Genealogies of the West

Genealogies of the WestGenealogies of the West presents a new look at the West by tracing the still recognizable footprints of the past and reflecting on the present challenges it faces. Through a review of its rich and often controversial history, it recalls the genealogies of the plural processes, ideas, characters, and events that structure the Wests tradition and identity, and their presence nowadays. It shows the faces of the Modernity and its most relevant

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A multi-disciplinary set of essays revolving around the routes of Bob Dylan’s cultural appropriations

metafiction

reception history and theories of cultural memory to explore how Reformation-era audiences used medieval literary texts to construct their own national and religious identities

it makes the case for a political category of science communication

As an accessible narrative history

the fall of the British Empire came as a profound shock to the British national imagination

The volume’s contributors

the issues are more global

The truth is that workers pay their taxes while the rich pay very little

Britain’s Empires aims to tell the story of the colonial past as one marked by change and reinvention

Tragic events in Spain aroused emotive responses across the spectrum of Irish society