Drawing on extensive fieldwork and rare primary sources, Mehran Kamrava provides a comprehensive, accessible analysis of the formal and informal... Læs mere
This book addresses the material devices used to represent and manipulate numerical concepts. Fingers, tallies, tokens, and written notations, invented in both ancestral and contemporary societies, explain what numbers are, why they are the way they are, and how we get them.
The founding of the PRC in 1949 resulted in the transformation of clothing in China. This pioneering history of clothing production... Læs mere
This new edition provides an expanded, comprehensive history of African American theatre, from the early nineteenth century to the present day,... Læs mere
Advocating a gender-inclusive approach, this book highlights the transformative potential of including women's work in wider assessments of... Læs mere
The first volume to explore transnational anticolonialism as a global phenomenon spanning the entire... Læs mere
Integrating musical and poetic analysis, this book sheds new light on the experience of listening to Monteverdi's path-breaking madrigals.... Læs mere
This book demonstrates that the inflexibility of most workplaces is not only harmful to marginalized employees, but ultimately harmful to... Læs mere
Significant amounts of criminal activity are detected by private police and many criminal... Læs mere
The first in-depth analysis of archival methodologies in the writing of global history, focused on a Japanese migrant steamship in... Læs mere
Provides a comprehensive and accessible analysis of international investment and EU law, and their... Læs mere
Countering the opposing narratives of political amorality and moral progressivism,... Læs mere