Deze instelling staat bekend om zijn lange geschiedenis en academische excellentie. Het is een van de oudste en meest prestigieuze onderwijsinstellingen in de Engelssprekende wereld. Veel van zijn alumni hebben aanzienlijke onderscheidingen behaald op diverse gebieden, waaronder talrijke Nobelprijswinnaars. Samen met zijn historische tegenhanger vertegenwoordigt het vaak het hoogtepunt van het Britse hoger onderwijs.
This book, first published in 2005, explores the whole range of black African experience and representation across Renaissance Europe. It offers an interdisciplinary guide to the variety and complexity of black African life in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Europe, and how it was affected by Renaissance ideas and conditions.
This 2004 volume is an accessible introduction to Rossellini's Rome Open City.
The unique conspiracy group called QAnon is growing in both membership and political power, and understanding this phenomenon is key to combating QAnon's negative effects on society. This book uses social science theory to explain the attraction and spread of the defining conspiracy movement of our times.
Trump has used words to fragment and scandalize the world. This accessible book offers a fascinating insight into Trump's presidency, by investigating and illuminating various distinctive features of his discourse. Using many real-life examples, it is an ideal introduction to the interplay of language and politics for non-specialists.
Covering a range of key issues in race and ethnicity studies, including genetics, post-race debates, racial eliminativism and the legacy of Barack Obama, and mixed race identities, Theories of Race and Ethnicity provides clear explications of a variety of contemporary theoretical perspectives.
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Sappho, the earliest and most famous Greek woman poet, sang her songs about love, friendship, rivalry, and family around 600 BCE on the island of Lesbos. Everything that survives - substantial poems and fragments, including three recently discovered poems - is here presented in a graceful modern translation, together with professional recordings.
Leading scholars examine the increasingly interconnected history of humankind since 1750 in terms of structures, processes, regions, and events.
This updated Companion has been fully revised and includes an extensively overhauled bibliography and four new chapters by leading scholars.
Frances Burney (1752-1840) was the most successful female novelist of the eighteenth century. This Companion is the first volume to cover all her works in a comprehensive and accessible way. It also includes discussion of her critical reputation, and a guide to further reading.