History of Other Lands

The British Indian Civil Service was a small elite, which administered and governed a vast population. From their number were drawn the Governors o...

This edited volume traces the tragic history of state collapse and statebuilding, radicalisation and conflict in Chechnya, focusing on the conteste...

This book considers the position and historiography of the western Balkans in modern Europe. It challenges the linear narrative that the region was...

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This book explores the seemingly unstoppable turn away from Europe and towards Asian powers, notably China, on the part of the Russian state in the...

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

Throughout history, many states have attempted to harness the attention of their populations for their own ends. This study argues that the Assyri...

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 ...

The documents from the aram al-sharf in Jerusalem constitute one of the most important corpora from the pre-Ottoman Middle East covering broad area...

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...