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Yolanda Aixela-Cabre
African Women's Histories in European Narratives

The Krio Fernandino women, pioneers of Europe's African diaspora in the 19th Century. Little is known about the African women who came to Europe from the 1870s onwards, nor do we dare to imagine them as w…

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Filip de Boeck, Sammy Baloji
Suturing the City

An ethnographic and photographic investigation into the complex meanings of living in Congo's urban worlds today. Focusing upon the 'urban now', a moment suspended between lingering precolonial references…

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David John Boyd, Julie Briand-Boyd
Superhero Comics and Scottish Identity

The work of Frank Quitely and the role of comics art in contemporary Scottish culture, politics and society. Superhero Comics and Scottish Identity explores the life and career of Glasgow-born, Eisner Awa…

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Raphael Chijioke Njoku
Queen Elizabeth II and the Africans

The road to Queen Elizabeth II's implementation of African reforms was rough, especially in the first two decades following her ascension to the throne. In this book, Raphael Chijioke Njoku examines Queen…

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Anne Douglas, Chris Fremantle
Thinking with the Harrisons

Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrison, known as 'the Harrisons', dedicated five decades to exploring and demonstrating a new approach to artistic practice, centred on "doing no work that does not atten…

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Hilde Heynen,
Architecture and Feminist Critical Theory

Three decades of intellectual work on architectural theory and feminist discourse. Hilde Heynen is a Belgian architectural theorist whose work bridges neo-Marxist critical theory and current feminist disc…

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Pamela Karimi
Women, Art, Freedom

Women, Art, Freedom offers an insightful look at the 2022 Woman, Life, Freedom uprising in Iran, sparked by the tragic murder of Jina Mahsa Amini at the hands of the "morality police" for violating hijab …

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Giacomo Macola
A Violent History

The first long-durée history of large-scale violence in the Congo BasinSince the early nineteenth century, political and military violence has played an exceptionally significant role in the territory cor…

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Aaldert Prins
From Hope to Hardship

The untold story of the Belgian Gospel Mission and the influence of American Evangelicalism. From Hope to Hardship begins with the missionary quest of Ralph and Edith Norton, who assisted John Wilbur Chap…

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Theofanis Tsiampokalos
Plutarch and Rhetoric

A fundamental reappraisal of Plutarch's attitude towards rhetoric. Plutarch was not only a skilled writer, but also lived during the Second Sophistic, a period of cultural renaissance. This book offers ne…

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Dirk van de Vijver
Laurent-Benoit Dewez (1731-1812), Architect in the Age of Enlightenment

Laurent-Benoît Dewez (1731-1812), court architect to Charles of Lorraine, was the most outstanding architect of his time in the Southern Low Countries. After studying in Italy and serving in the eminent o…

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Simone Wille
Cold War Art Worlds

Prague as a vital Cold War hub for South Asian artists. During the Cold War, the Central-European capital of Prague, alongside other locations in the polarized post-war world, emerged as a key site where …

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Animal Modernities

Innovative study of animal art histories in modern art. Animal Modernities challenges the traditional human-centered focus of art history and explores how modern art, visual culture, and modernity itself …

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Architecture in Oceania (1840-1970)

Para-colonial, colonial, and postcolonial entanglements in South Pacific architecture. Knowledge of colonial architecture in the South Pacific remains sparse, with often-overlooked connections to para-col…

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Architectures of Resistance

Borders between countries, neighbourhoods, people, beliefs, and policies are proliferating and expanding despite what self-proclaimed progressive societies wish or choose to believe. For a wide variety of…

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Cross-Cultural Heritage

The diverging forms of material and immaterial missionary heritages and legacies. For centuries, Christian missions have intervened in local religious communities, practices and ideas across the globe, ge…

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European Literatures of Military Occupation

What does it mean to live under occupation? How does it shape the culture and identities of European nations? How does it affect the way we write and read literature? These are fundamental questions that …

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Forest Urbanisms

This publication brings together essays by scholars in forestry, urbanism and other disciplines, designers, practitioners and policy makers. It explores the multifaceted notion of forest urbanisms, includ…

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Futures for the Public Sector

What does the future hold for the public sector? A convergence of illiberalism, major crises, system quakes and digital transformations are reshaping current politico-administrative systems. How will this…

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Jaume Plensa

Acclaimed Spanish visual artist, sculptor, designer and engraver Jaume Plensa is renowned for his ability to weave spirituality, corporeality, and collective memory into his sculptures and installations, …

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