The 1998 soccer World Cup was perhaps the greatest international event in recent French history. This collection examines the effects on the host nation of the major economic, political, cultural and sporting dimensions of this global sports event. It discusses issues such as th…
From 14-17 April 1940, a meeting was held in the Kremlin to examine and analyze the performance of the Red Army in the recent Soviet-Finnish War. The participants were all the army commanders who had taken part in the campaign, and some members of the Politburo, notably Stalin, …
This collection of articles address issues such as: What does cultural analysis have to offer development studies? Is culture a new paradigm for the study of development or a minefield of theoritical confusion? A diversity of approaches is illustrated.
"Tracing the way the agrarian myth has re-emerged over the twentieth century in ideology shared by populism, postmodernism and the political right, the argument in this book is that at the centre of this discourse about the cultural identity of 'otherness'/'difference' lies the …
"Tracing the way the agrarian myth has re-emerged over the twentieth century in ideology shared by populism, postmodernism and the political right, the argument in this book is that at the centre of this discourse about the cultural identity of 'otherness'/'difference' lies the …
This book, which concludes Professor Tauber's trilogy on the emergence of the modern Fertile Crescent, examines the impact of clandestine and overt political parties and societies in Syria, Lebanon, Palestine and Iraq in the period after the First World War. It analyses Amir Fay…
The five essays collected in this book range over all of Michel Foucault's (1926-1984) work, but their main critical focus is upon objectivity, power, and knowledge. The very possibility of a critical stance is a recurring theme in all of Foucault's works, and the contributors v…
"Michel Foucault (1926-1984) was one of the most renowned of late twentieth century social philosophers. He covered an enormous range: from sexuality to prisons; from identity to power; from knowledge to politics." "The essays written for this book range over all of Foucault's w…
The five essays collected in this book range over all of Michel Foucault's (1926-1984) work, but their main critical focus is upon objectivity, power, and knowledge. The very possibility of a critical stance is a recurring theme in all of Foucault's works, and the contributors v…
