Jens Soentgen 
Indigenous Knowledge and Material Histories [EPUB ebook] 
The Example of Rubber

This book provides an in-depth exploration of South Asian readaptations of race in vernacular languages. The focus is on a diverse set of printed texts, periodicals and books in Hindi and Urdu, two o …

Widely regarded as one of the foremost cultural critics of the last century, Walter Benjamin”s relation to Modernism has largely been understood in the context of his reception of the aesthetic theo …

The influence of classical antiquity on the religious disciplines, theology, mysticism and law of Islam cannot be overestimated. This work demonstrates the significance of the classical heritage by d …

This volume defines versions of the transnational in their historical and cultural specificity. By ‘locating, ‘ the contributors contextualize historical and contemporary understandings of the fluid …

Tracing the continuities and trends in the complex relationship between literature and science in the long nineteenth century, this companion provides scholars with a comprehensive, authoritative and …

Nineteenth-century American politician John C. Calhoun occupies a paradoxical place in the history of political thought – and of critical thinking. On one hand, he is remembered as a committed advoca …

David Hume’s Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion is a philosophical classic that displays a powerful mastery of the critical thinking skills of reasoning and evaluation. Hume’s subject, the questio …

An in-depth examination of Lady Anne Halkett”s writing is long overdue. Although Lady Anne Halkett is beginning to receive much warranted critical attention, to date scholars have concentrated almos …

Though his writings have long been integral to the canon of early modern English literature, it is only in very recent scholarship that Edmund Spenser has been understood as a preeminent anthropologi …

The religious, historical and rhetorical significance of the Confessions written by St. Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, can hardly be overstated: the book is one of the unifying texts of Western Christia …