Social groups, communities and identities

It is impossible to separate histories of sexual violence and the enslavement of Black women in the antebellum South.

An up-to-date, succinct and highly readable survey of a compelling subject, making accessible classic and recent research on Nazi Germany.

This groundbreaking book explodes several myths: that selling sex is completely different from any other kind of work; that migrants who sell sex are passive victims; and that the multitude of people out to save them are without self-interest.

What did Mao Zedong bring to China?

The discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls more than sixty years ago has revealed a wealth of literary compositions which rework the Hebrew Bible in various ways.

Islam, as a philosophy, a way of life and of course as a faith, has served like a lighthouse for the whole world.

This book develops creative imagining of traditional doctrines.

Researchers in international development have long argued that the high costs of doing business harms prosperity in developing countries, a claim that invites the question of why governments impose these costs and why societies fail to enact reforms reducing them.

Travellers in Eighteenth-Century Europe is an edited collection with contributions by leading scholars brought together by a prolific author with expertise in eighteenth-century culture.

Environmental justice research and activism predominantly focus on openly conflictive situations; claims making is central.

This unique work presents an extraordinary breadth of contemporary and historical views on Asian America and Pacific Islanders, conveyed through the voices of the men and women who lived these experiences over more than 150 years.

Seventy years on from the liberation of Auschwitz, the contributions collected in this volume each attempt, in various ways and from various perspectives, to trace the relationship between Nazi-occupied spaces and Holocaust memory, considering the multitude of ways in which the passing of time impacts upon, or shapes, cultural constructions of space.

Roughly ten million children were victims of political repression in the Soviet Union during the Stalinist era.

This book analyses the political transition in West Bengal, India, which witnessed longest democratically elected Left regime of the world.

Archival photos detailing the US Army division's efforts during WWII, featuring accounts of the T-26 Pershing tank and its first use in combat.

Over the course of World War II, guerrillas from across the Philippines opposed Imperial Japans occupation of the archipelago.

In Black Suffering, James Henry Harris explores the nexus of injustices, privations, and pains that contribute to the daily suffering seen and felt in the lives of Black folks.

How do performances of Shakespeare change the meanings of the plays?

Increasingly, the modern neo-liberal world marginalises any notion of religion or spirituality, leaving little or no room for the sacred in the public sphere.

This is the story of a Englishman who gave up a job in journalism to spend fourteen years with the controversial Indian mystic Osho, also known as Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh and frequently referred to as 'the sex guru'.

In the wake of the #MeToo movement, gender scholars and activists have asked whether a reconcilliation between Zionism and feminism is possible in the current political landscape.

Globalization has presented new challenges for the realization of the goal of womens equality, the gender impact of which has not been systematically evaluated fully.

Natural theology is a philosophical site that is hotly debated and controversialit is claimed by Roman Catholics, Protestants, and Evangelicals as a crucial vantage point for the intersection of theology, philosophy, science, and politics, while it is, simultaneously, strongly contested by some theologians, such as those influenced by Karl Barth, as well as some philosophers and scientists, especially of the new atheist variety.

This is the first international handbook on Black community mental health, focussing on key issues including stereotypes in Mental health, misdiagnoses, and inequalities/discrimination around access, services and provisions.

Discusses the experience of nearly 100,000 French colonial prisoners of war captured by Nazi Germany during World War II.

A surprising look at how hospitals affect and are affected by their surrounding communities.

Shortlisted for the Leslie and Sophie Caplan Award for Jewish Non-FictionSurviving photographs of Jewish Viennese men during the fin-de-si cle and interwar periods both the renowned cultural luminaries and their many anonymous coreligionists all share a striking sartorial detail: the tailored suit.

Douglas Farrow seldom shies from controversy.

Indian Muslims form the largest ethnic minority within Singapore's otherwise largely Malay Muslim community.

From the beginning, horror has been part of the cinema landscape.

'I believe that children who are questioning and exploring their gender are the gender bosses that we all so desperately need.

Security, Development, and Violence in Afghanistan provides a unique insight into the lived realities of the international intervention in Afghanistan and highlights the diversity, relationships, and interdependence of various groups including both external actors and Afghan communities.

In the mid-1840s, Warner McCary, an ex-slave from Mississippi, claimed a new identity for himself, traveling around the nation as Choctaw performer "e;Okah Tubbee.

This is the first book to focus on writing by black British women writers, using an approach that highlights the potential of this fiction to intervene into discourses that shape the worlds in which it is situated.

The essays reprinted here trace the history of Chinese emigration into the Pacific region, first as individuals, traders or exiles, moving into the 'Nanyang' (Southeast Asia), then as a mass migration across the ocean after the mid-19th century.

In the 1960s, feminists voiced their outrage about the health care system in the United States which routinely discriminated against women and, in so doing, literally jeopardized their health and well-being.

This lively and highly original study explores the link between visual culture and religion in terms of tales, memory and character.

Drawing interview material, together with extensive data from the authors' original social movement database, this book examines the development of social movements in resistance to perceived political "e;regression"e; and a growing right-wing backlash.

Eileen Spring presents a fresh interpretation of the history of inheritance among the English gentry and aristocracy.

Originally published in 1996 Religious Higher Education in the United States looks at the issue of higher education and a lack of a clearly articulated purpose, an issue particularly challenging to religiously-affiliated institutions.

Globalization, European integration, and migration are challenging national identities and changing education across Europe.

The seventh edition of this classic text champions healthy aging by demonstrating how to prevent or manage disease and make large-scale improvements toward health and wellness in the older adult population.

In this first full-length biography of Benjamin Mays (1894-1984), Randal Maurice Jelks chronicles the life of the man Martin Luther King Jr.

In Making Love: Sentiment and Sexuality in Eighteenth-Century British Literature, Paul Kelleher revises the history of sexuality from the vantage point of the literary history of sentimentalism.

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