Kirsten McKenzie 
Imperial Underworld [PDF ebook] 
An Escaped Convict and the Transformation of the British Colonial Order

The story of soda is the story of the modern world, a tale of glamorous bubbles, sparkling dreams, big bucks, miracle cures, and spreading waistlines. Fizz: How Soda Shook Up the World charts soda”s …

First published in 2006. The ambitious role cast for scientists in public affairs has been matched by an equal coyness on the part of scientists to play it. Yet in spite of themselves, they have been …

First Published in 2005. This book argues that the agricultural revolution took place in England in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and not in the eighteenth and nineteenth. …

First Published in 2005. In this book, the author seeks to bring out the causes which led to the coming of machinery and which made Great Britain the workshop of the world for a large part of the nin …

This book was first published in 1966. The city of Nottingham grew from the nucleus of a smaller and older town to become one of the nation”s leading industrial centres, and although it was not a pr …

First published in 1967, Volumes I to VI of a set of Raphell Holinshed’s Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland. …

Rene Caillie was the first European who penetrated to Timbuctoo and returned to communicate the information he had collected. This account was first published in 1830, and records observations of a j …

This book was first published in 1985. …

First Published in 1995, the main emphasis of this book is on the political history of the Jews in Palestine, where ‘political’ is to be understood not as the mere succession of rulers and battles bu …

This ethnography of Muslim life among the Kazaks of Central Asia describes the sacralisation of land and ethnic identity, local understanding of Islamic purity, the Kazak ancestor cult and domestic s …