Barbara Ingham & Colin Simmons 
Development Studies and Colonial Policy [PDF ebook] 

Alabama State University is well known as a historically black university and for the involvement of its faculty and students in the civil rights movement. Less attention has been paid to the school& …

From Vacillation to Resolve tells the little-known story of the French Communist Party’s role in the Resistance movement against the Nazis during World War II. Author Julian Mc Phillips Jr. researche …

Binge drinking and illicit sex were just as common in the Dutch Golden Age as they are today, if not more so. Sex, Drugs and Rock »n» Roll in the Dutch Golden Age is a compelling narrative about th …

This thought-provoking collection of essays analyses the complex, multi-faceted, and even contradictory nature of Stalinism and its representations. Stalinism was an extraordinarily repressive and vi …

Title first published in 2003. In commemoration of the philosophical interests of Stanley Victor Keeling, the annual lectures in his memory highlight the interest and importance of ancient philosophy …

This edited collection analyses the phenomenon of coin use for religious and ritual purposes in different cultures and across different periods of time. It proposes an engagement with the theory and …

Tamás Nyirkos provides a timely and essential reassessment of the concept of the ‘tyranny of the majority’ for the study of democracy today. The analysis is divided into three parts: the first discus …

The Francoist command in the Spanish Civil War carried out a programme of mass violence from the start of the conflict. Through a combination of death squads and the use of military trials around 150 …

Perceptions of the Great War have changed significantly since its outbreak and children»s authors have continually attempted to engage with those changes, explaining and interpreting the events of 1 …

Merriam Press World War 2 In Review Series. Provides a detailed chronology of the war from September 1, 1939, and includes a selection of 474 B&W and color photographs covering the war from beginning …