This textbook, now in its second edition, is designed to equip students with a basic 'conceptual toolkit' for the study of political thought: (i) a basic political vocabulary, (ii) a conceptual vocabu
This multi-authored volume, newly available in paperback, focuses on Leonard and Virginia Woolf's Hogarth Press (1917-1941). Scholars from the UK and the US use previously unpublished archival materia
The studies in A Polyethnic Region in East-Central Europe are devoted to the Hungarian minority in Slovakia, examining the altered Hungarian-- Slovak relationship from various angles. They analyze the
Ethnosymbolism offers a distinct and innovative approach to the study of nations and nationalism. This book explores the different aspects of the ethnosymbolic approach to the study of ethnicity, nati
The volume opens with an appreciation of Conrad's Polishness by Jerzy Buzek, The President of the European Parliament. Its first section provides new illuminations of Polishness in Conrad's personalit
A 'two-in-one' introduction to the American South, from its colonial beginnings to the present, combining guides to the key areas and themes with extracts from primary and secondary texts.
From Czechoslovakia's former president comes a unique account of the last two weeks of September 1938, chronicling the country's approach to the Munich pact. Based on newly discovered and previously u
The first volume of The Bibliography of Sources on the Region of Former Yugoslavia was published in 1998. Consequently, about 60 percent of this volume is dedicated to material published subsequent to
This widely-praised book looks at the rise and fall of 'Britishness' in literature over the last three centuries. Arguing that for much of its history the subject of 'English Literature' has been bou
This book introduces students to the complex and foreign world of Roman religion and to major trends in its study. Praised in the Enlightenment for its supposed tolerance, it has been vilified for per
This book describes and analyses life in 'St Antony's', a Zambian Catholic boys' mission boarding school in the 1990s, using the context-sensitive methods of social anthropology. Drawing upon Michel F
A brief academic introduction to the work of the nineteenth-century German philologist, Wilhelm von Humboldt, referring to theories that connect with the Whorf-Sapir hypothesis.
How Astronomy contributed to the educational enlightenment of Glasgow, to its society and to its commerceThe words 'Astronomy' and 'Glasgow' seem an incongruous juxtaposition, and yet the two are clos
For more than a decade, teachers and practitioners have turned to Frederic G. Reamer's Social Work Values and Ethics for its comprehensive introduction to ethical decision making and practical guidan
Women have an unprecedented voice and place in the politics of the new Scotland. It has joined world leaders such as Sweden and Norway in terms of gender balance with women taking 37% of the seats in
The first collective record of the evolution of general medical practice as an academic discipline over half a centuryThis anthology captures the stories of the early struggles, between visionary supp
