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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.

Investigates forms of life which lack proper conceptualisation in the field of modern philosophy This collection reconsiders the notion of life and conceptualizes those forms of life which have been excluded from modern philosophy, such as post-Anthropocene life, the life of non-human animals and the life of inorganic objects. The contributors, who include prominent contemporary philosophers and theorists ask a wide range of questions including: what new forms of subjection can we see with the return of the 'Anthropos'?, what can animals teach us in the Anthropocene?, can we reconstruct the perceptual world of animals and take a look into their 'subjectivity'?, what happens to inorganic matter (waste or digital objects) when no longer used by any subject and can we think about inorganic matter in terms of subjective self-awareness? The first section, Life Beyond the Anthropocene, critically questions Anthropocene theory and outlines alternative scenarios, such as Gaia theory or post-Anthropocene forms of life on Earth and other planets, as well as new forms of subjectivity. The second part, Human and Non-Human Interactions, investigates the obscure boundary, between life and non-life, and between human and non-human animal life forms. The third part, Forms of Life and New Ontologies, concentrates on new ontologies and discusses life in terms of vitalism, new materialism, movement, form-taking activity and plasticity. S. E. Wilmer is Professor Emeritus in Drama and former Head of the School of Drama, Film and Music at Trinity College Dublin. Audrone Zukauskaite is Chief Researcher at the Lithuanian Culture Research Institute.

This book is the first scholarly edition of the most popular Native American captivity narrative published in eighteenth-century Britain, that of Peter Williamson, known as 'Indian Peter'.