Healthy living in the Alps

Healthy living in the AlpsHealthy living in the Alps examines the relationship between the search for relief from respiratory diseases, such as tuberculosis, in high alpine resorts and the development in the same places of winter sports tourism. The first winter visitors to the Swiss Alps began to arrive in the 1860s and were encouraged to take outdoor exercise as part of their cure regime. They also had healthy visitors and companions who sought recreation while the invalids

Freaks of History presents two dramatic explorations of disability within the wider themes of sexuality

a large section on postcolonialism

creative practice and migrant ethnography combine in Paul Carter’s Translations to produce a remarkably intimate and forthright autoethnography

we can perceive it only in life – with the predictable result that we treat it either as a clinical or social problem to be managed or as a phenomenon to be studied quantitatively

from Northern Ireland

Brown considers the reception of rhyme

This updated and expanded edition features new essays on a range of hot topics

material culture

emigration from Scotland between the wars surpassed all records

thirteen distinguished international scholars explore the specific ways available to mediate

political leaders and activists who weighed into debates about the condition of Ireland and where it was going

This volume explores the political implications of violence and alterity (radical difference) for the practice of democracy