University Of Wales Press: 420 books
Body Gothic
Corporeal Transgression in Contemporary Literature and Horror Film
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
The gothic, particularly in its contemporary incarnations, is often constructed around largely disembodied concepts such as spectrality or the haunted. Body Gothic offers a counter-narrative that reinstates the importance of viscerality to the gothic mode. It argues that contemporary discourses surrounding...
The Mexican Transition
Politics, Culture & Democracy in the Twenty-first Century
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013
This book is a collection of essays on the Mexican transition to democracy that offers reflections on different aspects of civic culture, the political process, electoral struggles, and critical junctures. They were written at different points in time and even though they have been corrected and adapted,...
Saving the Pyramids
Twenty First Century Engineering and Egypts Ancient Monuments
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2018
Having worked on projects around the world, strengthening and restoring historically significant structures from Windsor Castle to the parliament buildings in Canada, Peter James brings insight to the structural engineering of ancient Egypt. After fourteen years working on the historic buildings and...
Saturday's Silence
R. S. Thomas and Paschal Reading
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
R. S. Thomas is recognised globally as one of the major poets of the twentieth century. Such detailed attention as has been paid to the religious dimensions of his work has, however, largely limited itself to such matters as his obsession with the ‘absent God’, his appalled fascination with the...
Count Us In
How to Make Maths Real for All of Us
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2016
Mathematics, like language, is a universal experience. Every society counts and is empowered by its ability to count and to measure. The mathematical processes developed within various cultures differ widely, and Count us in explores these cultural links, drawing examples from the author’s personal...
Exiles, Travellers and Vagabonds
Rethinking Mobility in Francophone Women's Writing
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
Travel writing, migrant writing, exile writing, expatriate writing, and even the fictional travelling protagonists that emerge in literary works from around the globe, have historically tended to depict mobility as a masculine phenomenon. The presence of such genres in women’s writing, however,...
Exiles, Travellers and Vagabonds
Rethinking Mobility in Francophone Women's Writing
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
Travel writing, migrant writing, exile writing, expatriate writing, and even the fictional travelling protagonists that emerge in literary works from around the globe, have historically tended to depict mobility as a masculine phenomenon. The presence of such genres in women’s writing, however,...
by David A. Pettersen
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
Gangsters, aviators, hard-boiled detectives, gunslingers, jazz and images of the American metropolis were all an inextricable part of the cultural landscape of interwar France. While the French 1930s have long been understood as profoundly anti-American, this book shows how a young, up-and-coming...
Hegel and Marx
After the Fall of Communism
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2014
The second edition of Hegel and Marx: After the Fall of Communism surveys Hegel’s close connection with world-famed economist Friedrich List, the declared enemy of Karl Marx. Illuminating the mysterious nature of Hegel’s relationship with Marx and Friedrich List may help us to comprehend the extraordinary...
The Spanish Anarchists of Northern Australia
Revolution in the Sugar Cane Fields
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2018
In 1901, the year the six Australian colonies federated to become one country, revolution was being plotted across the world. Publicised in the newspapers and carried by migrants along global trade routes, the anarchist movement appeared prepared for a long period of power as one of the world’s...
Robert Recorde
The Life and Times of a Tudor Mathematician
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2012
Recent research has revealed new information about the Welsh Tudor mathematician, Robert Recorde who invented the equals sign (=) – what inspired his work and what was its influence on the development of mathematics education in the English-speaking world. The findings of that research, presented...
Anchoritism in the Middle Ages
Texts and Traditions
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
This volume explores medieval anchoritism (the life of a solitary religious recluse) from a variety of perspectives. The individual essays conceive anchoritism in broadly interpretive categories: challenging perceived notions of the very concept of anchoritic ‘rule’ and guidance; studying the...
Secret Sins
Sex, Violence and Society in Carmarthenshire 1870-1920
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
Sleepy rustic Carmarthenshire was secretly a hotbed of debauchery, violence and drunkenness according to Russell Davies in a new edition of his very successful book, ‘Secret Sins’. Behind the facade of idyllic rural life, there was a twilight world of mental illness, suicide, crime, vicious assaults,...
Jailtacht
The Irish Language, Symbolic Power and Political Violence in Northern Ireland, 1972-2008
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
Using research methods and techniques, the author closely analyses the emergence of the Irish language amongst republican prisoners and ex prisoners in Northern Ireland from the 1970’s up until the present. This pioneering study shows how the language was used exclusively in parts of the prison,...