Books published by EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS

This book offers an integrated overview of the themes and discourses of feminism and multiculturalism which inform the 'politics of difference'; an area of burgeoning interest in contemporary political theory.

A study of the Scottish female writer and dramatist Liz Lochhead.

This is the first and only guide to Scottish Romanticism. It captures the best of critical debate as well as presenting exciting new approaches to a distinctively Scottish Romanticism in literary theory, religious studies, music and song and the thematic use of non standard English.

This book explains the persistence of friendship today in the light of the history of philosophical approaches to the subject.

A study of the last 20 years of Scottish cultural expression in the fields of the novel, cinema and television drama.

This book tells the story of a generation of writers who were passionately engaged with politics and with cinema, exploring the rise and fall of a distinct tradition of cinematic literature.

This book is the first full study of the last national famine to occur in Scotland.

An insightful reading of Deleuze, from the point of view of a student, a reader and a fellow philosopher with whom Deleuze himself corresponded about his work

This book describes and analyses life in 'St Antony's', a Zambian Catholic boys' mission boarding school in the 1990s, using the context-sensitive methods of social anthropology.

In this book Timothy C. Baker situates George Mackay Brown's work within a broad literary and philosophical context to articulate how his novels engage with the question of community.

An examination of the relationship between romanticism, theory and gender.

A major reconsideration of our understanding of the development of Scottish culture from the Enlightenment to the present day.

This innovative book proposes the expansion of the existing idea of an interwar Scottish Renaissance movement to include its international significance as a Scottish literary modernism interacting with the intellectual and artistic ideas of European modernism as well as responding to the challenges of the Scottish cultural and political context.

This book explores the rise of Barack Obama and his vision of One America in the context of profound social and political changes in the US, and the potential transformation of American foreign policy in the post-Bush era.

The first in-depth study of the link between Scottish identity and Scottish language.

An in-depth look at Iona's economic and social history during the 18th and 19th centuries.

Filiz Peach provides a clear explanation of Jaspers' philosophy of existence, clarifying and reassessing the concept of death that is central to his thought.

Selected essays by Professor William Gordon on Roman law and Scots law.

This is the first book about Iona to span the ages, tracing the population from prehistoric times to the present era.

A translation and analysis of Sibawayh's comprehensive and insightful work on Inclination (or Umlauting) in classical Arabic.

This book mounts a strong argument for silence, arguing that we need more rather than less of it in our lives.

Provides an account of the philosophical and psychological theories in the British empiricist tradition that provoked some of the most radical changes in literary form between the eighteenth and the twentieth centuries.

Considers the nature of Irish involvement in the Highland 'Crofters' War', examining the competing claims of various land reform movements for the consideration of the crofters, and highlighting the heterogeneous nature of Irish nationalism in the 1880s.

A comprehensive study of media and communications policy.

This study of the last pagan Roman emperor provides remarkable insight into the man and his times.

Stuart Sim outlines the history of scepticism in both the Western and Islamic cultural traditions, and from the Enlightenment to postmodernism.

This ground-breaking anthology brings together a wide selection of women's writings from the Victorian period (excluding fiction and drama), most of which cannot be easily found elsewhere.

An introduction to religions in America since the Civil War, with the main focus on the twentieth century.

This book introduces the reader to the changing notions of the lexicon and dictionary-making, using a convergence of perspectives from computational linguistics, corpus linguistics, and computational lexicography/lexicology.

African Philosophy in Search of Identity