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This volume chronicles the volatile history of the resurgence of South Africa, once an international pariah, as a respected and influential African state.

New essays by noted authorities on music and related arts in early modern Italy, giving special attention to musical sources, poetry, performance, and visual arts.

A collection of essays which explore the cultural background and creative evolution of this once-overlooked work.

The first study to utilize the Klagenfurt Edition of Musil's Nachlass offers a close reading of textual variations, emphasizing Musil's commitment to the artist's role in re-creating the world.

New essays revealing the enduring significance of the story made famous in the 1587 Faustbuch and providing insights into the forces that gave the sixteenth century its distinct character.

Explores business development in the Black Power era and the centrality of economic goals to the larger black freedom movement.

Lawmen were crucial to the economic wellbeing of medieval nunneries; this book looks at the relationship between them and how cases were conducted.

An analysis of later Stuart economic culture that contributes significantly to our understanding of early modern society.

Timely essays from experienced contributors examine the damage recent conflict has caused to cultural heritage, and how it may best be safeguarded in future.

This series [pushes] the boundaries of knowledge and [develops] new trends in approach and understanding. ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW

Outlines the complex nature of the Anglo-Irish ruling class, showing how its multi-faceted identity was formed and how it evolved.

Geoffrey le Baker's chronicle covers the reigns of Edward II and Edward III up to the English victory at Poitiers. David Preest's new translation includes extensive notes and an introduction by Richard Barber.

Substantial new readings of Chaucer's poems, offering a fresh perspective on some of the major controversies in Chaucer scholarship.

The complexity of the interplay and relationships over various borders in medieval Europe is here fully teased out.

Illuminating the development and character of Scottish Protestantism, The Culture of Controversy proposes new ways of understanding religion and politics in early modern Scotland.

A fascinating study of midshipmen and other "young gentlemen", outlining their social background, career paths and what life was like for them.

13-14c Norse versions of French narratives of Arthur's knights, with modern prose translations.

The first biography of the 18th-century landscape gardener, Uvedale Price, showing the key interconnections between his roles as landowner, art collector, forester, landscaper, connoisseur and scholar.

Why did Gower choose to write his most famous poem in English? New insights into his purpose and the context and tradition of the poem are presented here.

A study of the implications and practices of wills and will-making in Anglo-Saxon society, and of the varieties of inheritance strategies and commemorative arrangements adopted.

Kleist viewed anew as a major contributor to the tradition of post-Kantian thought.

A reading of how women's power is asserted and demonstrated in the popular medieval genre of romance.

Frost's breakthrough book of poetry seen anew as an artistic whole and in the context of the poet's career and development.

Pioneering examination of the Old English version of Bede's Historia ecclesiastica and its reception in the middle ages, from a theoretically informed, multi-disciplinary perspective.

The first thorough study of Liszt's use of the musical style associated with the Hungarian Roma ("Gypsies") in his renowned Hungarian Rhapsodies and less overtly Hungarian works.

The first major study of the contemporary German debate over "normalization" and its impact across the range of cultural, political, economic, intellectual, and historical discourses.

A study of the "patchwork imaginary" that is postwall Berlin fiction and its significance for the new Germany.