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This book dismantles the simplistic equation of wealth, political power and social rank in the Roman Eempire. Historians will appreciate the innovative approach, which combines economic modelling with archaeological and epigraphic evidence, and the fresh perspectives on the complexities of wealth and power in ancient Rome.

Early modern London has long been recognised as a centre of religious diversity but this study is the first to examine domestic religion in the capital during a period of intense religious change. Emily Vine foregrounds the experiences of minority communities, Christian and Jewish, to explore the role of the home as a setting of religious practice.

Court festivities in eighteenth-century Naples included elaborate celebratory balls featuring social dance, hosted by the aristocracy and highlighted by the direct participation of the monarchs. This book offers a fascinating account of these spectacular events, for readers interested in Southern Italian history, culture, music, and dance.

The first history of how economists tackled nineteenth-century deficits in family productivity in Europe, inadequacies in low-income family consumption in interwar USA, underinvestment in human capital by non-white American families, and gendered injustices. For economists, sociologists, historians and philosophers interested in family and poverty.

This Element presents the ?-generalized distribution, a statistical model tailored for the analysis of income distribution. Developed over years of collaborative, multidisciplinary research, it clarifies the statistical properties of the model, assesses its empirical validity and compares its effectiveness with other parametric models.

This book studies the intersection of neoliberalism and right-wing Hindu nationalism through smart city projects which are often advertised as solutions for sustainable development.

The first full-length treatment of the concept of parameter and its development through the various phases of Generative Grammar. Providing step-by-step, detailed explanations, it offers a full account of parametric theory and the development of Chomsky's framework for researchers and advanced students in syntactic theory and language acquisition.

This book introduces stochastic thermodynamics, including fluctuation theorems and the thermodynamic uncertainty relation with representative applications. It is essential reading for graduate students and researchers from physics and physical chemistry with an interest in non-equilibrium phenomena.

Ten leading international Wagner scholars discuss analytical or theoretical questions posed by Wagner's music. Addressing the works from Die Feen through Parsifal, they combine a variety of music-analytical methods with approaches to dramaturgy, hermeneutics, reception history, and discursive analysis of sexuality and ideology.

This volume chronicles important formal and theoretical innovations in Latinx literature during a period when Latinx writers received increasing acclaim while Latinx communities became targets of hostility. The essays in this collection show how Latinx writers confront this contradiction during a period of rapid change and transformation.

Realism and the Novel will be of interest to anyone who has found themselves absorbed in the world of a novel, analysing the form's ability to transport its readers to different times and places and describing distinct novelist traditions and the cultures as it travels across the globe.

Despite the Mycenaean Linear B script having been deciphered some seventy years ago, much has remained uncertain regarding the ritual ideology of Mycenaean society. This book explores this problem by investigating a new range of sources from the Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age.

This book shows how advocates for women's rights, in the absence of their "own" history, used the antislavery movement as a historical reference point and model. It will be of interest to cultural and literary historians of nineteenth-century abolition, the abolitionist movement, women's history, and transatlantic reform culture. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.