Social groups, communities and identities

This book explores the power of print and the politics of the book in South Africa from a range of disciplinary perspectives-historical, bibliographic, literary-critical, sociological, and cultural studies.

In 1868, the state of Georgia began to make its rapidly growing population of prisoners available for hire.

This book discusses the revitalization of decayed inner-city neighborhoods.

In April 1945, the American 71st Infantry Division exacted the final vestiges of life from the Reich's 6th SS Mountain Division in central Germany.

The power of unions in workers' lives and in the American political system has declined dramatically since the 1970s.

Informed by witness testimonies, Eurafrican Migration details how the perilous journeys undertaken by irregular migrants are enabled by complex networks of guides during the Sahara phase, and explores the relationship between migrants and the criminal groups who arrange for them to be transported across the sea to southern Europe.

Fierce competitiveness between established and emerging major cities, such as Berlin, London, Shanghai and Sydney, has led to a pressure to excel as desirable locations for business, cultural activities, highly skilled migrants and tourists.

This fully revised third edition explores the childhood and adolescent experiences of transgender persons, providing foundational knowledge for social workers and related professions about working with trans and gender expansive youth.

At a United Nations conference in 1995, 189 governments adopted the Beijing Platform for Action, an international agenda for women's equality and a statement of women's rights as human rights.

Although countless books have been written about the U-boat war in the Atlantic, precious few facts have come to light about the men who served in the submarines that wrought such havoc on Allied ships.

At no point in recorded history has there been an absence of intense, and heated, discussion about the subject of how to conduct relations between women and men.

This book provides a comprehensive and interdisciplinary exploration of civility and political culture in the Muslim world.

Between 1840 and 1920, Cuba abolished slavery, fought two wars of independence, and was occupied by the United States before finally becoming an independent republic.

Citizenship implies exclusion of non-members.

Winner of the 2019 Chicago Folklore PrizeIn 2011, the Midwest suffered devastating floods.

This introduction to social and cultural anthropology has become a modern classic, revealing the rich global variation in social life and culture across the world.

The idea of the United States as a Christian nation is a powerful, seductive, and potentially destructive theme in American life, culture, and politics.

This edited volume on radical dress reforms in East Asia takes a fresh look at the symbols and languages of modernity in dress and body.

Charles Sydnor relates the political and military experience of the SS Totenkopfdivision to the institutional development of the SS and the ideological objectives of Nazi Germany.

Unaccompanied child asylum seekers are amongst the world's most vulnerable populations, and their numbers are increasing.

Fear of the terrorist threat provoked by radical Islam has generated heated debates on multiculturalism and the integration of Muslim migrant communities in to Britain.

Rebuilding Afghanistan in Times of Crisis provides academics and researchers interested in planning, urbanism and conflict studies with a multidisciplinary, international assessment of the reconstruction and foreign aid efforts in Afghanistan.

Living in pluralist India has had critical consequences for Muslim women who are expected to follow a determined and strict code of conduct.

Prostitution is strongly embedded in local cultural practices in Cambodia.

As well as regular Sunday and weekday celebrations and the observance of saints' days, many churches and cathedrals also hold Eucharists for special occasions or intentions.

Gilded Age cities offered extraordinary opportunities to women - but at a price.

Any serious consideration of Asian American life forces us to reframe the way we talk about racism and antiracism.

The interaction between military and civilian courts, the political power that legal prerogatives can provide to the armed forces, and the difficult process civilian politicians face in reforming military justice remain glaringly under-examined, despite their implications for the quality and survival of democracy.

For most Western audiences, Cuba is a touristic paradise stuck in time and virtually detached from world technology networks by the US embargo - anything but a hub of industrial innovation and high value-added biotechnology.

The book provides empirically-rich case studies of the lives and livelihoods of marginalised ethnic minorities in colonial and post-colonial Zimbabwe, with a specific focus on diverse rural areas.

This book is written as a memoir of 40-plus years of working with human experiences of death, grief, and bereavement.

This book explores how culture and tradition have impacted the tendency for African women to opt for entrepreneurship.

A new evaluation of one of the most significant Holocaust poets, Nelly Sachs (1891-1970), offering the first sustained critical analysis of Sachs's largely unanalyzed pre-war poetry and prose.

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

This edited collection explores family relations in two types of  'migrant families' in Europe: mixed families and transnational families.

A practical introduction for those training in the field of career development, career counselling and career coaching, this book will take your students through established and emerging theory and the different contexts in which career work takes place introducing the key skills, techniques and models they'll need.

This edited collection centres the reclamation of global counter and Indigenous knowledges, epistemologies, ontologies, axiologies, and cosmovisions that have the capacity to create new educational leadership frameworks that chart courses to visions beyond the current oppressive systems of education.

An examination of the treatment of serious violence by men against women in nineteenth-century England.

In recent years, interest in the large group of skilled immigrants coming from India to the United States has soared.

First published in 1999, this volume was the third in a trilogy on the 'problem' of Northern Ireland.

Originally published in 1952, al-Din, by prominent Egyptian scholar Muhammad Abdullah Draz (1894 1958), has been critically acclaimed as one of the most influential Arab Muslim studies of universal 'religion' and forms of religiosity in modern times.

After a cascade of failures left residents of Flint, Michigan, without a reliable and affordable supply of safe drinking water, citizens spent years demanding action from their city and state officials.

Revising the standard narrative of European-Indian relations in America, Juliana Barr reconstructs a world in which Indians were the dominant power and Europeans were the ones forced to accommodate, resist, and persevere.

The analysis of gender and political inequality, and the women's movements that have contested it, has concentrated on the West.

A ';smart, juicy, deeply reported' (Katie Couric) biography of the most successful female broadcaster of all timeBarbara Waltersa woman whose personal demons fueled an ambition that broke all the rules and finally gave women a permanent place on the air, written by bestselling author Susan Page.

Raised in the rural Appalachian town of Erwin, Tennessee, John David Goodin was a tank commander in one of the most notorious and prestigious regiments in World War II, the 3rd Armored "e;Spearhead"e; Division, the 32nd Armored Regiment.

In 1855 in the South Puget Sound, war broke out between Washington settlers and Nisqually Indians.

Reboot the system!