Cultural Studies

Christine Hippert examines buying food on credit in corner stores in Cabarete, an international tourism destination in the Dominican Republic and a...

Uncovers a centuries-long story of obsession that often included murder, gun fights, deadly accidents, overnight fortunes and even cannibalism. . ....

Uncovers a centuries-long story of obsession that often included murder, gun fights, deadly accidents, overnight fortunes and even cannibalism. . ....

For scholars working on almost any aspect of American thought, The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia to Philosophers in America presents an indispensable ref...

The Origins and History of Consciousness draws on a full range of world mythology to show how individual consciousness undergoes the same archetypa...

Drawing on a wide range of archival sources, Andrew Shail traces the emergence of film stardom in Europe and North America in the early 20th centur...

Cosplay, short for costume play, has grown from its origins at fan conventions into a billion-dollar global dress phenomenon. Costuming Cosplay tak...

This book offers an introduction to medieval English book-history through a sequence of exemplary analyses of commonplace book-historical problems....

This book delves into the role of higher education as a means of sustainable development in Sub-Saharan Africa. Contributions from across the regio...

What have the concepts of modernity and secularization meant for Islamic tradition, culture and society? How have the discourses which surround all...

Peter Iver Kaufman explores how various Christian leaders throughout history have used forms of political theology to merge the romance of conquest...

This book traces the heightened time-consciousness that has emerged since the 1990s in popular Indian discourses across cinema, television, print ...

A fresh portrayal of one of the architects of the African American intellectual tradition, whose faith in the subversive power of education will in...

Shirts, Shifts and Sheets of Fine Linen explores how the jobs of the seamstress evolved in scope, and status, between 1600-1900. In the 17th and e...

Analyzing the way that recent works of graphic narrative use the comics form to engage with the problem of reproduction, Shiamin Kwas Perfect Copie...

In 1646 in Newgate Gaol in London, a political activist, Richard Overton, penned a pamphlet that contained dangerous ideas. An Arrow Against All Ty...