Books published by Cambridge University Press

Original and innovative, this book tells the story of Senegalese children freed from slavery in 1848 only to be relegated to tutelle or guardianship. Bernard Moitt demonstrates that tutelle allowed slavery to persist under another name, with children continuing to be subject to the same widespread labor exploitation and abuse.

It investigates the Indian state's efforts to implement social justice reforms, focusing on the 2011 Census caste data collection. The book critiques the institutionalization of 'castelessness' and the persistence of caste privilege.

Examines how Delhi's Sultanate and Mughal architecture, dating from the twelfth to the seventeenth centuries, became modern monuments and were assimilated and ordered into public consciousness as spaces for tourism, leisure, and intellectual contemplation during the colonial and early postcolonial eras.

This book explores the semantic-syntactic development of composite predicates (CPs) in English from the sixteenth to twentieth centuries. Large-scale corpus data reveal that the morphologically and semantically related simple verb (e.g. notice in the case of take notice of) works as a powerful predictor of the CP's semantic evolution.

Introduction to Epidemiology for the Health Sciences is highly approachable from start to finish, providing foundational knowledge for students new to epidemiology. Its focus on critical thinking allows readers to become competent consumers of health literature, equipping them with skills that transfer to various health sciences workplaces.

This book applies rotation theory to problems involving vectors and coordinates, with an approach that combines easily visualised procedures with smart mathematics. It constructs rotation theory from the ground up, building from basic geometry through to the motion and attitude equations of rockets, and the tensor analysis of relativity.

This accessible and engaging book explores the connection between clothes and philosophy - how clothes can pose philosophical problems, and how philosophical ideas influence clothes. It ranges over all aspects of clothes and what they mean to us, helping us to understand an important and underexplored aspect of our lives.

This book reviews the theoretical, clinical, and forensic issues pertaining to cult leaders, followers, and those who encounter them. It will appeal to psychiatrists, psychologists, mental health professionals, criminal investigators, attorneys, and academics, and those with educational interest in cults and similar organizational frameworks.

This richly textured book helps students and scholars of religion and politics to understand the surprising ways in which conflict and conciliation can renew grassroots democracy. It appraises contemporary discussions of democratic pluralism in religious and ethical theory while advancing a bold new account of conflict's religious significance.

Master data converter design with this definitive textbook. Razavi's intuitive pedagogical approach introduces step-by-step transistor-level designs and simulations, with 250+ examples and 350+ homework problems. Ideal for senior undergraduate and graduate students and professional engineers aspiring to excel in data converter design and analysis.