Global Villages

Global VillagesGlobal Villages: Rural and Urban Transformations in Contemporary Bulgaria aims to broaden the study of globalization from urban to rural contexts, exploring its effects through case studies from postsocialist Bulgaria.

The studies explore teamwork in building design

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to the "maternal avengers" of rape-revenge melodrama such as "An Eye for an Eye"

communal welfare systems and alternative welfare strategies

explains the Christian ethics

spectacle and recreation activities and spaces of late Ottoman and early Turkish cities

from grand fortified harbors and stunning cliffs to quaint villages and Baroque palaces

and details how those effects filter into Shakespeare's dramatic language

legal professionals and social justice activists

A profound new way to approach Eugene O’Neill’s Long Day’s Journey Into Night comes from reading this intensely autobiographical masterpiece in terms of the Taoism-inspired California house where it was written on the verge of World War II and the fractious marriage to Carlotta Monterey O’Neill to whom the play is dedicated

and Australia) and rooted the idea of English empire as a civilized alternative to the cruelty of Spanish conquest