Islam in India, as elsewhere, continues to be seen as a remainder in its refusal to" conform"
to national and international secular-modern norms. Such a general perception has also …

In the early twentieth century, British imperialism in India was at its peak and anti-colonial
sentiments were on the rise. The nationalist desire for cultural self-identification was gaining …

This interdisciplinary book concerns personality, especially intimacy, principally love, and its
absence in states of aloneness, primarily loneliness. The author argues that normal and …

Today as in times past, the figure of the dandy evokes the image of a fashionable male who
achieves social influence by distinctive elegance in dress and sophisticated self …

Engaging the Crusades is a series of volumes which offer windows into a newly emerging
field of historical study: the memory and legacy of the crusades. Together these volumes …

The American West of the nineteenth century was a world of freedom and adventure for men
of every stripe—not least also those who admired and desired other men. Among these …

Policy makers will most likely need to make decisions about climate policy before climate
scientists have resolved all relevant uncertainties about the impacts of climate change. This …

This dissertation examines the afterlife of the battle of Waterloo in the collective memory of
Great Britain as well as the post-war lives of officers who fought there. Using a variety of …

This thesis analyses controversial relationships between men and women in late Georgian
England. It examines a range of different attachments, including adulterous affairs, affinal …

This essay addresses itself to the following question: how did Victorian writers of imaginative
literature use and interpret that most enduring form of 19th-century garden architecture, the …