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This book on Indian literature offers a critique of the aesthetics and politics of modernity as embodied in Indian bhasha literature of the past two centuries. It discusses the complex ways in which the bhasha imagination, even as it reshaped the history of colonial modernity, simultaneously allowed itself to be shaped by it in turn.

This book explores the political thought of three key Muslim thinker-actors associated with the Indian freedom struggle: Abul Kalam Azad, Sheikh Abdullah, and Abdul Ghaffar Khan. These men sought to maintain Muslim minority rights and influence within a postcolonial, united India.

Oxford Studies in Metaethics is the only publication devoted exclusively to original philosophical work in the foundations of ethics. It provides an annual selection of much of the best new scholarship being done in the field.

Luke Dimitrios Spieker's EU Values Before the Court of Justice provides a first comprehensive study of the judicial mobilisation of Article 2 TEU. Spieker goes far beyond the current focus on illiberal developments in the Member States, setting out to explore the multifaceted potential of Article 2 TEU in the 'Verbund' and in EU legal order.

Daniel Greco argues that the landscape of epistemology looks quite different when viewed through the lens of idealization and model-building. We should accept that theorizing in epistemological terms is inescapably idealized, and that we can know a wide variety of facts with certainty despite our cognitive limitations.

Walter Lippmann was arguably the most respected political journalist of last century, one of liberalism's strongest proponents and harshest critics. This biography considers the role of religion in his life, highlighting the constructive power of doubt, and how he manufactured himself as the prophet of limitation for an excessive American Century.

This book seeks to understand the political, social, economic, and cultural dynamic that is created by the expansion of mining into Indigenous territories. Ciaran O'Faircheallaigh explores the interactions between Indigenous people and mining, the opportunities it might offer, and the role that governments play in shaping the relationship.

This book is about the entanglements of colonial law, space, and place, in regions defined as frontiers in British India.

Woman Much Missed is the first book-length study of the many poems that Thomas Hardy composed in the wake of the death of his first wife Emma. It shows how Emma's writings and experiences were fundamental to Hardy's evolution into both a best-selling novelist and into one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century

With society's growing focus on disability, this book is a first-examining Paul the Apostle as a disabled person. Readers will learn about contemporary perspectives on disability and encounter a rich variety of ancient sources related to three of Paul's disabilities: circumcision, demonization, and short stature (possibly dwarfism).

Interweaving posthuman theory, care philosophy and contemporary fiction, Curious Kin in Fictions of Posthuman Care offers generative visions of care that make room for the incredible range of affects, energies, behaviours, attachments and dependencies that produce and sustain life in more-than-human worlds.

In this important book, based on his experience and with data and statistics, former President Santos explains how the battle against poverty was waged in Colombia, and describes the tools, programs, and policies that led to more than five million Colombians overcoming poverty.

The United Kingdom is weakening. Alvin Jackson examines the UK in the light of the experience of similar union states elsewhere, offering the first sustained comparative study across the long nineteenth century and beyond, drawing conclusions which shed new light on the particular history, condition, and fate of the UK.

Andrew Cooper presents the first systematic study of Kant's account of natural history. Cooper contends that Kant made a decisive contribution to one of the most explosive and understudied revolutions in the history of science: the addition of time to the frame in which explanations are required, sought, and justified in natural science.

This volume brings together the most important articles, lectures, and essays of Van Vechten (Johnny) Veeder, chronicling the span of his unsurpassed career in international arbitration.

What is wrong with discriminating on the basis of personal appearance? Andrew Mason considers this question in three contents: employment decisions; the choice of friends or romantic partners; and the everyday practice of judging and commenting upon people's looks.

A selection of short stories centred on Dublin that portray the wealth and vibrancy of Irish literature and the culture of the city.

Liberating Science: The Early Universe, Evolution and the Public Voice of Science is a presentation of science for the general reader, with an emphasis on correcting widely held misconceptions, and a call to liberate science from 'private ownership' in cultural terms.

By combining the analysis of the key themes, actors, and issues with the history of the region, and insights from a leading team of international experts, International Relations of the Middle East provides the definitive guide to the subject.

Sensationalism and the Jew in Antebellum American Literature examines the charged but mostly overlooked presence of the sensational Jew in Antebellum literature. It demonstrates how the "Sensational Jew" is a revealing figure in antebellum culture, as well as an important antecedent to contemporary Antisemitism in the US.

Reputations at Stake provides evidence-based and engaging examples that reveal a compelling story about the phenomenon of reputation.

The Diaries of Anthony Ashley-Cooper, Seventh Earl of Shaftesbury (1801-85): Vol. 1, Part Two covers the period 1843-45 and presents his discussions of topics such as religious questions (including here the intense debates over Tractarianism); industrial working conditions, especially for children; and the work of the lunacy commission.

The Diaries of Anthony Ashley-Cooper, Seventh Earl of Shaftesbury (1801-85): Vol. 1, Part One demonstrates the emergence of Lord Ashley, the 'Poor Man's Earl', as a passionate evangelical reformer and determined advocate for a range of domestic and international issues and causes.

This volume brings together essays by scholars from around the world covering issues in general private law theory as well as specific fields including the theoretical analysis of tort law, property law, and contract law.

The Catholic Church is among the oldest, most secretive, institutions in the world, but in the sixteenth century a friar, Onofrio Panvinio, undertook ground-breaking investigations into the Church's history from Christ to the Renaissance. This study shows how his writings impacted on church and society, but also how he changed historical writing.

The Digital Single Market (DSM) was the largest part of the EU's Single Market programme. Brexit and the Digital Single Market is the first book to detail the implications of Brexit on the DSM, examining the important role of the UK in DSM development, the impact of Brexit on the UK's digital sector, and future EU and UK policy trajectories.