Books published by EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS

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.

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

Troublemakers is a provocative argument from prominent environmentalist Kevin Dunion for a sustained challenge to environmental injustice in Scotland.

Stowe's second anti-slavery novel is a primary text for students of literature and history - less well-known but now more pertinent than Uncle Tom's Cabin.

A clear, lively and highly readable introduction to the main themes of Plato's Republic.

'What is Religion?' This is the first text to review in a single volume the theories of religion which have been put forward by both believers and non-believers.

This biography of the Muslim scholastic and humanist Ibn 'Aqil sheds light on one of the most important periods of classical Islam, one which has had a significant impact on religious and intellectual culture in the Christian Latin West.

Paul Wells looks at animation in the United States afresh, discussing the distinctiveness of the cartoon form, and the myriad others types of animation production, insisting upon the 'modernity' of the form, and its crucial importance as a barometer of the social conditions in which it was made, and which it reflects.

This first study in English of the complete writings of Italo Calvino (1923-85) offers new interpretations of Calvino's main works, taking into account some important unpublished material, and analyses Calvino's intertextual links with major writers of world literature.

The first comprehensive dictionary of the field of sociolinguistics, this is a valuable reference book for students and teachers of sociolinguistics, others concerned with the socially-oriented study of language and those with a professional interest in language.

Language contact is everywhere: many nations have more than one official language, and quite possibly most people in the world speak two or more languages. What happens to different peoples and to their languages when they come into contact?

John Dillon's exploration of Athenian society vividly brings to life how the ancient Greeks behaved towards each other.

Originally published in 1613, this is the earliest play to have been written in English by a woman.

This book brings together a classic collection of Andrew Sherratt's work on the economic foundations of prehistoric Europe.

Scotland is unusually rich in field monuments and objects surviving from early times. This comprehensive survey of Scotland's prehistoric and early historic archaeology covers the full chronological range from the earliest inhabitants to the union of the Picts and Scots in AD 843.

Callum Brown examines the role of religion in the making of modern Scottish society.

Hollywood has recently devoted big budgets and established stars to films about controversial issues, while previously marginal identities have come into prominence. The authors examine the issues these developments raise, bringing together debates in identity politics with film studies.

Examines how mechanisms of change and conversions harrowed and transformed early modern people and their worlds.