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The effect of Islam on Western Europe has been profound. Spektorowski and Elfersy argue that it has transformed European democratic values by inspiring an ultra-liberalism that now faces an ultra-conservative backlash.

Conceptualizes the foreign policies of Europe - defined as the European Union and its member states - toward the states in its immediate southern 'neighbourhood' as semi-imperial attempts to turn these states into Europe's southern buffer zone, or borderlands.

A reflection on the power of the performing arts to engage and enrich communities

Earle Brown (1926-2002) was a crucial part of the seminal group of experimental composers known as the New York School, and his work intersects in fascinating ways with that of his colleagues John Cage, Morton Feldman, and Christian Wolff. This book seeks to expand our view of Brown's work, addressing his practices as a painter and composer as well as his collaborations with visual artists.

For more than five centuries, the Plaza Mayor (or Zocalo) in Mexico City has been the site of performances for a public spectatorship. Performance in the Zocalo examines the ways that this city square has achieved symbolic significance over the centuries, and how national, ethnic, and racial identity has been performed there.

A fresh contribution to the literature on jazz

Buss has compiled the stories of 10 lower-income women, told in their own words

Investigates the literary afterlives of Rome's first conflict with Carthage. The book combines innovative theoretical approaches with advances in the philological and editorial analysis of Latin literature to reassess the various 'texts' of the First Punic War, including those composed by Vergil, Propertius, Horace, and Silius Italicus.

Lays bare the role of extractivist policies and efforts to resist these policies through a deep ethnographic exploration of globally important iron ore mining in Brazil and India. Markus KrIger addresses resistance strategies to extractivism and tracks their success, or lack thereof, through a comparison of peaceful and armed resource conflicts.

Following the end of World War II in 1945, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) spent three decades carrying out agrarian reform among nearly one third of the world's rural population. This book presents a new perspective on the first step of this reform, when the CCP helped redistribute over 40 million hectares of land to over 300 million peasants.

Focuses on the queer embodiments that both reveal and animate the gaps between South Africa's self-image and its lived realities. The book argues that performance has become a key location where contradictions inherent to South Africa's post-apartheid identity are negotiated.

Fatures the voices of scholars reflecting transnational and transracial adoption and its relationship to notions of multiculturalism. The essays trouble common understandings about who is being adopted, who is adopting, and where these acts are taking place, challenging the master narrative of the concept of a monolithic Western receiving nation.

Explores the intersection of fire, city, and emperor in ancient Rome, tracing the critical role that urban conflagration played as both reality and metaphor in the politics and literature of the early imperial period.

Embodied performance in South Africa has particular potency because apartheid was so centrally focused on the body. The majority of artists analysed here are people of colour. As the artists imagine new forms, they are helping audiences see the contemporary moment as it is: an important intervention in a country long predicated on denial.

Presents illuminating reflections on the achievements of poet Denise Levertov.

Explores the financial history, social significance, and cultural meanings of the theft, starting in 1933, of assets owned by German Jews. This volume offers a much needed contribution to our understanding of the history of the period and the acts.

A beautiful account of the Peony Garden, the University of Michigan's "living museum," that is sure to delight any reader

Offers, for the first time, a book-length study of an infamous cause celebre in seventeenth-century Rome, how it resonated then and has continued to resonate: the 1659 investigation and prosecution of Gironima Spana and dozens of Roman widows, who shared a particularly effective poison to murder their husbands.

Draws on expertise from lawyers, historians of philosophy, and scholars of classical studies and ancient history, to investigate, historically and comparatively, the relationship between the law, legal institutions, and the boundaries of knowledge in classical Greece and Rome.

Utilizing case studies and extensive fieldwork, this book considers the nature of state power and legal violence in liberal democracies by focusing on the interaction between law, science, and policing in India.

Integrating interdisciplinary scholarship at the nexus of sound studies and South Asian Studies by questions of nation/nationalism, postcolonialism, cinema, and popular culture in India, Indian Sound Cultures, Indian Sound Citizenship offers fresh and sophisticated approaches to the sonic world of the subcontinent.

Tells the story of one of the most toxic places in the United States, and of an epic legal battle waged to clean up the site and hold those responsible accountable. The legal fight over the Stringfellow acid puts has helped shape environmental law, toxic torts, appellate procedure, takings law, and insurance coverage.

Analyses the poetics (rap beats, rhythms, rhymes, verse and song structures) of 6,000 lines of rap lyrics to provide new insights on rap artistry and performance. While most scholarship on rap has focused on its historical and cultural dimensions, this book traces rap's deepest roots and stylistic evolution and contextualizes its complex poetics.