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The First Aga Khan: Memoirs of the 46th Ismaili Imam
(2018)
The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0] licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by Islamic Publications Ltd. I.B. Tauris in association with the Institute ...
National Affects
(2022)
Identity is widely acknowledged to be a felt experience, yet questions of atmosphere, mood and public sentiments are rarely made central to understanding the global politics of nationalism. This book asks what difference ...
Women of the Portuguese Guinea Liberation War
(2024)
Drawing on rich archival sources and summarizing extensive interviews with women who participated in the Portuguese Guinea Liberation War as spies, guerrilla fighters, and weapons transporters, this open access book helps ...
Concrete and Plastic
(2024)
Plastic and concrete are two of the most ubiquitous materials of the modern age. This open access book traces inventions, inventories and interventions of these materials as they pervade our day-to-day lives across various ...
Higher Flight
(2024)
In the open access book Higher Flight, pre-eminent scholar and activist James B. Stewart offers a much-needed critical assessment of the current state of Black/Africana studies in order to chart a path forward. In three ...
Higher Music Education and Employability in a Neoliberal World
(2024)
This open access edited collection shows how neoliberalism continues to shape higher music education institutions, curricula design and learning cultures, as well as the various ways of transitioning from education to work ...
Ecological Communication and Ecoliteracy
(2024)
This open access volume is a call for ecological awareness and action through communication. It offers perspectives on how we, as humans, posit ourselves in relation to, and as part of, the environment in both verbal and ...
The Legal Consistency of Technology Regulation in Europe
(2024)
By bringing together fundamental rights, economic law, and recent legislation in the areas of digital platforms, data, and AI, this open access book gives a comprehensive picture of the state of play in technology regulation ...
Russian Warfare and Influence
(2024)
This open access anthology takes a holistic approach to how Russia carries out hybrid warfare against its neighbouring countries - states at the intersection between the East and West. The book addresses the vulnerabilities ...
Early Childhood Education in Social and Political Transitions
(2024)
This open access book is about the successes and challenges of the institutions and individuals who transformed early child education in Central, Eastern and Southern Europe (CEE) and Eurasia in response to the political ...
Classical Antiquity and Medieval Ireland
(2024)
Through an extensive series of extracts and accompanying interpretative and contextual essays, this volume showcases the expertise in classical learning that flourished in medieval Gaelic Ireland. Providing translations ...
The Normative Foundations for EU Criminal Justice
(2024)
Should the European Union regulate criminal justice? This open access book explores the question forensically, establishing whether a compelling normative justification for EU action in the field exists. It develops an ...
Because This Land is Who We Are
(2024)
Because This Land Is Who We Are is an exploration of environmental repossession, told through a collaborative case study approach, and engaging with Indigenous communities in Canada (Anishinaabe), Hawai'i (Kanaka Maoli) ...
The Transformative Humanities
(2012)
Distinguished scholar Mikhail Epstein offers a re-assessment of the role of the humanities and advocates their constructive potential for the society and intellectual culture of the future. In his famous classification of ...
Chapter Broadcasting Communist Morality: Sex Education in Soviet Latvia
(2023)
Mass media was an important technology of sexual enlightenment in the Brezhnev-era USSR. In the Latvian SSR, sex education materials positioned medical experts working within the state healthcare system as the chief authority ...
Technologies of Mind and Body in the Soviet Union and the Eastern Bloc
(2023)
The project to create a 'New Man' and 'New Woman' initiated in the Soviet Union and the Eastern Bloc constituted one of the most extensive efforts to remake human psychophysiology in modern history. Playing on the different ...
Nietzsche and Kant as Thinkers of Antagonism
(2024)
The question of antagonism, struggle and dissensus, and their place, limits and value for democracy, has divided deliberative from agonistic theories in recent years and remains the main source of the impasse between them. ...
Gendered Peace through International Law
(2024)
Two leading feminist lawyers reflect on gender in international law to set out what a gendered peace might look like and its impact on international law in this open access book. In order to challenge orthodoxies, the book ...
UK Earth Law Judgments
(2024)
This open access book collects 11 reimagined judgments from the UK and challenges anthropocentrism in legal decision-making across a range of legal areas. It draws from a range of Earth law approaches including rights of ...
Contagion, Technology, and Law at the Limits
(2024)
This open access book explores law, politics, and inequality in fights against infectious diseases. Guided by a theoretical framework called “governing through contagion”, the studies in this book analyse how past and ...
Negotiating Migrations
(2024)
As a species, we have always been mobile and migration was a habitual feature of prehistoric life. This open-access volume uses archaeological case studies mainly from the European Neolithic, but also from the Pacific, the ...
An Anthology of Philosophy in Persia, Vol. 1
(2007)
The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by Islamic Publications Ltd. The tradition of philosophy in the Persian-speaking ...
Narratives, Nations, and Other World Products in the Making of Global History
(2024)
Explaining how nations and narratives have been the products of transnational, cross-border forces of migration and cultural exchange, this open access volume presents a global history of the basic ideas that govern our ...
Executive Power
(2022)
This open access book considers the function of the royal prerogative in the changing landscape of the British constitution. It explains each of the prerogative powers in separate chapters. It clarifies the respective roles ...
Gender, Violence and Criminal Justice in the Colonial Pacific
(2022)
Centering on cases of sexual violence, this open access book illuminates the contested introduction of British and French colonial criminal justice in the Pacific Islands during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, ...
Integration and Collaborative Imperialism in Modern Europe
(2024)
This open access book provides a thought-provoking new perspective on European imperialism in the 19th and 20th centuries. It does so by inquiring how smaller European powers and regions at the margins of the continent ...
Wards of Court and the Inherent Jurisdiction
(2024)
This open access book explores the High Court’s powers under its inherent jurisdiction and wardship in relation to children and incapacitous and vulnerable adults. The book introduces the inherent jurisdiction and investigates ...
Cold War Women
(2024)
Presents original archival research on eight largely unknown émigrée translators whose work during the Cold War actively contributed to and, in some cases, decisively shaped the reception of Russian and Soviet literature ...
Decolonizing Maasai History
(2024)
In this open access book, Maasai leader and activist Meitamei Dapash teams with historian Mary Poole to offer a new version of Maasai history based on Maasai memory and concerns. Through their rich and detailed narrative, ...
Refugee Governance in the Arab World
(2024)
The Arab region has played an oversized role in hosting refugees. Yet a paucity of literature exists on how the region has contributed to shaping the international refugee regime.
This anthology presents the first ...
Scottish Literature, Borders and the Environmental Imagination
(2024)
Bringing together concerns in border studies, the environmental humanities and Scottish literary studies, this open access book examines the relationship between borders and the environment in Scottish literature from the ...
The Welfare of Future Children
(2024)
This open access practical guide to reproductive ethics navigates the complex subject of the policy around IVF treatment and disability screening based on the concerns around the welfare of future children. It focuses on ...
Confronting Fascism in the Arabic Jewish Press
(2024)
During the 1930s and 1940s, Jews in the Middle East took part in extensive debates on fascism in the public sphere. How did the rise of fascism impact the ways in which Jews in the region envisioned the past, present and ...
Biocultural Empire
(2024)
Human species supremacy is one of the most persistent fictions at work in the field of modern British imperial history today. This open access collection challenges that assumption, and investigates what histories of empire ...
Critical Perspectives on Refugee and Migrant Integration in Education
(2024)
This open-access book offers a critical appraisal, at the cross-section of theory and practice, of concepts of integration at work in education in diverse geopolitical settings. With chapters written by experts based in ...
City of Desire
(2024)
In this major open access contribution to Global South urban studies, Tanzil Shafique offers a new way of knowing and engaging with the most common urban environment in the Global South – informal settlements, or “slums”. ...
EU Law in the Digital Age
(2025)
In this book, expert lawyers from across the full spectrum of EU law explore the impact of the digital age on the Union’s legal framework. The fifth industrial revolution is impacting on all aspects of society. This open ...
Horror in Classical Antiquity and Beyond
(2025)
This open-access volume is the first to explore systematically and comprehensively the concept and category of ‘horror’ in antiquity. The contributors retrieve the ancient grammar of horror by paying equal attention to its ...
Rights in Criminal Law
(2025)
This open access collection of 17 original essays is the first volume to provide an in-depth exploration of the potential of a rights-based approach to criminal law. The book presents a comprehensive treatment of the role ...
Varieties of Economic Nationalism in Cold War Europe : Small State Responses to Economic Changes, 1960s- 1980s
(2025)
With this remit underscoring the inherent vulnerabilities of smaller national economies and their strategies of economic survival beyond the constraints of Cold War alignments, Varieties of Economic Nationalism in Cold War ...
Overriding Mandatory Rules in International Commercial Disputes
(2025)
This open access book analyses how to identify and treat overriding mandatory rules in international commercial litigation and arbitration from a Korean and comparative law perspective. In addition to providing a deeper ...
Justice in 21st-Century Fairy Tales and the Power of Wonder
(2025)
Exploring a range of international works such as films, streaming television series, a graphic novel, and a picture book, this open access book interrogates how, and to what extent, fairy tales are put to work for justice ...
Ecology and Theology in the Ancient World
(2019)
This open access multi-disciplinary volume brings together the voices of biblical scholars, classicists, philosophers, theologians and political theorists to explore how ecology and theology intersected in ancient thinking, ...
The European Ombudsman Investigated
(2025)
This book is a seminal study of the European Ombudsman, focusing on current challenges and future developments by its leading expert commentators. This open access volume traces the evolution of the European Ombudsman over ...
Ungovernable Spaces
(2025)
What does it mean to be governed and what does it mean to resist? Examining how communities form amidst social and political turbulence, this open access book presents four case studies that demonstrate the power of organic ...
When Criticism Goes to War
(2025)
A bold intervention into the lingering debates on Serbian writers Petar Petrovic Njegos and Ivo Andric in the late Yugoslav and post-Yugoslav period, which interrogates the political and moralizing (mis)use of literature. ...
Biomass, Capitalism, and Hegemony
(2024)
How did Europeans achieve global dominance and continue to satisfy their ever-growing needs? How do we explain the effects this has on the rest of the world? In his magnum opus, published here in English for the first ...
International Organizations and the Cold War
(2025)
The post-WWII era was a time of superpower confrontation and antagonistic bloc politics, but it was also a period in which organized internationalism reached its peak as both an ideological value and a political practice. ...
Economic Cooperation in the Shadow of Contested Sovereignty
(2025)
This open access book is the first of its kind to address a question of both theoretical and practical significance: how do countries or entities approach economic cooperation in the face of vexing political concerns and ...
Varieties of Economic Nationalism in Cold War Europe
(2025)
Investigating the trajectories of economic nationalisms in Cold War Europe, this open access book explores the scope and limits of small (nation-)state actors pursuing and defending national economic interests in a globalizing ...
Drawing Analogies
(2025)
By exploring diagrams, diagramming and the diagrammatic across a range of disciplines and arts-led practices, this open access book addresses the gap between diagrams as a widely valued mode of visual representation and ...
Inheriting the Family
(2025)
This open access book uses new methodologies from the history and sociology of emotions to analyse why people select specific tokens of family inheritance, and how this influences personal identity, cultural heritage, and ...
The Rise and Fall of the Sunbed in Britain
(2025)
This open access book explores tanning culture: how the desire for tanned white skin led to the phenomenal growth in sunbed use and how the practice spread through Britain. By analysing the role of the media, medical ...
Shakespeare and Seriality
(2025)
Encompassing a wide variety of genres, media and art forms across a broad historical scope, this open access book identifies central strategies of serialization in Shakespeare’s plays and their adaptations. Beginning with ...
Building Modern Scotland
(2025)
Combining architectural and social history, this open access book tells for the first time the in-depth story of Scotland’s new towns. One of the most significant episodes in modern architectural, urban and social history, ...
A Companion to Muslim Ethics
(2012)
I.B.Tauris in association with the Institute of Ismaili Studies Socrates famously said that the unexamined life is not worth living. In keeping with this dictum, taking ethics seriously means engaging with the real world ...
Muslim Ethics
(2008)
This open access books looks at recent political and social events as well as advances in science and technology have posed challenges to the traditional Muslim discourse on ethics. In this book Amyn B. Sajoo examines these ...
Philosophy in a Meaningless Life
(2016-12-15)
Provides an account of the nature of philosophy which is rooted in the question of the meaning of life. It makes a powerful and vivid case for believing that this question is neither obscure nor obsolete, but reflects a ...
Race and America's Immigrant Press
(2011-06-30)
Race was all over the immigrant newspaper week after week. As early as the 1890s the papers of the largest Slovak fraternal societies covered lynchings in the South. While somewhat sympathetic, these articles nevertheless ...
Science Fiction Cinema and 1950s Britain
(2017-11-02)
For the last fifty years, discussion of 1950s science fiction cinema has been dominated by the view that the genre reflected US paranoia about Soviet brainwashing and the nuclear bomb. However, classic films, such as ...