Regional and Area Studies
Featured Books
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Planning for Water Security in Southeast Asia
Community-Based Infrastructure During the Urban Transition
September, 2022
£40.00 / $40.00
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H.G. Wells and All Things Russian
Edited by Galya Diment
‘H. G. Wells and All Things Russian' examines Wells’s keen interest in Russian culture and development, and how Russia and the Soviet Union were, in turn, profoundly influenced by his works and his visits to the country.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781783089918
July 2019
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£125.00 / $125.00‘H. G. Wells and All Things Russian’ examines Wells’s keen interest in Russian culture and development, and how Russia and the Soviet Union were, in turn, profoundly influenced by his works and his visits to the country.
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Life Chances, Education and Social Movements
Lyle Munro
‘Life Chances, Education and Social Movements’ dwells on the necessity of education and social movements for enhancing the life chances of individuals and disadvantaged groups respectively. Ralf Dahrendorf’s work on life chances and social conflict is used to support the theoretical and empirical arguments in the book.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781783089949
July 2019
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£125.00 / $125.00‘Life Chances, Education and Social Movements’ dwells on the necessity of education and social movements for enhancing the life chances of individuals and disadvantaged groups respectively. Ralf Dahrendorf’s work on life chances and social conflict is used to support the theoretical and empirical arguments in the book.
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Vyāsa Redux
Narrative in Epic Mahābhārata
Kevin McGrath
Vyāsa is the primary creative poet of the Sanskrit epic Mahābhārata and 'Vyāsa Redux' examines the many paradoxical dimensions of his narrative virtuosity in the poem where the poet is both the creator of the work and a character within it. Narrative is, in this view, cognitive rather than empirical in its organization.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785270727
June 2019
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£125.00 / $125.00Vyāsa is the primary creative poet of the Sanskrit epic Mahābhārata and ‘Vyāsa Redux’ examines the many paradoxical dimensions of his narrative virtuosity in the poem where the poet is both the creator of the work and a character within it. Narrative is, in this view, cognitive rather than empirical in its organization.
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Contemporary Art, World Cinema, and Visual Culture
Essays by Hamid Dabashi
Edited by Hamid Keshmirshekan
"Contemporary Art, World Cinema, and Visual Culture: Essays by Hamid Dabashi" brings together the work of a theorist of modern and contemporary arts to map out more universal issues of concern to art theory and criticism.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781783089192
March 2019
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£130.00 / $130.00“Contemporary Art, World Cinema, and Visual Culture: Essays by Hamid Dabashi” brings together the work of a theorist of modern and contemporary arts to map out more universal issues of concern to art theory and criticism.
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Hometown Hamburg
Artisans and the Political Struggle for Social Order in the Weimar Republic
Frank Domurad
‘Hometown Hamburg’ explores the role of institutionalized historical continuity in the collapse of urban democracy in the Weimar Republic.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781783089314
March 2019
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£120.00 / $120.00‘Hometown Hamburg’ explores the role of institutionalized historical continuity in the collapse of urban democracy in the Weimar Republic.
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A Cultural History of the Bushranger Legend in Theatres and Cinemas, 1828–2017
Andrew James Couzens
‘A Cultural History of the Bushranger Legend in Theatres and Cinemas, 1828–2017’ is a cultural history of the bushranger legend on stage and screen from colonial to contemporary Australia. It provides a detailed analysis of the mechanisms through which bushrangers became an indelible part of the Australian cultural consciousness.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781783088911
January 2019
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£115.00 / $115.00‘A Cultural History of the Bushranger Legend in Theatres and Cinemas, 1828–2017’ is a cultural history of the bushranger legend on stage and screen from colonial to contemporary Australia. It provides a detailed analysis of the mechanisms through which bushrangers became an indelible part of the Australian cultural consciousness.
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Suburban Space, the Novel and Australian Modernity
Brigid Rooney
‘Suburban Space, the Novel and Australian Modernity’ investigates the interaction between suburbs and suburbia in a century-long series of Australian novels. It puts the often trenchantly anti-suburban rhetoric of Australian fiction in dialogue with its evocative and imaginative rendering of suburban place and time.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781783088140
November 2018
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£115.00 / $115.00‘Suburban Space, the Novel and Australian Modernity’ investigates the interaction between suburbs and suburbia in a century-long series of Australian novels. It puts the often trenchantly anti-suburban rhetoric of Australian fiction in dialogue with its evocative and imaginative rendering of suburban place and time.
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Australian Theatre, Modernism and Patrick White
Governing Culture
Denise Varney, Sandra D'Urso
‘Australian Theatre, Modernism and Patrick White’ details the rejection of two Patrick White plays – ‘The Ham Funeral’ and ‘Night on Bald Mountain’ – by the Adelaide Festival of Arts in Australia in the early 1960s.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781783088355
September 2018
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£79.95 / $79.95‘Australian Theatre, Modernism and Patrick White’ details the rejection of two Patrick White plays – ‘The Ham Funeral’ and ‘Night on Bald Mountain’ – by the Adelaide Festival of Arts in Australia in the early 1960s.
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An Immigrant Nation Seeks Cohesion
Australia from 1788
James Jupp
An Immigrant Nation Seeks Cohesion' is based on years of studying and teaching Australian politics and an active interest and involvement in immigration and settlement policies since the 1950s. This was a period of mass immigration from Britain and Europe, organised and mainly subsidised by the British and Australian governments.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781783087662
April 2018
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£115.00 / $115.00An Immigrant Nation Seeks Cohesion’ is based on years of studying and teaching Australian politics and an active interest and involvement in immigration and settlement policies since the 1950s. This was a period of mass immigration from Britain and Europe, organised and mainly subsidised by the British and Australian governments.
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Australian Media and the Politics of Belonging
Edited by David Nolan, Karen Farquharson, Timothy Marjoribanks
Containing contributions by leading scholars, ‘Australian Media and the Politics of Belonging’ addresses key topical themes and concerns in contemporary Australia.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781783087785
March 2018
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£115.00 / $115.00Containing contributions by leading scholars, ‘Australian Media and the Politics of Belonging’ addresses key topical themes and concerns in contemporary Australia.
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Migrant Nation
Australian Culture, Society and Identity
Edited by Paul Longley Arthur
‘Migrant Nation: Australian Culture, Society and Identity’ casts new light on Australian identity through historical accounts of the many and varied experiences of migration.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781783087204
December 2017
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£115.00 / $115.00‘Migrant Nation: Australian Culture, Society and Identity’ casts new light on Australian identity through historical accounts of the many and varied experiences of migration.
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British Women Missionaries in Bengal, 1793–1861
Sutapa Dutta
‘British Women Missionaries in Bengal, 1793-1861’ looks at the role and contributions of the early British women missionaries in Bengal, in eastern India, between 1793 and 1861. It traces the role of and challenges faced by women missionaries from Hannah Marshman to Hannah Mullens in the context of colonial evangelism.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781783087266
November 2017
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£115.00 / $115.00‘British Women Missionaries in Bengal, 1793-1861’ looks at the role and contributions of the early British women missionaries in Bengal, in eastern India, between 1793 and 1861. It traces the role of and challenges faced by women missionaries from Hannah Marshman to Hannah Mullens in the context of colonial evangelism.
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Memory, Place and Aboriginal-Settler History
Understanding Australians’ Consciousness of the Colonial Past
Skye Krichauff
Taking the absence of Aboriginal people in South Australian settler descendants’ historical consciousness as a starting point, ‘Memory, Place and Settler‒Aboriginal History’ combines the methodologies and theories of historical enquiry, anthropology and memory studies to investigate the multitudinous and intertwined ways the colonial past is known, represented and understood by current generations.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781783086818
September 2017
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£115.00 / $115.00Taking the absence of Aboriginal people in South Australian settler descendants’ historical consciousness as a starting point, ‘Memory, Place and Settler‒Aboriginal History’ combines the methodologies and theories of historical enquiry, anthropology and memory studies to investigate the multitudinous and intertwined ways the colonial past is known, represented and understood by current generations.
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Politics, Media and Campaign Language
Australia’s Identity Anxiety
Stephanie Brookes
‘Politics, Media and Campaign Language’ is an original, groundbreaking analysis of the story of Australian identity told through Australian election campaign language. Introducing the concept of identity security, the book argues that the story of Australian identity is characterised by recurring cycles of anxiety and reassurance, which betray a deep underlying feeling of insecurity.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781783085019
April 2017
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£115.00 / $115.00‘Politics, Media and Campaign Language’ is an original, groundbreaking analysis of the story of Australian identity told through Australian election campaign language. Introducing the concept of identity security, the book argues that the story of Australian identity is characterised by recurring cycles of anxiety and reassurance, which betray a deep underlying feeling of insecurity.
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Post-Multicultural Writers as Neo-cosmopolitan Mediators
Sneja Gunew
‘Post-Multicultural Writers as Neo-Cosmopolitan Mediators’ is the first book to bring together global debates in neo-cosmopolitanism over the last decade and Australian minority writers, linking them to globalisation and transnationalism in cultural studies.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781783086634
February 2017
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£115.00 / $115.00‘Post-Multicultural Writers as Neo-Cosmopolitan Mediators’ is the first book to bring together global debates in neo-cosmopolitanism over the last decade and Australian minority writers, linking them to globalisation and transnationalism in cultural studies.
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The Asia-Pacific in the Age of Transnational Mobility
The Search for Community and Identity on and through Social Media
Edited by Catherine Gomes
Asia Pacific in the Age of Transnational Mobility addresses and discusses the challenges of community and identity in the evolving transnational migrant and ethnographic landscapes of the region in the era of social media.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781783085927
December 2016
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£115.00 / $115.00Asia Pacific in the Age of Transnational Mobility addresses and discusses the challenges of community and identity in the evolving transnational migrant and ethnographic landscapes of the region in the era of social media.
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Islands, Identity and the Literary Imagination
Elizabeth McMahon
Australia is the planet’s sole island continent. This book argues that the uniqueness of this geography has shaped Australian history and culture, including its literature. Further, it shows how shifting understandings of the island continent shed new light on the relationship between islands and continents in the mapping of modernity.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781783085347
July 2016
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£115.00 / $115.00Australia is the planet’s sole island continent. This book argues that the uniqueness of this geography has shaped Australian history and culture, including its literature. Further, it shows how shifting understandings of the island continent shed new light on the relationship between islands and continents in the mapping of modernity.
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Finding Queensland in Australian Cinema
Poetics and Screen Geographies
Allison Craven
'Finding Queensland in Australian Cinema' explores gender, race and place in selected Australian films in various phases of Australian cinema: from Charles Chauvel’s 'Jedda' (1955), to the ‘period’ films of the New Wave in the 1970s, to the Indigenous filmmakers since the 1990s, and the contemporary era of transnational productions in Australia.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781783085491
July 2016
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£115.00 / $115.00‘Finding Queensland in Australian Cinema’ explores gender, race and place in selected Australian films in various phases of Australian cinema: from Charles Chauvel’s ‘Jedda’ (1955), to the ‘period’ films of the New Wave in the 1970s, to the Indigenous filmmakers since the 1990s, and the contemporary era of transnational productions in Australia.
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American Arabists in the Cold War Middle East, 1946–75
From Orientalism to Professionalism
Teresa Fava Thomas
This book examines US State Department’s Middle East area experts during the Cold War, known as Arabists or Middle East hands, showing how their backgrounds and education differed crucially from that of their predecessors. This study focuses on these individuals’ transformative role in US foreign relations from the Eisenhower through the Ford administrations.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781783085088
July 2016
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£115.00 / $115.00This book examines US State Department’s Middle East area experts during the Cold War, known as Arabists or Middle East hands, showing how their backgrounds and education differed crucially from that of their predecessors. This study focuses on these individuals’ transformative role in US foreign relations from the Eisenhower through the Ford administrations.
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Travelling Home, ‘Walkabout Magazine’ and Mid-Twentieth-Century Australia
Mitchell Rolls, Anna Johnston
'Walkabout' was one of the most popular magazines in mid-twentieth century Australia, educating local and international readers about the Australian landscape, its peoples and industry. It featured many of the most interesting writers, natural scientists and commentators. This book investigates 'Walkabout’ magazine's pivotal role in Australian cultural history.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781783085378
July 2016
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£115.00 / $115.00‘Walkabout’ was one of the most popular magazines in mid-twentieth century Australia, educating local and international readers about the Australian landscape, its peoples and industry. It featured many of the most interesting writers, natural scientists and commentators. This book investigates ‘Walkabout’ magazine’s pivotal role in Australian cultural history.
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Aboriginal Art and Australian Society
Hope and Disenchantment
Laura Fisher
This unique study tracks the way the Aboriginal art phenomenon has mediated Indigenous/non-indigenous relations in Australia. It illuminates the utopian and dystopian currents of thought that have arisen in relation to the art, and the contradictory social and political aspirations to which it has been anchored in public culture.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781783085316
May 2016
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£115.00 / $115.00This unique study tracks the way the Aboriginal art phenomenon has mediated Indigenous/non-indigenous relations in Australia. It illuminates the utopian and dystopian currents of thought that have arisen in relation to the art, and the contradictory social and political aspirations to which it has been anchored in public culture.
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Ethnographies of Grey Zones in Eastern Europe
Relations, Borders and Invisibilities
Edited by Ida Harboe Knudsen, Martin Demant Frederiksen
Over the last two decades, Eastern European countries have experienced extensive changes in geo-political relocations and relations leading to everyday uncertainty. Based on ethnographic cases, this anthology explores how grey zones of governance, borders, relations and invisibilities affect everyday life in contemporary Eastern Europe.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781783084128
April 2015
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£115.00 / $115.00Over the last two decades, Eastern European countries have experienced extensive changes in geo-political relocations and relations leading to everyday uncertainty. Based on ethnographic cases, this anthology explores how grey zones of governance, borders, relations and invisibilities affect everyday life in contemporary Eastern Europe.
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Women, Gender and Everyday Social Transformation in India
Edited by Kenneth Bo Nielsen, Anne Waldrop
‘Women, Gender and Everyday Social Transformation in India’ explores key processes of gendered change in contemporary India. Through ethnographically grounded case studies, the volume foregrounds the contradictory and contested co-existence of discrepant gendered norms, values and visions in a society caught up in wider processes of sociopolitical change.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781783082698
August 2014
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£115.00 / $115.00‘Women, Gender and Everyday Social Transformation in India’ explores key processes of gendered change in contemporary India. Through ethnographically grounded case studies, the volume foregrounds the contradictory and contested co-existence of discrepant gendered norms, values and visions in a society caught up in wider processes of sociopolitical change.
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Globalization, Nationalism and the Text of ‘Kichaka-Vadha’
The First English Translation of the Marathi Anticolonial Classic, with a Historical Analysis of Theatre in British India
Edited and translated by Rakesh H. Solomon
This volume offers the first English translation of one of India’s most celebrated works of anticolonial resistance. It is also the first edition of the play to provide an extensive historical-critical commentary and to draw on a comprehensive range of colonial archival documents.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781783082650
July 2014
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£115.00 / $115.00This volume offers the first English translation of one of India’s most celebrated works of anticolonial resistance. It is also the first edition of the play to provide an extensive historical-critical commentary and to draw on a comprehensive range of colonial archival documents.