Epirus and Ionian Islands embroideries

Through a series of case-studies of nine Aegean and Ionian islands, the contributors examine the ancient epigraphic culture of each island's political, social and religious history...

Abstract Snakes have been successful colonizers of islands, where some have replaced mammals as top carnivores and are key elements in food webs. Snakes are present ...

Viewed from the mainland, the history of the archipelago appears as a long list of non-invited but irresistible disembarkations. Viewed from on an island the archipelago has had a ...

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Darwin called the Galápagos archipelago “a little world within ...

A database of all the 233 islands in Scotland populated at any time since 1841 shows over half becoming depopulated between 1861 and 2011, with a marked inverse relationship betwee...

Islands are concentrated “instances” of place, in every sense of the term. As such, there are no better candidates for observing and critiquing the dynamics of globalization. Throu...

Theorising Literary Islands is a literary and cultural study of both how and why the trope of the island functions within contemporary popular Robinsonade narratives. It traces the...