021), the forefather of urban history, this book helps us better understand the development, role and ...