Regional / International studies

This volume examines the state of democracy in South Asia after the first two decades of the millennium.

Approximately 11 million people were killed during the Holocaust.

Während der nationalsozialistischen Herrschaft wurden Menschen vor allem nach ihrem wirtschaftlichen Nutzen für die "Volksgemeinschaft" bewertet.

This comprehensive volume explores the phenomenon of refugee entrepreneurship and advances the discussions and debates in the domain.

Yang explores the use of crowdsourcing in translation within the Chinese context, focusing on Yeeyan - the largest online translation community in China.

This volume contains thirteen selected papers from the seventh international 'Beyond Camps and Forced Labour conference', held in London in January 2023.

First published in 1978, this book argues that the troubadour revival in late medieval Spain was a conservative reaction to social crisis by those who belonged, or were affiliated, to a powerful, expanding and belligerent aristocracy.

British Masculinity in Transatlantic Cinema explores the Hollywood careers and stardom of British male actors who had fought in the first World War.

This collection presents the proceedings of an international conference on the significance of the Rites Controversy in Sino-Western history, held in San Francisco in 1992.

First published in 1967, The Giants of Asia discusses the growth of Asian nationalism and Asian power.

The mass protests that erupted in China during the spring of 1989 were not confined to Beijing and Shanghai.

This study provides a new interpretation of art after modernism by foregrounding the importance of conceptual thinking as a pervasive force for change in art and art history since 1950.

This book examines how the progress of digital technology is transforming the world of work, skill demand, labour market institutions, and regulations in countries like India.

Ruth Edwards was born in 1926 in Vienna.

This concise overview of the theories and practice of leadership in the African context is the first of its kind.

The Museum in Asia advances an understanding of the flourishing museum landscape in the region by offering a variety of conceptual tools and frameworks through which museum development can be analysed and understood.

The Indian Constitution has held the country together for 75 years now.

This book looks at the constitutional and regulatory frameworks of loan and debt recovery laws and legislations.

As one of the most successful 'Newly Industrialized Countries' and as the host for the 1988 Olympic Games, South Korea has become more and more important as a major international economic power.

This edited volume looks at the ways in which films, literature, photography and social media construct images of homelands and diasporas as well as the ways in which they facilitate exchanges between them.

¿Cuál es la causa por la que algunos líderes políticos se convierten en dictadores totalitarios que destruyen naciones enteras?

This book explores the path that led to the Treaty of Rapallo (1920) between Italy and the new Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, later the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, in the aftermath of the First World War, when the territories of the former Austro-Hungarian Empire were allotted to new and existing states, with regard as far as possible to the nationalities of the people living in the various territories in addition to the future of Montenegro and Albania.

Examines Hitler's ambitions, how they were never realistic, and deemed that his failure was inevitable.

An analysis of Operation Bagration, the 1944 Russian offensive in Belorussia, highlighting key tactical errors and its connection to Operation Overlord.

The first days of the Battle of the Bulge saw tactical defeats for several formations of the US army.

This book explores the intricate web of global development assistance, dissecting India's unique position within this dynamic landscape, to study the country's evolving role in International Development.

The Struggle for the Pacific (1937) examines the rivalries and postures as various powers - European, the US, Japan and China - attempted to militarily, politically and economically dominate the Asia Pacific sphere.

First published in 1929, Before the Bluestockings is a study of the individual lives and the position of educated Englishwomen from the Restoration to the end of the first third of the eighteenth century.

This volume uses interviews and narratives data from self-identified Black women reflecting on their childhood in the Canadian public school system, to explore voice and agency, girlhood, and identity in Canada's elementary schools.

Achille Mbembe is a key thinker in contemporary African philosophy who has been influential in literary and cultural theory, African literature, and postcolonial studies.

Magic, White and Black; Or The Science Of Finate And Infinate Life, Containing Practical Hints For Students Of Occultism.