Regional Studies

Collins Big Cat Arabic Reading Programme is a guided reading series for ages 3 to 11. The series is structured with reference to the learning progr...

The essays collected in this volume were written to mark the centenary of the birth of Sir Kenneth Dover, one of the twentieth century’s most influ...

Focusing on some of the most important ethnographers in early anthropology, this volume explores twelve defining works in the foundational period...

Alfred Radcliffe-Brown (1881-1955) is widely renowned as a founder of modern social anthropology. This biography challenges popular stereotypes o...

The migration experiences, career paths, and scholarship of historians born in Germany who started emigrating to North America in the 1950s have ...

Bringing Walter Benjamin into dialogue with the urgent issues facing educational institutions today, this is the first comprehensive exploratio...

Bringing together an international team of contributors, this volume draws on international political theory and intellectual history to rethink th...

A surge of African American enrolment and student activism brought Black Studies to many US campuses in the 1960s. Sixty years later, Black Studies...

This book makes available Ronald Knox’s hitherto unpublished lectures on Virgil’s Aeneid delivered at Trinity College, Oxford, as part of a lecture...

Bringing together an exciting group of knowledge workers, scholars and activists from across fields, this book revisits a foundational question of ...

An innovative account of one of the least-understood characters in the history of anthropology. Using previously overlooked, primary sources Ci...

Recent devaluations of a liberal arts education call the formative concept of Bildung, a defining model of self-cultivation rooted in 18th and 19...

As a pioneering volume to consider the impact of exile on historical scholarship in the twentieth century in a systematic and global way, looking...

An innovative account of one of the least-understood characters in the history of anthropology. Using previously overlooked, primary sources Ci...

Academic appointments can bring forth unexpected and unforeseen contests and tensions, cause humiliation and embarrassment for unsuccessful appli...

'A masterly analysis of slavery and republicanism from the left. A stunning achievement' - Gerald Horne Timely and controversial, The Patriots' Di...

As a result of a multi-volume research project, funded by the Thyssen Foundations (Stiftung zur Industriegeschichte Thyssen and Fritz Thyssen Sti...

As one of the leading historians of Modern Europe and an internationally acclaimed scholar for the past five decades, Konrad H. Jarausch presents...

German studies scholars from various disciplines often use and reference ethnography, yet do not often present ethnography as a core methodology ...

Kant, Goethe, Schiller and other eighteenth-century German intellectuals loom large in the history of the humanities—both in terms of their indiv...

As a result of a multi-volume research project, funded by the Thyssen Foundations (Stiftung zur Industriegeschichte Thyssen and Fritz Thyssen Sti...

'A timely, future-oriented and necessary contribution which provides clarity to the multivalent tendencies in this field' - Carole Boyce Davies Th...

There is no book exactly like Fifty Years of Interdisciplinary Teaching in Academe: One Professor’s Pedagogical Tips and Reflections. Very few prof...

In the course of the 1970s, interdisciplinary German studies emerged in North America, breaking with what many in the field saw as a suffocating an...

There is no book exactly like Fifty Years of Interdisciplinary Teaching in Academe: One Professor’s Pedagogical Tips and Reflections. Very few prof...

Péter Hajdu examines the cultivation of the Classics as an intellectual framework and crucial ingredient of the western aspect of Hungarian nationa...

This open access book examines how auditory environments in different contexts have contributed to understanding foreign occupation and colonialism...

This open access book examines how auditory environments in different contexts have contributed to understanding foreign occupation and colonialism...

Embodying Theory: Epistemology, Aesthetics and Resistance takes a deep dive into representational spaces of social science theory and research, pos...

This book seeks to overcome the tension between ‘western’ and ‘non-western’ categories and tools in the study of global history, showing how most w...

Completed shortly before his death, this is the last work of science from the most celebrated popular science writer in the world.In characteristic...

In 2014, Joko Widodo—popularly known as Jokowi—was elected the seventh president of the Republic of Indonesia, going on to win a second five-year t...

From a leading scholar of the Middle East and North Africa comes a new way of thinking about the Arab Spring and the meaning of revolution.From the...