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This book looks at the writings of American diplomats, adventurers, and scientists and chronicles how nineteenth-century Americans viewed and imagined Southeast Asia through their own cultural-political lenses.

This book brings a deep engagement with individuals whose lives are shaped by encounters with borders.

The first comprehensive account of the post-1945 efforts to bring Nazi war criminals who had escaped to South America to justice.

This book studies the life trajectories of protestors during the May '68 civil uprising in France, using statistics and personal narratives to analyse how this activism arose, its impact, and its transmission through generations.

This volume addresses the relationship between the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Angkor (Cambodia), and the nearby town of Siem Reap, assessing the margins of heritage sites where detrimental, tourism-driven urban development may take place.

This book examines actual processes of experiencing the imagined community, exploring its emotive force in a number of case studies.

This book analyses the role of activist practices in the building of collective identities for social movement studies as well as the role of festivals as significant repertoires of collective action and sites of identitarian explorations in contemporary Europe.

This book takes an original transnational approach to the theme of Nazism and neo-Nazism in film, media, and popular culture, with examples drawn from mainland Europe, the UK, North and Latin America, Asia, and beyond.

This multinational collection of essays challenges the traditional image of a monolingual Ancient Regime in Enlightenment Europe, both East and West.

This book argues that premodern societies were characterised by the quest for Yvirtue.OE

This book looks at the largely neglected colour films of French film director Robert Bresson (1901-99) that can teach us about cinema's distinctive ability to draw on painting, photography, sculpture, and the plastic arts in general.

This book analyses the collaboration between local communities and greater authorities in medieval France which grants us unusual insight into the period's concept of madness.

This book reconstructs settlement patterns of fishing communities in Viking Age Iceland and proposes socio-economic and environmental models relevant to any study of the Vikings or the North Atlantic.

This anthology provides an in-depth introduction to the networks shaped by the Baltic Sea, the languages, folklore, religions, literature, technology, and identities of the Germanic, Finnic, Sami, Baltic, and Slavic peoples.

Interdisciplinary learning activities contains concrete suggestions in the form of examples of learning activities that university teachers can use to teach and foster interdisciplinary skills in graduate and undergraduate students.

Even though peeing is something we all do several times a day, it is still a taboo subject. This paradox has not gone unnoticed by artists through the ages.

This book advances a multicausal and multilevel understanding of involvement in European homegrown jihadism through an in-depth study of the Dutch Hofstadgroup.

This book examines Zeolites and Metal-Organic Frameworks. It explains the different synthetic routes available to prepare these materials, and examines how they are used by science and industry.

This collection grapples with the historical, cultural, aesthetic, and political-economic implications of the relationship between media franchising and transmedia storytelling as they are seen at work in the world's most profitable transmedia franchise.

This collection of essays showcases extraordinary objects held by Australian collections, revealing a wide range of contemporary art and historical research.

This interdisciplinary book analyses the ways that heritage is branded and commodified, how stakeholders organise place brands, and how digital strategies shape how visitors appreciate heritage sites.

This book, grounded in archival research and close examination of artworks from The Poor Clares convent of Corpus Domini, explores the visual culture and social history of an early modern Franciscan women's community.

This book offers the most important contributions from the past fifteen years of international research into Etty Hillesum's work and life, studying her ethical, philosophical, spiritual, and literary existential search.

This book focuses on the contested nature of heritage through the lens of individuals, local communities, religious groups, and heritage experts.

The essays in this book explore migrants' motivations in support of an argument that to travel inspires a search for new meaning in religion.

This book explores archival restoration, colour film technology, colour theory, and experimental film alongside beautifully saturated images of silent cinema.

This book is the first international publication to address all the historical aspects of the Hollandsche Schouwburg, putting it in a broader European and historical context.

This book brings together a roster of prominent contributors to present a strategic interactionist perspective on the study of contentious politics in the Middle East in response to the Arab uprisings.

This book offers a pioneering study of Asian cultures that officially escaped from French colonisation but nonetheless were steeped in French civilisation in the colonial era and had heavily French-influenced, largely francophone literatures.

This book offers a view of shifts in labour relations in various parts of the world over a breathtaking span, from 1500 to 2000, with a particular emphasis on colonial institutions.