Academic Press: 465 books
Spain's Martyred Cities
From the Battle of Madrid to Picasso's Guernica
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Spain's Martyred Cities studies international reactions to the Spanish Civil War between the Battle of Madrid in November 1936 and the bombing of Guernica in April 1937. Many of the iconic events of the war belong to this key period, when international perceptions of the conflict were decisively shaped....
A Place to Know
Aesthetic Meaning in Recent Visual Art
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2018
To engage with the aesthetic is to watch yourself watching—and what you see cannot be reached, for all that exists is the reflection of the vision performed by you. The aesthetic experience offers insights into the consciousness that are both ancient and linked to creative inventions in present-day...
Polycentric Monarchies
How Did Early Modern Spain and Portugal Achieve and Maintain a Global Hegemony?
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Having succeeded in establishing themselves in Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas, in the early 16th century Spain and Portugal became the first imperial powers on a worldwide scale. Between 1580 and 1640, when these two entities were united, they achieved an almost global hegemony, constituting...
Siting Michelangelo
Spectatorship, Site Specificity & Soundscape
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
Michelangelo's originality as an artist lay not only in ideas about perfection and beauty, but also in his unique approach to the artistic process and art's site specificity. Michelangelo's frescoes in the Sistine Chapel and the sculptures of the Medici chapel and Julius II's tomb should all be understood...
Frank Aiken
Nationalist and Internationalist
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2014
Revolutionary; statesman; polymath: Frank Aiken cuts a colossal figure in twentieth century Irish history. However, he remains a controversial figure regarded as a war criminal by some and a principled proponent of National liberation by others.
In this engaging biographical collection, contributors...
Military Conquest of the Prairie
Native American Resistance, Evasion and Survival, 1865–1890
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
The Military Conquest of the Prairie is a study on the final wars on the prairie from the Native American perspective. When the reservation system took hold about one-third of tribes stayed permanently there, one-third during the harsh winter months, and the last third remained on what the government...
Palestine in the Second World War
Strategic Plans and Political Dilemmas
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
While the conflicts and national aspirations in British mandatory Palestine in particular and the Middle East in general were evident before the outbreak of the Second World War, the war itself accelerated and enhanced national expectations and presented continuing tactical and strategic dilemmas...
Brian Lenihan
In Calm and Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2014
Brian Lenihan was Minister for Finance at the time of the recent and dramatic political and economic crisis in Ireland, and was the lynchpin in the rescue package sought by the Irish Government. The recollections within this powerful new book throw light on Lenihan s political career from its earliest...
Ernest Fenollosa Ars poetica or The Roots of Poetic Creation?
The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
The first decade of the 20th century witnessed a calling into question of some of the central positions held by the late 19th century Positivists. There was a shift of paradigm in science as well as art, as elicited by Einstein, William James, Freud, Picasso, Bergson and Pound. The insufficiency of...
Body, Subject & Subjected
The Representation of the Body Itself, Illness, Injury, Treatment & Death in Spain and Indigenous and Hispanic American Art & Literature
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
Hominids have always been obsessed with representing their own bodies. The first "selfies" were prehistoric negative hand images and human stick figures, followed by stone and ceramic representations of the human figure. Thousands of years later, moving via historic art and literature to...
Knight Prisoner
Thomas Malory Then and Now
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Going on a quest of Thomas Malory and of the meaning of his classic Le Morte d’Arthur, this work addresses the text’s central preoccupations—violence, desire, and the nature of Englishness—by asking such questions as Who was Malory? Why did successive authorities want to lock him up? How did...
Joy and Sorrow – Songs of Ancient China
A New Translation of Shi Jing Guo Feng: A Chinese–English Bilingual Edition
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
The Shi Jing is the oldest anthology of Chinese songs. It contains 305 songs of ancient China, composed in the 12th to 7th century BCE. The collection is divided into four parts. The present work is a translation of its first part, namely Guo Feng, which translates as "songs of states" within...
Pool of Life
The Autobiography of a Punjabi Agony Aunt
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
This life story of Kailash Puri, a Punjabi author and advice columnist, connects the narrative of her life to the history of Punjabi diaspora and themes in Sikh studies. Beginning with her memories of childhood in West Punjab, the work evokes the rural customs and religious practices consistent with...
by Barbara Tornquist-Plewa
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2003
Discussing the complex weave of cultural links and the different religious and linguistic groups that have been living side by side in the Balkans for centuries, this anthropological study is the result of a project initiated to create a network of scholars from Scandinavia and the Yugoslav successor...