A study of representations of the non-Western world in European modernist cinema. It integrates theoretical discussion and textual analysis with primary source historical research, particularly into film reception. The case studies question received understandings of European film history.
Charts the course of religious education in England and Wales in the period 1944 to 2007. This guide explores the interaction between religious thinkers, religious educators and politicians. It also explores the suggestion that how we handle religion within the national education system can offer insights into the sort of society we aspire to be.
Traces the changing styles and manufacturing techniques of wooden domestic artefacts. The book attempts to answer questions about who made the many and varied objects, who used them and how their style and decoration compares to contemporary pottery, metal and stone artefacts.
Part of the Exeter Medieval English Texts and Studies series, which includes works of interest and importance previously unpublished, long out-of-print, or otherwise inaccessible to students. This edition provides a reassessment of Cynewulf's Juliana , in the light of recent knowledge.
A revised and reset edition of Julian of Norwich's A Revelation of Love .
This play dramatizes a French sailor's protest in 1948-49 against the brutality of the French military conduct of the Indochina war. Henri Martin was imprisoned in 1950 for five years for distributing pamphlets, and the struggle to get him released became the Henri Martin Affair .
Published in 1888, this glossary is the only work of its kind produced by Decadent and Symbolist writers themselves, and is full of definitions as mystifiying as the words they claim to define. It offers both a scholarly and humorous examination of linguistic innovation.
How can children develop spiritually and how do their teachers know when spiritual development has occurred? This volume traces the roots of school worship and spiritual development from Victorian times through the 1960s and beyond in order to see how we have reached the present situation.
How can children develop spiritually and how do their teachers know when spiritual development has occurred? This volume traces the roots of school worship and spiritual development from Victorian times through the 1960s and beyond in order to see how we have reached the present situation.
This analysis of 20th-century shipbuilding at the national level blends the records of central Government with those of the Shipbuilding Employers Federation and Shipbuilding Conference, as well as those from individual yards, technical societies and the trade press.
This analysis of 20th-century shipbuilding at the national level blends the records of central Government with those of the Shipbuilding Employers Federation and Shipbuilding Conference, as well as those from individual yards, technical societies and the trade press.
This work provides an insight into the history and culture of Cornwall. The interdisciplinary approach enables easier understanding.
In this collection of articles, the author reflects on the nature of language, the art of lexicography and the developments in communication, the media and information technology in the late 20th century.
Between 1808 and 1825, Latin America was engulfed in a wave of revolution that destroyed that Spanish empire in the Americas. This book studies the process of imperial collapse in one of these Spanish colonies: the Viceroyalty of New Granada, the future Republic of Colombia.