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The Defiant Border
This book explores why the Afghan-Pakistan borderlands have remained largely independent of state controls throughout the twentieth century.
After Words
After Words investigates the ways in which the suicide of a writer informs critical interpretations of his or her works. Suicide is a revision as well as a form of authorship, both on the part of the author, who has written his/her final scene and revised the 'natural' course of his/her life, and on the part of the reader, who must make sense of this final act of writing. Focusing on four twentieth-century Italian writers (Guido Morselli, Amelia Rosselli, Cesare Pavese, and Primo Levi), Elizabeth Leake examines their personal correspondence, diaries, and obituaries as well as popular and academic commemorative writings about them and their works in order to elucidate the ramifications of their suicides for their readership. Arguing that authorial suicide points to the limitations of those critical stances that exclude the author from the practice of reading, Leake's insightful re-reading of these authors and their texts shows that in the aftermath of suicide, an author's life and death themselves become texts to be read.
Afghan Crucible
A new global history of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan - an invasion whose consequences are still felt in Afghanistan and across the wider world. On 24 December 1979, Soviet armed forces entered Afghanistan, beginning an occupation that would last almost a decade and creating a political crisis that shook the world. To many observers, the Soviet invasion showed the lengths to which one of the world's superpowers would go to vie for supremacy in the global Cold War. The Soviet war, and parallel covert American aid to Afghan resistance fighters, would come to be a defining event of international politics in the final years of the Cold War, lingering far beyond the Soviet Union's own demise...
The Reinvention of Ignazio Silone
The Reinvention of Ignazio Silone raises complex theoretical issues about authorship and audiences and about the relationship between text and context.
Miss Leake's Journal
Transcript of a colonial diary kept by Sarah Leake of Campbell Town, Tasmania, including annotations, family background, recipes and an index of names.
Decolonization and the Cold War
Explores the intersections between the historiographies of the Cold War and decolonization.
Internal Exile in Fascist Italy
This book is an accessible history of internal exile's origins and practices under Fascism and of its representation in film, literature and memoir.
The Antiquary
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