Oxford University Press

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What are the limits of sympathy in dealing with another person's troubles? Where do we draw the line between caring for a loved one, and being swallowed up emotionally by the obligation to do so? In this vivid and thoughtful study, David Karp chronicles the experiences of the friends and family members of the mentally ill, and how they draw...

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The central theme of this book is the double role of the Sahara: as both a link between tropical Africa and the Mediterranean Islamic world; and as a restrictive/protective barrier that allowed considerable autonomy and originality to the southern Sahel ('shore') of the desert and its immediate hinterland. Thus Austen discusses the structural...

This original and historically rigorous study of war in Elizabethan drama and culture examines the era's emergent military science as played out in its theatres, where large audiences came to see war dramas throughout the late sixteenth century. Cahill also shows how the theatre registered the trauma produced by the new modes of warfare....

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