Alan Strathern 
Converting Rulers [PDF ebook] 
Kongo, Japan, Thailand, Hawaii and Global Patterns, 1450-1850

This book traces the origin of mankind from about 120, 000 years ago. It describes the various theories that had been developed, and highlights the two major technological breakthroughs that have ena …

This is the first book specifically devoted to exploring one of the longest-running controversies in nineteenth-century Britain – the sixty-five-year campaign to legalise marriage between a man and h …

In A Nation in Waiting, Adam Schwarz spans a wide variety of issues of concern in today”s Indonesia, providing a detailed view of one of the world”s most populous, yet least-understood, nations. He …

Emphasizing the political discourse and conflict that have surrounded Japanese education, this book focuses on the three main issues of central versus local control, elitism versus equality, and nati …

In this fresh and timely account, Michael Calingaert explores the successes and failures of European economic and political integration, analyzes the factors that will determine its future course, an …

Women in European Culture and Society: A Sourcebook includes a range of transnational sources which encompass the history of women in Europe from the beginning of the eighteenth century right up to t …

The history of medicine and disease in colonial India remains a dynamic and innovative field of research, covering many facets of health, from government policy to local therapeutics. This volume pre …

Nineteenth-century Armenia was a zone of competition between the Persian, Ottoman, and the Russian Empires. Yet over the course of the century a new generation of Armenian journalists, scholars, and …

Robert Clark delves into 100 millennia of human history to create a unified and consistent explanation for humankind”s inner need to spread itself across the globe. He examines key events from diffe …

‘Timothy Earle has set out to offer the most comprehensive view now available of the economic foundations of early societies, and it may well be that he has succeeded. Bronze Age Economics is a pione …