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The Routledge Companion to British Women’s Suffrage

The Routledge Companion to British Women’s Suffrage

1st Edition

Forthcoming

Edited By Krista Cowman
July 25, 2024

The suffrage movement remains the largest autonomous political movement of women in British history. The Routledge Companion to British Women’s Suffrage provides a comprehensive survey of state-of-the-art contemporary scholarship on this movement.  Arranged across four thematic sections, this ...

The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Young People

The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Young People

1st Edition

Forthcoming

Edited By Selina Busby, Kelly Freebody, Charlene Rajendran
May 27, 2024

This companion interrogates the relationship between theatre and youth from a global perspective, taking in performances and theatre made by, for, and about young people. These different but interrelated forms of theatre are addressed through four critical themes that underpin the ways in which ...

The Routledge Companion to Vsevolod Meyerhold

The Routledge Companion to Vsevolod Meyerhold

1st Edition

Forthcoming

Edited By Jonathan Pitches, Stefan Aquilina
May 27, 2024

The Routledge Companion to Vsevolod Meyerhold brings together a wealth of scholarship on one of the foremost innovators in European theatre. It presents a detailed picture of the Russian director’s work from when it first emerged on the modern stage to its multifarious present-day manifestations. ...

The Routledge Companion to Performance and Medicine

The Routledge Companion to Performance and Medicine

1st Edition

Edited By Gianna Bouchard, Alex Mermikides
February 16, 2024

The Routledge Companion to Performance and Medicine addresses the proliferation of practices that bridge performance and medicine in the contemporary moment. The scope of this book's broad range of chapters includes medicine and illness as the subject of drama and plays; the performativity of ...

The Routledge Companion to Latine Theatre and Performance

The Routledge Companion to Latine Theatre and Performance

1st Edition

Edited By Noe Montez, Olga Sanchez Saltveit
February 29, 2024

The Routledge Companion to Latine Theatre and Performance traces how manifestations of Latine self-determination in contemporary US theatre and performance practices affirm the value of Latine life in a theatrical culture that has a legacy of misrepresentation and erasure. This collection draws on ...

The Routledge Companion to the Anthropology of Performance

The Routledge Companion to the Anthropology of Performance

1st Edition

Edited By Lauren Miller, David Syring
November 30, 2023

The Routledge Companion to the Anthropology of Performance provides a cutting-edge, comprehensive overview of the foundations, epistemologies, methodologies, key topics and current debates, and future directions in the field. It brings together work from the disciplines of anthropology and ...

The Routledge Companion to Applied Qualitative Research in the Caribbean

The Routledge Companion to Applied Qualitative Research in the Caribbean

1st Edition

Edited By Corin Bailey, Roy McCree, Latoya Lazarus, Natalie Dietrich Jones
June 01, 2023

This cutting-edge book provides a comprehensive examination of applied qualitative research in the Caribbean. It highlights the methodological diversity of qualitative research by drawing on various approaches to the study of Caribbean society, addressing the lack of published qualitative research ...

The Routledge Companion to History and the Moving Image

The Routledge Companion to History and the Moving Image

1st Edition

Edited By Marnie Hughes-Warrington, Kim Nelson, Mia E.M. Treacey
November 07, 2023

The Routledge Companion to History and the Moving Image takes an interdisciplinary approach to understanding history in moving images. It engages this popular and dynamic field that has evolved rapidly from film and television to digital streaming into the age of user-created content. The volume ...

The Routledge Companion to Global Indigenous History

The Routledge Companion to Global Indigenous History

1st Edition

Edited By Ann McGrath, Lynette Russell
May 31, 2023

The Routledge Companion to Global Indigenous History presents exciting new innovations in the dynamic field of Indigenous global history while also outlining ethical, political, and practical research. Indigenous histories are not merely concerned with the past but have resonances for the politics...

The Routledge Companion to Historical Theory

The Routledge Companion to Historical Theory

1st Edition

Edited By Chiel van den Akker
May 31, 2023

This Companion provides a wide-ranging and up-to-date overview of the conceptual issues that history as a discipline and mode of thought gives rise to. The book offers both historical and systematic treatments of these issues, as well as addressing their contemporary relevance. Structured in three...

The Routledge Companion to English Folk Performance

The Routledge Companion to English Folk Performance

1st Edition

Edited By Peter Harrop, Steve Roud
January 09, 2023

This broad-based collection of essays is an introduction both to the concerns of contemporary folklore scholarship and to the variety of forms that folk performance has taken throughout English history. Combining case studies of specific folk practices with discussion of the various different ...

The Routledge Companion to Musical Theatre

The Routledge Companion to Musical Theatre

1st Edition

Edited By Laura MacDonald, Ryan Donovan
December 30, 2022

Global in scope and featuring thirty-five chapters from more than fifty dance, music, and theatre scholars and practitioners, The Routledge Companion to Musical Theatre introduces the fundamentals of musical theatre studies and highlights developing global trends in practice and scholarship. ...

The Routledge Companion to Applied Performance Two Volume Set

The Routledge Companion to Applied Performance: Two Volume Set

1st Edition

Edited By Tim Prentki, Ananda Breed
August 01, 2022

The Routledge Companion to Applied Performance provides an in-depth, far-reaching and provocative consideration of how scholars and artists negotiate the theoretical, historical and practical politics of applied performance, both in the academy and beyond. These volumes offer insights from within...

The Routledge Companion to Applied Performance Volume One – Mainland Europe, North and Latin America, Southern Africa, and Australia and New Zealand

The Routledge Companion to Applied Performance: Volume One – Mainland Europe, North and Latin America, Southern Africa, and Australia and New Zealand

1st Edition

Edited By Tim Prentki, Ananda Breed
August 01, 2022

The Routledge Companion to Applied Performance provides an in-depth, far-reaching and provocative consideration of how scholars and artists negotiate the theoretical, historical and practical politics of applied performance, both in the academy and beyond. These volumes offer insights from within...

The Routledge Companion to Applied Performance Volume Two – Brazil, West Africa, South and South East Asia, United Kingdom, and the Arab World

The Routledge Companion to Applied Performance: Volume Two – Brazil, West Africa, South and South East Asia, United Kingdom, and the Arab World

1st Edition

Edited By Tim Prentki, Ananda Breed
August 01, 2022

The Routledge Companion to Applied Performance provides an in-depth, far-reaching and provocative consideration of how scholars and artists negotiate the theoretical, historical and practical politics of applied performance, both in the academy and beyond. These volumes offer insights from within...

The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance Historiography

The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance Historiography

1st Edition

Edited By Tracy C. Davis, Peter W. Marx
August 01, 2022

The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance Historiography sets the agenda for inclusive and wide-ranging approaches to writing history, embracing the diverse perspectives of the twenty-first century and Critical Media History. Written by an international team of authors whose expertise ...

The Routledge Companion to Twentieth and Early Twenty-First Century Urban Design A History of Shifting Manifestoes, Paradigms, Generic Solutions, and Specific Designs

The Routledge Companion to Twentieth and Early Twenty-First Century Urban Design: A History of Shifting Manifestoes, Paradigms, Generic Solutions, and Specific Designs

1st Edition

By Jon Lang
August 01, 2022

The Routledge Companion to Twentieth and Early Twenty-First Century Urban Design is a fully illustrated descriptive and explanatory history of the development of urban design ideas and paradigms of the past 150 years. The ideas and projects, hypothetical and built, range in scale from the city to ...

The Routledge Companion to Cultural History in the Western World

The Routledge Companion to Cultural History in the Western World

1st Edition

Edited By Alessandro Arcangeli, Jörg Rogge, Hannu Salmi
April 29, 2022

The Routledge Companion to Cultural History in the Western World is a comprehensive examination of recent discussions and findings in the exciting field of cultural history. A synthesis of how the new cultural history has transformed the study of history, the volume is divided into three parts – ...

The Routledge Companion to Marine and Maritime Worlds 1400-1800

The Routledge Companion to Marine and Maritime Worlds 1400-1800

1st Edition

Edited By Claire Jowitt, Craig Lambert, Steve Mentz
April 29, 2022

This book has been nominated for The Mountbatten Award for Best Book in the Maritime Media Awards 2021. The Routledge Companion to Marine and Maritime Worlds, 1400‒1800 explores early modern maritime history, culture, and the current state of the research and approaches taken by experts in the ...

The Routledge Companion to Race and Ethnicity

The Routledge Companion to Race and Ethnicity

2nd Edition

Edited By Stephen M. Caliendo, Charlton D. McIlwain
October 28, 2020

The second edition of The Routledge Companion to Race and Ethnicity offers readers a broad overview of scholarly exploration of the ways that humans have organized themselves (and have been organized) according to racial and ethnic divisions. More than 80 scholars from around the world and ...

The Routledge Companion to Performance Practitioners Volume One

The Routledge Companion to Performance Practitioners: Volume One

1st Edition

Edited By Franc Chamberlain, Bernadette Sweeney
August 17, 2020

The Routledge Companion to Performance Practitioners collects the outstanding biographical and production overviews of key theatre practitioners first featured in the popular Routledge Performance Practitioners series of guidebooks. Each of the chapters is written by an expert on a particular ...

The Routledge Companion to Performance Practitioners Volume Two

The Routledge Companion to Performance Practitioners: Volume Two

1st Edition

Edited By Franc Chamberlain, Bernadette Sweeney
August 17, 2020

The Routledge Companion to Performance Practitioners collects the outstanding biographical and production overviews of key theatre practitioners first featured in the popular Routledge Performance Practitioners series of guidebooks. Each of the chapters is written by an expert on a particular ...

The Routledge Companion to Performance Practitioners

The Routledge Companion to Performance Practitioners

1st Edition

Edited By Franc Chamberlain, Bernadette Sweeney
August 17, 2020

The Routledge Companion to Performance Practitioners collects the outstanding biographical and production overviews of key theatre practitioners first featured in the popular Routledge Performance Practitioners series of guidebooks. Each of the chapters is written by an expert on a particular ...

The Routledge Companion to Performance Philosophy

The Routledge Companion to Performance Philosophy

1st Edition

Edited By Laura Cull Ó Maoilearca, Alice Lagaay
July 09, 2020

The Routledge Companion to Performance Philosophy is a volume of especially commissioned critical essays, conversations, collaborative, creative and performative writing mapping the key contexts, debates, methods, discourses and practices in this developing field. Firstly, the collection offers new...

The Routledge Companion to Adaptation

The Routledge Companion to Adaptation

1st Edition

Edited By Dennis Cutchins, Katja Krebs, Eckart Voigts
June 30, 2020

The Routledge Companion to Adaptation offers a broad range of scholarship from this growing, interdisciplinary field. With a basis in source-oriented studies, such as novel-to-stage and stage-to-film adaptations, this volume also seeks to highlight the new and innovative aspects of adaptation ...

The Routledge Companion to Butoh Performance

The Routledge Companion to Butoh Performance

1st Edition

Edited By Bruce Baird, Rosemary Candelario
June 30, 2020

The Routledge Companion to Butoh Performance provides a comprehensive introduction to and analysis of the global art form butoh. Originating in Japan in the 1960s, butoh was a major innovation in twentieth century dance and performance, and it continues to shape-shift around the world. Taking ...

The Routledge Companion to Scenography

The Routledge Companion to Scenography

1st Edition

Edited By Arnold Aronson
March 23, 2020

The Routledge Companion to Scenography is the largest and most comprehensive collection of original essays to survey the historical, conceptual, critical and theoretical aspects of this increasingly important aspect of theatre and performance studies. Editor and leading scholar Arnold Aronson ...

The Routledge Companion to Indigenous Repatriation Return, Reconcile, Renew

The Routledge Companion to Indigenous Repatriation: Return, Reconcile, Renew

1st Edition

Edited By Cressida Fforde, C. Timothy McKeown, Honor Keeler
March 18, 2020

This volume brings together Indigenous and non-Indigenous repatriation practitioners and researchers to provide the reader with an international overview of the removal and return of Ancestral Remains. The Ancestral Remains of Indigenous peoples are today housed in museums and other collecting ...

The Routledge Companion to African American Theatre and Performance

The Routledge Companion to African American Theatre and Performance

1st Edition

Edited By Kathy Perkins, Sandra Richards, Renée Alexander Craft, Thomas DeFrantz
March 04, 2020

The Routledge Companion to African American Theatre and Performance is an outstanding collection of specially written essays that charts the emergence, development, and diversity of African American Theatre and Performance—from the nineteenth-century African Grove Theatre to Afrofuturism. ...

The Routledge Companion to Automobile Heritage, Culture, and Preservation

The Routledge Companion to Automobile Heritage, Culture, and Preservation

1st Edition

Edited By Barry Stiefel, Jennifer Clark
December 05, 2019

The Routledge Companion to Automobile Heritage, Culture, and Preservation explores automotive heritage, its place in society, and the ways we might preserve and conserve it. Drawing on contributions from academics and practitioners around the world and comprising six sections, this volume carries...

The Routledge Companion to Dance Studies

The Routledge Companion to Dance Studies

1st Edition

Edited By Helen Thomas, Stacey Prickett
November 18, 2019

The Routledge Companion to Dance Studies maps out the key features of dance studies as the field stands today, while pointing to potential future developments. It locates these features both historically—within dance in particular social and cultural contexts—and in relation to other academic ...

The Routledge Companion to Big History

The Routledge Companion to Big History

1st Edition

Edited By Craig Benjamin, Esther Quaedackers, David Baker
August 19, 2019

The Routledge Companion to Big History guides readers though the variety of themes and concepts that structure contemporary scholarship in the field of big history. The volume is divided into five parts, each representing current and evolving areas of interest to the community, including big ...

The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Politics

The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Politics

1st Edition

Edited By Peter Eckersall, Helena Grehan
March 19, 2019

The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Politics is a volume of critical essays, provocations, and interventions on the most important questions faced by today’s writers, critics, audiences, and theatre and performance makers. Featuring texts written by scholars and artists who are diversely ...

The Routledge Companion to Theatre of the Oppressed

The Routledge Companion to Theatre of the Oppressed

1st Edition

Edited By Kelly Howe, Julian Boal, José Soeiro
February 12, 2019

This dynamic book offers a comprehensive companion to the theory and practice of Theatre of the Oppressed. Developed by Brazilian director and theorist Augusto Boal, these theatrical forms invite people to mobilize their knowledge and rehearse struggles against oppression. Featuring a diverse ...

The Routledge Companion to Jewish History and Historiography

The Routledge Companion to Jewish History and Historiography

1st Edition

Edited By Dean Phillip Bell
October 02, 2018

The Routledge Companion to Jewish History and Historiography provides an overview of Jewish history from the biblical to the contemporary period, while simultaneously placing Jewish history into conversation with the most central historiographical methods and issues and some of the core source ...

The Routledge Companion to Theatre, Performance and Cognitive Science

The Routledge Companion to Theatre, Performance and Cognitive Science

1st Edition

Edited By Rick Kemp, Bruce McConachie
September 10, 2018

The Routledge Companion to Theatre, Performance and Cognitive Science integrates key findings from the cognitive sciences (cognitive psychology, neuroscience, evolutionary studies and relevant social sciences) with insights from theatre and performance studies. This rapidly expanding ...

The Routledge Companion to Animal-Human History

The Routledge Companion to Animal-Human History

1st Edition

Edited By Hilda Kean, Philip Howell
August 21, 2018

The Routledge Companion to Animal-Human History provides an up-to-date guide for the historian working within the growing field of animal-human history. Giving a sense of the diversity and interdisciplinary nature of the field, cutting-edge contributions explore the practices of and challenges ...

The Routledge Companion to Jacques Lecoq

The Routledge Companion to Jacques Lecoq

1st Edition

Edited By Mark Evans, Rick Kemp
August 14, 2018

The Routledge Companion to Jacques Lecoq presents a thorough overview and analysis of Jacques Lecoq's life, work and philosophy of theatre. Through an exemplary collection of specially commissioned chapters from leading writers, specialists and practitioners, it draws together writings and ...

The Routledge Companion to the French Revolution in World History

The Routledge Companion to the French Revolution in World History

1st Edition

Edited By Alan Forrest, Matthias Middell
July 27, 2018

The Routledge Companion to the French Revolution in World History engages with some of the most recent trends in French revolutionary scholarship by considering the Revolution in its global context. Across seventeen chapters an international team of contributors examine the impact of the Revolution...

The Routledge Companion to Spatial History

The Routledge Companion to Spatial History

1st Edition

Edited By Ian Gregory, Don DeBats, Don Lafreniere
January 24, 2018

The Routledge Companion to Spatial History explores the full range of ways in which GIS can be used to study the past, considering key questions such as what types of new knowledge can be developed solely as a consequence of using GIS and how effective GIS can be for different types of research. ...

The Routledge Companion to Cultural Property

The Routledge Companion to Cultural Property

1st Edition

Edited By Jane Anderson, Haidy Geismar
July 31, 2017

The Routledge Companion to Cultural Property contains new contributions from scholars working at the cutting edge of cultural property studies, bringing together diverse academic and professional perspectives to develop a coherent overview of this field of enquiry. The global range of authors use ...

The Routledge Companion to Labor and Media

The Routledge Companion to Labor and Media

1st Edition

Edited By Richard Maxwell
February 08, 2017

Labor resides at the center of all media and communication production, from the workers who create the information technologies that form the dynamic core of the global capitalist system and the designers who create media content to the salvage workers who dismantle the industry’s high-tech trash. ...

The Routledge Companion to Intangible Cultural Heritage

The Routledge Companion to Intangible Cultural Heritage

1st Edition

Edited By Michelle Stefano, Peter Davis
December 20, 2016

This collection provides an in-depth and up-to-date examination of the concept of Intangible Cultural Heritage and the issues surrounding its value to society. Critically engaging with the UNESCO 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage, the book also discusses ...

The Routledge Research Companion to Early Drama and Performance

The Routledge Research Companion to Early Drama and Performance

1st Edition

Edited By Pamela King
December 20, 2016

The study of early drama has undergone a quiet revolution in the last four decades, radically altering critical approaches to form, genre, and canon. Drawing on disciplines from art history to musicology and reception studies, The Routledge Research Companion to Early Drama and Performance ...

The Routledge Companion to Media and Race

The Routledge Companion to Media and Race

1st Edition

Edited By Christopher Campbell
November 03, 2016

The Routledge Companion to Media and Race serves as a comprehensive guide for scholars, students, and media professionals who seek to understand the key debates about the impact of media messages on racial attitudes and understanding. Broad in scope and richly presented from a diversity of ...

The Routledge Companion to Dramaturgy

The Routledge Companion to Dramaturgy

1st Edition

Edited By Magda Romanska
July 24, 2015

Dramaturgy, in its many forms, is a fundamental and indispensable element of contemporary theatre. In its earliest definition, the word itself means a comprehensive theory of "play making." Although it initially grew out of theatre, contemporary dramaturgy has made enormous advances in recent years...

The Routledge Companion to Michael Chekhov

The Routledge Companion to Michael Chekhov

1st Edition

Edited By Marie Christine Autant Mathieu, Yana Meerzon
May 20, 2015

The Routledge Companion to Michael Chekhov brings together Chekhov specialists from around the world - theatre practitioners, theorists, historians and archivists – to provide an astonishingly comprehensive assessment of his life, work and legacy. This volume aims to connect East and West; ...

The Routledge Companion to the New Cosmology

The Routledge Companion to the New Cosmology

2nd Edition

Edited By Peter Coles
May 24, 2001

Just what is Einstein's Theory of Relativity? The Big Bang Theory? Curvature of Spacetime? What do astronomers mean when they talk of a 'flat universe'?This approachable and authoritative guide to the cosmos answers these questions, and more. Taking advantage of the distinctive Companion format, ...

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