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The Arden Handbook of Shakespeare and Early Modern Drama

How does our understanding of early modern performance, culture and identity change when we decentre Shakespeare? And how might a more inclusive approach to early modern drama help enable students to disc…

Stephanie A Leitch

Early Modern Print Media and the Art of Observation

Early modern printmakers trained observers to scan the heavens above as well as faces in their midst. Peter Apian printed the Cosmographicus Liber (1524) to teach lay astronomers their place in the cosmos…

Sverre Raffnsøe

A History of the Humanities in the Modern University

This book challenges commonplace assertions that the humanities are presently undergoing a severe crisis as a result of a longstanding decline. Rather than hearkening to the widespread, reactive call for …

Sidney G. Denny

Colonel Benjamin Stephenson and the History of Early Illinois

Colonel Benjamin Stephenson and the History of Early Illinois details the life of Colonel Benjamin Stephenson through unique access to primary sources, including the house in which Stephenson lived--and w…

International Perspectives on the History of Early Childhood Education

How does the interplay between family, institution and profession characterise early childhood education worldwide? In this volume, the authors analyse the historical and theoretical developments in early…

Seth C Rasmussen

The Origins and Early History of Conjugated Organic Polymers

Using a range of examples of conducting polymers from the early 19th century onwards, this book shows that the history of conjugated organic polymers begins before the late 1970s, thus rethinking the acce…

A Cultural History of Medicine in the Modern Age

A Cultural History of Medicine presents an authoritative survey from ancient times to the present. The set of six volumes covers over 2500 years of history, charting the changes in medical experience, kno…

A Cultural History of Plants in the Modern Era

Examines how our relationship with plants has evolved since 1920, through advances in agriculture, industry, science, and technology,, the impact of urbanization, and our increased understanding of the si…

A Cultural History of Chemistry in the Modern Age

Looks at the impact of chemistry and the chemical industry on science, war, society, and the economy in the "chemical age" from 1914 to the present.

A Cultural History of Education in the Modern Age

A thematic overview of education and its place in Western society and culture in the modern age.

A Cultural History of Genocide in the Modern World

The cry of "never again" reverberated around the world in the aftermath of the Holocaust. Yet despite the unprecedented horrors of the Shoah, and the subsequent creation of the Convention on the…

Anastasia Stouraiti

War, Communication, and the Politics of Culture in Early Modern Venice

Provides an original interpretation of the politics of knowledge in early modern Venice, weaving together cultural history and critical imperial studies to show how war and territorial expansion shaped se…

Walter S H Lim

Shakespeare and the Theater of Religious Conviction in Early Modern England

In this wide-ranging and informative study, Walter Lim throws new light on the meaning of religion in Shakespeare and post-Reformation culture. Buttressing close analysis with comparative study, Lim shows…

Havergal Brian (1876-1972)

Symphonie Nr.18

Bisengaliev, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Friend

A Cultural History of Race in the Modern and Genomic Age

The period from the 1920s to the present is marked by the rise of eugenics, the expansion and hardened enforcement of immigration laws, legal apartheid, the continuance of race pseudoscience, and the rise…

Historical Performance Practice in Organ Playing. Vol. 1-3 + sheet music volume

Liberty, Irreverence, and the Place of Women in Early Modern Italian Culture: Essays in Honour of Letizia Panizza

This book brings together essays from a range of disciplines within Early Modern Italian Studies, which focus on research areas pioneered by the prestigious Italianist, Letizia Panizza. The essays cover n…

Robert G Parkinson

Heart of American Darkness

"A scarifying, blood-soaked portrait of savagery on the early frontier--much of it committed by European settlers . . . superb."--Kirkus Reviews (starred)An acclaimed historian captures the true…

Eugenio Garosi

Projecting a New Empire

The study delves into the rise of Arabic as an imperial language in the 7th and 8th centuries. It combines insights from papyrological, epigraphic and numismatic evidence to correlate early Islamic scriba…