This study examines the extent to which the speed potentials generated by technological transportation systems can be considered as vectors of social change. According to the author, the book "conside
"Edmund Campion has always been the leading Elizabethan martyr, an accolade that overshadowed his early life. This biography assesses the power of Campion's spoken word, in Prague and in England, the
In a volume focusing on queer theory in specific European contexts, Downing (interdisciplinary study of sexuality and gender, U. of Exeter, UK) and Gillett (German, Queen Mary U. of London) introduce
The Stoics on Determinism and Compatibilism is an important book which reconstructs the arguments deployed by the Stoics in favour of the view that everything is necessary and examines the development
The rural has long been regarded as an important site of geographical inquiry even if our understanding of it has not always been treated as conceptually different from the urban. That said, rural res
This volume ends Ibn al-Athir's (1193-1231) chronicles of the Crusades, abstracted from his larger history of Islam in general. It begins with the state of the Ayyubid empire when Saladin died, and tr
Scholars are well aware that the Dark Ages had plenty of light. The papers in this collection were presented at a conference held at Harvard University in 2004. Davis, at the California Institute of T
Andrew Shenton's groundbreaking cross-disciplinary approach to Messiaen's music presents a systematic and detailed examination of the compositional techniques of one of the most significant musicians
Based largely on the findings of a project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council in the UK, called "Safeguarding heritage at risk: disaster management in UK archives, libraries and museum
This book provides a reassessment of the theory of magnificence in light of the related social virtue of splendour. Author James Lindow highlights how magnificence, when applied to private palaces, ex
Nine articles reproduced from earlier publications focus on the identity of the Latin translators responsible for transmitting Arabic learning to Europe and the context in which they were working. Bur
Along with the attempts to impose new political and economic orders, colonialism in Africa also brought with itself new architectural and cultural projects for the spatial and social regulation of sub
Operator fatigue is introduced as a "hidden killer" by Matthews (U. of Cincinnati), other psychologists, and a work design engineer. While the effects of fatigue due to stress and sleep deprivation ar
The essays in this collection represent the explosion of scholarly interest since the 1960s in the pioneering feminist, philosopher, novelist, and political theorist, Mary Wollstonecraft. This interdi
This volume brings together thematically arranged articles on the relationship between Islam and science and how it has been shaped over the last century. The articles represent a broad variety of app
Recent studies in the history of Islamic science based on the discovery and study of new primary texts and instruments have substantially revised the views of nineteenth-century historians of science.
Elisabeth Lutyens (1906a€“1983), Elizabeth Maconchy (1907a€“1994) and Grace Williams (1906a€“1977) were contemporaries at the Royal College of Music. The three composers' careers were launched with pe
One of the most significant transformations of the Roman world in Late Antiquity was the integration of barbarian peoples into the social, cultural, religious, and political milien of the Mediterrane
Since 1978, the 300th anniversary of Vivaldi's death, there has been an explosion of serious writing about his music, life and times. Much of this has taken the form of articles published in academic
Alison McQueen Tokita presents a series of case studies that demonstrate the persistence of Japanese sung narratives in a multiplicity of genres over ten centuries, including the way they flourished a
