Michael N. Barnett 
Humanitarianism and Human Rights [PDF ebook] 
A World of Differences?

This text examines the concept of freedom in the context of American labour history. Nine essays develop themes in this history which show that liberty of contract and inalienable rights form two con …

That ‘poor law was law’ is a fact that has slipped from the consciousness of historians of welfare in England and Wales, and in North America. Welfare”s Forgotten Past remedies this situation by tra …

The story of the Universal Flood and the posterior migrations. …

Attwood examines Victorian attitudes to prostitution across a number of sources: medical, literary, pornographic. …

This is a study of the ”secret history”, a polemical form of historiography which flourished in England during the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. …

Following the fall of Burma to the Japanese in May 1942, reopening and expanding the link from India to China through Burma became the allied force”s principal war aim in South-East Asia. This book …

Before the mid-fifteenth century, the Christian and Islamic governments of Europe had restricted the architecture and design of synagogues and often prevented Jews from becoming architects. Stiefel p …

Japan”s so-called ”peace constitution” renounces war as a sovereign right of the nation, and bans the nation from possessing any war potential. Yet Japan also maintains a large, world-class milita …

Gender in Medieval Culture provides a detailed examination of medieval society”s views on both gender and sexuality, and shows how they are inextricably linked. Sex roles were clearly defined in the …

American Foreign Relations: A New Diplomatic History is a compelling narrative history of American foreign policy from the early settlement of North America to the present. In addition to economic an …