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  • British Detective Fiction 1891–1901

    The Successors to Sherlock Holmes

    de Clare Clarke ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book examines the developments in British serial detective fiction which took place in the seven years when Sherlock Holmes was dead. In December 1893, at the height of Sherlock’s popularity with the Strand Magazine’s worldwide readership, Arthur Conan Doyle killed off his detective. At the time, he firmly believed that Holmes would not be resurrected. This book introduces and showcases a ... Leer más

    $62.99 USD

  • An Analysis of Chinua Achebe's An Image of Africa

    Racism in Conrad's Heart of Darkness

    de Clare Clarke ...
    Series series The Macat Library
    Few works of scholarship have so comprehensively recast an existing debate as Chinua Achebe’s essay on Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness. Achebe – a highly distinguished Nigerian novelist and university teacher – looked with fresh eyes at a novel that was set in Africa, but in which Africans appear only as onlookers or as indistinguishable "savages". Dismissing the prevailing portrayal of Joseph ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD

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    The Macat Analysis of Chinua Achebe's An Image of Africa

    Racism in Conrad's Heart of Darkness

    de Clare Clarke ...
    Narrado por John Chancer ...

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    1 horas 42 minutos

    Achebe was acutely conscious that western views of Africa were inevitably those of a culture that assumed itself superior—materially, intellectually, even spiritually. He believed that even as original and subtle a work as Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness—a novel deeply critical of colonialism and one that Achebe admired stylistically—reflects this. For Achebe, Heart of Darkness is tainted by ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

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  • Free Speech

    A Very Short Introduction

    de Nigel Warburton ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    'I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it' This slogan, attributed to Voltaire, is frequently quoted by defenders of free speech. Yet it is rare to find anyone prepared to defend all expression in every circumstance, especially if the views expressed incite violence. So where do the limits lie? What is the real value of free speech? Here, Nigel Warburton ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD

  • Mistaken Identity

    Mass Movements and Racial Ideology

    de Asad Haider ...
    A powerful challenge to the way we understand the politics of race and the history of anti-racist struggleWhether class or race is the more important factor in modern politics is a question right at the heart of recent history’s most contentious debates. Among groups who should readily find common ground, there is little agreement. To escape this deadlock, Asad Haider turns to the rich legacies of ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • The Power of Religion in the Public Sphere

    de Judith Butler, Jurgen Habermas, Charles Taylor, Cornel West, Craig Calhoun ...
    Series series A Columbia / SSRC Book
    The Power of Religion in the Public Sphere represents a rare opportunity to experience a diverse group of preeminent philosophers confronting one pervasive contemporary concern: what role does-or should-religion play in our public lives? Reflecting on her recent work concerning state violence in Israel-Palestine, Judith Butler explores the potential of religious perspectives for renewing cultural ... Leer más

    $23.99 USD

  • Regulating Aversion

    Tolerance in the Age of Identity and Empire

    de Wendy Brown ...
    Tolerance is generally regarded as an unqualified achievement of the modern West. Emerging in early modern Europe to defuse violent religious conflict and reduce persecution, tolerance today is hailed as a key to decreasing conflict across a wide range of other dividing lines-- cultural, racial, ethnic, and sexual. But, as political theorist Wendy Brown argues in Regulating Aversion, tolerance ... Leer más

    $28.09 USD

  • Uneasy Partners

    Multiculturalism and Rights in Canada

    de Janice Stein, David Robertson Cameron, John Ibbitson, Will Kymlicka, John Meisel, Haroon Siddiqui, Michael Valpy ...
    Series series Canadian Commentaries
    After decades of extraordinary successes as a multicultural society, new debates are bubbling to the surface in Canada. The contributors to this volume examine the conflict between equality rights, as embedded in the Charter, and multiculturalism as policy and practice, and ask which charter value should trump which and under what circumstances? The opening essay deliberately sharpens the conflict ... Leer más

    $27.99 USD

  • Multicultiphobia

    de Phil Ryan ...
    Official multiculturalism, established as Canadian government policy in 1971, has drawn criticism from many scholars and journalists who view it as a potential threat to a strong, unified Canadian society. In this timely and original book, Phil Ryan examines the emergence and influence of these criticisms, which continue to provoke an anxiety he calls "multicultiphobia." Although Ryan argues that ... Leer más

    $36.99 USD

  • The Future of Liberalism

    de Alan Wolfe ...
    A compelling and deeply felt exploration and defense of liberalism: what it actually is, why it is relevant today, and how it can help our society chart a forward course.The Future of Liberalism represents the culmination of four decades of thinking and writing about contemporary politics by Alan Wolfe, one of America’s leading scholars, hailed by one critic as “one of liberalism’s last and most ... Leer más

    $4.99 USD

  • An Analysis of Frantz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth

    de Riley Quinn ...
    Series series The Macat Library
    Frantz Fanon is one of the most important figures in the history of what is now known as postcolonial studies – the field that examines the meaning and impacts of European colonialism across the world.Born in the French colony of Martinique, Fanon worked as a psychiatrist in Algeria, another French colony that saw brutal violence during its revolution against French rule. His experiences power the ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD

  • An Analysis of Samuel P. Huntington's The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order

    de Riley Quinn ...
    Series series The Macat Library
    The end of the Cold War, which occurred early in the 1990s, brought joy and freedom to millions. But it posed a difficult question to the world's governments and to the academics who studied them: how would world order be remade in an age no longer dominated by the competing ideologies of capitalism and communism? Samuel P. Huntington was one of the many political scientists who responded to this ... Leer más

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