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The first work to address the end of Roman Hispania and the emergence of Medieval Spain from a principally archaeological perspective

This volume brings together a wide range of research on the ways in which technological innovations have established new and changing conditions for the experience, study and theorization of film.

This book is an introduction to political science. What is it that political scientists are actually studying? Or, to put it another way: What do we mean when we talk about politics?

A remarkable collection of letters from Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands (1880-1962) and her governess, Elizabeth Saxton Winter (1855-1936), an Englishwoman.

This book describes how accelerators, the 'schools of startup entrepreneurship', help startups to become successful companies in Silicon Valley, the world's most successful innovation region.

This study offers a new and systematic approach towards the interactions among the notions of theatricality, dramatisation, moment, and event.

This book reveals that a shift in focus can be seen through analysis of the Turkish political elites' definitions of "self" and "other" that were established as part of the EU accession process.

A historical analysis of manners of representation of Byzantine emperors and patriarchs in the Short History of Nikephoros of Constantinople in the context of late 8th century Byzantine iconodule ecclesiology.

This book integrates nationalism studies with iterary and linguistic history by highlighting scholarly study of the Dutch language as a factor in the creation of the national identity.

Rossella Catanese brings in avant-garde artists and their manifestos to show how painters and other artists turned to cinema as a model for overcoming the inherently static nature of painting in order to rethink it for a new era.

The landscape biography of the Carlsberg site contributes to a refined understanding that can take many aspects of an industrial site into account in future redevelopment processes.

This volume takes an interdisciplinary approach to distinguishing and analysing several different types of linguistic and foreign cultural policie pursued by European monarchies and states outside their own borders.

In this accessible, unique study of a forgotten but noteworthy figure, the author tells the story of the life of Kurt Baschwitz (1886-1968), a scholar who fled from the Nazis.

This book focuses on northeast Sino-Russian border economies and how trans-border economies function in practice, often across great distances, despite widespread mistrust.

This book examines radical media ecologies as guerrilla networks, emphasising the proximity and inseparability of radical media and political practices.

This books offers a new view of Eugenius III, an under-appreciated pope who came to power as a relative unknown during a time of crisis, and the place of the church in a rapidly changing European society.

The scholars in this book, from the fields of physics, psychology, and social sciences, discuss the direction and urgency of the changes in our current understanding of reality.

This author of this book argues that while generally ulamas, or religious teachers, had to support state ideologies, they sometimes succeeded in YcapturingOE the state by influencing policies in their favour.

This multidisciplinary book analyses the contradictory coexistence of consumerism and environmentalism in contemporary Japan.

These preeminent translations of ten canonical Dutch poems discuss each poem's historical context, revealing its political or ideological framing, religious elements, or the self-representational interests of the poet.

Exhaustive coverage of the emergence and development of political Islam and Islamic state

Analyses of the political and ideological transformation of Hizbullah

Fresh insights into immigration, racism and ethnic conflict in post-colonial Europe.

-Islam no hindrance to Turkey's EU membership

In the last 50 years, the United Kingdom has witnessed a growing proportion of mixed African-Caribbean and white British families. With rich new primary evidence of 'mixed-race' in the capital city, The Creolisation of London Kinship thoughtfully explores this population. Making an indelible contribution to both kinship research and wider social de

Are immigrants more enterprising than natives in Spain? How successful are migrant entrepreneurs compared to those who start businesses in their country of birth? With the growth of migration worldwide, questions such as these are garnering the attention of economists, policymakers and scholars. Born Entrepreneurs? asks how foreignness affects an i

Michael von der Schulenburg argues for the development of internationally accepted principles and rules for intervening in intrastate conflicts, including those caused by corrupt governments or militant groups.

This book explores nanotechnology, a rapidly evolving and growing field with applications in a large number of areas.

World of Difference examines how group memberships impact on individual outcomes in four key domains: health, education and work, migration, and the environment.