Baroda, a tale of two cities

Foundation myths are a crucial component of many Greek cities’ identities. But the mythic tradition also represents many cities and their spaces before they were cities at all. Thi...

European cities are at the centre of social, political and economic changes in Western Europe. This book proposes a new research agenda in urban sociology and politics applying pri...

Full of playful graphics, provocative questions, and curious facts, this book asks what makes a city and how we might make them differently. What makes a city a city...

Abstract This book answers research questions regarding the suburbanization of persons, households, and jobs in India’s cities, their regional variations, factors wh...

Abstract This book makes available J. R. R. Tolkien’s career-long writings on Chaucer from his 1913 undergraduate essay on the poet’s language to his 1959 retirement...

The ancient Indian tale of Urvaśī, the earliest swan tale known to exist, underscores and highlights themes of female captivity, human shape-shifting in and out of animal forms, ma...

Chapter 1 addresses the disputed date and provenance of Joseph and Aseneth. The question of whether the tale is “Jewish or Christian?” is the central frame in which its provenance ...