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\nIn this book Hormoz Farhat has unravelled the art of the dastgah by analysing their intervallic structure, melodic…

\nLibman and Obydenkova reveal how legacies of Communism have survived in politics, economic development, culture, and…

\nMerging the histories of capitalism with political and cultural analysis, Gibbings demonstrates how the struggle between…

\nThis book describes 21st century litigation involving harms to the public, including lead paint, opioids, firearms,…

Why does landscape matter to us? Lifescapes develops a new approach to landscape history based on comparative biography,…

\nA comprehensive, multicultural study of the influential and complex presence of race in American literature by top…

This scrupulously researched and entertaining study of women\'s education at Cambridge, first published by Gollancz in 1975,…

\nIn this guide Steve O\'Meara leads the observer through the 400 galaxies, nebulae and star clusters in the Herschel 400…

\nWritten in 1774, Edward Long\'s History of Jamaica, attempted to define White and Black as essentially different and…

Between 1838 and 1852, the leading Chartist newspaper, the Northern Star, published over 1,000 poems by more than 350 poets.…

In a challenging and authoritative analysis, Parvin Paidar considers how Iranian women have been affected, and their…

\nInequality and poverty in Africa is typically explained as a function of the lack of human capital, the lack of physical…

\nThe Dreadful Word describes how the criminalization, prosecution, and punishment of speech offenses in eighteenth-century…

\nChinese investment in Pakistan has generated a debate - economic saviour or economic takeover? This book utilises an…

A global history of ideas linking capitalism, colonialism, labour and liberalism, the book will interest historians and…

\nUsing both English and Persian-language sources, Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet outlines the evolving relationship between the…

\nThis book focuses on exclusivist Indian nationalism, and identifies its distinction from inclusivist nationalism. It…

\nUrban researchers and development practitioners, would benefit from the book\'s narratives of the old poor in inner city…

\nThis book highlights the heated debates between Muslim scholars in the Modern Muslim world, especially between Salafis and…

This book uses the case of Chile to study how social mobilization endures in marginalized urban contexts, allowing activists…

\nThis book offers a unique look at historical policymaking to explore how nineteenth-century fiction writers influenced the…

Desert islands are the focus of intense geopolitical tensions in East Asia today, but they are also sites of nature…

\nThe first collection to systematically combine the vibrant fields of memory and affect in early modern studies, this…

\nOffering nuanced insights into violence, humanitarian protection, gender relations, and coping of refugees in a Ugandan…

\nMaps the politics and processes contributing to the distinct developmental trajectory of Tamil Nadu, southern India.…

Since its establishment, the state of Israel has faced major security challenges. Although relations between the state and…

Based on years of unique access to Islamists, generals, and business elites, Harry Verhoeven tells the story of Africa\'s…

\nHaving built much of their wealth, power, and identities on imperial expansion, how did the Portuguese and, by extension,…

\nPolicymakers, academics and the media have claimed that climate change causes conflicts. This study presents an innovative…

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\nThis book provides valuable new information to those interested in Chinese history, international legal history, and…

\nGoes beyond the importance of borderlands as territorial or geopolitical entities, providing new perspectives on their…

\nA text for historians and historical geographers on a key moment in post-abolition labour history, focusing on the…

The Dutch revolt against Spain in the sixteenth century and Britain\'s civil wars in the seventeenth were the first major…

\nWe, the King reveals how ordinary subjects aided and abetted law-making in the Spanish Empire, demonstrating how its…

Designed as a contextual and critical resource for scholars and students, this volume\'s 42 essays examine novelist Henry…

\nLegal frameworks to \'reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation\' (REDD+) are analysed to focus on…

Combining qualitative and quantitative analysis, this book deepens our understanding the preindustrial economy, and rethinks…

\nA comprehensive study of Pacific history from initial human colonization to the present. Bringing together an…