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Open access chapters

Where books have open access chapters, you can download these as PDF files directly from the book's webpage. Click on the 'Resources' tab to see the available chapters.

Books with open access chapters

You can access pdfs of the following open access chapters directly from the list below.

Age of Rogues: Rebels, Revolutionaries and Racketeers at the Frontiers of Empires

Edited by Ramazan Hakkı Öztan and Alp Yenen

• Chapter 12. Borderline Rebels: The Khoybun League and the Alliance of Kurdish-Armenian Revolutionaries in the post-Ottoman Middle East by Jordi Tejel

Big Data and Democracy

British Avant-Garde Fiction of the 1960s

Edited by Kaye Mitchell and Nonia Williams

• Chapter 6: Anna Kavan: Pursuing the ‘in-between reality’ hidden by the ‘ordinary surface of things’, Hannah Van Hove

Challenging Cosmopolitanism: Coercion, Mobility and Displacement in Islamic Asia

Edited by Joshua Gedacht and R. Michael Feener

• Chapter 3: 'Sufi Cosmopolitanism in the Seventeenth-century Indian Ocean: Sharıʿa, Lineage and Royal Power in Southeast Asia and the Maldives' by A. C. S. Peacock
• Chapter 9: 'Afghanistan’s Cosmopolitan Trading Networks: A View from Yiwu, China' by Magnus Marsden and Diana Ibañez-Tirado

The Edinburgh Companion to the Critical Medical Humanities

Edited by Anne Whitehead and Angela Woods; Associate Editors: Sarah Atkinson, Jane Macnaughton and Jennifer Richards

• The Edinburgh Companion to Critical Medical Humanities - Chapter 1
• The Edinburgh Companion to Critical Medical Humanities - Chapter 3
• The Edinburgh Companion to Critical Medical Humanities - Chapter 6
• The Edinburgh Companion to Critical Medical Humanities - Chapter 12
• The Edinburgh Companion to Critical Medical Humanities - Chapter 16
• The Edinburgh Companion to Critical Medical Humanities - Chapter 20
• The Edinburgh Companion to Critical Medical Humanities - Chapter 23

The Edinburgh Companion to Virginia Woolf and Contemporary Global Literature

Edited by Jeanne Dubino, Paulina Pająk, Catherine W. Hollis, Celiese Lypka, Vara Neverow

• Chapter 10: Solid and living: The Italian Woolf Renaissance by Elisa Bolchi

The Edinburgh Companion to Women in Publishing, 1900–2020

Edited by Nicola Wilson, Claire Battershill, Sophie Heywood, Marrisa Joseph, Daniela La Penna, Helen Southworth, Alice Staveley, Elizabeth Willson Gordon

• Chapter 20: Like Needle and Thread: How Women connected Italy to America at the house of Farrar, Straus, Giulia Pellizzato

Ensemblance: The Transnational Genealogy of Esprit de Corps

Luis De Miranda

• 'Esprit de Corps: A Timeline' & 'Introduction: A Thousand Platoons – The Enduring Importance of Esprit de Corps' by Luis de Miranda

Ethics of Drone Strikes: Restraining Remote-Control Killing

Edited by Christian Enemark

• Chapter 4: 'Drone Violence as Wild Justice: Administrative Executions on the Terror Frontier' by Christian Enemark
• Chapter 7: 'Drone Warriors, Revealed Humanity, and a Feminist Ethics of Care' by Lindsay C. Clark and Christian Enemark
• Chapter 9: 'Autonomous Armed Drones and the Challenges to Multilateral Consensus on Value-Based Regulation' by Thompson Chengeta

Experimental and Independent Italian Cinema

Edited by Anthony Cristiano and Carlo Coen

• Chapter 9: Niccolò Bruna’s Ethical Process as Social Engagement: Upholding Human Stories against a Backdrop of Globalization by David H. Fleming and Filippo Gilardi

Islamisation: Comparative Perspectives from History

Edited by A. C. S. Peacock

• Chapter 15: 'From Shahāda to ‘Aqīda: Conversion to Islam, Catechisation, and Sunnitisation in Sixteenth-Century Ottoman Rumeli' by Tijana Krstić

New Directions in Philosophy and Literature

Edited by David Rudrum, Ridvan Askin, Frida Beckman

• Chapter 13: Two Examples of Ordinary Language Criticism: Reading Conant Reading Rorty Reading Orwell - Interpretation at the Intersection of Philosophy and Literature by Ingeborg Loefgren

The Politics of Culture in Contemporary Turkey

Edited by Pierre Hecker, Ivo Furman, Kaya Akyıldız

• Chapter 1. The Politics of Culture in ‘New Turkey’ by Pierre Hecker, Ivo Furman and Kaya Akyıldız

The Retrospective Raj: Medicine, Literature and History After Empire

Sam Goodman

• Chapter 2. Surgery for the Novel: Medical Practitioners in Anglo-Indian Fiction
• Chapter 3. Know Your Place – Space, Environment and Medicine Exteriors

Salafi Social and Political Movements: National and Transnational Contexts

Edited by Masooda Bano

• Introduction: Salafism Today: a Break with the Past by Masooda Bano
• Conclusion: Salafism in the 21st Century by Itzchak Weismann