Regional / International studies

This book presents a balanced and accessible introduction to the core issues and challenges of development.

The Bolshevik takeover of Russia created an alternative Russia in exile that never laid down its arms.

Now reissued with a new introduction, Discovering Islam is a classic account of how the history of Islam and its relations with the West have shaped Islamic society today.

The last decade has seen the emergence of an increasingly high profile and politically active asexual community, united around a common identity as 'people who do not experience sexual attraction'.

Suzanne Harris was born in Paris in 1919.

This book provides a socio-cultural analysis of khayal bandishes composed by Ne'mat Khan 'Sadarang' and Feroze Khan 'Adarang'.

This Handbook is an important contribution to the recent history of and contemporary debates on feminist, gender, and women's studies seen in a global perspective.

Home front heroism investigates how civilians were recognised and celebrated as heroic during the Second World War.

'Adolf Island' offers new forensic, archaeological and spatial perspectives on the Nazi forced and slave labour programme that was initiated on the Channel Island of Alderney during its occupation in the Second World War.

Elena Grosskopf was born in June 1924 and grew up in Merano on the Austrian-Italian border.

This companion presents a comprehensive overview of educational policies in India, tracing the development of modern education from the late eighteenth century until Indian independence.

This book examines textual representations of Africa in the Indian imagination from 1928 to 1973.

Das Pontifikat von Pius IX.

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

This book provides a socio-cultural analysis of khayal bandishes composed by Ne'mat Khan 'Sadarang' and Feroze Khan 'Adarang'.

This book diversifies the fields of digital religion studies and Africana religious studies by considering the nuanced intersections between digital technologies and the religious experiences of African Americans.

This book offers an innovative study of UNESCO's religious heritage and nomination mechanisms.

Social Change in the South Pacific (1957) summarises the results of applying historical and contemporary fieldwork methods to the analysis of the processes of social change in the two small Pacific islands of Rarotonga and Aitutaki.

Chatterjee discusses India's economic strengths and weaknesses and its progress towards inclusive growth by providing an overview of the Indian economy, its future challenges and current policy strategies.

First published in 1969, Modernization in Ghana and the U.

This book analyses the foreign policies of African countries, specifically in the region of East Africa.

First published in 1952, Ceylon is a one-volume history of Ceylon, primarily intended for the non-Ceylonese reader who has no special knowledge of Asia.

This book explores gender topics related to social transitions and social struggles in the context of the urban transformations accompanying the evolving political economy of China's New Era, here defined as the period since 2017.

This book examines cacao cultivation with a view to improving the sustainable management and production of this crop.

This book offers an innovative study of UNESCO's religious heritage and nomination mechanisms.

This book looks at the question of the Tibetan nation from the perspective of Tibetan women in exile.

First published in 1952, Ceylon is a one-volume history of Ceylon, primarily intended for the non-Ceylonese reader who has no special knowledge of Asia.

This volume brings together scholarly theories and practices on speculative fiction from the Nordic countries, including Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden, that are all rooted in similar values, culture, and history yet are independent and unique societies.

Close to a time when there will be no more survivors to speak about their suffering, this innovative study takes much-needed stock of the past, present and future of Holocaust testimony.

This book examines China's naval and airpower strategic direction towards the Indian Ocean region.

The compiled essays offer various themes and ways of approaching historiography.

Through a study of basketball in Japan, this book aims to help readers better understand the historical formation and contemporary reformation of cultural identity in Japan.

This book explores how the concept of 'relationality' can offer a strong basis for cross-cultural dialogue between Western and non-Western traditions of moral and political philosophy.

This book explores the crafts and performing arts of South Asia through a focus on labour and livelihood.

The Soviet Intelligentsia (1973) is a valuable study of the composition and structure of the Soviet intelligentsia during the 1960s.

The Russian Orthodox Church (1986) concentrates on the recent history of the church, examining the situation of Russian Orthodox believers in the Soviet Union.

Marxist Ideology and Soviet Criminal Law (1980) is about differences between theory and practice in the Soviet Union.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Der grundlegende Umschwung im Kriegsverlauf" verfügbar.

This book offers a comprehensive analysis of how the developmental goals of Asian states are reflected in large-scale projects and how various actors both realize and challenge these goals.

Muslim Enlightened Thought in South Asia is an engaging history of the enlightened liberality of modern Muslim poets, philosophers, educationists, novelists, historians, artists and public intellectuals who drew on a long Muslim intellectual tradition beyond the "e;Western"e; liberalism of empire.