De rerum natura

De rerum naturaThe edition offers a new critical text of De rerum natura. It has been established after fresh collation of the manuscripts and a critical evaluation of previous editorial scholarship. It is equipped with a critical apparatus, an apparatus of sources and an apparatus of repeated lines. The preface discusses the manuscript tradition of Lucretius and the way the text and apparatuses have been constructed.

At the dawn of the twenty-first century

moves on to the issue of cultural maintenance and then turns to language policy

who were wheat farmers in the seventeenth century and cacao hacienda owners in the eighteenth

Nagy's insights conjure the Greeks' nostalgia for the imagined "epic space" of Troy and for the resonances and distortions this mythic past provided to the various Greek constituencies for whom the Homeric poems were so central and definitive

popular cinema

China’s One-Child Policy has left that country without enough women to marry its men

and China deploy in the region and examine how the two world powers are indirectly competitive with one another for influence in Central Asia

and business practices of various corporations use a logic of development that positions girls and women as instruments of poverty alleviation and new frontiers for capitalist accumulation

How do Native American children see themselves and their race in the midst of a society dominated by whites

beautiful Cumbrian fells provide the bewitching setting for the adventures of Bell and Harry

Die Beiträge des Bandes analysieren die Einrichtung von Infrastrukturanlagen und deren Verwaltung in den Provinzen im Hinblick auf das Ineinandergreifen von imperialer und lokaler Herrschaftsorganisation

and poachers and loggers swept in like vultures