Kevin O’Sullivan 
NGO Moment [PDF ebook] 
The Globalisation of Compassion from Biafra to Live Aid

The twelve studies of empire-building and empire-builders which make up this volume range widely across the dream world that was the British Empire from the late eighteenth century to the Second Worl …

Drawing upon Ottoman, Russian, and Bulgarian archival sources, this book explores the nexus between the environment, epidemic disease, human mobility, and the centralizing initiatives of the Ottoman …

Wars cannot be fought and sustained without food and this unique collection explores the impact of war on food production, allocation and consumption in Europe in the twentieth century. A comparative …

In a book written with the poignancy and beauty appropriate to its subject matter, the author opens by reminding us that the essence of a society is in a sense identical with its history. Classical I …

An in-depth history of one of Canada’s World War II internment camps that held both Nazis and anti-Nazis alike. For eighteen months during the Second World War, the Canadian military interned 1, 145 …

Based on exhaustive (25 yrs!) archive research, offers new and original account of the subject. First scholarly account of local prisons in England in this period Offers detailed account of important …

In the wake of September 11th instant theories have emerged that try to root Osama Bin Laden“s attacks on Wahhabism. Muslim critics have dismissed this conservative interpretation of Islam that is t …

As the post-invasion reconstruction of Iraq has unfolded, the potential for Iraqi women to participate actively and visibly in the country“s political structure has been one of its most notable resu …

Incorporating recent findings by leading Southwest scholars as well as original research, this book takes a fresh new look at the history of Spanish missions in northern Mexico/the American Southwest …

First published in 1993. How is it possible for the three tiny Baltic republics to gain their freedom from the Soviet Union, without a single shot being fired or a single stone thrown at the oppresso …