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Fluent in German, English and Arabic, he made the Hadj to Mecca but was more at home in high society or travelling the desert on... Læs mere
First published in 1939, this Singer tour de force offering some fifty carefully chosen classic texts from Yamato to the Momoyama period and fully annotated, remains as significant a point of reference today as it did sixty years ago
This volume investigates why peasants defend themselves against the predations of politics by using such... Læs mere
The contributors place the dramatic events which took place in China in April-May 1989 within the broader context of China's developmental experience. It aims to provide an historical, societal, cultural and political context on the history of the Chinese People's Movement.
With a historical sweep that recent events have made definitive, the authors examine the influence of Soviet ideology on the presentation of social reality in films produced in the Soviet Union between the October Revolution and the final days of glasnost
This book traces the early history of Nigeria from inception to civil war, and the complex events that defined the conflict in Biafra, revealing how and why this awful event played out.
Studying texts by Lorenzo Valla, Erasmus, Saint Jerome, George Gascoigne, and Fulke Greville, this volume explores authorial character as an instrument of textual analysis in the scholarship of early Renaissance literature.
Forbidden Desire is a pioneering study of the history of male-male sex in the whole of Early Modern Europe, including the European colonies and the Ottoman world.