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  • by John U. Wolff
    £25.99

    This work, divided into two volumes, is the study of the history of words in the Austronesian (An) languages-their origin in Proto-Austronesian (PAn) or at later stages and how they developed into the forms that are attested in the current An languages. A study of their history entails the reconstruction of the sound system (phonology) of PAn...

  • - The European Novel and the German Book, 1680-1730
    by Bethany Wiggin
    £30.99

    Wiggins charts just one of the paths by which newness-in its avatars as fashion, novelties, and the novel-entered the European world in the decades around 1700. As readers across Europe snapped up novels, they domesticated the genre.

  • - Young States, Old Societies, Open Futures
    by Thomas W. Simons
    £16.99

    As a global power, the United States will always be interested in Eurasia and engaged with its peoples and nations. Eurasia is too large and important a part of the world to be ignored. It casts a shadow of the old Soviet threat forward in time, and...

  • - Loyalist Paramilitaries in Post-Accord Northern Ireland
    by Carolyn Gallaher
    £26.49

    After the Peace brings the story of Loyalist paramilitaries up to date and sheds light on the residual violence that persists in the post-accord era.

  • - Anti-Slavery and Empire in Victorian Britain
    by Richard Huzzey
    £28.99

    Combining groundbreaking research, powerful argument, and arresting writing, Freedom Burning offers the first complete history of anti-slavery politics and culture in Queen Victoria's Britain and her Empire.

  • - Spirit Worlds and Political Lives in Northern Mongolia
    by Morten Axel Pedersen
    £26.49 - 89.49

  • - Modernity, Nation, and the Baroque
    by Jane O. Newman
    £28.99

  • - A History of Humanitarianism
    by Michael Barnett
    £23.49 - 47.49

    From the 19th-century abolitionist movement to today's NGOs, a critical account of humanitarianism in world politics.

  • - Kingship, Sanctity, and Crusade in the Later Middle Ages
    by M. Cecilia Gaposchkin
    £22.49 - 28.99

    M. Cecilia Gaposchkin reconstructs and analyzes the process that led to King Louis IX of France's canonization in 1297 and the consolidation and spread of his cult.

  • - Love and Legitimacy in the East German Cultural Imagination
    by John Griffith Urang
    £27.49

  • by Hans Blumenberg
    £16.49 - 31.49

  • - Local Culture in a Global Marketplace
    by Patricia M. Goff
    £24.49

    The so-called culture industries-film, television and radio broadcasting, periodical and book publishing, video and sound recording-are noteworthy exceptions to the rhetorical commitment of Western countries to free trade as a major goal. These...

  • - Political Party Organizations as Historical Institutions
    by Ellis S. Krauss & Robert J. Pekkanen
    £24.99

    Explains how the persistence of party institutions (factions, PARC, koenkai) and the transformed role of party leadership in Japan contributed both to the LDP's success at remaining in power for 15 years and its downfall.

  • - Race, Asthma, and the Contested Meaning of Genetic Research in the Caribbean
    by Ian Whitmarsh
    £15.49

    Whitmarsh reveals how state officials and medical professionals make the international biomedical research part of state care, bundling together categories of disease populations, biological race, and asthma.

  • by James D. Wallace
    £27.49

    Wallace shows that norms of all kinds, including ethical norms, are intensely social constructs learned through constant interaction with others.

  • by Gertrude Ezorsky
    £10.99

    Are workers in the United States free? Gertrude Ezorsky traces the severe limits placed on their freedom by illegal coercion against organizing unions and by low wage offers-barely enough to feed their families-that workers are pressured to accept...

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    - Military Service and the Politics of Citizenship
    by Ronald R. Krebs
    £52.49

    Military service, Ronald R. Krebs argues, can play a critical role in bolstering minorities' efforts to grasp full and unfettered rights.

  • - The Politics of Banking-Sector Opening in the Emerging World
    by Leonardo Martinez-Diaz
    £28.99

    In Globalizing in Hard Times, Leonardo Martinez-Diaz examines the sudden and substantial increase in cross-border ownership of commercial banks in countries where bank ownership had long been restricted by local rules. Many parties-the World Bank and...

  • - Conservatives and the 1974 Kanawha County Textbook Controversy
    by Carol Mason
    £15.49

    In Reading Appalachia from Left to Right, Carol Mason examines the legacies of a pivotal 1974 curriculum dispute in West Virginia that heralded the rightward shift in American culture and politics.

  • - Ports, Labor, and the Logistics Revolution
    by Jake B. Wilson & Edna Bonacich
    £23.49

    Bonacich and Wilson follow the flow of imports from Asian factories, exploring the roles of importers, container shipping companies, the ports, railroad and trucking companies, and warehouses and their impact on U.S. workers.

  • - A Historical Ethnography of Ethics in the Urals
    by Douglas Rogers
    £27.49 - 89.49

    The Old Faith and the Russian Land is a historical ethnography that charts the ebbs and flows of ethical practice in a small Russian town, Sepych, over three centuries.

  • - Manhood and the Creation of the United States
    by John Gilbert McCurdy
    £22.99

  • - French and British Theories of Linguistic Communication, 1648-1789
    by Matthew Lauzon
    £34.99

    Lauzon traces the development of very different French and British ideas about language over the course of the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and demonstrates how important these ideas were to emerging notions of of national character.

  • - Success and Failure in Military Occupation
    by David M. Edelstein
    £24.99 - 89.49

  • - Savagery and Civilization in the Age of Industry
    by Daniel E. Bender
    £25.99

    At the beginning of the twentieth century, industrialization both dramatically altered everyday experiences and shaped debates about the effects of immigration, empire, and urbanization. In American Abyss, Daniel E. Bender examines an array of...

  • - Corruption in the European Union
    by Carolyn Warner
    £19.99

    Provides a framework for understanding the persistence of corruption in the Western states of the European Union.

  • - Dealing with the Past in the Balkans
    by Jelena Subotic
    £21.49 - 22.99

    Jelena Subotic traces the design, implementation, and political outcomes of institutions established to deal with the legacies of violence in the aftermath of the Yugoslav wars.

  • - American Power, Global Capital, and the Housing Bubble
    by Herman M. Schwartz
    £16.99

    In his exceedingly timely and innovative look at the ramifications of the collapse of the U.S. housing market, chwartz makes the case that worldwide, U.S. growth and power over the last twenty years has depended in large part on domestic housing markets.

  • - Fighting for Safe Workplaces and Healthy Communities
    by Brian Mayer
    £13.99

    What do unions and environmental groups have to gain by working together and how do they overcome their differences? Brian Mayer looks at the role that health-related issues have played in creating a common ground between the two groups.

  • - American Missionaries and the Failed Conversion of the Middle East
    by Ussama Makdisi
    £15.49

    The complex relationship between America and the Arab world goes back further than most people realize. In Artillery of Heaven, Ussama Makdisi presents a foundational American encounter with the Arab world that occurred in the nineteenth century...

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