Reconfiguring the Silk Road

Reconfiguring the Silk RoadExplores trade and cultural interactions from the Bronze Age to the Middle Ages, examining Silk Road economies, social structures, and the spread of ideas, goods, and technologies. Topics include the Tarim Basin populations, textile manufacturing, domestication of grains and horses, and the dispersal of languages across the Eurasian Steppe.

leading missionary societies to question the ambivalent legacy of mission schools

from direct colonial rule to racist border regimes

Essays examine cinematic views of key American political institutions - the presidency and electoral process

This selection is intended to be broadly representative of saints' lives in Middle English and of the classic types of hagiographic legend as these were presented to the lay public and less-literate clergy of late medieval England

Spectral Dickens posits a spectral dimension of literary character

the earliest settlements in the region are fairly late-they date to the Early Bronze Age (late 3rd millennium B

during the process of decolonisation

which Hollywood embraced enthusiastically

New edition of Guillaume de Machaut's 23 motets

Charlotte Smith

the volume makes available primarily unpublished performance texts and writings that give an intimate insight both into Frueh’s everyday life and the thinking of an artist and scholar well known for offering her personal experiences as a means of embodying and speaking about pleasure

this book examines the relationship between female imperialism and national identity