How did the penitentiary get its name? Why did the English impose long prison sentences? Did class and economic conflict really lie at the heart of their correctional system? In a groundbreaking study
Using Lady Morgan's The Wild Irish Girl as his point of departure, Thomas J. Tracy argues that nineteenth-century debates over what constitutes British national identity often revolved around represen
Burns (music and Africana studies, Binghamton U.) has written this ethnography on Ewe female musicians from Ghana to provide students in African studies, gender studies and ethnomusicology with an exp
Using private diary writing as her model, Catherine Delafield investigates the cultural significance of nineteenth-century women's writing and reading practices. Beginning with an examination of non-f
Music historians offer a sampling of scholarship at the turn of the century on French Baroque composer Charpentier (1643-1704). Their topics include the Italian background of his void notation and its
The Virgin Mary continues to attract devotees to her images and shrines. In Moved by Mary, anthropologists, geographers and historians explore how people and groups around the world identify and join
This book examines the theological foundations of a collaborative approach to Christian ministry. The discovery that Christians are members 'one of another' creates energy and joy in ministry and emp
Susan Walton focuses on the life and writings of Charlotte Yonge as a prism for understanding the construction of mid-Victorian masculinities. Hugely popular and prolific, Yonge appealed to a wide aud
Art historian Sullivan makes a micro-study of four years in the life of Dutch Renaissance artist, Peter Brueghel. In this time, 1559-1563, he painted some of his most dramatic works, including, Carniv
Safety management and human factors disciplines are often regarded as subjective and nebulous. This perhaps stems from a variety of, sometimes disparate, activities in the realms of education, industr
Editors Hancock and Szalma (psychology, U. of Central Florida) have compiled a collection of monographs on stress and soldier performance on the modern electronic battlefield. Derived primarily from a
Written by one of the most eminent scholars in the field, Ethnographies of Reason is a unique book in terms of the studies it presents, the perspective it develops and the research techniques it illus
Following on from 2005's Rail Human Factors: Supporting the Integrated Railway, this book brings together an even broader range of academics and practitioners from around the world to share their expe
Roversi (sociology, U. of Bologna, Italy) spent his last few months helping with the translation of L'Odio in Rete, which was published in 2006 by Societa ditrice Il Mulino, Bologna. In some ways, thi
Economic globalization has resulted in many changes in production and consumption, and this volume introduces these new "economic configurations" and how network and chain theories have been adapted t
