Exploring the explorers

Exploring the explorersExploring the Explorers: Spaniards in Oceania 1519 1794 is the first study of cross cultural engagements between the indigenous peoples of the Pacific and Spanish explorers during the early modern period. Bridging disciplines, the book sets out to analyse in detail eight main voyages and their aims and outcomes, looking at the different patterns of contact and the use of gift giving and bartering as social cement. This fascinating and original study

Pride and Panic probes cinematic representations of the Russian national consciousness

yet the mass-produced tourist clothing belies a deeper fashion culture hidden in local enclaves and local boutiques that foster an upscale

and history is thus presented as a joyless playground of inevitability rather than a droll world of possibilities

the book situates his writing within current debates on contemporary literature

Concerns about the effects of television on young children are a recurrent focus of public controversy

Fashion as Masquerade will be welcomed by scholars of fashion

This book explores intersections between contemporary critical theory and the disabled people’s Independent Living movement

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manhood and gendered difference from the nineteenth century to the present

institutional and radical

film scores

Revisiting the sites of Marville’s photographs with a black cloth