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A comprehensive hisotrical overview of the formative period of Sufism - the spiritual element of Islam - from the ninth to the twelfth century CE.

This book provides an incisive, informative history of literary criticism from the Ancient Greek period to the present day.

This book analyses the road to Bannockburn, the campaign of 1314 and the aftermath of the fight. It demonstrates that in both its context and legacy the battle had a central significance in the shaping of nations and identities in the late Medieval British Isles.

A monograph exploring the ways in which Deleuze's philosophy of time can enhance our understanding of contemporary mainstream cinema.

An introduction to Greece's most famous Prime Minister - the man, his politics and his broader role in twentieth-century history.

This single volume guides provides everything you need to know about Heidegger's Being and Time.

This book offers the first critical study of Gilles Deleuze's The Logic of Sense, his most important work on language and ethics.

This is a unique introductory guide to the rich, complex and diverse tradition of Islamic philosophy. It comprises over 100 concise entries, alphabetically ordered and cross-referenced for easy access. All the essential aspects of Islamic philosophy are covered here: key figures, schools, concepts, topics, and issues.

A thematic introduction to American ethnic history which provides an overview of key historiographical debates.

Ulrich Lehmann brings together methods and ideas from social sciences and material production to give us a new political reading of fashion in today's post-democracy. Accessing rare source material across a wide range of European languages and cultures, he gives us insight into new working structures in the manufacture of garments and textiles.

This book discussed the processes by which the Gaelic kingdom of Alba established its mastery over the lesser kingdoms of northern mainland Britain and transformed itself into a state recognisable as Scotland.

An introduction to some of the issues and concerns arising from the concept of film remaking.

Minds and Computers introduces readers to interdisciplinary philosophical consideration of Artificial Intelligence.

An introduction to the field of broadcast talk.

This book tells the remarkable stories of ten women whose inspirational lives and struggles exemplify the concerns and problems that other women have faced throughout the last two centuries.

Jean Flori's Richard Coeur de Lion was written to mark the eighth centenary of the death of the "knightly king". The book is a tour de force that provides the reader with a reappraisal of Richard's life as well as a study of the myth and reality of Richard's image as the personification of medieval chivalry.

This is an introduction to the history of the ancient Near East during the last millennium bc: Phoenicia, Palestine, the Neo-Assyrian and Neo-Babylonian empires, the Persian Achaemenid empire, the empire of Alexander, and the vast Persian Seleucid empire founded around 300 bc and defeated in 64 bc.

The first Reader and Guide on the subject of slavery in America. It combines both an introduction to the field and a selection of core primary and secondary readings, covering the period from the early seventeenth century to the American Civil War.

This book looks at three key theories which have implications for the role of ethics in war and armed conflict: cosmopolitanism; internationalism; and political realism.

As a historical account of the way in which war and death intersect, this book describes the complex attitude societies have towards death.

A provocative and exemplary introduction to the field of postcolonial studies.

This book examines the evolution of British propaganda practice during the course of the twentieth century.

Ian S. Wood uses his specialist knowledge as well as extensive interviews to recount the events of Ireland's Troubles and the ruthless war waged by the UDA on the nationalist community.

This alphabetic guide introduces the main positions, key figures, basic approaches, and central problems in ethical theory. Thorough and up-to-date it is a uniquely concise but comprehensive philosophical reference work to the subject.

This is a clearly-written introduction to the study of postcolonial cultures which broadens the reach of postcolonial theory and criticism.

The reader is invited to view Islamic art as no more and no less than ordinary art, neither better nor worse than anything else that counts as art. It follows that there are no special techniques required in Islamic aesthetics as compared with any other form of aesthetics.

In this authoritative introduction to her life and work, Maud Ellmann teases out Bowen's strangeness through close readings informed by historical, psychoanalytic, and deconstructive methods of interpretation.

This book aims to make accessible the sources and controversies concerning a key period in the history of the Roman Empire -- the reign of Diocletian and its immediate aftermath.

This comprehensive history of the Celts from origins to the present draws on archaeological, historical, literary and linguistic evidence.

This book is designed to provide undergraduate students of English historical linguistics with a concise description of the language during the period 1100-1500.