“…It focuses on large aquatic fauna, especially manatees (but also sharks, sea turtles, seals, and others) as they were hunted, consumed, venerated, conceptualised, and recorded by different societies across the early colonial Americas and West Africa. Through a cross-cultural approach drawing on concepts and analytical methods from marine environmental history, the blue humanities and animal studies, this book addresses more-than-human systems where ecologies, geographies, cosmogonies, and cultures are an entangled web of interdependencies…”

“…In Conditional Freedom, Thomas Mareite offers a social history of U.S. refugees from slavery, and provides a political history of the clash between Mexican free soil and the spread of slavery west of the Mississippi Valley during the nineteenth-century"--…”

“…While comparing the writings of a Chinese writer and an English one, Yao avoids a direct comparison between East and West that could further enforce binaries. Instead, she uses the comparison to develop an idea of cosmopolitanism that shows how the writers are in conversation with their own culture and with each other. …”

“…An Anthropology of Landscape tells the fascinating story of a heathland landscape in south-west England and the way different individuals and groups engage with it. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Introduction: Worlds of imagination / Stijn Reijnders, Emiel Martens, Apoorva Nanjangud, Deborah Castro, Rosa Schiavone and Débora Póvoa -- The runaway production of A daughter of the gods : film, tourism and empire in early twentieth-century Jamaica / Emiel Martens -- More than just home of Middle Earth : the history of film tourism in Aotearoa New Zealand / Alfio Leotta -- Where East becomes West : imaginative geographies of Eastern Europe in popular Indian cinema / Kzrystztof Stachowiak -- The unfulfilled potential of the radio archives : designing a prototype to uncover hidden stories in the landscape / Rebecca Nedregotten Strand -- Environmental imaginaria in the age of extinction : perspectives from the "critical zone"/ Rodanthi Tzanelli -- The everyday tourist : travelling the theatre of the mind in the wake of permacrisis / Christine Lundberg, Vassilios Ziakas and Kristina Lindström -- From SDCC to globalised/glocalised comic-cons : towards the experience economy of co-existential 'event fans' / Matt Hills -- Multi-vocality induced by laid-back camp among Chinese audiences / Qian Jin -- Bollywood tourism among the Hindustanis in the Netherlands : a transnational perspective / Apoorva Nanjangud and Stijn Reijnders -- Whose homestead is it? …”

“…Es la década de 1960, y todos los teatros del West End de Londres se dirigen a Freddie Wentworth, la veterana y excéntrica propietaria de la Temple Stage School, en busca de los mejores niños actores de su escuela para producciones de todo tipo, desde obras de Shakespeare hasta musicales y representaciones navideñas, evitando deliberadamente los trabajos más rentables, como los de la televisión o el cine. …”

“…David Bebnowski nutzt die beiden West-Berliner Zeitschriften »Das Argument« und »PROKLA« als Seismographen und Sonden zur Ergründung der Geschichte der Neuen Linken und des akademischen Marxismus. …”

“…Descendiente de una familia (originalmente "Eisenhauer") de Karlsbrunn, Sarre (Alemania), que había inmigrado a EEUU en el siglo XVIII, se graduó en West Point en 1915. Como presidente impulsó el desarrollo del sistema de autopistas en su país, tomando como referencia el sistema alemán de los años 30. …”

“…Johnson narra la modesta infancia de Ike en Kansas, sus años de carrera en West Point y su rápido ascenso en el rango militar, que culminó con su nombramiento como Comandante Supremo de las Fuerzas Aliadas en Europa durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial. …”