Edinburgh University Press
Edinburgh University Press Katherine Mansfield and Bliss and Other Stories
Book SynopsisThis book celebrates the centennial of Bliss's publication by offering new readings of some of Mansfield's most well-known stories.
£19.94
Edinburgh University Press Refocus the Films of Ken Russell
Book SynopsisShowcases the most contemporary scholarly and archival research into Ken Russell's career and work
£23.74
Edinburgh University Press The Franchise Era
Book SynopsisExamining how traditional media incumbents like studios and networks have responded to the rise of new entrants from the technology sector (such as Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix and Google), the authors take a critical look at the way new and old industrial logics collide in an increasingly fragmented and consolidated mediascape.
£26.59
Edinburgh University Press US Intelligence and Al Qaeda
Book SynopsisThis book sets out a new analytic methodology: analysis by contrasting narratives (ACN), which states that defining an enemy and attempting to counter threats can contribute to the manifestation of that threat. Peter de Werd applies ACN to the problem the US faced in understanding and responding to the phenomenon of Al Qaeda in the 1990s.
£90.25
Edinburgh University Press The Monotheisation of PonticCaspian Eurasia
Book SynopsisWhat is the line between the ancient and medieval worlds? 330? 476? 800? Most historians acknowledge that these are arbitrary distinctions, but they remain nevertheless, taking on lives of their own. Alex Feldman challenging us to see them as the same world, except for the imposition of a given monotheism.
£18.99
Edinburgh University Press Roman Law and Maritime Commerce
Book SynopsisBringing together specialists in ancient history, archaeology and Roman law, this book analyses the socio-legal framework within which maritime trade was conducted. In doing so, it presents a new understanding of the role played by legal and social institutions in the economy of the Roman world.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Roman Law and Maritime Commerce
Book SynopsisBringing together specialists in ancient history, archaeology and Roman law, this book analyses the socio-legal framework within which maritime trade was conducted. In doing so, it presents a new understanding of the role played by legal and social institutions in the economy of the Roman world.
£18.99
Edinburgh University Press Language in the Indian Diaspora
Book SynopsisExamines the role of language in shaping the Indian diaspora experience
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Positive Atheism
Book SynopsisCharles Devellennes looks at the the religious, social and political thought of the first four thinkers of the French Enlightenment: Pierre Bayle, Jean Meslier, Paul-Henri Thiry d'Holbach and Denis Diderot to explicitly argue for atheism as a positive philosophy.Trade Review"This study represents a surprisingly yet unwritten history of atheism focusing on the point of view of atheists themselves a fresh and much needed take that moves beyond narratives written by adversaries of atheism. By examining four key thinkers of the French Enlightenment, Devellenes' outstanding book offers a nuanced and contextualised view of atheism that is carefully attuned to politics." -Rosario L pez, Assistant Professor, University of M laga
£19.94
Edinburgh University Press The Ordering of Time
Book SynopsisGeorge Lucas sweeps aside the constraints of traditional methodological and cultural boundaries to answer the profound issues concerning the history of philosophy.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Islamic Modernism and the ReEnchantment of the
Book SynopsisThis book studies the complex relationship of religion to modernity and argues that modernity should be understood as the consequence, not the cause, of the new intellectual landscape of the 19th century. Shows how the adoption of historicism in the 19th century engendered Islamic modernism as a theological reform movement.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Agamben and the Existentialists
Book SynopsisDivided into three sections 'Agamben and the Sovereign Exception', 'Agamben and the Death of God' and 'Existentialist Themes in Agamben' this collection challenges, complicates and reimagines Agamben's critique of the sovereign exception and other existentialist themes including feminism and postcolonialism.Trade Review"Consistently challenging, informative, and enlightening, the essays in this volume make a major contribution in situating Agamben's thought in relation to existentialist thinkers and themes. They provide a bright new lens through which to view Agamben's work." -Kevin Attell, Cornell University
£19.94
Edinburgh University Press Photography off the Scale
Book SynopsisThese essays address the epistemological, aesthetic and political implications of scale in both scholarly and artistic work. From the mass image in vernacular culture to transformations of photography in contexts of big data and artificial intelligence, they explore the massification of photography.
£94.50
Edinburgh University Press Conversations with New York School Poets
Book SynopsisIn these exclusive interviews, New York School poets reveal what the New York School meant to them and how its legacy continues today.
£112.50
Edinburgh University Press Eliot and Becketts Low Modernism
Book SynopsisExplores the relation between humility and humiliation in the works of T. S. Eliot and Samuel Beckett.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Salafi Social and Political Movements
Book SynopsisThis book introduces the history of the rise and spread of Salafism during the 20th century as a global Islamic reform movement. It also explains Salafi tools of methodological reasoning: traditionally used to justify highly conservative positions, they now appear equally effective in defending more liberal life choices.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Sex Consent and Justice
Book SynopsisTina Sikka explores many of the contradictions and tensions that make up the increasingly fraught debates about sex, consent, feminism, justice, law and gender relations and new movements including #MeToo and #TimesUp. She looks in particular at contemporary understandings of justice, violence, consent, pleasure and desire.Trade Review"Sikka's tour de force highlights two points that are critical to our current moment of reckoning with sexual wrongdoing and sexual dissatisfaction: that consent" is far from simple, and that perhaps the most valuable lesson of the #MeToo phenomenon, ironically, lies in rejecting the criminal law as an appropriate framework for regulating sex."" -Heidi Matthews, Osgoode Hall Law School
£23.74
Edinburgh University Press The Last Muslim Intellectual
Book SynopsisIn this social and intellectual biography, Hamid Dabashi contends that Jalal Al-e Ahmad was the last Muslim intellectual to have articulated a vision of Muslim worldly cosmopolitanism. This unprecedented engagement with Al-e Ahmad's life and legacy is a prelude to what Dabashi calls a 'post-Islamist Liberation Theology'.Trade Review"Hamid Dabashi's remarkable work on Iranian 'cosmopolitan humanism' has already expanded the parameters of discussions on non-western thought to highlight the quest for an anticolonial modernity as integral to its global reach. In this well-balanced and elegantly written volume, Dabashi treats Al-e Ahmad, a preeminent intellectual of his time, as a pioneering -anticolonial theorist who Islamist thinkers, such as Ali Shari'ati, would only later develop an elective affinity for, in the process recasting him an anti-western nativist. Dabashi situates Al-e Ahmad alongside other anticolonial thinkers to remind us that Al-e Ahmad could not have anticipated Shari'ati would have taken him all the way to the borderlines of a committed Islamist ideologue." Along the way, this provocative work raises important questions about the evolution of an anticolonial canon and the crystallization of sectarian divisions."" -Ali Mirsepassi, Albert Gallatin Research Excellence Professor, New York University
£25.64
Edinburgh University Press Peace Processes in Northern Ireland and Turkey
Book SynopsisThis book challenges the notion of 'conflict resolution' in the Northern Irish and Turkish Kurdish peace processes, both far-reaching ethno-nationalist conflicts in the post-Cold War era.
£19.94
Edinburgh University Press A Political Theory of Muslim Democracy
Book SynopsisProposes a framework of Muslim democracy that reconciles public claims made by Muslims with the normative and practical demands of democratic regimes.Trade Review"A very cutting-edge and path-breaking work in the field. There are many political science texts on the phenomenon of Muslim democracy" but this may be the first book that treats it as political theory or ideology. This will be a very important and influential book."" -Andrew F. March, Professor of Political Science, University of Massachusetts
£18.99
Edinburgh University Press A NeoFatimid Treasury of Books
Book SynopsisExplores communities, manuscripts and their spaces of dwelling
£23.74
Edinburgh University Press The Rise of the Western Armenian Diaspora in the
Book SynopsisExplores how mass migration and a refugee crisis transformed Armenian culture in the 17th-century Ottoman EmpireTrade Review"Henry Shapiro opens the gate to a new way of writing the 17th-century Ottoman Empire. He masterfully integrates the hitherto poorly known story of the Great Armenian Flight into Ottoman history as one of the central incidents of the period, which had a profound impact on the social and cultural life of the empire in the following centuries. Shapiro's extraordinary command of both Ottoman-Turkish and Ottoman-Armenian sources makes this an exemplary history of a multilingual empire." -Ali Yayc?o?lu, Stanford University
£23.74
Edinburgh University Press Political Thought in the Mamluk Period
Book SynopsisCovers the political thought produced by legal theorists, jurists, judges and administrators of the late Ayyubid and early Mamluk period as they tackled a central question: how best to govern their communities.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Christian Monastic Life in Early Islam
Book SynopsisDuring the rise of Islam, Muslim fascination with Christian monastic life was articulated through a fluid, piety-centred movement. Bradley Bowman explores this confessional synthesis between like-minded religious groups in the medieval Near East.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press CounterMemories in Iranian Cinema
Book SynopsisReassesses the post-revolutionary Iranian Cinema from a new mnemo-political perspective.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Performative Opacity in the Work of Isabelle
Book SynopsisEngages with the career of Isabelle Huppert, a major figure in French, European, and World CinemaTrade Review"This transporting collection seizes the key paradox of Isabelle Huppert's performance style so frank, yet so enigmatic as the launchpad for a series of inspired, surprising, persuasive analyses of her work. These essays also furnish fresh, rewarding lenses on affect and opacity, whiteness and nation, comedy and irony, motherhood and melodrama." -Nick Davis, Northwestern University
£80.75
Edinburgh University Press Refocus the Films of Fran Ois Ozon
Book SynopsisExamines Fran ois Ozon, one of France's most prolific and best known international (queer) directors.Trade Review"From experimentations with genre and intertextuality to new visions of queerness and relationships, ReFocus: The Films of Fran ois Ozon captures the unique spirit of one of France's most idiosyncratic directors. Lo c Bourdeau's edited volume is intellectual yet creative, cohesive yet wide-ranging, inventive yet steeped in a rich cultural tradition. Much like Fran ois Ozon's cinema itself." -Gemma King, The Australian National University
£19.94
Edinburgh University Press Dynamic Realism
Book SynopsisPhilosophy has traditionally considered reality as a set of static objects. Tina R ck transcends this understanding to explore the realistic potential of relational and dynamic ontology. R ck takes a new phenomenological path into a realism that discloses the world as temporal and relational.Trade Review"The ambition of this book is breathtaking: nothing less than the articulation of a new metaphysics. More astonishing is the ease with which Tina R ck persuasively achieves this feat, drawing on resources ancient, modern and contemporary to reformulate the relation of thinking and being. Remarkable." -Craig Lundy, Nottingham Trent University
£19.94
Edinburgh University Press Plutarch and the Persica
Book SynopsisThis book addresses two historical mysteries. The first is the content and character of the fourth century BCE Greek works called the Persica. The second is the method of work of the second century CE biographer Plutarch of Chaeronea who used these works to compose his biographies.
£26.59
Edinburgh University Press Adam Fergusons Later Writings
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£23.74
Edinburgh University Press Roberto Esposito
Book SynopsisThis collection addresses Esposito's long-standing engagement with early modern philosophy, philosophy of biology, biopolitics, and the impolitical and the impersonal, together with his significant dialogues with contemporary philosophers like Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Derrida, Simone Weil, Jean-Luc Nancy and Maurice Blanchot.Trade Review"A compelling collection of essays that attests to the extraordinary versatility of Roberto Esposito's thought, and the generosity of his engagement with other thinkers. Attentive to his diagonal and dialogic philosophical approach, the authors in this volume provide a welcome and stimulating expansion of current Esposito scholarship." -Diane Enns, Ryerson University
£19.94
Edinburgh University Press Refocus the Films of Annemarie Jacir
Book SynopsisTakes a transnational, feminist approach to the oeuvre of Palestinian director, Annemarie JacirTrade Review"This is a well-documented study which offers an intimate vision of the evolution of Jacir's film oeuvre, and how Palestinian cinema and audio-visual practices can become acts of resistance exposing the incongruous cultural memories of diverse Palestinian generations and their struggles for the homeland, freedom, and transnational identity in exile." -Ihab Saloul, Author of Catastrophe and Exile in the Modern Palestinian Imagination: Telling Memories
£80.75
Edinburgh University Press ReFocus The Films of Annemarie Jacir
Book SynopsisTakes a transnational, feminist approach to the oeuvre of Palestinian director, Annemarie Jacir
£18.99
Edinburgh University Press British Cinema and a Divided Nation
Book SynopsisOffers contemporary context of Britain as a deeply divided society as reflected in film.Trade Review""This thoughtful and thought-provoking study of contemporary British film situates its case studies firmly within their social, political, historical and cultural contexts, reading them collectively as expressive of a fractured national psyche. Whether mobilising the past or exploring the present, dealing with conflict or community, the films discussed in this book, ranging from wartime biopics to costume drama, art cinema to social realism, are compellingly presented as an especially incisive way of accessing and understanding the state of the nation." -Melanie Williams, University of East Anglia
£18.99
Edinburgh University Press Variable Objects
Book SynopsisDrawing on new materialism and object-oriented ontology, Variable Objects proposes that Shakespeare is a vibrant object replete with a variable energy that accounts for its infinite meaning-making capacity.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press The Readers Joyce
Book SynopsisRethinks the relationships between author, reader, and text in literature and criticism, through a study of James Joyce.
£18.99
Edinburgh University Press The Secret Architecture of Shakespeares Sonnets
Book SynopsisThis book argues the idea that Shakespeare was deeply engaged with other poets and with pursuing a career as a poet, and that the organisational schemes of the Sonnets have been hiding in plain sight for over four centuries.Trade Review"Monte's The Secret Architecture of Shakespeare's Sonnets traces the historical milieu of Shakespeare's own aesthetic principle and thereby demonstrates the inseparability of form and context. This beautiful book attests to the importance of risking audacity in argument and interpretive practice even as it models the affordances of scholarly patience and care. " -Melissa E. Sanchez, University of Pennsylvania
£24.69
Edinburgh University Press Visionary Company
Book SynopsisStudies Hart Crane's publishing history and re-evaluates his reception history.
£23.74
Edinburgh University Press Modernism and the Choreographic Imagination
Book SynopsisAn account of Salome's dance and its centrality within modernist performance
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Alison Light Inside History
Book SynopsisA collection of thought-provoking essays spanning thirty-five years of Alison Light's work.
£18.99
Edinburgh University Press Science Fiction Film
Book SynopsisBy presenting a new political framework, the book looks at the sci-fi film genre's important critical role in a post-political world, deepening and elucidating our understanding of the post-political present and hence reopening the political imagination to possible future trajectories beyond the horizon of the present.
£19.94
Edinburgh University Press Romantic Pasts
Book SynopsisRethinks the characterisation of romantic-era written history as primarily sentimental.
£23.74
Edinburgh University Press The Confederate Jurist
Book SynopsisA legal biography of Judah P. Benjamin (1811-1884): Jewish lawyer, US Senator, Confederate statesman, political exile, leader of the English Bar, inspiration for Benjamin's Sale of Goods and distinguished juristTable of ContentsList of Figures; Table of Cases; Foreword by Stephen C. Neff, Professor of War and Peace, University of Edinburgh; Preface and Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Benjamin’s Emergence as an American Lawyer and Politician; 2. Slavery, Secession and Benjamin’s Confederate Years; 3. Benjamin’s Exile and Professional Rebirth; 4. The Rise and Rise of Benjamin the Barrister; 5. Concluding Reflections; Appendix 1 – The Great Escape: Benjamin’s Flight into Exile; Select Bibliography; Index.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Blood on the Lens
Book SynopsisConnects the found footage horror subgenre to significant traumatic events and societal anxieties in American history and contemporary America
£18.99
Edinburgh University Press Fencing Form and Cognition on the Early Modern
Book SynopsisArgues that playwrights looked to fencing theory and performance for physical cues and formal structure.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press The Talent Management of Indie Authorship
Book SynopsisExplores the role that talent intermediaries, including producers and talent managers, play in packaging American independent cinema projects
£72.00
Edinburgh University Press Ecologies of Architecture
Book SynopsisDrawing on a range of philosophical texts, Andrej Radman brings together a collection of 11 of his essays, published over the last decade, to show that when a society manipulates its matter it is not a reflection of culture; it is culture.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Scottish Liturgical Traditions and Religious
Book SynopsisExplores the religious cultures, beliefs and imperatives that shaped the Jacobite movement in Scotland
£90.25
