Adolf M. Birke & Magnus Brechtken 
Kommunale Selbstverwaltung [PDF ebook] 
Geschichte und Gegenwart im deutsch-britischen Vergleich

This collection of scholarly essays discusses the internationalization of American drug policy from a variety of perspectives and features articles on Hong Kong, Britain, Australia, Canada, Taiwan, L …

First published in 1849, this is an account of the public and private lives of the Sierra Leoneans at that time. …

Ethnographic writing has become all but ubiquitous in recent years. Although now considered a thoroughly modern and increasingly indispensable field of study, Ethnography »s roots go all the way back …

This student-friendly text provides a detailed and up-to-date assessment of Japan »s foreign policy since 1945, including policy options and choices that Japan faces in the twenty-first century. Usin …

Ptolemy was the creator of the longest lasting of the Hellenistic kingdoms. He created a state whose cultural importance was unparalleled until the coming of Rome. He encouraged the erection of the P …

First Published in 1986. This volume is the second of the three-volume edition of the proceedings of an international conference on Legacies of West Indian Slavery held at the University of Hull in J …

The Essay on the Nature of Trade in General was written in the early 1730s by Richard Cantillon, a speculator and banker who had made a vast fortune during the Mississippi and South Sea Bubbles of 17 …

This acclaimed work surveys the varied course of religious life in modern America. Beginning with the close of the Victorian Age, it moves through the shifting power of Protestantism and American Cat …

First published in 1962, Frank Smith Fussner »s introduction to the revolution in English historical writing and thought during the period of the renaissance and reformation (1580-1640) is an influen …

This is a study of the  »secret history », a polemical form of historiography which flourished in England during the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. …