Robert H. Bates 
When Things Fell Apart [PDF ebook] 
State Failure in Late-Century Africa

Translated from the Russian. These essays were written over the course of more than 40 years. Their authors–Pushkarev, Rusak, and Yakunin–have all been exiled or imprisoned for their outspoken view …

As the guns in Jerusalem fell silent in 1967 nothing could be heard across the hushed city except the faint flutter of history. Then it started again – the rumble of heavy vehicles, the unforgiving c …

The Ottoman empire as a political entity comprised most of the present Middle East (with the principal exception of Iran), north Africa and south-eastern Europe. For over 500 years, until its disinte …

The book is based on a rich and detailed quantitative material from research over the past decades with consecutive time series over production volumes, employment, productivity, investments etc. for …

A condensation and updating of his African Muslims inAntebellum America: A Sourcebook (1984), noted scholar of antebellum black writing and history Dr. Allan D. Austin explores, via portraits, docume …

This volume seeks to explain the European partition of Africa between 1880-1900. …

By moving beyond consideration of the welfare legislation enacted in the 1940s, this book explains how government aid was actually provided in the new British welfare state created just after World W …

First Published in 2001. This anthology of western history articles emphasizes the New Western History that emerged in the 1980s and adds to it a heavy dose of legal history, a field frequently ignor …

First published in 1925, this book looks at the social laws of the Quran which have been considered and compared with those of the Hebrew and other ancient codes. This is the author’s translation fro …

Ireland”s History provides an introduction to Irish history that blends a scholarly approach to the subject, based on recent research and current historiographical perspectives, with a clear and acc …