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An original anthology exploring the tradition of the political essay--including works by Hannah Arendt, Martin Luther King Jr., Virginia Woolf, George Orwell, and Mary McCarthy--edited by the brilliant David Bromwich.
David Bromwich is one of the most well-informed, cogent, and morally uncompromising political writers on the left today. He is also one of our finest intellectual historians and literary critics and the author of a magisterial intellectual biography of Edmund Burke. In Writing Politics, Bromwich presents twenty-seven essays by different writers from the beginning of the modern political world in the seventeenth century until recent times, essays that grapple with issues that continue to shape history--revolution and war, racism, women's rights, the status of the worker, the nature of citizenship, imperialism, violence and non-violence, among them--andAn original anthology exploring the tradition of the political essay--including works by Hannah Arendt, Martin Luther King Jr., Virginia Woolf, George Orwell, and Mary McCarthy--edited by the brilliant David Bromwich. David Bromwich is one of the most well-informed, cogent, and morally
Empire Writing is the first anthology to gather together British imperial writing alongside native and settler literature, interweaving short stories, poems, essays, travel writing, and memoirs from the phase of British expansionist imperialism known as high empire. This wide-ranging selection
This anthology is a unique collection of rare women's writing written during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. This collection introduces modern readers to the various examples of the work of women writers from these centuries and includes poems, prose and fiction, drama, letters,
A Country of Refuge is a poignant, thought-provoking and timely anthology of writing on asylum seekers from some of Britain and Ireland's most influential voices. Compiled and edited by human rights activist and writer Lucy Popescu, this powerful collection of short fiction, memoir, poetry and
This broad-ranging and original text provides an accessible introduction to British politics since 1945, challenging many well-established
Throughout his career, David Grossman has been a voice for peace and reconciliation between Israel and its Arab citizens and neighbors. In these six essays on politics and culture in Israel, he addresses the conscience of a country that has lost faith in its leaders and its ideals. This collection,
An anthology showcasing the generation of Latvian poets who started writing and publishing after the country gained independence following the disintegration of the Soviet Union. All six have been shortlisted for or received the top Latvian literary prizes yet have retained their ability to
In The Politics of Inequality, David Pettinicchio has gathered an interdisciplinary team of leading experts to make a valuable contribution to the existing inequalities literature through a political sociology lens. Broad social, political and economic forces associated with neoliberalism and
The only book on the market to include classical and contemporary readings from key authors in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (PPE), this unique anthology provides a comprehensive overview of the central topics in this rapidly expanding field. Each chapter opens with an introduction that helps
An anthology of diverse stories from black and brown, queer and working-class writers, featuring writers including Kit de Waal, Paul McVeigh, Neil Bartlett, Kerry Hudson, Bidisha, Philip Ridley, Golnoosh Nour, Juliet Jacques, Julia Bell, Elizabeth Baines, Jonathan Kemp, Keith Jarrett, Padrika
A guide to the creative possibilities of critical writing, with sample texts from writer/critics, including Anne Carson, Jacques Derrida, Geoff Dyer, H (c)lene Cixous, Ali Smith and John Cage. Designed for students, teachers and critics of literature and creative writing, and especially students
Praise for the first edition: 'An impressive collection of more than 50 pieces--essays, poems, folktales, short stories, memoirs, film scripts, lectures/speeches--by Arab women challenging the widely accepted view of Middle Eastern women as submissive non-thinkers to whom feminism is a foreign
'A brilliantly entertaining collection showcasing a wealth of women's voices,' ALEX SCOTT MBEFOREWORD BY GABBY LOGAN MBEEdited by Charlotte AtyeoCurated by Ian
By gathering together some of the very best Stuart succession writing, Literature of the Stuart Successions offers fresh perspectives upon the history and culture of the period. It includes fifty texts (or extracts), selected to demonstrate the breadth and significance of succession writing, as
This book is a contribution to a long history of critical writing against an increasingly destructive global order marked by an excessive instrumentalisation, exploitation and degradation of the human and non-human environment, and ridden with unacceptable, but also, importantly, avoidable, forms
By the end of the eighteenth century, British travelers had fanned out to every corner of the world, driven by widely varying motives: scientific curiosity, commerce, colonization, diplomacy, exploration, and tourism. In letters, journals, and books, travelers wrote first-hand of exotic lands and
What is history and how should it be written? An important new anthology containing the seminal texts on the writing of history in the ancient world Honorable Mention for the 13th Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for a Translation of a Scholarly Study The study of history was invented in the
ROMANTICISM Praise for the third edition: 'An outstanding anthology, an excellent choice for advanced undergraduate courses on the Romantic era. This edition's improvements include illustrations, a detailed chronology, and expanded selections from women poets. I look forward to using this edition
Offering guidance on writing poetry, nonfiction, and fiction, Environmental and Nature Writing is a complete introduction to the art and craft of writing about the environment in a wide range of genres. With discussion questions and writing prompts throughout, Environmental and Nature Writing: A
An introduction to the writing and preaching of the greatest medieval European mystic. Meister Eckhart (1260-1327), a German Dominican whose preaching was immensely popular in his own time, was one of the greatest medieval European mystics, and his writings helped build the foundation of the
An introduction to writing proofs, presented through compelling mathematical statements with interesting elementary proofs. This book offers an introduction to the art and craft of proof-writing. The author, a leading research mathematician, presents a series of engaging and compelling mathematical
The anthology Proud to Be: Writing by American Warriors showcases writing from military veterans and their families from across the nation, including writing about WWI and WWII, Vietnam, the Gulf Conflict, Afghanistan, and Iraq. The anthology is the seventh in an annual series published by