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, ...

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...

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...

The victoria history of middlesex: st george hanover square

This book relates the history of the parish of St George Hanover Square from its inception in 1724 to its abolition with the establishment of the London County Council in 1900. In detailed thematic treatments, the book explores the local government of the vestry, institutions such as the schools,...

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 ...

The afterlife of cicero

Cicero was one of the most prolific and productive figures from ancient Rome, active as both a politician and a writer. As yet however modern scholarship does not do justice to the sheer range of his later influence. This volume publishes papers from a conference which aimed to enlarge the basis ...

The victoria history of gloucestershire: cheltenham before the spa

Though much has been published about Cheltenham’s history after the 1740s, when it became a fashionable resort, most say little about the many centuries of its existence before that time. This is the fullest account ever attempted to chronicle those centuries, from the late Saxon period until the...

Gender, emotions and power, 1750–2020

A timely intervention into contemporary debates on emotions, gender, race and power, this collection of essays interrogates how emotional expectations are established as gendered, racialised and class-based notions. It then explores the ways these expectations have historically been generated, st...

Marathon – 2,500 years. proceedings of the marathon conference 2010

The victory of the Greeks at Marathon is often seen as the finest hour of the Athenian army, one that would be commemorated in art and literature for centuries to come. Published as a result of a conference marking 2,500 years since the battle of Marathon, this volume includes twenty-one papers t...

Brazil and south korea

Analyses the factors underlying the economic crises in South Korea and Brazil, pointing out areas of similarity and divergence. It also reviews the paths of recovery taken by both economies, examining the role of policy and variations in structural characteristics.

Greek drama iii: essays in honour of kevin lee (bics supplement 87)

The victoria history of middlesex: knightsbridge and hyde

Today’s Knightsbridge is a recent cross-border development. This book breaks new ground by uncovering an earlier, larger Knightsbridge and showing why its initial extent and history have been largely forgotten. Pre-1900 Knightsbridge/Westminster included today’s Kensington Palace, Kensington Gard...

The victoria history of leicestershire: castle donington

The parish of Castle Donington in north-west Leicestershire lies on the south bank of the river Trent, 20 miles north-west of Leicester and 8 miles south-east of Derby. A nucleated village developed on the present site more than 1,000 years ago. A castle was built in the 1150s, and several featur...

Suffrage and citizenship in ireland, 1912-18

In this published lecture, Professor Senia Pašeta argues that our understanding of modern Irish and British politics would be enormously enriched if we recognized both that the Irish and British suffrage movements were deeply connected; and that the Irish Question fundamentally shaped the women’s...

In protest: 150 poems for human rights

Brave new world: imperial and democratic nation-building in britain between the wars

After the First World War, Britain faced a number of challenges as it sought to adapt to domestic conditions of mass democracy while maintaining its position in the empire in the face of national independence movements. As politicians at home and abroad sought to legitimize their position, new ef...

Freethinkers, libertines and 'schwärmer': heterodoxy in german literature, 1750-1800

Religion mattered in the eighteenth century and has not ceased to matter since. How German writers responded to the crisis of orthodox forms of belief in the period is a matter of abiding interest. Some remained rooted in orthodoxy. Many others rejected it, often without knowing for certain what ...

The afterlife of virgil

In recognition of the richness of Virgil's reception the fourth conferences in the joint Warburg Institute and Institute of Classical Studies series on the afterlife of the Classics was devoted to the afterlife of Virgil.

Ravenna

In the long-debated transition from late antiquity to the early middle ages, the city of Ravenna presents a story rich and strange. From the fourth century onwards it suffered decline in economic terms. Yet its geographical position, its status as an imperial capital, and above all its role as a ...

To make the earth bear fruit

This volume brings together previously published ethnographic essays based on anthropological fieldwork in Northern Potosi, Bolivia, spanning the final 25 years of the 20th century. The articles discuss key concerns and cultural symbols of the indigineous peasants of the Andes.

Dialogues with the past: classical reception theory and practice – volume 1 (bics supplement 126)

Mexican foreign policy at the turn of the twenty-first century

Pictorial composition from medieval to modern art

Precarious professionals

Precarious Professionals uncovers the inequalities and insecurities which lay at the heart of professional life in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Britain. Through twelve fascinating studies of women and men on the margins, this volume re-evaluates the relationship between professional identity...

Law, humanities and the covid crisis

This book views the COVID-19 pandemic through the lens of the law, history, ethics, technology, economics and gender studies. By focusing on the implications of the virus in a wider interdisciplinary context, and looking at responses to the virus in Europe, South America, Asia and beyond, these e...

The victoria history of herefordshire: colwall

Colwall lies on the western slopes of the Malvern Hills, near the market town of Ledbury. Encompassing remnants of the Iron Age, manor houses and estates of the landed gentry from the 15th to 17th centuries, and a Schweppes bottling plant, the large village has a long and varied history. This vol...

New world objects of knowledge

With contributions from a renowned set of scholars, New World Objects of Knowledge delves into the hidden histories of forty of the New World’s most iconic artifacts, from the Inca mummy to Darwin’s hummingbirds. This volume is richly illustrated with photos and sketches from the archives and mus...

Creative spaces

The essays within this collection reassess dominant theoretical notions of ‘marginality’ in Latin America and argue that, in contemporary society, it invariably allows for (if not leads to) the production of the new. Viewing them neither as spaces of deprivation nor romanticized spaces of opportu...

Healthcare in ireland and britain 1850-1970: voluntary, regional and comparative perspectives

This volume explores developments in health and social care in Ireland and Britain during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The central objectives are to highlight the role of voluntarism in healthcare, to examine healthcare in local and regional contexts, and to provide comparative perspec...

Mapping post-war italian literature

Television drama in spain and latin america

Television Drama in Spain and Latin America addresses two major topics within current cultural, media, and television studies: the question of fictional genres and that of transnational circulation. While much research has been carried out on both TV formats and remakes in the English-speaking wo...

Radical collections: re-examining the roots of collections, practices and information professions

This volume looks at the role that archivists and librarians play in compiling collections – do they “curate” history? To what extent are they gatekeepers of knowledge? It shines a light on pressing topical issues within library and information services (LIS)- to encompass selection, appraisal an...

Dethroning historical reputations: universities, museums and the commemoration of benefactors

The campaigns in universities across the world to reject, rename and remove historic benefactions have brought the present into collision with the past. In Britain, people are reconsidering civic monuments in light of an imperial past. In America, memorials to leaders of the Confederacy and to ot...

Capitalism, colonisation and the ecocide-genocide nexus

This timely publication examines the drivers of the ecologically induced genocide of Indigenous and place-based peoples in the former British colonies of Kenya and Australia. It synthesises radical political ecology with a political-economic approach to illuminate the nexus between the genocidal ...

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...

The victoria county history of herefordshire: bosbury

Bosbury is the second parish history to be produced by the Trust for the Victoria County History of Herefordshire, following the history of Eastnor published in 2013. Like Eastnor, Bosbury is an agricultural parish, near the market town of Ledbury. It covers a relatively large area below the wes...

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...

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...