Author: Kerstin Mey
Publisher: I. B. Tauris
Keywords: art, series, obscenity
Number of Pages: 168
Published: 2006-12-26
List price: $89.95
ISBN-10: 1845112342
ISBN-13: 9781845112349

Explicit material is more widely available in the internet age than ever before, yet the concept of "obscenity" remains as difficult to pin down as it is to approach without bias: notions of what is "obscene" shift with societies’ shifting mores, and our responses to explicit or disturbing material can be highly subjective. In this intelligent and sensitive book, Kerstin Mey grapples with the work of twentieth century artists practising at the edges of acceptability, from Hans Bellmer through to Nobuyoshi Araki, from Robert Mapplethorpe to Annie Sprinkle, and from Hermann Nitsch to Paul

Author: Steve Tsang
Publisher: I. B. Tauris
Keywords: kong, hong, history, modern
Number of Pages: 356
Published: 2004-05-14
List price: $69.95
ISBN-10: 1860641849
ISBN-13: 9781860641848

From a little-known fishing community at the periphery of China, Hong Kong developed into one of the world’s most spectacular and cosmopolitan cities after a century and a half of British imperial rule. The history of Hong Kong, from its occupation by the British in 1841 to its return to Chinese sovereignty in 1997, is a fascinating story of East meeting West. This book addresses the changing relations between the local Chinese and expatriate communities in 156 years of British rule, and the emergence of a local identity. It explains the importance of China as a factor in its development

Author: Stephen Haseler
Publisher: I. B. Tauris
Keywords: challenge, america, europe, new, state, super
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2004-10-01
List price: $65.00
ISBN-10: 1860648436
ISBN-13: 9781860648434

Even before Donald Rumsfeld’s infamous "Old Europe" gibe, Europe’s divergence from America on issues like war with Iraq and trade competition has become increasingly ill-tempered. With the Euro successfully launched and a European army a real prospect, Europe is now a recognizable political entity on the world scene. A population of over 300 million and the world’s largest economy have already turned the EU into a super-power, but it is now on the verge of being a super-state. Haseler examines why the new European super-state has emerged, how it will inevitably rival the Unit

Author: Roger Howard
Publisher: I. B. Tauris
Keywords: challenge, america, east, middle, oil, new, iran
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2007-01-09
List price: $42.95
ISBN-10: 1845112490
ISBN-13: 9781845112493

The US sees itself as being locked into a confrontation with Iran, its number one enemy since the invasion of Saddam Hussein’s Iraq. But, as Roger Howard argues in this compelling and provocative new book, by attempting to isolate Iran, the US may in fact be undermining its own power. For if the US forces the rest of the world to choose between Iran and America, Iran has a trump card to play: some of the largest deposits of gas and petroleum on the planet. With global energy demands at an all-time high and supplies becoming increasingly inaccessible, Iran’s oil and gas have already

Author: Michael Northcott
Publisher: I. B. Tauris
Keywords: american, empire, religion, apocalyptic, directs, storm, angel
Number of Pages: 220
Published: 2004-12-17
List price: $65.00
ISBN-10: 1850434786
ISBN-13: 9781850434788

This passionately argued book provides the first in-depth investigation of the religious politics of current American neo-conservatism. It shows that behind the neo-imperialism of the White House and George W. Bush lies an apocalyptic vision of the United States’s sacred destiny "at the end of history", a vision that is shared by millions of Americans. The authors trace the roots of American apocalyptic to Puritan Millennialism and contemporary fundamentalist readings of the Book of Revelation. They suggest that Americans urgently need to recover a critique of Empire of the kind espoused

Author: Victoria Schofield
Publisher: I. B. Tauris
Keywords: unending, war, pakistan, india, conflict, kashmir
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2003-01-18
List price: $20.95
ISBN-10: 1860648983
ISBN-13: 9781860648984

Located on the borders of China, Central Asia, India, and Pakistan, Kashmir has now confirmed its status as a battleground for two of the world’s newest nuclear powers, India and Pakistan. In this new edition, Victoria Schofield now traces the origins of the state in the nineteenth century and the controversial ’sale’ by the British of the predominantly Muslim valley to a Hindu Maharaja. In this widely acclaimed book, she explains the serious issues that divide India and Pakistan and assesses the military positions of both states as their troops mass on both sides of the bord

Author: Julia V. Emberley
Publisher: I B Tauris & Co Ltd
Keywords: fur, politics, cultural, furs, venus
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 1998-12-31
List price: $79.48
ISBN-10: 1860642306
ISBN-13: 9781860642302

An exploration of the cultural politics of fur throughout history. The author reviews its values as commodity, sexual fetish, luxury item, article of trade, clothing and adornment. Using illustration, drawing on sources ranging from the literary to the visual, from fine art to fashion, Emberley assesses fur’s role as a literary symbol and sexual fetish. She looks at fur’s representation through the ages, including England’s sumptuary laws and fur’s historical role in building relations between Britain, North America and France. She explores the 20th-century globalizatio