This book examines NATO’s engagement in Kosovo and the reasoning behind its 1999 military intervention. It analyzes the historical conflict between Albanians and Serbs, the contradicting stances at the Security Council, and the issue of Kosovo’s future.
Cold War Perceptions
This book investigates Romania’s early 1960s policy change towards the Soviet Union. Drawing on declassified archives, it argues the change was triggered by leaders’ perceptions of Soviet threats, focusing on CMEA reform and the Sino-Soviet dispute.
This volume brings together, for the first time, essays authored by the influential British existential philosopher Colin Wilson on seventeen other philosophers from across the globe, including some of those he met personally to discuss their ideas.
This work traces how Oxford and Cambridge colleges, founded for celibate men, clung to a monastic way of life into the nineteenth century. It explores the struggle of courageous individuals who finally overturned the statutes in 1882, allowing Fellows to marry.
Colonial and Global Interfacings
Colonial techniques of domination boomeranged back to the West, sustained by capitalist relations. As new movements challenge the world order, this book explores how global flows of people and ideas transform identity and power from the North to the South.
This book presents multi-angled perspectives of socio-religious transition, adopting the cultural religiosity of the Asian people as a lens through which readers can re-examine the concepts of imperialism, religious syncretism and modernisation.
This book addresses the neglected link between national identity and colonial culture in Italy. It is a critical reflection on a denied past, reconstructing uncomfortable memories that overlap the challenging present circumstances of rigidity, racism and rejection.
Colonies in Conflict
This book traces the little-known history of the British Overseas Territories, the last remnants of the British Empire. It reveals how today’s wars, scandals, and controversies are rooted in a past of conflict, corruption, and neglect by a two-speed Empire.
Colonising Te Whanganui ā Tara and Marketing Wellington, 1840-1849
In the 1840s, the New Zealand Company used powerful images to lure English settlers to Wellington, a land already home to Māori. This book explores how these visuals were complicit in transferring Māori land into English ownership, investigating processes of redress and hope.
Coming Home?
The wars of the twentieth century created the refugee. Forced displacement, in turn, created its own conflicts. This series explores the complex relationship between conflict, return migration, and the compelling, often elusive, search for a sense of home.
Coming Home? Vol. 1
Forced displacement creates conflict. This book explores the complex link between return migration and the compelling but often chimerical search for home. Scholars examine tensions between nation-states and migrants in 20th and 21st century Europe and North Africa.
Coming Home? Vol. 2
Forced displacement creates conflict. This book explores the complex inter-relationship of conflict, return migration, and the compelling search for a sense of home, shifting attention to the colonial and post-colonial framework of the French-North African nexus.
Commodore Squib
When England faced Napoleonic France, Sir William Congreve championed secret weapons, notably gunpowder rockets. His was a world of experimental warfare and espionage. Acclaimed and derided, his overlooked influence is commemorated in the American National Anthem.
Common Ground
Today’s environmental problems have their origins in how we have lived. This book forges a connection between social and environmental history, exploring how the daily activities of ordinary people shaped our relationship with nature to inform our future.
Communities on a Frontier in Conflict
Were the Jesuit missions in South America a socialist utopia or an independent republic? This study reveals the historical reality, analyzing the creation of mission communities on a frontier contested by Spain and Portugal and the demographic consequences of military conflict.
Comparative Literature in Europe
Researchers from across Europe explain how comparative literature works in their countries. This unique book offers an expansive panorama with emphasis on usually “invisible” countries. A handbook for the present and a laboratory for the future of the discipline.
By using both modern and ancient sources, this volume explores the relationship between official religion and popular belief in Greece, as illustrated by the relations between competing ideologies, and the relationship between ideology and mentality.
The 20th century’s tectonic events created “big government.” As the bureaucracy grew, Congress fought for control. Now, conservatives challenge this “administrative state,” arguing it has too much power. This book provides the history behind this crucial modern debate.
Conscience the Path to Holiness
Against the contemporary view of conscience as self-will, this book reclaims Cardinal Newman’s richer presentation. Ten scholars show how faithfulness to conscience is an ennobling path to holiness, drawing us closer to God’s image and likeness.
Conserving Fortified Heritage
Bringing together papers from a heritage conference, this title examines solutions to the problems faced in site management and interpretation of fortifications. Areas covered include conservation and management challenges and interpretation and tourism challenges in forts.