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...

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...

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 ...

Mapping the state

Mapping the State leads to a fundamental rethinking of the 1832 Reform Act by demonstrating how boundary reform underpinned this turning point in the development of the British political nation. Using significant new archival discovery, digital methods and ‘big data’, it provides a major reassess...

A nicaraguan exceptionalism?

In recent years, child migrants from Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador have made the perilous journey to the United States in unprecedented numbers, but their peers in Nicaragua have remained at home. Nicaragua also enjoys lower murder rates and far fewer gang problems when compared with her ne...

A history of the french in london

This book examines, for the first time, the history of the social, cultural, political and economic presence of the French in London, and explores the multiple ways in which this presence has contributed to the life of the city. The capital has often provided a place of refuge, from the Huguenots...

Medieval arabic thought: essays in honour of fritz zimmermann

Obama's washington

Examines the array of challenges facing the Obama administration and the president himself. This volume includes topics that range from how best to manage a ruptured economy to controlling the budget, the green agenda, foreign policy, and the recalibration of US relations with Britain.

Persuasive language in cicero’s pro milone: a close reading and commentary

This innovative approach to Cicero's persuasive language analyses the style and structure of one of his important speeches in more detail than has ever been done before. It applies ideas from modern linguistics and explores the possibilities and limitations of quantitative analysis in the areas o...

Wars, parties and nationalism

The five papers presented in this volume discuss various aspects of the politics of Latin America during the nineteenth century. Although the scope of the essays is wide including topics such as civil wars, political parties and the use of travel narratives for partisan purposes the overriding co...

Names on terra sigillata. volume 7 p to rxead (bics supplement 102.7)

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 margins of late medieval london, 1430-1540

This book explores the complexity of medieval London’s urban fringe communities. Going beyond London’s institutional structures, it casts new light on urban life at the level of the neighbourhood and considers the differences in economy, society and sociability which existed in different areas of...

The new refugees: crime and forced displacement in latin america

In Latin America, recent years have seen an unprecedented rise in the number of people forced to flee from their homes due to the activities of organised criminal groups. What are the reasons behind this emerging crisis of forced displacement in the Americas? Who are these criminal groups and how...

Vita vigilia est: essays in honour of barbara levick (bics supplement 100)

Classical books: scholarship & publishing in britain since 1800 (bics supplement 101)

Codices boethiani: great britain and the republic of ireland v. 1: a conspectus of manuscripts of the works of boethius

Philosophy, science & exegesis: in greek, arabic & latin commentaries (bics supplement 83.1)

Atlantic isles: travel and identity in the british and irish west, 1880–1940

Atlantic Isles examines the cultural and political prominence of the ‘westward gaze’ in late-nineteenth century Britain and Ireland. The book reveals how imagined geographies from the Cornish cliffs to the Connemara highlands were spaces of modern enchantment while also central to notions of Brit...

Lucian of samosata vivus et redivivus

The poets laureate of the long eighteenth century, 1668–1813

In the eighteenth century the office of the poet laureate of Britain and the British court were evolving and entwined with one another. This book examines the office’s institutional changes and public reception, the mechanics of each laureate’s appointment, and the works they produced before and ...

Los nuevos desplazados

In recent years Latin America has seen an unprecedented rise in the number of people forced to flee their homes due to the activities of organized criminal groups. What are the reasons behind this emerging crisis of forced displacement in the Americas? Who are these criminal groups and how do the...

Ancient approaches to plato’s ‘republic’

A matter of trust

Producing high-quality data is necessary for progress on the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals initiative to be measured accurately. Flawed statistics can result in misguided decisions. This book explores the substantial challenges for assembling reliable data and statistics to address...

Organized labour and politics in mexico

Analyzing the changes, continuities, and contradictions characterizing labor politics in Mexico, this book provides an assessment of organized labor's role in contemporary Latin America.

The clinical legal education handbook

The Clinical Legal Education Handbook is a good practice guide and practical resource for those engaged in the design and delivery of clinical legal education programmes at university law schools. Primarily aimed at clinics in England and Wales, it is likely to have content that is of interest to...

The victoria history of hampshire: cliddesden, hatch and farleigh wallop

This volume traces the history of Cliddesden, Hatch, and Farleigh Wallop, which lie to the south of Basingstoke. Each settlement has a common manorial descent from the 15th century onwards and they were managed as components of a single estate under the lordship of the Wallop family from their se...

Hidden paths: self & characterization in greek tragedy: euripides’ bacchae (bics supplement 99)

The victoria history of shropshire: wem

Wem lies on the North Shropshire Plain, about nine miles north of Shrewsbury. This book reveals that it was a planted medieval castle-town, and details important historical events in the locale, such as when it became a Parliamentarian stronghold during the Civil War, and the ‘great fire’ of 1677...

Giving birth in eighteenth-century england

This fascinating new book radically rewrites all that we know about eighteenth-century childbirth by placing women’s voices at the centre of the story. Utilising an extensive and under-researched body of materials, such as letters, diaries and recipe books, the volume explores the rituals of chil...

The east pediment of the parthenon - from perikles to nero

The rule of law in latin america

This collection analyses the experience, success and failure of judicial reform processes funded by international donor organisations in Latin America. It also addresses the question of the connection between rule of law reform and broader processes of regime consolidation and state building.

Palaeography, manuscript illumination and humanism in renaissance italy: studies in memory of a. c. de la mare

Albinia de la Mare (1932–2001), OBE, FBA, Professor of Palaeography at King's College London, was one of the last century's outstanding palaeographers and the world's leading authority on Italian Renaissance manuscripts. In November 2011 a conference was held at King's College and the Warburg Ins...

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 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.

European religious cultures

First published in 2008, European Religious Cultures is now reissued as an Open Access edition with a new introduction. These essays address a variety of practices in religious life -- among them pilgrimage and the urban cult of saints, the monastic performance of liturgy, the choice to enter the...

Mapping crisis

Since the rise of Google Earth in 2005, there has been an explosion in the use of mapping tools to quantify and assess the needs of those in crisis, including those affected by climate change and the wider neo-liberal agenda. Yet, while there has been a huge upsurge in the data produced around th...

The creighton century, 1907-2007

This volume offers a selection of ten lectures from the first 100 years of the University of London’s prestigious Creighton Lecture series. Each of the chosen lectures is introduced and set in context by a historian of the modern-day University, providing a fascinating insight into the developmen...

Ptolemy's geography in the renaissance

Excess and restraint: propertius, horace and ovid's 'ars amatoria' (bics supplement 89)

The pinochet case

Senator Augusto Pinochet was arrested in 1998 in London on the orders of a Spanish judge seeking his extradition for human rights crimes. Here, political scientists and lawyers analyse the political and historical context of the case and its progress through the courts in the UK and Chile.

Wolf liebeschuetz reflected (bics supplement 91)

Judicial institutions in nineteenth-century latin america

Supervivencia indígena en la nicaragua colonial

Acompañada de una nueva introducción, esta traducción al español del clásico libro, Indian Survival in Colonial Nicaragua, ofrece una descripción detallada de los cambios demográficos y culturales que la conquista española y el dominio colonial trajeron a las sociedades indígenas de Nicaragua.

Territories, commodities and knowledges

Examines emerging methodologies and conceptual debates within the environmental history of Latin America. Issues addressed include the territorial expansion of the state and its impact on environmental resources and indigenous populations; environmental transformation; and landscape ""improvement...

Philosophy and medicine in the formative period of islam

Many of the leading philosophers in the Islamic world were doctors, yielding extensive links between philosophy and medicine. The twelve papers in this volume explore these links, focusing on the classical or formative period (up to the eleventh century AD). They also explore the Arabic reception...

Natural resource development and human rights in latin america

This multidisciplinary collection links local, national, regional and transnational levels of inquiry into the interaction of state and non-state actors involved in promoting or opposing natural resource development.

Providing for the poor

The Old Poor Law dispensed benefits to paupers in a uniquely comprehensive, pre-modern system of relief. Providing for the Poor re-examines the micro-politics of poverty in the long eighteenth century. It bridges the gaps in our understanding of the experiences of people across the social spectru...

The secret of secrets: the east slavic version

The Secret of Secrets, purportedly the advice of Aristotle to Alexander the Great on all the knowledge needed by a great king, has been translated into many languages from its original Arabic. The Hebrew version was translated into a variety of East Slavic, probably in Kiev before 1483. This idio...

Thomas frederick tout (1855–1929)

Thomas Frederick Tout (1855–1929) was arguably the most prolific English medieval historian of the early twentieth century. He also pioneered the use of archival research, welcomed women into academia and augmented the University of Manchester’s growing reputation for pioneering research. This bo...

Pieter geyl and britain

Pieter Geyl (1887—1966) was undoubtedly one of the most internationally renowned Dutch historians of the twentieth century, but also one of the most controversial. Geyl was an early example of a ‘public intellectual’ and remains one of the most influential thinkers on history of all time. This vo...

The afterlife of herodotus and thucydides

This book seeks to explore the reception of the writings of Herodotus of Halicarnassus and Thucydides the Athenian from the Byzantine era until today, following the ups and downs of their scholarly reputations

The fevered novel from balzac to bernanos: frenetic catholicism in crisis, delirium and revolution

This book examines a corpus of frenetic novels – by Balzac, Barbey d'Aurevilly, Zola, Huysmans, Bloy and Bernanos – that foreground the motif of fever within a recurring masterplot: a pious young woman, just discovering her sexuality, finds herself torn between two father-figures, a doctor (typic...

What future for human rights in a non-western world?

Administering the empire, 1801-1968

A user-friendly archival guide, Administering the Empire explains the organisation and potential information of the records of the British Colonial Office, and those of other departments responsible for colonial administration, currently held at the National Archives. The book also outlines the e...

Democratising history

Democratising History interrogates the ways in which democracy has transformed modern Britain and how we teach its history. Nine research-led chapters offer new ways to think about the history of democracy in Britain since the early nineteenth century. These are complemented by six interludes tha...

Mexican soundings

Contains essays that convey the enduring nature of the questions raised by the work of David Brading. These essays reflect a range of his interests: from Mexican Baroque and post-Tridentine Catholicism to studies of the dynamics of state-building in nineteenth century Mexico.

We mark your memory: writings from the descendants of indenture

Indenture was the process whereby individuals entered, or were coerced, into an agreement to work in a colony in return for a fixed period of labour, but this was often open to abuses of power. Hidden within this little-known system of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Indian migration unde...

Exploring ancient sculpture – essays in honour of geoffrey waywell (bics supplement 104)

Azariah de'rossi's observations on the syriac new testament

Women and the law

Originally published in 1984, Women And The Law is a pioneering study of the way in which the law has treated women – at work, in the family, in matters of sexuality and fertility, and in public life. It went on to inspire a legion of women lawyers and feminist legal rulings, from the Family Law ...

Exclusion and engagement

This collection offers a reappraisal of social policy in response to the scale of the challenges confronting Latin America. Divided into four sections it explores the functions of social policy and the prospects of its performing a new and more dynamic role.

The roman sketchbook of girolamo da carpi

Urban microcosms 1789-1940

Urban microcosms are small-scale communal spaces that are integral to, or integrated into, city life. Some, such as railway stations or department stores, are typically located in city centres. Others, such as parks, are less quintessentially metropolitan, whilst harbours or beaches are often loc...

The victoria history of gloucestershire: yate

Right on?

Assesses George W Bush's presidency in terms of its historical context, first-term record, and second-term prospects. This book considers his administration from the perspective of its engagement in an ideologically driven project to consolidate conservative ascendancy over US politics and public...

British working-class and radical writing since 1700

At a time when working-class writing is gaining long-overdue recognition and radical ideas are more important than ever, this collection examines the intersection of British working-class and radical writing from the eighteenth century to the present. Topics include the obstacles facing writers, ...

Guilds and association in europe, 900-1900

Children’s experiences of welfare in modern britain

This important book brings the history of childhood and welfare in Britain through the eyes of children to light. Focusing on the period 1830 to 1980, it demonstrates how the young were integral to the making, interpretation, delivery and impact of welfare services. The chapters consider a wide r...

Sicilia nutrix plebis romanae: rhetoric, law & taxation in cicero's verrines (bics supplement 97)

Dilemmas of political change in mexico

'Dilemmas of Political Change in Mexico' provides an assessment of Mexico's political dynamics at the turn of the 21st century.

International handbook on clinical tax education

This practical handbook explores the benefits of a clinical tax education and equips readers in the profession with the tools needed to start a clinical tax project. It investigates the ways in which tax clinics can both educate and remedy tax positions for local communities in supporting those w...

Christian felix weiße the translator

Christian Felix Weiße (1726-1804) is best known as a dramatist and influential children’s writer of the Enlightenment period. This is the first book to explore his singularly extensive output as a literary translator, investigating the conditions which allowed Weiße to become the most prolific Ge...

Shaping knowledge: the transmission of the 'liber floridus'

The encyclopedic compilation Liber Floridus, created by Lambert of Saint-Omer in the early twelfth century, survives not only in the form of his famous autograph, but also in several later manuscripts. These manuscripts transformed the knowledge assembled by him as their makers not only selected ...

Codices boethiani: portugal and spain v. 4

Refugee reception in southern africa

This book offers an original and unique perspective on refugee hosting in Southern Africa, through a comparative analysis of the politics surrounding the welcome afforded to refugees in Zambia and South Africa. While state-based reception is frequently framed as one-off moments, such as registrat...

The glasgow sugar aristocracy

This important book is the first to outline Scotland’s colonial past and Glasgow’s direct links with the slave trade through sugar plantations. It traces how significant fortunes and investments made through chattel slavery percolated into the Scottish economy and wider society, and examines, via...

Revisiting the falklands-malvinas question

The conflict over possession of the Falklands-Malvinas Islands was waged in an area remote both geographically and geo-politically in an era of cold war and also of tensions within and between sovereign states of the supposed western bloc. It has been broadly perceived as an absurd confrontation,...

Names on terra sigillata. volume 8 (s to symphorus) (bics supplement 102.8)