Politics, Economics & Law
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Treason and Masculinity in Medieval England: Gender, Law and Political Culture [Hardback]
E. Amanda McVitty(Author)
$99.00ISBN: 9781783275557
Published by : Boydell Press
Series: Gender in the Middle Ages
Volume: Volume 16
Conflicts over treason tormented English political society in the later Middle Ages. As legal and political historians have shown, treason was always a constitutional matter as well as a legal one because it was pivotal in mediating the relationsh... .... Learn More -
African Migration Narratives: Politics, Race, and Space [Paperback]
Cajetan Iheka(Editor); Jack Taylor(Editor)
$34.95ISBN: 9781648250064
Published by : University of Rochester Press
Series: Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora
Volume: Volume 81
This essay collection examines the representations of migration in African literature, film, and other visual media. Inspired by the proliferation of texts focused on this theme and the ongoing migration crises, essays in the volume probe the ways... .... Learn More -
The Struggle for Land and Justice in Kenya [Hardback]
Ambreena Manji(Author)
$99.00ISBN: 9781847012555
Published by : James Currey
Series: Eastern Africa Series
Why, despite the introduction of new land laws beginning in 2012, has there been an increase in land grabbing in Kenya? Why has legislation failed to address long standing grievances about grossly unequal land distribution? This important book sug... .... Learn More -
The Red Vienna Sourcebook [Paperback]
Ingo Zechner(Editor); Georg Spitaler(Editor); Rob McFarland(Editor)
$49.95ISBN: 9781640140677
Published by : Camden House
Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
Volume: Volume 204
The current blockbuster German TV series Babylon Berlin introduces viewers to the tumultuous period in German history known as the Weimar Republic. Critics have praised the series for its relevance to the present: it shows dark populist for... .... Learn More -
‘So Distant, So Close’: Australia and the European Union in the 21st Century [Paperback]
Bruno Mascitelli(Editor)
$40.00ISBN: 9781925801460
Published by : Australian Scholarly Publishing
This book is offered at a time of great global uncertainty, when Australia and the European Union seem determined to offer reliability and predictability in their own relationship, and in their influence on others. While there are strong grounds f... .... Learn More -
Financing Cotton: British Industrial Growth and Decline, 1780-2000 [Paperback]
Steven Toms(Author)
$25.95ISBN: 9781783275090
Published by : Boydell Press
Series: People, Markets, Goods: Economies and Societies in History
Volume: Volume 17
The cotton and textile industry, at the centre of the industrial revolution, has long been a metaphor for the rise and fall of Britain as a manufacturing economy. This book links the world of finance directly to the fate of the cotton and textile ... .... Learn More -
The New Black Middle Class in South Africa [Paperback]
Roger Southall(Author)
$24.95ISBN: 9781847012456
Published by : James Currey
2016 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title
The "rise of the black middle class" is one of the most visible aspects of post-apartheid society in South Africa. Yet while it has been a major actor in the country's democratic reshaping,... .... Learn More -
The Red Vienna Sourcebook [Hardback]
Ingo Zechner(Editor); Georg Spitaler(Editor); Rob McFarland(Editor)
$120.00ISBN: 9781571133557
Published by : Camden House
Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
Volume: Volume 204
The current blockbuster German TV series Babylon Berlin introduces viewers to the tumultuous period in German history known as the Weimar Republic. Critics have praised the series for its relevance to the present: it shows dark populist for... .... Learn More -
Police and Government in Australia: Who’s in Charge and Who Should be in Charge? [Paperback]
Ian Killey(Author)
$40.00ISBN: 9781925801804
Published by : Australian Scholarly Publishing
Ian Killey examines what should be a simple question of who controls the body exercising the policing power of the State and it finds the current understanding is both confused and concerning. This is because previous examinations and changes to A... .... Learn More -
Cultivating Their Own: Agriculture in Western Kenya during the "Development" Era [Hardback]
Muey C. Saeteurn(Author)
$80.00ISBN: 9781580469791
Published by : University of Rochester Press
Series: Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora
Volume: Volume 90
After more than fifty years of development, why have interventions and aid failed to yield greater poverty alleviation in Sub-Saharan Africa? Why did the agricultural development projects that were transpiring in places like Kenya during the "... .... Learn More
