Includes essays that help graduate students with research methodology and the application of relevant theoretical models. This work covers 7 themes: Film, Video and Multimedia; Technology and Studio Production; Gender and Sexuality; Identity and Ethnicity; Performance and Gesture; and, Reception and Scenes and The Music Industry and Globalization.

Focusing on four Rubens paintings created between 1610 and 1620 - Prometheus Bound , The Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus , Juno and Argus , and The Finding of Erichthonius , this book examines the artist's approach to classical mythology.

Addressing the shortcomings in research on the relationship between immigrants and rural areas, this book employs an innovative approach by exploring this relationship from a cross-national comparative, global perspective, drawing lessons from case studies across a range of geographical and political contexts, including Canada and the USA.

Shows how English dramatists adopted an Italian model to reflect native concerns about and attitudes toward growing old. This book studies the comic old man in the erudite comedy of 16th-century Florence; the character's parallel development in early modern Venice, and the character's subsequent flourishing on the Elizabethan and Jacobean stage.

Covers a number of topics central to naval history and illustrates the author's contention that this is not only, or even chiefly, a distinct area of special study, but rather a central theme running through the history of England, and of the whole British Isles.

Responding to the resurgence of interest in the Scottish working-class writer James Hogg, this book presents an examination of the critical implications of his writings and their position in the Edinburgh and London literary marketplaces.

Across the traditional welfare states of Europe, Australia, New Zealand and Canada there has been an emphasis on 'activation' by the unemployed as a tool for fighting unemployment. This book is based on a detailed ethnographic study of the highly praised Swedish rehabilitation organization Samhall.

Concerns with the Portuguese presence in India between about 1500 and 1650. This book includes pieces on the changing character of the empire in India, Goa in the 17th century, the Portuguese India Company of 1628-33, smugglers, the great famine of the early 1630s and the ceremonial induction process for new viceroys.

Reports the findings of an empirical study of drug users in London, Amsterdam, Turin, Prague, Vienna and Warsaw, European cities representative of a wide range of drug problems and public policies.

Contains essays that deal with two central preoccupations: the styles of political behaviour developed by Christian rulers and Christian congregations during the century or so after Constantine's conversion, and the experiments in religious self-presentation which are reflected in our sources from the same period.

Documents the extent to which portrayals of women writers, rulers, and leaders in the Hebrew Bible scripted the lives of women in early modern England. Attending to a wide range of writing by Protestant men and women, this work investigates how the cultural requirement for feminine silence informs early modern readings of biblical women's stories.

Seeks to understand how archives and archivists in England developed during the 20th century. This book examines the political and legislative context, analyzes how archival institutions developed in local and central government, and in businesses and universities.

The Sanskrit Mahabharata (which contains the Bhagavad Gita) is neglected as a classic - perhaps the classic - of world literature, and is of timely importance in today's globalised and war-torn world. This book presents a chronological survey of the Sanskrit Mahabharata's central royal patriline - a family tree that is also a list of kings.

Examines the constitutional relationship between Congress and the President in the post-September 11 world and argues that Congress should exercise its legitimate authority in guiding United States policy. This book focuses on the policies themselves, and on the way in which Congress can influence those policies for the better.

T F Torrance's vision of theosis (deification/divinization) is explored through his doctrine of creation and anthropology, his characterization of the incarnation, his accounts of reconciliation and union with Christ, and his theology of church and sacraments. This book presents a critique of the theology of Torrance to focus on theosis.