Описание: Phillips reveals how Mughal, Manchu and Western imperialists developed common strategies of `define and conquer` and `define and rule` to subjugate South and East Asia. Examining how they leveraged cultural difference to pursue universal conquest, this book exposes the vital role `barbarian` conquerors played in forging today`s Asian superpowers.
Автор: Grady Hugh Название: Shakespeare`s Dialectic of Hope: From the Political to the Utopian ISBN: 1009098098 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781009098090 Издательство: Cambridge University Press Рейтинг: Цена: 21691.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This study charts how Shakespeare`s early fascination with power developed into the profoundly optimistic utopian visions suffusing his later tragicomedies. Hugh Grady shows how five of Shakespeare`s most important plays presciently confront dilemmas of an emerging modernity, diagnosing and indicting instrumental politics and capitalism.
Автор: Tudeau-Clayton Margaret Название: Shakespeare`s Englishes: Against Englishness ISBN: 1108725465 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108725460 Издательство: Cambridge University Press Рейтинг: Цена: 9185.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This urgent and original book shows how Shakespeare`s early comedies and the second tetralogy of history plays resist an emergent exclusionary idea of (the) `true` English with its attendant violence towards others, proposing rather an inclusive idea of `our English`.
Автор: Mellor Leo Название: Reading the Ruins: Modernism, Bombsites and British Culture ISBN: 1107534437 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107534438 Издательство: Cambridge University Press Рейтинг: Цена: 9185.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Mellor makes the persuasive argument that to understand Second World War British culture one must understand the ruined and fragmented cityscapes that it responds to. Of relevance to literary critics and cultural historians, and featuring famous and forgotten authors, this book makes modernism - and war literature - look vividly different.
Автор: O`Shaughnessy David Название: Ireland, Enlightenment and the English Stage, 1740-1820 ISBN: 1108703151 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108703154 Издательство: Cambridge University Press Рейтинг: Цена: 9185.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Scholars of eighteenth-century Britain, Ireland, and Enlightenment theatre will welcome this book as it uncovers the considerable contribution made by Irish actors and playwrights to Georgian English theatre. It connects Irish patriotism with new historiography, revealing how theatrical culture demanded political and economic autonomy.
Автор: Barbeau Jeffrey W. Название: The Cambridge Companion to British Romanticism and Religion ISBN: 1108482848 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108482844 Издательство: Cambridge University Press Рейтинг: Цена: 22864.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The Cambridge Companion to British Romanticism and Religion provides the first survey of the connections between literature, religion, and intellectual life during the British Romantic period (1780s-1832). The collection of seventeen scholarly essays introduces the diverse religious influences on the literature of the times.
Автор: de Bruyn Frans Название: The Cambridge Companion to Eighteenth-Century Thought ISBN: 1107442915 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107442917 Издательство: Cambridge University Press Рейтинг: Цена: 6840.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Providing a comprehensive overview of intellectual life in the eighteenth-century Anglophone world at a time when the boundaries of knowledge were growing rapidly in response to their evolving surroundings, this volume is essential reading for scholars and students of eighteenth-century British literature, culture and thought.
Описание: The first general history, by the world expert, of Greek theatre from Hellenistic times to the foundation of Modern Greece in 1830, marked by significant discontinuities. After the end of antiquity no real dramas were produced until theatre was rediscovered in Renaissance Crete and redeveloped throughout the Greek diaspora.
Описание: From 1986 to 1994, East Africa`s postcolonial, political order was profoundly challenged when four revolutionary `liberation` movements seized power. This novel, far-reaching analysis focuses on the crisis of East Africa`s postcolonial political order, and the attempts by four revolutionary movements to disrupt, transform and reconstitute it.
Описание: Offering a unique comparison between four secessionist states in Southern Africa as they fought for sovereign recognition, this book reveals how unrecognized states, such as Katanga, Rhodesia, Transkei and Bophuthatswana, navigated the international state system and the implications of being denied international legal status.
Автор: Mee Simon Название: Central Bank Independence and the Legacy of the German Past ISBN: 1108731309 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108731300 Издательство: Cambridge University Press Рейтинг: Цена: 7621.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This is a study of how German monetary history - in the form of the lessons learned from Germany`s experience of inflation in 1922-3 and 1936-45 - became politicised in the post-war era and transformed into a political weapon in debates surrounding the establishment of West Germany`s central bank and who should control monetary policy.
