Defeated flesh

Defeated fleshDefeated flesh dwells on the French defeat of 1870 and the socialist uprising of the Commune of Paris.. This is one of the first books to develop an in depth, comparative analysis of the Franco Prussian war and the Commune.. By looking at the history of the body and medicine it considers how the French people mobilised for the war effort and how their ultimate defeat had cultural and social consequences which led to the fin de sicle spirit.. Looking

functions and impact

World Film Locations: Singapore introduces armchair travellers to a rich

Closed Borders is the first collection of essays about French-language road movies

unresisting inhabitants

The systems described are mostly graphic-based

The Punk Reader: Research Transmissions from the Local and the Global is the first edited volume to explore and critically interrogate punk culture in relation to contemporary

Mexico City is the second largest city on the American continent

the "soft" technologies are drivers of physical "hard" technologies

Alexander Kluge

brings to life the intrigues of the Spanish court

Contains a snapshot dissection of where theatre is

and question the long cherished idea that the alphabet stands at the apex of a hierarchy towards which all proper forms of writing must necessarily progress