Governing the military is an up-to-date study of key contemporary challenges to govern the military and the ongoing successes and failures by post-dictatorship civilians in Chile to reform national defence governance. -- .
Protestant missionary children’s historical lives are examined from the perspectives of parents, churches and children, to... Læs mere
This book combines the approaches of historians and archaeologists to explore past individuals as embodied... Læs mere
This book examines the development of the historiography on the African American freedom struggle from the 1890s to the present day. -- .
This ground-breaking book analyses premodern whiteness as operations of fragility, precarity and racialicity across bodily and nonsomatic figurations. It... Læs mere
This volume demonstrates how the Hundred Years War (1337–1453) provides a necessary context for late-medieval literature. It shows how war impacted the lives and... Læs mere
Travel by European and ‘native’ monarchs and other royals between Europe, Asia and Africa developed as a new form of personal and international politics... Læs mere
This exciting new text presents the first overview of Jean Jacques Rousseau's work from a political science perspective. Was Rousseau--the great theorist of the French Revolution--really a conservative? -- .
An enthralling tale of modern Manchester, told by a writer and journalist who has spent four decades reporting on the movers and the shakers of this unique city, from council leader Sir Richard Leese to Sir Alex Ferguson and Tony Wilson. -- .
This book looks at imperial heroes from behind the legends of a dozen major colonial figures on both sides of... Læs mere
In 2019, Solomon Islands made international headlines when the country severed its decades-old alliance with Taiwan in exchange for a partnership with... Læs mere
A vivid account of the rise of terrorism in the late nineteenth century and the hysterical media response it provoked -- .