This study bridges modernist and postcolonial studies to examine the relationship between decadence and empire across the long twentieth century. From Britain and Ireland to the Caribbean, Africa, and South Asia, I argue that decadent aestheticism and fin-de-siècle radicalism co…
“Sensing the City” examines the perceived and embodied urban modern sensory experience of 1920s Istanbul and the district of Beyoğlu. Specifically, it explores the concept of the “decadent modern” as a way to address what contemporary critics and Turkish republican scholars have…
"Ideas abound as to why certain complex societies collapsed in the past--environmental change, subsistence failure, fluctuating social structure, lack of adaptability. Why Did Ancient Civilizations Fail? evaluates the current theories in this important topic and discusses why th…
"Ideas abound as to why certain complex societies collapsed in the past--environmental change, subsistence failure, fluctuating social structure, lack of adaptability. Why Did Ancient Civilizations Fail? evaluates the current theories in this important topic and discusses why th…
