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In the last 50 years, the United Kingdom has witnessed a growing proportion of mixed African-Caribbean and white British families. With rich new primary evidence of 'mixed-race' in the capital city, The Creolisation of London Kinship thoughtfully explores this population. Making an indelible contribution to both kinship research and wider social de

Are immigrants more enterprising than natives in Spain? How successful are migrant entrepreneurs compared to those who start businesses in their country of birth? With the growth of migration worldwide, questions such as these are garnering the attention of economists, policymakers and scholars. Born Entrepreneurs? asks how foreignness affects an i

This book explores nanotechnology, a rapidly evolving and growing field with applications in a large number of areas.

This book offers a practical approach to risk management in the financial industry.

Angela Ho shows how Dutch painters in the mid- to late 17th century used repetition to project a distinctive artistic personality.

An exploration of fatwa in Indonesia during the period following the fall of President Suharto.

Riitta Laitinen offers a novel account of civil and social order in the seventeenth-century town of Turku, Sweden.

The richly illustrated bookk carefully situates architecture, design, and urban planning within Kolkata's political economy and social milieu.

This book tells the troubled story of a period in Hungarian cinematic history during which audiences, filmmakers, critics, and officials grappled with questions surrounding Hungarian national identity.

Through a look at the family, this book discusses the intersections between Roman and Christian legal culture, thought, and political power after the collapse of the Roman Empire.

Hyun Gwi Park reveals timely new insights into the historical and current experiences of Koreans living along the Eurasian frontier.

The book creates an innovative theoretical framework to introduce the concept of an 'alternative economy' as a way to understand fan productions.

This collection brings together a group of leading scholars from a variety of disciplines to explore the history of sexual desires and the transformation of sexual ideas, attitudes, and practices in premodern Europe.

Examining Old English texts, Heide Estes shows how Anglo-Saxon ideologies, which view nature as diametrically opposed to humans, have become deeply embedded in our cultural heritage, language, and more.

Exploring the history of several important collections from the EYE Film Museum in Amsterdam, Bregt Lameris shows how archival films and collections always carry historical traces.

This edited collection of original essays situates itself at the cutting edge of media theory, exploring imaginary worlds as forms of knowledge and forms of life.

This volume brings together a group of prominent contributors to consider the topics of government and warfare in Tuscany and Venice in the Renaissance.

Ute Holl moves from anthropological and experimental cinema through nineteenth-century psychological laboratories, which she shows developed techniques for testing, measuring, and classifying the mind that can be seen as a prehistory of cinema

In Cinema's Baroque Flesh, Saige Walton draws on the philosophy of Maurice Merleau-Ponty to argue for a distinct aesthetic category of film and a unique cinema of the senses: baroque cinema.

Bede is the inaugural volume in the Sources of Anglo-Saxon Literary Culture series, which seeks to comprehensively map British literary culture from 500 to 1100 CE.

Claartje Rasterhoff shows how industrial organisations played a role in shaping patterns of growth and innovations in painting and publishing in the Dutch Republic.

Isidore of Seville (560-636) was a crucial figure in the preservation and sharing of classical and early Christian knowledge.

This book gives even longtime Bergman fans a new understanding of his sensitivity to nuance, his versatility, and his dedication to craftsmanship.

This is the first study to bring together all twenty-nine extant copies of the medieval Commentary on the Apocalypse, which was originally written by Spanish monk Beatus of Li bana.

An indepth study of post-World War II Caribbean decolonization

Provides critical insights into the development of innovation policy

A must-read for anyone who wants to understand the economic crisis and its aftermath

An analysis of how Angolan, Brazilian and Eastern European immigrant associations negotiate integration and identity strategies in Portugal