This book is an extended enquiry into those ideas which were desirable, those which were accepted and those which were rejected as criteria which could ...

This volume, originally published in 1930, discusses the economics of Russian agriculture during the early 20 th century. It analyzes those economic ...

This book explores the ways in which mid-19th Century American army officers' wives used material culture to confirm their status as middle-class women.

The scale of the French tanks' failure in their first engagement (1917) lead to rumours that the Artillerie Spéciale was in danger of being disbanded ...

This is volume 2 of the set ^English Radicalism (1935-1961). Reissuing the epic undertaking of Dr S. Maccoby, these volumes cover the story of English ...

In 1884 a community of Brazilians was "discovered" by the Western world. The Ecology of Power examines these indigenous people from the Upper Xingu region ...

In the past few decades there has been an explosion of interest in the period of late antiquity. Rather than being viewed within a paradigm of the fall ...

Why We Write provides a forum for scholars, activists, and novelists to reflect on the ways in which they use their writing and academic work to create ...

This book, first published in 1939, is an account of J. Gunnar Andersson's travels in China from 1914 to 1927 while he was serving as a mining advisor ...

Following a historically chronological approach, and with a clear focus on the marked regional diversity characterising Italy, this volume analyses the ...