Philip Gavitt 
Gender, Honor, and Charity in Late Renaissance Florence [PDF ebook] 

Many remarkable things about Fife”s origins never understood before are set out in detail here – a must read for all Fifers and those with an interest in the County. Drawn together for the first tim …

Evolution: The Basics is an engaging introduction to the history, development and science of the theory of evolution. Beginning pre-Darwin and concluding with the latest research and controversies, r …

The uncovering of a great number of cartels in the industrialised world has left an unfortunate, yet significant, mark on global economic developments in recent years. Globalization has forced firms …

Building on a revival of scholarly interest in the cultural effects of early 19th-century periodicals, the essays in this collection treat periodical writing as intrinsically worthy of attention not …

Southeast Asian sex workers are stereotypically understood as passive victims of the political economy, and submissive to western men. The advent of HIV/AIDS only compounds this image. Sex Work in So …

This book provides an original analysis of recent work by key historical sociologists through the prism of International Relations. Stephen Hobden investigates the number of issues which overlap betw …

Race has been present at every critical moment in American political development, shaping political institutions, political discourse, public policy, and its denizens’ political identities. But becau …

First published in 1990. During the last twenty years, prodigious scholarly effort has gone into the study of fascism and the right in twentieth-century Europe. Quite apart from the study of particul …

This dazzling collection of original essays from some of the country”s leading thinkers asks the rather intriguing question – Are Italians White? Each piece carefully explores how, when and why whit …