Alan Mikhail 
Nature and Empire in Ottoman Egypt [PDF ebook] 
An Environmental History

The smooth functioning of an ordered society depends on the possession of a means of regularising its activities over time. That means is a calendar, and its regularity is a function of how well it m …

First published in 2006. This book is a study of the political struggles over the repeal of laws restricting or penalizing religious minorities in the later eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, …

This book was first published in 1981. …

Based on a three-year ethnographic study of a steadily growing suburban Muslim immigrant congregation in Midwest America, this book examines the micro-processes through which a group of Muslim immigr …

Critically examines the usefulness of the ”household; concept within the historically and culturally diverse context of Indonesia, exploring in detail the position of women within and beyond domesti …

The second edition of this bestselling survey of modern Irish history covers social, religious as well as political history and offers a distinctive combination of chronological and thematic approach …

Focuses on a great watershed event The First World War was one of the great watershed events of the 20th century, not only costing millions of live but also disrupting existing social order, precipit …

The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over these states. (from The D …

Women of all racial/ethnic backrounds and minority men have been hailed as the major beneficiaries of the expansion in political, economic, and employment opportunities of the 1960s and 1970s. The au …

The ‘forgotten offensive’ of the title is RAF Coastal Command”s offensive against German sea-trade between 1940 and 1945. The fortunes of the campaign are followed throughout the war, and its succes …