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The Early Abbasid Caliphate: A Political History
1st Edition
By Hugh Kennedy
June 09, 2025
The early Abbasid Caliphate was an important period for Islam. The dynasty, based in Baghdad, ruled over a vast Empire, stretching from the Indus Valley and Southern Russia to the East to Tunisia in the West; and presided over an age of brilliant cultural achievements. This study, first published ...
British Paternalism and Africa, 1920–1940
1st Edition
By Penelope Hetherington
June 06, 2025
British Paternalism and Africa (1978) is a study of the beliefs and assumptions of members of the British intelligentsia who concerned themselves with British–African politics in the period between the wars. The journals and books published in Britain during this period were used as source material...
Gold Dust: The California Gold Rush and the Forty-Niners
1st Edition
By Donald Dale Jackson
June 06, 2025
Gold Dust (1980) looks at the adventures and ordeals, delusions and successes and catastrophes of the men and women – the forty-niners – caught up in the gold rush. The author tells the story of the gold rush through the experiences, feelings and thoughts of the people who participated in it....
Matriliny and Modernity: Sexual Politics and Social Change in Rural Malaysia
1st Edition
By Maila Stivens
June 06, 2025
Matriliny and Modernity (1996) explores the situation both past and present of women living in the matrilineal society of Negeri Sembilan in a rapidly modernising Malaysia. Written from a feminist anthropological viewpoint, it considers how far both the colonial and post-colonial remakings of ...
Nuclear Power in the Developing World
1st Edition
By Daniel Poneman
June 06, 2025
Nuclear Power in the Developing World (1982) explores the issue of nuclear power policies in developing countries. The sharp oil price rises of the 1970s attracted widespread attention to nuclear power as an alternative energy source, while some developing countries began attaining the ...
Political Change in Greece: Before and After the Colonels
1st Edition
Edited
By Kevin Featherstone, Dimitrios K. Katsoudas
June 06, 2025
Political Change in Greece (1987) surveys the state of politics in Greece as it joined the EEC, experienced a socialist government, and faced changes in its relations within NATO. It provides historical background explaining the changes in regimes since the Second World War, and looks at different ...
Productivity and Amenity: Achieving a Social Balance
1st Edition
Edited
By Michael E. Beesley
June 06, 2025
Productivity and Amenity (1974) considers social responsibility in business and the balance between the social requirements for enhancing productivity and amenity. It looks at the changing roles of government and business and the nature of modern capitalism; the criteria for social performance; the...
Slums and Redevelopment: Policy and Practice in England, 1918–1945, with Particular Reference to London
1st Edition
By J.A. Yelling
June 06, 2025
Slums and Redevelopment (1992) moves between national policy formation and detailed local studies, particularly of London, studies involving landlords and property, tenants and rehousing, and the implementation of programmes. The interwar period it examines saw the restoration of slum clearance ...
Social Researching: Politics, Problems, Practice
1st Edition
Edited
By Colin Bell, Dr Helen Roberts
June 06, 2025
Social Researching (1984) examine the ‘stories’ about ‘real’ research in social sciences and its problems, and discusses funding, publication, the history of major projects, postgraduate work and issues raised by feminists doing research, as well as the practical, ethical and political difficulties....
Soldiers and Students: A Study of Right- and Left-Wing Radicals
1st Edition
By Rob Kroes
June 06, 2025
Soldiers and Students (1975) adopts an original approach to the confrontation of deprived and possessing parties under conditions of scarcity. With reference to the course of conflict, the actions of the competing parties are shown to be interlinked, yet the difference between their strategies are ...
The Derbyshire Miners: A Study in Industrial and Social History
1st Edition
By J.E. Williams
June 06, 2025
The Derbyshire Miners (1962) examines the development of the Derbyshire coalfield and the growth of trade union organization among the miners. It looks at the successful unionization, and the history, structure, policy and finances of the union....
Triangle of Death: The Inside Story of the Triads – The Chinese Mafia
1st Edition
By Frank Robertson
June 06, 2025
Triangle of Death (1977) examines the growth of the international heroin trade, and its control by the Chinese secret societies known as Triads. It looks at the Triads active in Hong Kong, the Golden Triangle and Amsterdam, and shows how these groups have spread across the Western world....