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'Domestic politics matters' has become a rallying cry for international relations scholars over the years, yet the question still remains: Just how does it matter? This book argues that an important part of the international impact of domestic politics springs from the institutional responses to its many uncertainties.
Investigates otherness through ten nineteenth- and twentieth-century authors: Friedrich Schlegel, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Anthony Trollope, Joseph Conrad, W B Yeats, E M Forster, Marcel Proust, Paul de Man, and Jacques Derrida.
Looks at the social and artistic forces behind this film auteur's personal cinema. Tracing Saura's career over three decades, this book discusses each work from "Hooligans" (1959), a film about a Madrid street-gang member trying to become a bullfighter, to "The Dark Night" (1989), a film dealing with the persecution of a religious reformer.
The description for this book, Hadrian and the City of Rome, will be forthcoming.
It is normally assumed that international security regimes such as the United Nations can reduce the risk of war by increasing transparency among adversarial nations. But how is transparency provided, how does it actually work, and how effective is it in preserving or restoring peace? This work provides answer to these important questions.
A biography of Federico Fellini that shows how his exuberant imagination has been shaped by popular culture, literature, and his encounter with the ideas of C G Jung, especially Jungian dream interpretation. It links his mature accomplishments to his first employment as a cartoonist, gagman, and sketch-artist during the Fascist era.
By examining the Cold War court-martial, this book opens a window on conflicts that divided America at the time, such as the competing demands of work and family and the tension between individual rights and social conformity. Using military justice records, it demonstrates the criminal consequences of the military's violent mission.
In 2004, Venus crossed the sun's face for the first time since 1882. This title tells the intriguing tale of the five Venus transits previously observed and the fantastic efforts made to record them. It is a story of heroes and cowards, of reputations earned and squandered, told against a backdrop of geopolitical and scientific change.
Thucydides has long been celebrated for the unflinching realism of his presentation of political life. And yet, as some scholars have asserted, his work also displays a profound humanity. This title provides the complete treatment to date of Thucydides' handling of the problem of injustice.
What is Sappho, except a name? Although the Greek archaic lyrics attributed to Sappho of Lesbos survive only in fragments, she has been invoked for many centuries as the original woman poet, singing at the origins of a Western lyric tradition. This book traces the emergence of this idealized feminine figure.
Ananda K Coomaraswamy (1877-1947) was a pioneer in Indian art history and in the cultural confrontation of East and West. This is a collection of his writings on myth drawn from his "Metaphysics" and "Traditional Art and Symbolism".
Beginning with the restoration of the Bourbon monarchy in 1875 and ending with the death of General Francisco Franco in 1975, this book explores the intersection of education and nationalism in Spain. It is suitable for scholars with interests in modern European cultural politics, processes of state consolidation, and the history of education.
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