Moustafa Gadalla 
Cosmologia Egipcia: O Universo Animado, Terceira Edicao [EPUB ebook] 

From the Cloister to the State examines the French order of Fontevraud, one of the largest monastic networks under female leadership in medieval and early modern Europe. Founded in 1100 and comprised …

Military conflicts and dictatorships in Latin America are the main consequences of the increasingly autonomous role of the armed forces in the region, asserts noted scholar Augusto Varas, and interna …

First published in 2004. This is Volume VIII looking at Indian Culture and Imperial Control in Eighteenth-Century British Orientalist Discourse. This volume includes the Asiatich Researches: Transact …

On November 22nd, 1963 the assassination of President John F. Kennedy set into motion a series of events that irrevocably changed American politics and culture. The media frenzy spawned by the contro …

How can fresh conflict between China and Taiwan be avoided? This paper argues that unless the key players – Taiwan, China and the US – accept the existence of a new and increasingly democratic Taiwan …

This book was first published in 1929. The working woman was not, a Victorian institution. The word spinster disproves any upstart origin for the sisterhood of toil. Nor was she as a literary figure …

This history, first published in 1823, also includes a ‘disproval of the claim of Sir Richard Arkwright to the invention of its ingenious machinery’. It includes sections on the national and general …

First Published in 2000. This text provides a survey of the peoples who speak Finno-Ugric languages and have titular republics or autonomous regions within the post-Soviet Russian federation. Their l …

In 400 the mighty Roman Empire was almost as large as it had ever been; within three centuries, advances by Germanic peoples in western Europe, Slavs in eastern Europe and Arabs around the eastern an …

Describes British relations with the Pashtun tribes of Waziristan in the years after the annexation of the Punjab in 1849, offering the most detailed historical account that has so far been written o …