Michael J. Douma 
Slow Death of Slavery in Dutch New York [PDF ebook] 
A Cultural, Economic, and Demographic History, 1700-1827

In the second half of the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth century a variety of forces emerged which changed society in many profound and subtle ways. The Making of Modern Engli …

Graffiti are ubiquitous within the ancient world, but remain underexploited as a form of archaeological or historical evidence. They include a great variety of texts and images written or drawn insid …

Building on his successful book, The First Islamist Republic, Abdullahi A. Gallab’s Their Second Republic: Islamism in the Sudan from Disintegration to Oblivion deals with Islamism, its representatio …

This volume clearly communicates that Weber’s influence is of great significance to the history of social science, and to appreciating the theoretical work of other social scientists in the modern ag …

In this original work James Duncan explores the transformation of Ceylon during the mid-nineteenth century into one of the most important coffee growing regions of the world and investigates the cons …

First published in 1970. An account of the authors’ captivity in Abyssinia and some account of the Late Emperor Theodore, His Country and People. The sufferings of the Abyssinian captives (1840s) wil …

This volume charts how the national strategic needs of the United States of America and Great Britain created a ‘parallel but not joint’ relationship towards the Far East as the crisis in that region …

Exile constitutes one of the most central experiences in the Bible, notably in the book of Genesis. The question has rarely been asked however as to why exile plays such an important role in the live …

This book includes every Supreme Court case relevant to elections and political representation from the Court”s beginnings to 2001, including the 2001 decision in Cook v. Gralike that limited citize …

The technical problems confronting different societies and periods, and the measures taken to solve them form the concern of this annual collection of essays. Volumes contain technical articles rangi …