Michael Cook 
Forbidding Wrong in Islam [PDF ebook] 
An Introduction

How has twentieth-century medicine dealt with immigrants and minorities? The contributors to Migrants, Minorities and Health have studied a number of different types of migrant and minority groups fr …

The word-wide impact of evangelicalism has long been recognized as a vital force. Providing both a clear and accessible guide to the recent literature, this introduction examines the revival in the B …

Although the organizing principle of virtually every world history text is ‘development’, the editor of this volume maintains that this traditional approach fails to address the issue of sustainabili …

The Essay on the Nature of Trade in General was written in the early 1730s by Richard Cantillon, a speculator and banker who had made a vast fortune during the Mississippi and South Sea Bubbles of 17 …

In mid-Victorian England there were new racial categories based upon skin colour. The ”races” familiar to those in the modern west were invented and elaborated after the decline of faith in Biblica …

Like the railroad and the automobile, the airliner has changed the very geography of the societies it serves. Fundamentally, air transportation has helped redefine the scale of human geography by dra …

The first book of its kind, Forensic Medicine in Western Society: A History draws on the most recent developments in the historiography, to provide an overview of the history of forensic medicine in …

Saigon 1961/62 – civil war, coups d”état, family breakdowns, awash with rumour and political intrigue.Very little has been written about this period in Vietnam’s history: after the defeat and depart …

This work closely considers the history and political importance of Hong Kong in the period 1842 to 1992. …

This is the first in-depth study of the sojourn in Sydney made by Nicolas Baudin’s scientific expedition to Australia in 1802. Starbuck focuses on the reconstruction of the voyage during the expediti …