Social Science

ISBN: 9788869772818
Published by : Mimesis International
Series: Literature
From Larry Kramer's New York to Roth's Newark and Colla's Baghdad, this collection of 15 essays explores how American contemporary literature tackles the issue of urban violence, its relationship with the forerunners of the genre, and how its main... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781910900208
Published by : John Donald
What can a bagpipe, a fiddle or a harpsichord tell us about national culture and identity? Each country has a different story to tell, and Scotland’s story has not yet been told. This book traces the cultural and social history of musical in... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781912476695
Published by : Origin
The island of Scarp lies off the west coast of North Harris in the Outer Hebrides and was populated for more than 400 years until 1971, when the last of the native population left.  This magnificent account of Scarp describes an island commun... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780861592357
Published by : British Museum
Series: British Museum Research Publications
Volume: 235
Robert Codrington (1830–1922) trained to be a priest at Oxford University where he was ordained in 1857. He volunteered to work in Nelson, New Zealand, from 1860–4 and was appointed as headmaster of the Melanesian Mission training scho... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781580469715
Published by : University of Rochester Press
Series: Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora
Volume: 91
While the disability rights movement of recent decades has a rich and well-documented history, it is a history mostly focused on the Global North. Disability in Africa presents an interdisciplinary approach to cultural, health, and policy c... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9788869773136
Published by : Mimesis International
Series: Anthropology
Today it is widely reported that the West is in crisis, with Europe at the forefront. There are plenty of arguments to sustain this claim, as the ranks of Europe’s critics currently confirm, including those who continue to try and attribute ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781931534284
Published by : INSTAP Academic Press (Institute for Aegean Prehistory)
Series: Prehistory Monographs
Volume: 61
Kleronomiá (kληρονομιά)—meaning legacy, inheritance, or allotment—encapsulates many of Jeffrey Soles’s feelings about the modern town and archaeological site of Mochlos in eas... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781931534260
Published by : INSTAP Academic Press (Institute for Aegean Prehistory)
Series: Prehistory Monographs
Volume: 63
The results of the excavation of an Early Bronze Age cemetery—including 37 tombs and an associated rectangular Minoan building—at Gournes in north-central Crete revealed strong relations with the Cyclades during the time of the Kampos ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781931534277
Published by : INSTAP Academic Press (Institute for Aegean Prehistory)
Series: Prehistory Monographs
Volume: 64
This volume presents over fifteen years (1981–1996) of archaeometallurgy surveys and specifically the excavations of an Early Bronze Age miners’ village, Göltepe and its associated tin mine, Kestel. The results of the surface surv... .... Learn More