Frank Bovenkerk 
Sociology of Return Migration: A Bibliographic Essay [PDF ebook] 

The fifteen articles republished here exemplify the many directions Robert Black»s research in Renaissance studies has taken. The first five studies look at Renaissance humanism, in particular at it …

By their nature, democracies clearly have greater constraints than autocratic regimes on their freedom of action as they have to meet constitutional, legal and moral criteria in their use of force. T …

Forcing a fundamental rethinking of the Asian American elite, many of whom have attained top positions in business, government, academia, sciences, and the arts, this book will be certain to generate …

Originally published in 1971, this book gives the real substance of Scotland at the time of Mary Queen of Scots. It describes in extensive and colourful detail the way people of all ranks of society …

Modern European History brings together a unique selection of documents covering the period from 1871 to 2000. The collection is organised by topic, and a clear historical context and chronological c …

Working Detroit documents the events in the city»s ongoing struggle to build an industrial society that is both prosperous and humane. Babson recounts Detroit»s odyssey from a bulwark of the ‘open …

This is the second volume in Philip Bell»s study of Franco-British relations in the twentieth century It covers the period from the Fall of France in 1940 to the opening of the Channel Tunnel. Phili …

The Hippocratic Corpus comprises some sixty medical works of varying length, style and content. Collectively, this is the largest surviving body of early Greek prose. As such, it is an invaluable res …

The Ottoman Empire and its conflicts provide one of the longest continuous narratives in military history. Its rulers were never overthrown by a foreign power and no usurper succeeded in taking the t …

Rewriting Hong Kong»s history from the bottom up, the chapters investigate vital, but hitherto obscured, aspects of the colony»s rise. They cover the Chinese collaboration with the colonial regime, …