Human agents and social structures HISTORY / Europe / Renaissance

Human agents and social structures HISTORY / Europe / RenaissanceThis is a deliberately polemical intervention into the structure agency debate in the social sciences. It argues that central concepts in this debate such as society and the individual have been widely misconceived, and that progress in the social sciences will only occur if the real nature of the social world is respected.

The Brazilian Portuguese idea of saudade is often translated as a powerful relative of nostalgia

more recent economic strife has emptied city neighbourhoods

The new practice of art-based research uses art making as a primary mode of enquiry rather than continuing to borrow research methodologies from other disciplines to study artistic processes

An exploration of Methodist missionaries working in Upper Burma between 1887 and 1966

In a room in the middle of nowhere

wild horsemen or the romantic hero of the steppe or the brutal mounted policemen

had a long pre-history as a place of encounter and interchange from the early Anglo-Saxon period

manhood and gendered difference from the nineteenth century to the present

people and institutions in Australian film

In time with the spirit of the age and coming Millenium key scholars in their field write on their respective periods

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including horror