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Cover of Evan F. M. Durbin: How to Pay for the War

Evan F. M. Durbin: How to Pay for the War

Originally published in 1939, this book examined how to finance the war, including chapters on the methods of industrial mobilisation and government borrowing and the growth of money income. During t …

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Prof. William Granara: Narrating Muslim Sicily

In 902 the last Byzantine stronghold in Sicily fell, and the island would remain under Muslim control until the arrival of the Normans in the eleventh century. Drawing on a lifetime of translating an …

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Robert S Kahn: Other People”s Blood

During the 1980s thousands of refugees from Central America, who sought safe haven in the United States, found themselves incarcerated in immigration prisonsabused by their jailors and deprived of th …

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Ellen Spears: Rethinking the American Environmental Movement post-1945

Rethinking the American Environmental Movement post-1945 turns a fresh interpretive lens on the past, drawing on a wide range of new histories of environmental activism to analyze the actions of thos …

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Onur Isci: Turkey and the Soviet Union During World War II

Based on newly accessible Turkish archival documents, Onur Isci”s study details the deterioration of diplomatic relations between Turkey and the Soviet Union during World War II. Turkish-Russian rel …

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David S. Nash: Blasphemy in Modern Britain

Originally published in 1999, this book deals with the cultural and legal debates which have counterposed the right to free speech and the need to protect Christian sensibilities in Britain from the …

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Professor Ryan J. Lynch: Arab Conquests and Early Islamic Historiography

Winner of the 2021 Southeast Regional Middle East and Islamic Studies Society Book Prize Of the available sources for Islamic history between the seventh and eighth centuries CE, few are of greater i …

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R. Bruce (Georgetown University, USA) Douglass & Gerald M. Mara: Liberalism and the Good

First published in 1990. Liberalism and the Good is a collection of critical essays by an inter-disciplinary group of American and English scholars that seeks to address the long-standing problem of …

Cover of Li Yang Hsu & Kah Seng (Southeast Asian Studies on Sustainable Humanosphere, Centre for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University, Japan) Loh: Tuberculosis – The Singapore Experience, 1867–2018

Li Yang Hsu & Kah Seng (Southeast Asian Studies on Sustainable Humanosphere, Centre for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University, Japan) Loh: Tuberculosis – The Singapore Experience, 1867–2018

Through a rich account of tuberculosis in Singapore from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day, this book charts the relationship between disease, society and the state, outlining the struggl …

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Pinar Ure: Reclaiming Byzantium

There is a long-held feeling in Russia that Moscow is the true heir to the Christian Byzantine Empire. In 1894, Imperial Russia opened one of the world”s leading centres for Byzantine archaeology in …