Philip Benedict 
Cities and Social Change in Early Modern France [PDF ebook] 

From the late 1920s onwards, forced collectivisation, state-directed industrialisation, mass purging and the party »s control of culture, refashioned Russia and gave birth to a new type of society. T …

This volume deals with three themes: medieval Judaism, Arabic and Hebrew sociolinguistics, and Arabic Bible translation. Within Medieval Judaism, the Karaite Jews became a prosperous community under …

State sponsorship of terrorism is a complex and important topic in today »s international affairs – and especially pertinent in the regional politics of the Middle East and South Asia, where Pakistan …

First published in 1994, Kidnappers in Philadelphia: Isaac Hopper »s Tales of Oppression 1780-1843 collates Isaac Hoppers original tales. Complementing the original seventy-nine compiled narratives, …

First published in 1997, this volume looks at the process of European expansion which brought into contact societies and cultures across the world which had been initially alien to one another. Confl …

Waziristan, a region on the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan, has in recent years become a flash point in the so-called  »War on Terror ». Hugh Beattie looks at the history of this region, exa …

What is the future of the oil and gas sector in Lebanon? Following the recent discovery of these valuable resources in the southern Mediterranean, including in the Cypriot and Israeli offshore reserv …

Examining the pivotal period between the end of the Seven Years » War and the dawn of the American Revolution, Envisioning Empire reinterprets the development of the British Empire in the 18th centur …

A historical investigation of children’s memory of the Holocaust in Greece illustrates that age, generation and geographical background shaped postwar Jewish identities. The examination of children’s …

Originally published in 1975, this assessment of the American Civil War is a broad treatment of the war as a major historical event, set in the context of a detailed picture of two governments, econo …