Social groups: religious groups and communities

In this book Wynnetta Wimberley addresses the often overlooked crisis of depression in African American clergy, investigating the causes underlying this phenomenon while discussing possible productive paths forward.

What was the role played by local police volunteers in the Holocaust?

Also available in paperback as "e;Modernist and Fundamentalist Debates in Islam"e;During the second half of the nineteenth century, a group of prominent Muslim theologians began to critically examine classical conceptions and methods of jurisprudence and devised a new approach to Islamic theology.

This book provides an excellent handbook to the Islamic movements in Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria, and Libya and fills a major gap in the scholarship on Islam and the Arab West.

NATO - The First 50 Years offers the first comprehensive study of the institution's activities and development over the past five decades.

Unlike other humanistic disciplines, the academic study of religion must contend with a phenomenon that touches every dimension of human experience.

Falk argues that the failure to achieve what he terms "e;humane global governance"e; is partially due to the exclusion of religious and spiritual dimensions of human experience from the study and practice of government.

Many of the world's leading authorities in history, sociology, political science and psychology shed new light on the major genocides of the twentieth century.

Professor Graham compares the performance of the British Army in the two world wars.

How women perceived the world wars of this century is markedly different from the common perception of how these wars affected their lives.

This collection by leading British and American scholars on twentieth century international history covers the strategy, diplomacy and intelligence of the Anglo-American-Soviet alliance during the Second World War.

The Russian Orthodox Church has survived more than seventy years of the most brutal and sustained attempts to eradicate religion that has ever been.

'The most significant issue that Dockrill addresses is that of how Japan views the war in retrospect, a question which not only tells us a lot about how events were seen in Japan in 1941 but is also, a matter still of importance in contemporary East Asian politics.

"e;Selected papers from the Fourth World Congress for Soviet and East European Studies, Harrogate, 1990.

The first study of the British Ministry of Aircraft Production, this book examines the war-time policy and operation of the planning department.

This text explores the difficulties of defining a sociology of 'culture', emphasising the complex, interdisciplinary nature of 'cultural studies', and the variety of theoretical contributions from sociology, literature, history and anthropology.

Christianity has been marginalised, no longer considered a serious option for the high ground of contemporary debate.

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Based largely upon unpublished sources, Omer Bartov's study looks closely at the background of the German army on the Eastern Front during the Second World War.

This book offers a compelling account of how America's combat soldiers experienced Europe during World War II.

This collection of essays deals with some of the problems posed by the origins of World War II.

This book deals with the integration of thousands of survivors of the Holocaust into Israeli society in the early years of the new State's existence.

This book presents authoritative accounts of the evolution, development and application of Royal Naval radar from its inception in 1935 until the end of World War 2.

This text defends a special focus on Jesus in theistic faith, whilst denying his divinity.

This book tells in non-technical language how the British Navy contributed to the development of naval radar in World War 2.

The neutrality maintained by Turkey during most of the Second World War enabled it to rescue thousands of Jews from the Holocaust in the Nazi-occupied or collaborating countries of Europe.

This book presents a collection of authoritative accounts of the evolution and application of Royal Naval shipborne radars during World War 2 in the fields of weapon control, weapon direction, action information and fighter direction.

In September 1945 the circumstances surrounding Hitler's death were dark and mysterious.

Most of Gandhi's associates in South Africa were Jewish.

In this collection of 11 essays the author outlines a programme of integrative, contextualized studies of religion.

An examination of Argentina's international behaviour during World War II.

Covering the period 1943-45, these diaries cover issues such as the Bretton Woods UN Monetary Conference in 1944 and loan negotiations and the ITO, as recorded by Meade and Robbins.

For some, Tahiti, New Caledonia and Wallis and Futuna are idyllic tropical islands with a French flavour, while for others they represent continuing French colonialism, thwarted independence movements and nuclear testing.