Regional Geography

Postdevelopment in Practice critically engages with recent trends in postdevelopment and critical development studies that have destabilised the co...

W.E.B Du Bois The Souls of Black Folk is a seminal work in the field of sociology, a classic of American literature and a solid example of careful...

Development theory and practice are often taught in a manner that strips them of their historical context and obscures alternative intellectual ass...

Much of Franz Liszt's musical legacy has often been dismissed as 'trivial or 'merely showy,' more or less peripheral contributions to nineteenth-ce...

The concept of sustainability lies at the core of the challenge of environment and development, and the way governments, business and environmental...

Generally, textbooks on urban geography and urban planning are based on ideas laid out in the west and are unable to explicitly connect those ideas...

Oral Forms of Nigerian Autobiography and Life Stories discusses the oral life stories and poems that Africans, particularly the Yoruba people, have...

A critical analysis of African-American novelist and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston' 1934 essay Characteristics of Negro Expression: A crushing ...

Nowhere in Britain have memorable words and beautiful places come together to more magical effect than in the West Country. In `With Magic in my Ey...

How much do we really know about the place we call 'home'? In this sweeping, timely book, Nicholas Crane tells the story of Britain.Over the course...

Martin Luther Kings policy of non-violent protest in the struggle for civil rights in the United States during the second half of the twentieth cen...

Few works of scholarship have so comprehensively recast an existing debate as Chinua Achebes essay on Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness. Achebe a ...

This comprehensive survey of the countries of East and South-East Asia, Australia and New Zealand, along with 22 Pacific islands, fully revised to ...

Our ancestors developed a uniquely nature-focused society, centred on esteemed poets, seers, monks, healers and wise women who were deeply connecte...

This book forms a continuation of the research published in Medieval Parks, Anne Rowe's highly regarded volume of 2009. Now she turns her attention...

Alec Forshaws latest volume covers the troubled decade of 1980s London, the Thatcher years, a time of political and civil unrest and protest, dereg...

Travels across the Roof of the World provides a sweeping yet intimate view of the breathtaking peaks, splendid valleys, and extraordinary people of...