Nic Cheeseman 
Democracy in Africa [PDF ebook] 
Successes, Failures, and the Struggle for Political Reform

In January 1682, William Culliford, a loyal and experienced officer in the King”s customs service, began an extraordinary journey under Treasury orders to investigate the integrity and efficiency of …

This volume examines the connection between culture and defence by providing an inside look at Brazil’s aerospace strategies. Brazil is becoming increasingly important geopolitically, and several stu …

With the help of over 100 illustrations, many of them little known, Martin Henig shows that the art produced in Britannia–particularly in the golden age of Late Antiquity–rivals that of other provi …

This illustrated work is intended to acquaint readers with the early maps produced in both Europe and the rest of the world, and to tell us something of their development, their makers and printers, …

In a book written with the poignancy and beauty appropriate to its subject matter, the author opens by reminding us that the essence of a society is in a sense identical with its history. Classical I …

The period 1829-1856 witnessed the introduction of the ”New Police” to Great Britain and Ireland. Via a series of key legislative acts, traditional mechanisms of policing were abolished and new, su …

This charming book The Many Worlds of Sarala Devi and The Tagores and Sartorial Styles, as the titles suggest, contain two separate but related writings on the Tagores. The Tagores were a pre-eminent …

The Tragedy of Vietnam is a brief and accessible text providing a comprehensive overview of the causes and consequences of the Vietnam War. Patrick J. Hearden offers historical background of the conf …

The rise of CCTV camera surveillance in Britain has been dramatic. Practically every major city now boasts a CCTV system aimed at, among other things, preventing, detecting and reducing the fear of c …

The history of the Middle East is traditionally structured around the rise and fall of dynasties and states. The widely perceived view is that after the glories of an earlier golden age the region we …