Hiroyuki Hino & Arnim Langer 
From Divided Pasts to Cohesive Futures [EPUB ebook] 
Reflections on Africa

This book provides a new approach to the study of the History of Roman Law. It collects the first results of the European Research Council Project, Scriptores iuris Romani – dedicated to a new collec …

Islamic Gunpowder Empires provides readers with a history of Islamic civilization in the early modern world through a comparative examination of Islam”s three greatest empires: the Ottomans (centere …

Over the course of the twentieth century, the relationship between Americans and their domestic animals has changed dramatically. In the 1890s, pets were a luxury, horses were the primary mode of tra …

First Published in 2001. This is volume III of a collection of British Foreign Policy documents from 1902 to 22 with the purpose of these documents is less to define what policy was than to give stud …

First Published in 2005. This volume looks at the problems and perspectives of Victorian Business in the 1870s.The purpose of this collection of essays is to explore further that part of the thesis, …

From the ancient world through to modern times the bodies of slaves have been represented in literature, documentary and personal narrative writing, and in art. This volume presents evidence of the p …

Command, Control, Communications and Intelligence form the backbone of the Army”s operating system. But while much attention has been given in the literature to the other three elements, Communicati …

Machiavelli is history”s most startling political commentator. Recent interpreters have minimised his originality, but this book restores his radicalism. Robert Black shows a clear development in Ma …

This concise study of Ireland’s revolutionary years charts the demise of the home rule movement and the rise of militant nationalism that led eventually to the partition of Ireland and independence f …

Tens of thousands of people were persecuted and put to death as witches between 1400 and 1700 – the great age of witch hunts. Why did the witch hunts arise, flourish and decline during this period? W …