Political Parties in Mizoram
This book chronicles the Mizo National Front’s remarkable journey from a marginalized group into a political force. It’s a compelling narrative of how the MNF reshaped the destiny of a region, rallying a people in their pursuit of autonomy and, ultimately, statehood.
Working the System in Sub-Saharan Africa
How are democracy and development negotiated in sub-Saharan Africa? This volume offers context-based analyses showing how local practices have been ‘working the system’ of global ideas, a process with a rich historical dimension often overlooked.
Blest Gana via Machiavelli and Cervantes
Vilches reflects on the work of Chilean author Alberto Blest Gana (1830–1920) through the lens of Machiavelli and Cervantes. She delves into Chile’s emergence as a nation, and illustrates conflicts among the political parties and social classes in the early days of independence.
How are tourism and colonization related? This book explores the development of tourism in French Indochina from the early 1900s to WWII, revealing how it was used as a political tool to promote the colony and attract future colonists.
The Archbishops of Cyprus in the Modern Age
Cypriot archbishops have long wielded political power. Most remember the nationalist politician and first President, Archbishop Makarios III. But were they all like him? This unique study explores the role of the archbishop-ethnarch.
Death on the Move
This volume explores the different aspects of the management of death, dying and mortality by migrants in Southern Europe, through deconstructing persistent idiosyncratic beliefs, myths, narratives, silences, and constraints.
Homelands and Diasporas
This collection of essays on Jewish-related subjects celebrates Emanuela Trevisan Semi’s career and research, and is authored by a number of former students, friends and colleagues on the occasion of her retirement.
The Bonds of Trade
How did long-distance trade flourish in a pre-modern world of overwhelming uncertainty? This book explores this paradox, revealing how institutions were created to build trust between distant communities and merchants who did not know one another.
The Future of Post-Human Migration
The “melting pot” and “salad bowl” are opposing noble lies. This book offers a new theory—the cyclical progression of migration—to change how we think about Sameness, Otherness, and identity, with enormous implications for the human future.
The Role of Agency and Memory in Historical Understanding
The essays here showcase the agency of historical actors tied to larger movements, demonstrating the efficacy and power of individuals to act with historical impact. They also describe the nuanced role of memory, often neglected in larger national or global social movements.
Between the 16th and 19th centuries, towns in Europe and East Asia helped shape individual consciousness. These essays explore how personal writings placed individuals into urban histories, challenging the idea that individualism emerged only in European society.
Often overlooked in historical records, this book provides an in-depth analysis of the quarrying industry in Shropshire and across the country. Discover the machinery and processes used to extract the stone that built Britain’s most enduring structures.
The Importance of Place
How do we value historic urban landscape in order to intervene within it as designers? This is the central question of this volume, and is tackled by its 16 essays investigating different facets of value as bases of building and design practices on a range of spatial scales.
Occupying the “Other”
From the occupation of Japan in 1945 to Iraq, Australia has participated in US-led occupations. This collection of essays asks: Can democracy be imposed militarily? Is Australia an independent ally or a meek follower of a global superpower?
This interdisciplinary collection examines the fight to abolish the British slave trade. It explores the struggles of enslaved peoples and activists, the contested line between slavery and freedom, and abolition’s enduring legacy of inequality.
Using insights from Bulgarian history, Tzaneva views the construction of Bulgarian national identity as a process intimately affected by social circumstances in nineteenth-century Bulgaria, and explores how the concept of ethnosymbolism contributes to identity dynamics.
The British Attempt to Prevent the Second World War
Neville focuses on some new issues associated with British appeasement policy in the 1930s. He looks at how the artificial split between international history and military history has led to the over-simplification of the factors involved in formulating the appeasement policy.
‘A Storme Out of Wales’
This is the first detailed study of the 1648 revolt in Wales, covering the Battle of St. Fagans and Cromwell’s campaign. It offers a radical reinterpretation: not a Royalist uprising, but a localist revolt against a centralising government.
Locating Agency
“Politics” is more than government—it is power and agency in the lives of ordinary people. These collected essays explore this popular politics in religion, culture, and everyday life, suggesting political activity was embedded in almost every aspect of life.
Fundraising, Flirtation and Fancywork
The 19th-century charity bazaar was a paradox. While it funded Australia’s major institutions, it encouraged a loosening of social restraint, giving women a public role where commerce, gambling, and even flirtation were actively encouraged.
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