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This book explores the figure of Antigone and her many reconceptualizations from antiquity to the present. One of the most popular heroines of clas...

Structured around sexual desire as the central analytical category, this monograph systematically approaches a heterogeneous array of artworks to p...

A testament to the resilience and determination of Black North Carolinians to achieve educational equality This book examines the educational exper...

A testament to the resilience and determination of Black North Carolinians to achieve educational equality This book examines the educational exper...

Based on the authors long experience in academic life and the public realm, especially in foreign policy, this book argues that a single categoric ...

In this definitive history of a unique tradition, Tyler D. Parry untangles the convoluted history of the broomstick wedding. Popularly associated w...

The book is a collection of essays written by scholars of global repute in honour of Professor Sunanda Sen. Each paper is well-researched and offer...

This book traces an evolution of equine and equestrian art in the United States over the last two centuries to counter conventional understandings ...

Taking recent German debates of diversity terminology as a case example for scrutinizing enactments of genealogy that assume a linear image of prog...

Sport History is a growing field of study in Brazil. In the past decades, scholars from different areas have taken an increasing interest in studyi...

How were space and movement in Roman cities affected by economic life? What can the study of Roman urban landscapes tell us about the nature of the...

This book explores the notion of mapping in architectural discourse. First locating, positioning and theorizing mapping, it then makes explicit the...

For many African Americans, getting a public sector job has historically been one of the few paths to the financial stability of the middle class, ...

For generations, historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) have been essential institutions for the African American community. Their nu...

Identity politics refers to discourses and movements organized around questions of religious, ethnic, and national identity. This volume focuses on...

This title was first published in 2000. The essays in this volume explore the changing nature of family and gender relations in contemporary Tanzan...

The Opening of the Cybernetic Frontier is the third in-J. stallment in the Cities of the Prairie project. It completes an ongoing multi-generationa...

Writing the Materialities of the Past offers a close analysis of how the materiality of the built environment has been repressed in historical thin...

Slavery, Geography and Empire in Nineteenth-Century Marine Landscapes of Montreal and Jamaica is among the first Slavery Studies books - and the fi...

This book examines discourses of rights and practices of resistance in post-conflict societies, exploring the interaction between the international...

There is often a moment in time that acts as a rallying point around a particular issue. 2015 was one of those moments for women, peace and securit...

This path-breaking book provides a comparative analysis of public discourses in France and Australia on a series of highly mediatised racialised ga...

In the last few decades, many global cities and towns have experienced unprecedented economic, social, and spatial structural change. Today, we fin...

Twenty years ago, few observers would have foreseen that some feminists would once again turn to Freud. But in recent years, the adoption by Americ...

First published in 1998, Black Globalism: The International Politics of a Non-state Nation examines the international political behaviour of Africa...

Recently, the issue of inequality has regained attention in economic and political debates. Although this interest is welcome, the debate is still ...

Setting out best practices and professional guidance for creating LGBT+ inclusive workplaces, this approachable and easy to follow book guides curr...

Have heterosexual relationships become more intimate and equal over the past forty years? Simply put, this is the central question underpinning th...

First published in 1987, this book encompasses a broad range interdisciplinary research into homosexuality displaying a full spectrum of points of...

In the twentieth century, urban growth was one of the most powerful catalysts of geographical, social and demographic change in the Western world. ...

The Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence (also known as the Istanbul Convention) was adopted by the ...

Contributing to existing literature on ethnic studies in China, this book is a study of minority subjective experiences in China, using Uyghur Musl...

Part of the Religion and Citizenship series, this book is an ethnographic study of marginality of Muslims in urban India. It explores the realities...

During World War II, as the United States called on its citizens to serve in unprecedented numbers, the presence of gay Americans in the armed forc...

This Companion authoritatively points to the main areas of enquiry within the subject of African American art history. The first section examines h...

Mirroring worldwide debates on social class, literacy rates, and social change, this study explores the intersection between reading and social cla...

This book explores the transnational aspects of divorce experiences. Transnational Divorce uncovers the stories of four main groups of transnationa...

Pavel Nazaroff travels from Kashgar, through the Kuen Lun and Karakoram mountains and on to Srinagar, Kashmir in the early 1930s, and describes the...

This title was first published in 2001. Increasingly, young women throughout Europe educate themselves for a life-long labour market career. So, wh...

Since the 1970s, research into Intersex has been a central fascination for feminist theorists seeking to make arguments about how men and women are...

This is a collection of nineteen essays on race relations at mid-century, written in honor of the late Robert E. Park. Park left import sociologica...

From the founding of the first colonies until the present, the influence of Christianity, as the dominant faith in American society, has extended f...

Achieving urban sustainability is amongst the most pressing issues facing planners and governments. This book is the first to provide a cohesive an...

Over the last forty years, renewed interest in the career of Henry Ossawa Tanner (18591937) has vaulted him into expanding scholarly discourse on A...

With the railroad's arrival in the late nineteenth century, immigrants of all colors rushed to the U.S.-Mexico borderlands, transforming the region...

This is at once a playful text with a serious purpose: to provide the reader with the theoretical lenses to analyze the dynamics of social class. I...

Buffalo, in New York state, is 'ineffable': a typical city in transition between its past and future. It is a classic example of one of many 'shrin...