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The British Empire at its Zenith

The British Empire at its Zenith

This title originally published in 1988 examines the network of states and the political and economic systems which bound the British Empire together. This book examines each country and how the empire made its mark in the shape of urban form public buildings and rural land patterns. An overall assessment of the Imperial heritage is attempted as a pointer to the unity which existed between the many diverse lands for a brief period in their history. | The British Empire at its Zenith

GBP 8.99
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(En)gendering the Political Citizenship from marginal spaces

(En)gendering the Political Citizenship from marginal spaces

What is the relationship between being political and citizenship? What might it mean to be marginalised through both the practices and knowledge of citizenship? What might citizenship look like from a position of social political and cultural exclusion? This book responds to these questions by treating marginalisation as a political process and position. It explores how different lives experiences and forms of political action might be engendered when subjects are excluded made vulnerable and invisible from contemporary forms of citizenship. It aims to contribute to the growing body of literature on the politics of resistance by investigating how complex forms of marginality are not only produced by dominant forms of citizenship but also actively challenge them. Modernist approaches to politics tend to see the citizen as the ideal type of political agent and citizenship as the zenith of struggles over rights representation and belonging. This edited volume challenges this approach to political subjectivity by showing how political acts work for but also against/beyond citizenship claims towards different orientations and as ‘acts’ of (non)citizen. By bringing together diverse theoretical and empirical contributions and exploring the emergent politics of marginalised subjects this collection challenges how we think about citizenship and opens up space for alternative imaginaries of political action and belonging. This book was originally published as a special issue of Citizenship Studies. | (En)gendering the Political Citizenship from marginal spaces

GBP 27.99
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Palmyra A History

Palmyra A History

Palmyra: A History examines Palmyra the city in the Syrian oasis of Tadmur from its beginnings in the Bronze Age through the classical period and its discovery and excavation to the present day. It aims at reconstructing Palmyra’s past from literary accounts – classical and post-classical – as well as material evidence of all kinds: inscriptions coins art and of course the remains of Palmyra’s monumental architecture. After exploring the earliest inhabitation of Tadmur the volume moves through the Persian and Hellenistic periods to the city’s zenith. Under the Romans Palmyra was unique among the cities of the empire because it became a political factor in its own right in the third century AD when the Roman military was overpowered by Sassanian invaders and Palmyrene troops stepped in. Sommer’s assessment of Palmyra under Rome therefore considers how Palmyra achieved such an exceptional role in the Roman Near East before its demise under the Umayyad Empire. The volume also examines the century-long history of archaeological and historical research at Palmyra from its beginnings under Ottoman rule and the French mandate in the 1920s to the recent satellite based prospection carried out by German archaeologists. A closing chapter examines the occupation of the site by ISIS during the Syrian conflict and the implications of the destruction there on the ruins the archaeological finds and future investigations and heritage in Syria more broadly. Palmyra offers academics students and the interested reader alike the first full treatment in English of this fascinating site providing a comprehensive account of the city’s origins rise and fall. | Palmyra A History

GBP 39.99
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