History: specific events and topics

This book sheds light on modern populism and discusses the link between populism and identity politics against the backdrop of populist leaders asserting the identity of their own group, while maintaining the separation from others.

Defining class broadly as an identity categorization based on status, wealth, family, bloodlines, and occupation, Intersectionalities of Class in Early Modern English Drama e xplores class as a complicated, contingent phenomenon modified by a wider range of social categories apart from those defining terms, including, but not limited to, race, gender, religion, and sexuality.

This book explores the evaluations made by religious groups and individuals about the potential of public spheres for religious practice, focussing upon public religion in societies of the Asia-Pacific.

This volume examines the ways in which Scottish identity was expressed through visual and material culture in the early to mid-nineteenth centuries, culminating in Victoria's romanticisation of Scotland, or 'Balmorality'.

This book highlights the significant role played by Ignatius Sancho (c.

This book invites senior experts and scholars from the fields of Chinese archaeology and history to describe ten influential "e;national treasure-level"e; cultural antiquities.

This book provides readers with rich context and detailed description leading to new perspectives on major historical events in China.

This book explores how digital authoritarianism operates in India, Pakistan, Turkey, Indonesia, and Malaysia, and how religion can be used to legitimize digital authoritarianism within democracies.

This book highlights the significant role played by Ignatius Sancho (c.

This book invites senior experts and scholars from the fields of Chinese archaeology and history to describe ten influential "e;national treasure-level"e; cultural antiquities.

This book provides readers with rich context and detailed description leading to new perspectives on major historical events in China.

This book explores the evaluations made by religious groups and individuals about the potential of public spheres for religious practice, focussing upon public religion in societies of the Asia-Pacific.

This book takes its motive force from our contemporary climate crisis.

Explore the rise and fall of a legend.

This book is based on research carried out by the author in Greece, addressed initially to Greek readers, mainly researchers of the Department of Urban and Regional Planning, National Technical University of Athens, where he served for a long time as professor.

This book evaluates the legislative effectiveness of Nigeria's National Assembly under the Fourth Republic.

The book presents a historical account of the colonial foundation of African economy and diplomacy.

This book evaluates the legislative effectiveness of Nigeria's National Assembly under the Fourth Republic.

The book presents a historical account of the colonial foundation of African economy and diplomacy.

This book provides an analysis of the latest research findings in the field of world history, and includes terse articulations of modernity vis-a-vis empire.

This book assesses the dynamics, challenges and achievements of the development processes of three Portuguese-speaking Small Island Developing States (PSSIDS) - Cabo Verde, Sao Tome and Principe, and Timor-Leste.

The book explores the development of the American eugenics movement and how it still plays a role in American life.

This book provides an analysis of the latest research findings in the field of world history, and includes terse articulations of modernity vis-a-vis empire.

This book assesses the dynamics, challenges and achievements of the development processes of three Portuguese-speaking Small Island Developing States (PSSIDS) - Cabo Verde, Sao Tome and Principe, and Timor-Leste.

Volume two of Electoral Politics in Zimbabwe: The 2023 Election and Beyond argues that research into Zimbabwe's politics is multifaceted and topical, particularly because for more than two decades now, this Southern African state has been dogged by multiple problems including hyperinflation, drought, escalating poverty levels, extremely high unemployment rates and political instabilities.

Volume two of Electoral Politics in Zimbabwe: The 2023 Election and Beyond argues that research into Zimbabwe's politics is multifaceted and topical, particularly because for more than two decades now, this Southern African state has been dogged by multiple problems including hyperinflation, drought, escalating poverty levels, extremely high unemployment rates and political instabilities.

This book was jointly launched by the National Academy of Economic Strategy of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and UN-HABITAT.

This book was jointly launched by the National Academy of Economic Strategy of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and UN-HABITAT.

Stupid is the new smartbut it wasn't always soPopular culture has divorced itself from the life of the mind.

Engaging Pakistan examines the role of British and American public diplomacy in Pakistan.

Liu, Yow, Zhang and the contributors examine Singapore's significance as an Asian Regional Corridor and provide a new perspective on interpreting Singapore's important position in the Asian region and its role as a bridge connecting Asia to the world and within the Asian region.

This book investigates the crucial yet often overlooked role of sound in shaping the memory of the Second World War.

This handbook is an innovative recasting and reinterpretation of modern Turkish history centered on war and society.

"e;A carefully understated but chilling account of the whole 3 1/2 centuries during which 15 million Africans were snatched from their homes and delivered into slavery in the New World.

Using semi-structured interviews with 122 young Muslims in Australia, the United Kingdom (UK) and the United States of America (USA) from diverse ethnic backgrounds, this book investigates the lived reality of young Muslims from their own perspectives.

This book comprehensively examines the extensive history of India by focusing on the unifying themes of history.

Between 500,000 to 2 million people died in the Cultural Revolution.

This volume explores the family formation and life course of Polish people in Ireland, who make up the largest immigrant group in Ireland.

This book proposes a new historical framework for the analysis of the relationship between communist Poland and neutral Austria during the final decade of the Cold War.

This book provides a detailed account of the Czechoslovak-American dispute that arose over monetary gold which was forcibly seized by Nazi Germany in the 1930s.

This book traces the development of U.

This book challenges conventional wisdom about labor migration during the Cold War era, revealing a complex landscape of mobility that transcended the supposed rigid boundaries between socialist and capitalist worlds.

Edited and self-published by Bernadette Mayer and Vito Acconci from 1967 to 1969, 0 to 9 not only documented some of the most compelling examples of intermedia performance, contemporary poetry, and post-formalist art of the period, but also pioneered new ways of conceiving (and using) the magazine as medium and instrument.

This volume examines the emergence of a market for Scottish art among Scotland's wealthy industrialists in the mid-nineteenth century and in the period leading up to the First World War.

This book provides a contemporary overview of Boko Haram's activities.