General & World History

An examination of the terms used in specific historical contexts to refer to those people in a society who can be categorized as being in a positio...

For some legal philosophers, if a law is procedurally correct, enacted in ways constitutionally recognised and agreed upon, then the content is of ...

The contributions of this volume discuss the broad field of transformation processes in Muslim societies from different perspectives with various d...

The book presents the first English edition of Hubertine Auclert's Arab Women in Algeria which offers a unique picture of Algerian society in late ...

How writers have imagined the idea of Scottish independence over 700 yearsPoet and critic Robert Crawford explores in eloquent detail the literary-...

How and why did students at Kabul University engage in political activism or refrained from it between 1964 and 1992? Based on oral history intervi...

This volume brings together a series of discussions by scholars from a range of disciplinary, (trans)regional and epistemic perspectives that came ...

This volume centres upon the era conventionally labelled the 'Making of the kingdom', or the 'Anglo-Norman' era in Scottish history. It seeks a bal...

Over the last two decades, the study of graffiti has emerged as a bustling field, invigorated by increased appreciation for their historical, lingu...

Edition and translation of this important genre of Old Welsh poetry. The Stanzas of the Graves or Graves of the Warriors of the Island of Britain,...

In recent decades, scholars have argued that the Roman Republic's political culture was essentially democratic in nature, stressing the central rol...