Visual Culture in Shanghai, 1850s-1930s is a study of formal and informal meanings of Haipai ('Sh...

Why are audiences so fascinated with heroes?What makes the idea of heroes so necessary in society...

This volume explores the connections between faith, the presentation of belief and the processes ...

Like Elena Ferrante, this author tells a gripping story of friendship, struggle, love, and social...

An Italian Downton Abbey (1870-1950). This enticing family saga unfolds on the background of Ital...

This book examines why and how nannies have appeared in Russian literature from 1700 to the late ...

This study takes a new look at the literary system from the perspective of network theory, and di...

This collection of essays by specialists in education presents psychological research and empower...

The 9 11 attacks have had many extraordinary consequences. The horrific violence of that day ushe...

This book pays tribute to the sacrifices and achievements of seven individuals who made difficult...

An attempt is made to understand the relationships between social groups and the spaces and place...

This collection of essays explores how science fiction films and computer games attempt to come t...

This book traces the significant history of the U.S. Consular Service, America's principal repres...

This book incorporates into an organic whole the realities of the 1990s in Russia, focusing on fi...

'Little has been written on the life of African-American scholars working in traditionally black ...

The volume addresses the principal question why, given their common past under communist Soviet-t...

Throughout American history, our civic associations have been promoted as distinctive private-pub...

Although there have been some recent overviews of religious houses and the relationship between t...

This volume investigates the many important artistic and art historical issues associated with th...

This history, twenty years in the research and writing, relates the story of Americans living in ...

Pan-Africanism in Barbados is a pioneering work. This is the first book exclusively on Pan-Africa...

This is the first biography of Capt. Peter Strickland, a little-known Connecticut Yankee who cros...

Focusing on the undergraduate classroom,this book presents a rational and systematic approach to ...

Lo Ch'ing is one of China's foremost contemporary poet-painters. Despite the differences in their...

A singular mix of Russian and American academia presents this cultural cabaret in Richard Stites'...

More than thirty years after the tragic death of Pier Paolo Pasolini, this volume is intended to ...

'In this book, beloved theologian and teacher, Rev. James P.M. Walsh, S.J., shares with us the ex...

'These memoirs of an unusually wise and perceptive American diplomat provide rare insight into Am...

This collection of essays offers a captivating reading on how East-Central Europe was transformed...

This collection of Stitesiana includes twenty-nine essays on Russian culture, which the author de...

Charismatic leaders have a way of flying too close to the fire. This is the chronicle of the secr...

The first survey of women's self-portraiture to be focused exclusively on painting, this book ope...

In this small work Professor Horace Campbell the veteran Pan-Africanist scholar and Rodney Worrel...

Unlike all other scholarly works hitherto published, this monograph surveys the fates of the conc...

The essays in this book examine art historical manifestations observed in Giorgio Vasari (1511-15...

'Forty years after its original publication, Vladimir Markov's Russian Futurism: A History remain...

In reassessing his rich and rewarding 50-year career in film studies, this trailblazing author pr...

This book provides a detailed description of how professional groups collaborate in reaching sent...

The nineteenth-century ideal of domesticity identified home as women's proper sphere, but the ide...

The essays in this collection explore both how the employment of nation-state dominated discourse...

This study explores the multiple ways in which Congressional Cemetery has been positioned for som...

This book chronicles a World War II veteran's lifelong search for peace through strengthening dem...

This book brings to life the lived experience of the disciples after Christ's death, the possibil...

As the novel opens, aristocratic Eleonora Fonseca Pimentel pleads with the High Court of Naples t...

The selected essays present a palimpsest of sorts aiming to elucidate the multifaceted responses ...

This is the catalogue of an art exhibit organized jointly by the Accademia di Brera in Milan, Ita...

The book deals with the evolution of Sufi brotherhoods and their transformation into political ve...

'The republication of Professor Kenez's classic volumes is to be warmly welcomed. Based on copiou...