Robert Bartlett 
Blood Royal [PDF ebook] 
Dynastic Politics in Medieval Europe

This profile looks at how Stalin, despite being regarded as intellectually inferior by his rivals, managed to rise to power and rule the largest country in the world, achievieving divine-like status …

This is Volume I of two on the people, institutions and resources of the Russian Empire first published in English in 1856. This edition has been translated from the German version and is a condensed …

When Roman troops threatened to seize the wealth of the Iceni people, their queen, Boudica, retaliated by inciting a major uprising, allying her tribe with the neighbouring Trinovantes. The ensuing c …

Jordan Goodman explores the historical transformation of tobacco from Amerindian shamanism to global capitalism, from the food of the spirits to the fatal epidemic, from the rough pipe and cigar to t …

This book provides an account of actual African experience and African criticisms. It is designed to examine the actual viability of the World Bank”s structural adjustment strategies for Africa, all …

During the past two decades, the surge of religious fundamentalism in the United States and in the Muslim world has resulted in many studies of the status of women and other family issues. This volum …

Analyses changing patterns of international military cooperation and assistance and shows that Western defence diplomacy is increasingly being directed towards new goals. The new defence diplomacy ru …

Illuminating the Darkness looks at the status of blacks and North Africans in Islam. Split into two parts: Part 1 discusses the concept of race, ‘blackness’, slavery, interracial marriage and racism …

First Published in 2005. In the decade of the sixties, which brought so many disappointments to the British people, one signal achievement stands out: the revival of ‘The City’—London”s financial di …

This ethnography of Muslim life among the Kazaks of Central Asia describes the sacralisation of land and ethnic identity, local understanding of Islamic purity, the Kazak ancestor cult and domestic s …