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Modernists: A Decade Of Rhythm & Soul Dedication

Elizabeth Wilson

Adorned in Dreams

When Adorned in Dreams was first published in 1985, Angela Carter described the book as 'the best I have read on the subject, bar none.'From haute couture to haberdashery, and 'deviant' dress to Dior, Eli…

Elizabeth Wilson

Adorned in Dreams

When Adorned in Dreams was first published in 1985, Angela Carter described the book as 'the best I have read on the subject, bar none.'From haute couture to haberdashery, and 'deviant' dress to Dior, Eli…

A Snapshot In Time: Society, Scandal And The First String Of Modernism 1960 - 1963

In den Jahren 1960, 1961 und 1962 wurden viele großartige Platten veröffentlicht. Man musste einfach die Perlen finden. Der Sampler hält einige krachende Juwelen wie den R&B-Swagger von Blue Flames »Orang…

Elisa Randazzo, Hannah Richter

Challenging Anthropocene Ontology

Using the recent turn to ecology as a starting point, Hannah Richter and Elisa Randazzo bring ecological thinking into contact with Critical Indigenous Studies, in which awareness of the necessity for sus…

Dag S. Yngvesson

Archipelagic Cinemas

"Archipelagic Cinemas is a beautifully written book, impeccably researched and strongly grounded in Southeast Asian thought. It offers a detailed comparative history of Southeast Asian film style and…

Akintunde Akinyemi

Echoes of Yoruba Oral Traditions in Contemporary Nigerian Dramaturgy

This book discusses the new roles assigned to oral traditions in the works of contemporary playwrights, and asserts that these oral materials, though old, have enduring vitality and relevance for modern-d…

Dag S. Yngvesson

Archipelagic Cinemas

"Archipelagic Cinemas is a beautifully written book, impeccably researched and strongly grounded in Southeast Asian thought. It offers a detailed comparative history of Southeast Asian film style and…

Knowledge Shaping

How can we portray the history of Renaissance knowledge production through the eyes of the students? Their university notebooks contained a variety of works, fragments of them, sentences, or simple words.…

Les Vents Francais - Moderniste

Eric Le Sage, Les Vents Francais

Jane Tylus

Who Owns Literature?

Material culture scholarship explores licensing, permissions, and patronage dynamics, highlighting the estrangement of works from authors. This Element explores early modern authors' goodbyes, translators…

Ksenia Gusarova,

The Art of Beauty

Examines 19th century make-up practices in the context of visual and performance arts of western modernity, arguing that make-up played an important role in defining modernist art.

W. Ian Bourland

Black and Gold

For centuries, Africa has been the center of global trade in gold. Synonymous with wealth and power in African cultures, the precious metal was also central to the emergence of Europe's colonial empires a…

W. Ian Bourland

Black and Gold

For centuries, Africa has been the center of global trade in gold. Synonymous with wealth and power in African cultures, the precious metal was also central to the emergence of Europe's colonial empires a…

Lorenzo Casini

Occidentalism and the Egyptian Novel

This book examines Occidentalism, or the set of cultural, literary and political uses of 'the West', in the works of canonical 20th and 21st century Egyptian novelists . Beginning with the writings of Muh…

Matthew Costa

Mother of Capital

Rent, or unearned income, is a pervasive concept in contemporary economics. Economists of all stripes see today's global economy as riddled with harmful rents, but most deny these are intrinsic to capital…

Ana Teixeira Pinto

Death Wall

How the transition to fossil fuels entailed an intensification of ongoing processes of racialization.From the eighteenth century onwards, Western science began to tap a large, yet non-renewable, capital s…

Wendy Brown

States of Injury

A landmark work from one of our leading political theorists

Chiara Formichi

Domestic Nationalism

Chiara Formichi argues that Muslim women in Java and Sumatra, from the late 1910s to the 1950s, were central to Indonesia's progress as guardians and promoters of health and piety through gendered activit…