Sussex Academic Press: 85 books
Schism
The Battle That Forged Freemasonry
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
This book examines the creation of the Antients Grand Lodge and traces the influence of Ireland and the London Irish, especially that of Laurence Dermott, the Antients’ Grand Secretary, in the development of freemasonry in the second half of the 18th century. It demonstrates the relative accessibility...
The Middle Eastern Founders of Religion
Moses, Jesus, Muhammad, Zoroaster, and Baha'u'llah
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
This book presents an academic introduction to the life and teachings of five Middle Eastern founders of religion –- five individuals whose systems of faith, thought, and action have won the allegiance of millions. All believed to have experienced a personal encounter with the divine - a “voice”...
A. E. Housman
A Single Life
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
A.E. Housman's poetry (especially A Shropshire Lad) remains well-known, widely read and often quoted. However, Housman did not view himself as a professional poet, always making quite clear that his 'proper job' was as a Professor of Latin. Housman's fame as a poet has often obscured the fact that...
by David Ohana
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Professor David Ohana teaches European history at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. He was a visiting fellow at The Sorbonne, Harvard, and Berkeley as well as the first academic director of the Forum for Mediterranean Cultures at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute. His many books include:...
Deconstruction After All
Reflections and Conversations by Christopher Norris
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
This collection of interviews, reflections, and creative criticism presents Christopher Norris’s vigorous polemics with Hayden White, Michel Foucault, Jean Baudrillard, Jean-François Lyotard, Thomas Kuhn, Emmanuel Levinas, Pierre Bourdieu, Richard Rorty, and Stanley Fish. Alongside Norris’s uncompromising...
Wicca
History, Belief, and Community in Modern Pagan Witchcraft
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
The past century has borne witness to a growing interest in the belief systems of ancient Europe. By far the largest and best known of these Paganisms has been Wicca, a new religious movement that can now count hundreds of thousands of adherents worldwide. Wicca was first presented as the survival...
Blue Division
Spanish Blood in Russia, 1941–1945
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
This book, translated from the original Spanish, is the primary academic and historical study of the Blue Division—a Falangist initiative involving the dispatch of some 40,000 Spanish combatants (more than a half of whom paid with their lives, health, or liberty) to the Russian Front during the...
Disdain, Distrust and Dissolution
The Surge of Support for Independence in Catalonia
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Support for independence in Catalonia has increased rapidly over the past decade. This dynamic is the result of Catalans in political, economic, and academic fields who no longer believe that the necessary reform of Spanish government is a viable option in terms of achieving an acceptable arrangement...
Mrs Catherine Gladstone
'A Woman Not Quite of Her Time'
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Catherine Glynne was born in 1812, in the same year as Charles Dickens. An earl’s daughter she married the son of a self-made merchant, William Ewart Gladstone, who became Queen Victoria’s Prime Minister on four occasions. While the Queen and the PM loathed each other, they both loved Catherine,...
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....
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...
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...
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...