History and Archaeology

Artefact evidence has the unique power to illuminate many aspects of life that are rarely explored in written sources, yet this potential has been underexploited in research on Roman and Late Antique Egypt.

This book addresses a diverse set of challenges facing Latin American economies.

The revised tenth edition of this core textbook provides an understanding of major world criminal justice systems by discussing and comparing the systems of six of the world's countries - each representative of a different type of legal system.

Using facet theory and Hackett's pioneering development of the declarative mapping sentence (DMS) as a qualitative methodology, this volume explains the process of formulating and applying the DMS to critically assess female representation in science fiction.

Although 150 years have passed since Princess Victoria became Queen, the first twelve months of her reign remain relatively unexplored.

Between 1840 and 1920, Cuba abolished slavery, fought two wars of independence, and was occupied by the United States before finally becoming an independent republic.

This volume examines the nineteenth century not only through episodes, institutions, sites and representations concerned with union, concord and bonds of sympathy, but also through moments of secession, separation, discord and disjunction.

For anyone whos ever picked an apple fresh from the tree or enjoyed a glass of cider, writer and orchardist Diane Flynt offers a new history of the apple and how it changed the South and the nation.

Before the American Civil War most Native Americans or Indians lived in an area of the South known as the Five Civilized Nations.

Countering the widespread misconception that slavery existed only on plantations, and that urban areas were immune from its impacts, Slavery in the City is the first volume to deal exclusively with the impact of North American slavery on urban design and city life during the antebellum period.

Critically explores how international law is mobilised, by global and local actors, to achieve or block global justice efforts.

Is time out of joint?

Offering a comprehensive view of the South's literary landscape, past and present, this volume of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture celebrates the region's ever-flourishing literary culture and recognizes the ongoing evolution of the southern literary canon.

This volume investigates energy as a shaping force in Russian and Soviet literature, visual culture, and social practice.

The idea of the United States as a Christian nation is a powerful, seductive, and potentially destructive theme in American life, culture, and politics.

The First Ethiopians explores the images of Africa and Africans that evolved in ancient Egypt, in classical Greece and imperial Rome, in the early Mediterranean world, and in the early domains of Christianity.

This edited volume on radical dress reforms in East Asia takes a fresh look at the symbols and languages of modernity in dress and body.

Charles Sydnor relates the political and military experience of the SS Totenkopfdivision to the institutional development of the SS and the ideological objectives of Nazi Germany.

This book is a ground-breaking collection on contemporary Arab theatre.

Mission Cemeteries, Mission Peoplesoffers clear, accessible explanations of complex methods for observing evolutionary effects in populations.

Vor beinahe 25 Jahren brachen die kommunistischen Regime Ostmitteleuropas zusammen.

The complete story of the evolution and organisational history of the Royal Army Physical Training Corps.

Who Killed Panayot?

Counting Downis a unique series of titles designed to select the best songs or musical works from major performance artists and composers in an age of design-your-own playlists.

This 2005 book explores how major Western European thinkers have confronted the self from the seventeenth century to the present.

An innovative analytical account of the changing place of emotions in British surgery in the long nineteenth century.

Now in paperback, a revealing collection from the intellectual titan whose work shaped the modern world.

This entertaining collection of essays takes a biographical approach to early American naval history.

Studies the thought and actions of the Reformation''s central figures - reformers, counter-reformers, and their supporters - in the light of ordinary people.

In its last decade, the Ottoman Empire underwent a period of dynamic reform, and the 1908 revolution transformed the empire's 20 million subjects into citizens overnight.

The larger part of Theodoret of Cyrus' existant body of work still remains untranslated, and this lack provides a fragmented representation of his thought and has lead to his misrepresentation by ancient, medieval and some modern scholars.

Prostitution is strongly embedded in local cultural practices in Cambodia.

"e;Honestly strange and strangely honest.

Gilded Age cities offered extraordinary opportunities to women - but at a price.

A series of innovative studies in the textual and literary criticism of Latin literature and their mutually supportive relationship.

One of the greatest aesthetic attractions in the ancient world was pantomime dancing, a ballet-style entertainment in which a silent, solo dancer incarnated a series of mythological characters to the accompaniment of music and sung narrative.

Chinas Kommunistische Partei ist die mächtigste politische Organisation der Welt.

Unlike traditional references that recount political and military history, this encyclopedia includes entries on a wide range of aspects related to daily life during the medieval crusades.

First Published in 2005.

This book examines the theoretical links between Edward W.

Any serious consideration of Asian American life forces us to reframe the way we talk about racism and antiracism.

In the years between the Indian Mutiny and Independence in 1947 the Indian Civil Service was the most powerful body of officials in the English-speaking world.

In the last decade, with the success of review sites and online commentaries and the increased accessibility of travel information online, the job of a traditional travel journalist is being challenged.

Balancing current and historical issues, this volume of essays covers the most significant worldwide epidemics from the Black Death to AIDS.

The Victorian classical burlesque was a popular theatrical genre of the mid-19th century.

First published in 2013.

Originally published in 1935.