Revealing Portugal's counterinsurgent spying on Muslims during Mozambique's liberation struggle, this book uses archival and field work to study Muslim responses to counterinsurgency and armed nationalism that led to Mozambique's freedom from colonial rule.
Originally published in 1958, this book deals with the details of dress - formal and informal - from the time of Charles II to the end of the eighteenth century.
In the Beginning (1957) represents a series of lectures given by the author at Cornell University, examining the views of the Ancient Greeks on the central foundation myths of their civilisation.
In the Beginning (1957) represents a series of lectures given by the author at Cornell University, examining the views of the Ancient Greeks on the central foundation myths of their civilisation.
This book explores coinage and related object types as an important form of material culture that is crucial to interrogating interactions between coloniser and colonised.
This book aims to reconceive the field of knowledge of the "e;Gallic past"e; in French discourse of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries by focusing on the monument as an object capable of underpinning insights into that past, the evolution of the concept, and the epistemic practices used to produce it.
Manuel Jala: un afrocampechano, cuenta la inspiradora historia de un novohispano afrodescendiente, engarzado en la eterna pasión humana: la búsqueda de la libertad y la autodeterminación.
In Retracing the Keowee Trail, the author tells the story of the Cherokee Path that connected the low country of colonial Carolina with the mountain homeland of the Cherokee Nation.
Labor Evangelicals studies theologically conservative working class evangelicals in the United States who resist the common preconception that they eagerly embrace deregulation, unfettered markets, and globalized capital.
Labor Evangelicals studies theologically conservative working class evangelicals in the United States who resist the common preconception that they eagerly embrace deregulation, unfettered markets, and globalized capital.
Herod the Great stands as one of history's most enigmatic figures, a ruler whose reign over Judea was marked by both monumental achievements and profound controversies.
Would it surprise you to know that New Testament scholars, missiologists, and church-planting authorities cannot agree on how to define tentmaking, whether or not the church should be practicing it today, or even why Paul did it in the first place?
The impact of a changing environment on human society and, conversely, the impact of man's activities upon the environment are important and contentious subjects today.
An explorer, archaeologist, scholar, writer, and policymaker, Gertude Bell was a colourful figure who played an outsize role in the history of the Middle East in the early twentieth century.
The Collective Spirit (1925) lays down a rough outline of what science can tell us as to the progress of evolution, and criticises the various interpretations, before endeavouring to formulate an idealist theory of evolution.
The Lure of the South looks at the experience of British health seekers in the explosion of continental touring that occurred after the opening of the Post-Napoleonic European continent to relatively easy access.
This volume is an edited collection of primary sources which throw light on the interplay between zoology and visual culture in nineteenth-century Britain.
In eighteenth-century Britain, the study of history was understood first and foremost as the study of how states developed-and lost-their political coherence.
