Drawing primarily on the phenomenological work of Edmund Husserl and Luis Villoro, Sense and Uncertainty explores the possibility and conditions of rational, practical agency in our non-ideal world, characterized by forms of irrationality, violence, and oppression.

Scholars working in the fields of archaeology, education, history, geography, and politics tell a nuanced story about the people and dynamics that reshaped this region and determined who would control it.

In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, enslaved Africans and Asians were crucial to expanding the Portuguese Catholic empire. The Crown and Church mandated their conversion, expanding the Christian population and securing anti-Muslim allies. Inquisition records from Goa highlight the complex dynamics of conversion, slavery, and imperial ambitions.

Through the prism of sports and from a range of scholarly perspectives, this anthology offers insight into the varied and shifting experiences of African athletes, fans, communities, and postcolonial states.

Although Anais Nin found in her diaries a profound mode of self-creation and confession, she could not reveal this intimate record of her own experiences during her lifetime. Instead, she turned to fiction, where her stories and novels became artistic "distillations" of her secret diaries.

Filled with individual examples, stories, and over eighty fine colour photographs that illuminate the role that samplers and needlework played in the culture of the time.

Until they were banned in 2009, the radio debates called Ugandan People's Parliaments gave common folk a forum to air their views. But how do people talk about politics in an authoritarian regime? The forms and parameters of such speech turn out to be more complex than a simple confrontation between an oppressive state and a liberal civil society.

Considering popular literary images of Indian and Paisley shawls as markers of fashion, class, gender, and race during the long nineteenth century, this book shows how Indian imports and influences shaped wider discussions of British literature, art, politics, and empire.

This is the first comprehensive study devoted to the role of fairy tales and folklore in the work of the Brontë family of writers: Charlotte, Emily, Anne, and Branwell. It engages with and extends the contemporary critical discourse on genre, literary realism, the history of the fairy tale, national identity, and the position of women in the Victorian period.