Boydell Brewer: 336 books
Gender, Home & Identity
Nuer Repatriation to Southern Sudan
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014
Joint Winner of the Amaury Talbot Prize for African Anthropology 2014 How and where did returning Nuer refugees make their 'homes' in southern Sudan? How were gender relations and identity redefined as a result of war, displacement and return to post-war communities? And how were those displaced able...
Kafka after Kafka
Dialogical Engagement with His Works from the Holocaust to Postmodernism
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2019
The topic of "Kafka after Kafka" is a fascinating one: the engagement of artists, philosophers, and critics in dialogical exchange with Kafka's works. The present collection of new essays highlights the engagement of lesser known artists and commentators with Kafka, and represents those...
Fit to Practice
Empire, Race, Gender, and the Making of British Medicine, 1850-1980
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Fit to Practice proposes a new narrative of the making of the modern British medical profession, situating it in relation to the imperatives and tensions of national and imperial interests. The narrative is interwoven with the institutional history of the General Medical Council (GMC), the main regulatory...
The War Within
New Perspectives on the Civil War in Mozambique, 1976-1992
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2018
The 1976-1992 civil war which opposed the Government of Frelimo and the Renamo guerrillas (among other actors) is a central event in the history of Mozambique. Aiming to open up a new era of studies of the war, this book re-evaluates this period from a number of different local perspectives in an...
Marching to the Canon
The Life of Schubert's "Marche militaire"
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Marche militaire is Franz Schubert's most recognizable and beloved instrumental work. Originally published for piano four hands in 1826, this tuneful march -- Schubert's first of three military marches -- was arranged, adapted, and incorporated into new incarnations over the next two centuries. Its...
ALT 36: Queer Theory in Film & Fiction
African Literature Today
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2018
Debates on the future of the African continent and the role of gender identities in these visions are increasingly present in literary criticism forums as African writers become bolder in exploring the challenges they face and celebrating gender diversity in the writing of short stories, novels, poetry,...
by Minoru Miki, Marty Regan, Philip Flavin
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
The unique sounds of the biwa, shamisen, and other traditional instruments from Japan are heard more and more often in works for the concert hall and opera house. Composing for Japanese Instruments is a practical orchestration and instrumentation manual with contextual and relevant historical information...
Ira Aldridge
Performing Shakespeare in Europe, 1852-1855
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2013
Ira Aldridge: Performing Shakespeare in Europe, 1852-1855, the third volume of Bernth Lindfors's award-winning biography, traces the American-born black classical actor's itinerary on his first Continental tour. Starting in Brussels and following Aldridge up the Rhine to Basel, on to Berlin and Vienna,...
Distant Readings
Topologies of German Culture in the Long Nineteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
In nineteenth-century Germany, breakthroughs in printing technology and an increasingly literate populace led to an unprecedented print production boom that has long presented scholars with a challenge: how to read it all? This anthology seeks new answers to the scholarly quandary of the abundance...
Township Violence and the End of Apartheid
War on the Reef
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2018
In 1993 South Africa state president F.W. de Klerk and African National Congress (ANC) leader Nelson Mandela were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize "for their work for the peaceful termination of the apartheid regime". Yet, while both deserved the plaudits they received for entering the negotiations...
The Front Line Runs through Every Woman
Women and Local Resistance in the Zimbabwean Liberation War
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2011
A Zimbabwe-specific study, focusing on the lives of women in a small locale (Chiweshe) during the anti-colonial insurgency, this book is also a challenge to established and still current modes of thought and research orientations which over-simplify the complex realities women face in the full range...
by Jeremy Burchardt
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2002
The living standards of the rural poor suffered a severe decline in the first half of the nineteenth century as a result of high population growth, changing agricultural practices, enclosure and the decline of rural industries. Allotment provision was the most important counterweight to the pressures....
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Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2003
This new collection, intended for the student and the interested general reader of German alike, includes both traditional examples, and those which fall outside the usual canon. The sixteen novellas in the volume have been carefully chosen on the bases of length, historical significance, popularity,...
Setting Nutritional Standards
Theory, Policies, Practices
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
Suzanne Junod's essay "Proscribing Deception": The Gould Net Weight Amendment and the Origins of Mandatory Nutrition Labeling" is the winner of the 2017 Charles Thomson Prize of the Society for the History of the Federal Government. In the second half of the nineteenth century, ways...