Social groups: religious groups and communities

This wide-ranging volume brings together a blend of experienced and emerging scholars to examine the texture of everyday life for different parts of the wartime French population.

The US government launched the European Recovery Programme, otherwise known as the 'Marshall Plan', in order to save war-torn Europe from collapse in 1948.

The US government launched the European Recovery Programme, otherwise known as the 'Marshall Plan', in order to save war-torn Europe from collapse in 1948.

This book explores, for the first time, the impact of the Holocaust on the gender identities of Jewish men.

A distinguished group of scholars from Germany, Israel and right across the United States are brought together in Nazi Law to investigate the ways in which Hitler and the Nazis used the law as a weapon, mainly against the Jews, to establish and progress their master plan for German society.

A distinguished group of scholars from Germany, Israel and right across the United States are brought together in Nazi Law to investigate the ways in which Hitler and the Nazis used the law as a weapon, mainly against the Jews, to establish and progress their master plan for German society.

What is often held to be Britain's 'finest hour' – the Second World War – was not experienced so uniformly across the British Isles.

What is often held to be Britain's 'finest hour' – the Second World War – was not experienced so uniformly across the British Isles.

In this significant new work in African Philosophy, Christopher Wise explores deconstruction's historical indebtedness to Egypto-African civilization and its relevance in Islamicate Africa today.

In this significant new work in African Philosophy, Christopher Wise explores deconstruction's historical indebtedness to Egypto-African civilization and its relevance in Islamicate Africa today.

Winner of the Association of Dress Historians Book of the Year Award, 2021

In 1939, fashion became an economic and symbolic sphere of great importance in France.

Winner of the Association of Dress Historians Book of the Year Award, 2021

In 1939, fashion became an economic and symbolic sphere of great importance in France.

This book considers the cultural residue from pre-Christian Ireland in Synge's plays and performances.

This book gathers scholars from the three major monotheistic religions to discuss the issue of poverty and wealth from the varied perspectives of each tradition.

This book explores an important moment in Italian women's theatre and cultural history: plays written for all-women casts between 1946 and the mid-1960s, authored for the most part by women and performed exclusively by women.

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This book explores the 1907 Korean Revival Movement from a self psychological perspective.

This book discusses Irish Passion plays (plays that rewrite or parody the story of the Passion of Christ) in modern Irish drama from the Irish Literary Revival to the present day.

This original book studies a wide variety of mediating institutions, both organizational and non-organizational, in workplaces, residential areas, and in wider society.

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.