History: specific events and topics

This book examines one of the key issues shaping global considerations of human rights today: the idea of the family as a protected category.

This magisterial history of Japanese nationalism reveals nationalism to be a contested and pluralistic practice that seeks to center the people in political life.

It has been said that "e;a modern arrogance has blocked our access to the history of the Muslim calendar in Southeast Asia"e;.

Survival in the 'Dumping Grounds' examines a defining aspect of South Africa's recent past: the history of apartheid-era relocation.

Building the Atlantic Empires explores the relationship between state recruitment of unfree labor and capitalist and imperial development.

Higher Education in Constantinople in the Fifteenth Century explores the intellectual life and educational institutions of fifteenth-century Constantinople, a period often overlooked in the history of Byzantine scholarship.

The study of the Syriac magical traditions has largely been marginalised within Syriac studies, with the earliest treatments displaying a disparaging attitude towards both the culture and its magical practices.

In this work, the composition of the superfamily Callianassoidea is reassessed and the classification of its included taxa is critically reviewed.

This study of traditional literature in Pakpak-Dairi, an endangered North Sumatran language, is based on written and oral versions of stories.

This book is the first sustained analysis of popular politics in Scotland during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.

This book considers recent developments in Thai history and historiography, examining why Thai studies had suffered under a combination of protectionism, uncritical learning, and unwillingness to engage with scholarship from abroad.