Frontiers of servitude

Frontiers of servitudeBased on little examined printed and archival sources, this book explores the fundamental ideas behind early French thinking about Atlantic slavery, c. 1620 1750. It analyses the three central questions of what made one a slave, of what was unique about Caribbean labour, and the implications of strategic approaches in interacting with slaves.

historical study of invasion-scare and future-war fiction in Britain before and during the First World War in half a century

My Beautiful Homeland’ is the story of a man from Salonika on the eve of the First World War who is forced to choose between his love for a woman and his love for his country as the Ottoman Empire is drawn into the war and faces collapse

It is the first work published on the director in the English Language

Brings to light the comic mechanisms underpinning Blier's films and identifies strategies which navigate through one of the most entertaining and disconcerting bodies of work of recent years

John Ruskin influenced Mahatma Gandhi

and reveal the ways in which material and visual culture can serve to voice protest and formulate social critique

Britain in fragments traces how the historic pillars of democracy have begun to crumble

This is the first comprehensive study of Manchester Cathedral

This collection aims to show that David Foster Wallace’s work originates from and functions in the space between philosophy and literature

The second of two volumes on dignity

with reference to Vladimir Nabokov’s hyperconscious literary art

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