Islanders and Empire. Smuggling and Political Defiance in Hispaniola, 1580-1690, New ed, Paperback - ***

Islanders and Empire is a pioneering and comprehensive examination of the role smuggling played in the economic and socio-political transformation ...

The Dreadful Word describes how the criminalization, prosecution, and punishment of speech offenses in eighteenth-century Massachusetts helped to e...

This new, wide-ranging framework for understanding Victorian settler colonialism reveals the energetic circulation of literary forms between Austra...

Publisher: Yale University PressAuthor(s): Eamon DuffyIllustration(s): 143 b-w illus.Number of pages: 720Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 137 x 21...

Explores the lived experience of empire in the Pacific, the last region to be contacted and colonized by Europeans following the great voyages of C...

This book is intended for academics studying African politics, ethnic conflict, democratization, and civil-military relations. Focusing on the mili...

An advanced resource for a rapidly evolving research field, aimed at students and academics of translation studies and related fields such as appli...

This Element provides a new evaluation of burial customs in New Kingdom Egypt, from about 1550 to 1077 BC, with an emphasis on burials of the wider...

Using Christianity in Africa, this book explores how religion influences political participation, specifically through religious sermons and when c...

This is a revisionist account of the origins of the British Empire in Asia in the early modern period. David Veevers shows that it was the integrat...

This is an elegant, readable narrative of Nauru's imperial history that makes a compelling argument for the island's significance in the history of...

In the field of philosophy, the common view of philosophy as an essentially Western discipline persists even today, while non-Western philosophy te...

The Advantage of Disadvantage provides insights for scholars and activists into how marginalized groups gain representation through protest. Drawin...

This book offers a comprehensive, region-wide examination of the politics of taxation in Latin America, one of the most pressing issues to confront...

One of the fundamental properties of human language is movement, where a constituent moves from one position in a sentence to another position. Thi...

Reducere. Two Choices. Neither one is wrong. But only one is her destiny.Hope Clark has fought hard to convince the town of Defiance that a woman doctor is g...

Despite substantial spending on education and support for reform, the quality of education in many, if not most, Arab countries remains low. Which ...

Reducere. Supplying water to millions is not simply an engineering and logistical challenge. As David Soll shows in his finely observed history of the nation...

Publisher: Markus Wiener Publishing IncAuthor(s): Hamit BozarslanNumber of pages: 170Publication date: 2005Dimensions: 152 x 228 x 18Cover type: Pa...

The First World War marked the end point of a process of German globalization that began in the 1870s. Learning Empire looks at German worldwide en...

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Showcasing texts by Portuguese and Luso-Brazilian authors, this volume demonstrates the wealth of the political thought of early modern Portugal an...

Godly Reading: Print, Manuscript and Puritanism in England, 1580–1720 - Andrew Cambers

Publisher: Bookmarks PublicationsAuthor(s): John NewsingerNumber of pages: 304Publication date: 2013Dimensions: 211 x 135 x 22Cover type: Paperback...

Publisher: New PressAuthor(s): Lloyd C. GardnerNumber of pages: 256Publication date: 2005Dimensions: 209 x 162 x 28Cover type: HardbackEditor(s): M...

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Tension has long existed in the social sciences between quantitative and qualitative approaches on one hand, and theory-minded and empirical techni...

Brings together chapters from more than a dozen leading methods scholars to revolutionize qualitative research design. Provides novel strategies fo...

Publisher: Rivers Oram PressAuthor(s): Judith Lewis HermanIllustration(s): notes, indexNumber of pages: 302Publication date: 1994Dimensions: 214 x ...

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Reducere. Anna Kirby is sick of dating. She's tired of heartbreak. Despite being smart, sexy, and funny, she's a magnet for men who don't deserve her. A week...

Reducere. The NHL's New York Islanders were struggling. After winning four straight Stanley Cups in the early 1980s, the Islanders had suffered an embarrassi...

A little-known story of mutiny and murder illustrating the centrality of smuggling and slavery in early American society On the night of June 1, 17...

Freedom Bound: Law, Labor, and Civic Identity in Colonizing English America, 1580–1865 - Christopher Tomlins

DescriptionMicrocredit is part of a global trend of financial inclusion that brings banking services, especially small loans, to the world's poor. ...

This new, wide-ranging framework for understanding Victorian settler colonialism reveals the energetic circulation of literary forms between Austra...

Reducere. DescriptionSurfing today evokes many things: thundering waves, warm beaches, bikinis and lifeguards, and carefree pleasure. But is the story of sur...

This book brings together a number of specialist scholarly articles published previously in the series Cornish Studies, and presents them in revise...

This book is unique in bringing together economists, historians, political scientists and policy-makers to develop a new way of thinking about the ...

Reducere. Ask any hockey historian about the greatest all-time teams, and the 1980-1984 New York Islanders are sure to be towards the top of their list. Asse...

In the last three decades, significant attention has been given to the way in which New Testament texts engage and respond to the imperial world in...

Reducere. When the Nazis invaded Denmark on Tuesday, April 9, 1940, the people of this tiny country to the north of Germany awoke to a devastating surprise. ...

Publisher: Text PublishingAuthor(s): Louisa LimNumber of pages: 320Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 153 x 234 x 23Cover type: Paperback / softback...

John Walter Hill's highly anticipated text presents a broad survey of the music of Western Europe from 1580 to 1750.

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Shelly CraneIn the third installment of the Significance series, we begin with Maggie and Caleb in the clutches of a new en...