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Reconceptualises instability in relation to cyberspace

The first comprehensive scholarly volume on Kim Ki-young and his films in English

Examines the integration and reform of Islamic studies in universities across Germany, the UK, Turkey, Poland and Belgium

Traces authors' attitudes toward US economic expansionism through their fictional allusions to internationally-traded commodities Offering an interdisciplinary study of references to internationally-traded commodities in US fiction, Consuming Empire assembles an integrated geopolitical analysis of Americans' material, gendered and aesthetic experiences of empire at the turn of the twentieth century. Examining allusions to contested goods like cochineal, cotton, oranges, fur, gold, pearls, porcelain and wheat, Consuming Empire reveals a linked global imagination among authors who were often directly or indirectly critical of US imperial ambitions. Furthermore, Consuming Empire considers the commodification of art itself, interpreting writers' allusions to paintings, sculptures and artists as self-aware acknowledgements of their own complicity in global capitalism. As Consuming Empire demonstrates, literary texts have long trained consumers to imagine their relationship to the world through the things they own. Heather Wayne is a teacher of English and independent scholar living in Massachusetts. Her research focuses on nineteenth-century US literature, material culture, feminism, visual culture, empire and global history.

Examines the impact of the changing geopolitical environment on a range of governance issues in North Africa

Bringing together scholars working across Chinese Studies, Japanese Studies, English Studies and French Studies, this book presents new perspectives on instances of failed intercultural encounters by theorizing epistemologies of failure.

The first complete edition of Peter's Letters to his Kinsfolk published since its original appearance in 1819, including the original illustrations, along with extensive new annotation and full editorial apparatus. In Peter's Letters to his Kinsfolk (1819) the young John Gibson Lockhart (under the guise of a visiting Welsh physician) portrayed and analysed the society of Regency Glasgow and Edinburgh in terms of German nationalist and Romantic criticism. Focusing on the networks of the law, the church, universities, fine art, antiquarianism, literature, theatre and periodical culture, he provided a series of brilliant, sometimes serious and sometimes satirical, portraits of the most notable characters of the day and the institutions they represented. His text is accompanied by a series of portrait engravings and vignettes of significant moments in his tour. The present edition provides the first complete text of this widely-allusive work published since 1819, together with a substantial Introduction, Notes and full editorial apparatus, including a detailed index and an essay on the contemporary illustrations. Peter Garside is Professorial Fellow at the University of Edinburgh. He has served on the Boards of the Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels and Stirling / South Carolina Research Edition of the Collected Works of James Hogg and has published a variety of volumes for these scholarly editions. Gillian Hughes is an independent scholar. She works as an advisory editor for the Edinburgh Edition of Walter Scott's Poetry and for the New Edinburgh Edition of the Works of Robert Louis Stevenson. She has published critical editions of works by each of these writers and a biography of James Hogg (2007).

Provides an unusual history of an important institution promoting Islamic scholarship in Britain, The Gibb Memorial Trust

Explores the ways in which affect, colonial histories and militarism organise global security workforces within private military and security companies This book locates its analysis with Gurkhas: a group of militarised men from Nepal with over 200-years of military experience with the British and Indian armies and the Singaporean police, who now participate as security contractors in global markets. These men are celebrated in British popular culture for their heroic martial attributes and their broader military service to the United Kingdom. However, less well known, is the fact that many Gurkhas (located in Nepal) and their families are drawn into these markets under often exploitative relations. Drawing upon over a decade of ethnographic fieldwork with unprecedented access to these security communities throughout Nepal and in Afghanistan, the book's motivating questions are: how is security made through these market relations and how is this security experienced by Gurkhas and their families? Amanda Chisholm is Senior Lecturer in the School of Security Studies, King's College London.