This collection offers new perspectives on the connections between politics, identity and representation in art and poetry in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Britain and Europe. Contributions explore questions such as the following: what was the effect of the reciprocity…
"Beginning in the late 1970s, activists from the favelas of Rio de Janeiro challenged the conditions-such as limited access to security, sanitation, public education, and formal employment-that separated favela residents from Rio's other citizens. The activists built a movement …
La 4e de couverture indique : "Sait-on que la première femme ministre au monde était une bolchevique ? Le 23 janvier 1917, à Petrograd, une grève spontanée d'ouvrières du textile entraîne les métallos voisins et les partis révolutionnaires réticents, et débouche sur l'abdication…
Aborde le politique par une approche morale et ontologique afin de saisir l'esprit même du politique dans le contexte global de l'existence humaine. Etudie également la nature d'une collectivité politique indépendamment d'un régime ou d'une doctrine idéologique. [Electre]
« Across the globe, more people are living in cities, be it through the movement of domestic populations from hinterlands or via international migration. Cities are increasingly subject to significant pluralization, and the challenges of ethnic and national diversity have become…
One of the most important writers and thinkers of the Renaissance, Michel de Montaigne (1533-92) helped invent a literary genre that seemed more modern than anything that had come before. But did he do it, as he suggests in his Essays, by retreating to his chateau, turning his b…
Servilia is often cited as one of the most influential women of the late Roman Republic, linked both to Caesar and, by familial ties, to two of his eventual assassins. This exploration of her role in the resulting political upheaval reveals much about the ways in which Romans of…
