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Chapter 5 “Not What It Was Made Out”
(2022)
Unsanitary conditions in the Old Nichol were frequently invoked as a threat to public health and a justification for the clearance scheme that the area was undergoing at the end of the nineteenth century. A Child of the ...
Chapter 6 ‘In the Hospital + Out of the Hospital’
(2023)
In 1884, an article entitled ‘Hospital Nurses’, describing the role and responsibilities of nursing staff in hospital wards, appeared in the Leisure Hour. The author, who signed herself simply ‘M. E. H.’, was Margaret Elise ...
Chapter 20 Icons
(2022)
Among one of the older sub-fields in Buddhist Studies, the study of Theravāda Buddhism is undergoing a revival by contemporary scholars who are revising long-held conventional views of the tradition while undertaking new ...
Transnational Modern Languages
(2022)
In a world increasingly defined by the transnational and translingual, and by the pressures of globalization, it has become difficult to study culture as primarily a national phenomenon. A Handbook offers students across ...
Exploring the Transnational Neighbourhood
(2022)
Practices of community-building in a globalised context
Urban neighbourhoods have come to occupy the public imagination as a litmus test of migration, with some areas hailed as multicultural success stories while others ...
Chapter 32 Mainland Southeast Asia After Angkor
(2023)
This chapter will look beyond Cambodia as we know it today in geographic terms, and
beyond the early 13th century, to highlight legacies of Angkor beyond Angkor on the Southeast
Asian mainland (see Figure 32.1). To begin ...
Dog politics
(2024)
Everywhere dogs are found, they are stitched into human hearts. But are humans stitched into dogs’ hearts? Countless celebrations of ‘the dog–human bond’ suggest that they are. Yet ‘the bond’ does not always come easily ...
Concepts at the Interface
(2024)
Research on concepts has concentrated on the way people apply concepts online, when presented with a stimulus. Just as important, however, is the use of concepts offline, when planning what to do or thinking about what is ...
Contemporary African Screen Worlds
(2025)
Contemporary African Screen Worlds brings together a new generation of African screen media scholars who explore and theorize the dynamic, interactive screen worlds that have arisen in contemporary Africa due to dramatic ...
Muscle Works
(2024)
Physical fitness; history; 19th century; 20th century; weight training; social aspects; masculinity; human body; health promotion