Cultural Studies

In Islands of Sovereignty, anthropologist and legal scholar Jeffrey S. Kahn offers a new interpretation of the transformation of US borders during ...

Sensationalistic literature is reading material that is intended to shock, startle, excite, or arouse intense interest in a reader through the use ...

Business consultants everywhere preach the benefits of innovation--and promise to help businesses reap them. A trendy industry, this type of consul...

The Performance of Listening in Postcolonial Francophone Culture argues that globalized media has allowed for efficient transmission of transnation...

Alexander Cockburn was without question one of the most influential journalists of his generation, whose writing stems from the best tradition of M...

Dual inheritance theory (DIT) recognises the fact that for the last 50 millennia cultural evolution has had a marked impact on our anatomy, behavio...

This book documents the physical aspects of the lives of Hungarian Jews in the late 19th and early 20th centuries: the way they looked, the kind of...

In many cultures lines take centre stage in art and science, in writing, drawing and construction. This publication explores the fascination and po...

Providing a multifaceted view of modern Finland, this book describes its history, culture, language, geography, natural history and the mythology o...

East and West have long stood as towering edifices dividing history and the world into separate spheres. In fact, the two poles have not only share...

The Indian Ocean World was an idea borne out by researchers in economic history and trade in the 1980s in response to the compartmentalization of s...

Africa and Beyond: Arts and Sustainable Development is a massive undertaking by thoughtful theorists and practitioners in the creative/cultural ind...

This volume will be of interest to everyone seeking to understand the relationship between war as an historical narrative and its representation in...

The present book is a social and cultural study of a mid-sized Nigerian city. The author strives to indicate the structure of the everyday, in a co...

Although they entered the world as pure science fiction, robots are now very much a fact of everyday life. Whether a space-age cyborg, a chess-play...

The concept of the public intellectual has a rich and colorful history. It began in the early twentieth century, when the new mass media catapulted...