Bloomsbury Academic imprint: 2928 books
Victims and Survivors of Nazi Human Experiments
Science and Suffering in the Holocaust
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
While the coerced human experiments are notorious among all the atrocities under National Socialism, they have been marginalised by mainstream historians. This book seeks to remedy the marginalisation, and to place the experiments in the context of the broad history of National Socialism and the Holocaust.
Paul...
Women’s Activism and "Second Wave" Feminism
Transnational Histories
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017
Women's Activism and "Second Wave" Feminism situates late 20th-century feminisms within a global framework of women's activism. Its chapters, written by leading international scholars, demonstrate how issues of heterogeneity, transnationalism, and intersectionality have transformed understandings...
Drawing Borders
The American-Canadian Relationship during the Gilded Age
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2013
Canada has not always had the role of 'friendly neighbor to the north.' In fact, the seemingly peaceful history of relations between the United States and Canada is punctuated with instances of border disputes, annexation manifestos and trade disagreements. David R. Spencer reveals the complexity...
Socially Just Pedagogies
Posthumanist, Feminist and Materialist Perspectives in Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2018
This book addresses contemporary philosophical issues in higher education and how we can create socially just pedagogies and a socially just university. Providing a forum for thinking through how critical posthumanism, affect theory and feminist new materialisms provide a useful lens for higher education,...
The Politics and Rhetoric of Commemoration
How the Portuguese Parliament Celebrates the 1974 Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2017
In recent years there has been much interest in collective memory and commemoration. It is often assumed that when nations celebrate a historic day, they put aside the divisions of the present to recall the past in a spirit of unity. As Billig and Marinho show, this does not apply to the Portuguese...
Ceramics and Globalization
Staffordshire Ceramics, Made in China
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2017
Neil Ewins' study of the Staffordshire potteries in a period of great global change traces how ceramics production has been affected by globalisation in both familiar and unexpected ways.
Although many manufacturers such as Wedgwood initially moved production to cheaper labour markets in East...
by Associate Professor Barbara Browning
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
What makes a song sound foreign? What makes it sound "American,†? or Brazilian? Caetano Veloso's 2004 American songbook album, A Foreign Sound, is a meditation on these questions-but in truth, they were questions he'd been asking throughout his career. Properly heard, the album throws a wrench...
Ludic Dreaming
How to Listen Away from Contemporary Technoculture
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
Ludic Dreaming uses (sometimes fictional) dreams as a method for examining sound and contemporary technoculture's esoteric exchanges, refusing both the strictures of visually dominated logic and the celebratory tone that so often characterizes the "sonic turn.†? Instead, through a series of...
by
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2017
This is the first volume to mobilize encounters between the work of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari and the rich developments in cultural studies of music and sound. The book takes seriously the intellectual and political challenge that the process philosophy of Deleuze and Guattari poses for previous...
by
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Whether art can be wholly autonomous has been repeatedly challenged in the modern history of aesthetics. In this collection of specially-commissioned chapters, a team of experts discuss the extent to which art can be explained purely in terms of aesthetic categories.
Covering examples from...
The Arena Concert
Music, Media and Mass Entertainment
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
The Arena Concert: Music, Media and Mass Entertainment is the first sustained engagement with what might said to be - in its melding of concert and gathering, in its evolving relationship with digital and social media, in its delivery of event, experience, technology and star - the art form of the...
Pontano’s Virtues
Aristotelian Moral and Political Thought in the Renaissance
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
First secretary to the Aragonese kings of Naples, Giovanni Pontano (1429-1503) was a key figure of the Italian Renaissance. A poet and a philosopher of high repute, Pontano's works offer a reflection on the achievements of fifteenth-century humanism and address major themes of early modern moral and...
by Professor Faye Hammill, Professor Mark Hussey
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
The print culture of the early twentieth century has become a major area of interest in contemporary Modernist Studies. Modernism's Print Cultures surveys the explosion of scholarship in this field and provides an incisive, well-informed guide for students and scholars alike. Surveying the key critical...
by Professor Robert Spoo
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2018
Exploring critical legal issues and cases of the period-from Oscar Wilde's prosecution for gross indecency to legal bans on such publications as D.H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover, Radclyffe Hall's The Well of Loneliness, and James Joyce's Ulysses-Modernism and the Law is the first book to survey...