Ageing and Covid-19 : Making Sense of a Disrupted World

This volume presents a range of research approaches to the exploration of ageing during a pandemic situation. One of the first collections of its kind, it offers an array of studies employing research methodologies that lend themselves to replication in similar contexts by those seeking to understand the effects of epidemics on older people. Thematically organised, it shows how to reconcile qua…

The romance of London volume 2

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v. 1. Historic sketches. Remarkable duels. Notorious highwaymen. Rogueries, crimes, and punishments.

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301 TIM r

The Hmong of Australia Culture and Diaspora

United States

The Lihir Destiny : Cultural Responses to Mining in Melanesia

The people of the Lihir Islands in Papua New Guinea have long held visions of a prosperous new future, often referred to by local leaders as the ‘Lihir Destiny’. When large-scale gold mining activities commenced on the main island of Lihir in 1995, many hoped that this new world had finally arrived. The Lihir Destiny provides a nuanced account of the social structural and cultural transform…

The Cowboy Legend : Owen Wister's Virginian and the Canadian-American Ranchin…

The cowboy, as perhaps no other figure, has captured the imagination of North Americans for over a century. Before Owen Wister’s publication of The Virginian in 1902, the image of the cowboy was essentially that of the dime novel – a rough, violent, one-dimensional drifter, or the stage cowboy variety found in Buffalo Bill Cody’s Wild West show. Wister’s novel was to transform, almost o…