Palgrave Macmillan Us: 3342 books
by G. Martin
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2012
Focusing on individual political thinkers and beginning with indigenous African political thought, the book successively examines African nationalism, African socialism, populism and Marxism, Africanism and pan-Africanism, concluding with contemporary perspectives on democracy, development and the African state.
French Colonial Fascism
The Extreme Right in Algeria, 1919-1939
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2013
This study investigates the various extreme-rightist leagues in Algeria, with particular attention to certain key themes, among them the rabid xenophobia directed at the Jewish population and local Muslims. It demonstrates that fascism helped to construct a racial hierarchy to preserve European hegemony and a pool of cheap labor.
Interdisciplinary Pedagogy for STEM
A Collaborative Case Study
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2016
This book focuses on constructivist theory and collaborative interdisciplinary studies, showing how constructivist theory complements interdisciplinary studies. Constructivist theory stresses how learners construct new ideas and concepts, while the interdisciplinary method requires that learners approach...
The Fall and Rise of Political Leaders
Olof Palme, Olusegun Obasanjo, and Indira Gandhi
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2011
Olof Palme (Sweden), Olusegun Obasanjo (Nigeria), and Indira Gandhi (India) achieved the pinnacle of political power, fell from or relinquished power, and then, after a period in the political wilderness, regained it. By placing greater emphasis than that customarily accorded by biographers on the...
by Jin-Heon Jung
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2015
Building Noah's Ark for Migrants, Refugees, and Religious Communities examines religion within the framework of refugee studies as a public good, with the spiritual and material use of religion shedding new light on the agency of refugees in reconstructing their lives and positioning themselves in hostile environments.
by T. Kurihara
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2009
This book is an ethnography of a Japanese white-collar workplace in Osaka carried out during the late 1990s. It explores the relevance of social models to the analysis of social relations and women's status in the workplace by examining concepts of time, ritual, and space via the theory of practice.
Educating Young Giants
What Kids Learn (And Don’t Learn) in China and America
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2012
Carries readers into Chinese and American elementary and high school classrooms, and highlights the big differences between schooling in China and the United States. Nancy Pine reveals how these two countries need to extract themselves from outmoded practice and learn from each other's strengths.
Cosmopolitanism and Place
Spatial Forms in Contemporary Anglophone Literature
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Cosmopolitanism and Place considers the way contemporary Anglophone fiction connects global identities with the experience in local places. Looking at fiction set in metropolises, regional cities, and rural communities, this book argues that the everyday experience of these places produces forms of wide connections that emphasize social justice.
W.C. Fields from the Ziegfeld Follies and Broadway Stage to the Screen
Becoming a Character Comedian
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2017
This book reveals how Fields became a character comedian while performing in Broadway’s most illustrious revue, the Ziegfeld Follies.
As the first biography to use the recently opened Fields Papers at the Motion Picture Academy, the book explores how Fields years as a Follies entertainer...
Women, Collective Creation, and Devised Performance
The Rise of Women Theatre Artists in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2016
This book explores the role and centrality of women in the development of collaborative theatre practice, alongside the significance of collective creation and devising in the development of the modern theatre.
Tracing a web of women theatremakers in Europe and North America, this book explores...
by Kathryn Mederos Syssoyeva
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2013
This edited volume situates its contemporary practice in the tradition which emerged at the beginning of the twentieth century. Collective Creation in Contemporary Performance examines collective and devised theatre practices internationally and demonstrates the prevalence, breadth, and significance of modern collective creation.
The Dangerous Lives of Public Performers
Dancing, Sex, and Entertainment in the Islamic World
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2014
Examining performers from the ancient Mediterranean world to the modern Islamic Middle East, including India and Pakistan, Shay explores the careers, artistic performances, and legacies of these individuals who were forced to produce entertainment and art for, and have sex with, any and all patrons.
Theatre/Ecology/Cognition
Theorizing Performer-Object Interaction in Grotowski, Kantor, and Meyerhold
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2012
How is performer-object interaction enacted and perceived in the theatre? How thereby are varieties of 'meaning' also enacted and perceived? Using cognitive theory and ecological ontology, Paavolainen investigates how the interplay of actors and objects affords a degree of enjoyment and understanding, whether or not the viewer speaks the language.
The Films of Eric Rohmer
French New Wave to Old Master
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2014
Eric Rohmer was a key figure in French New Wave cinema. Contributors to this volume revisit, complicate, and upend accepted readings and interpretations of perennial Rohmerian topics including the important role of language in his films, the influence of the arts, depictions of gender and class, and the roles played by space and place in his films.