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The Historical Element in Religion: Lewis Fry Lectures
1st Edition
By Clement C.J. Webb
August 01, 2025
First published in 1935, The Historical Element in Religion explains the Historical Element as arising from the religious man’s interest in the past of a community of which in his religious life he feels himself to be a part, so that its past is, although not remembered by him as an individual, yet...
The Life of Ludwig Mond
1st Edition
By J. M. Cohen
August 01, 2025
First published in 1956, The Life of Ludwig Mond is one of the earliest biographies to present the story of Dr. Mond. The book, as a biography, is mainly and rightly concerned with the man himself, but it could hardly avoid dealing with the growth of those parts of the heavy chemical industry with ...
The Planned Economies of Eastern Europe
1st Edition
By Alan H. Smith
August 01, 2025
First published in 1983, The Planned Economies of Eastern Europe provides a penetrating analysis of the Eastern European economies, beginning with an examination of the Soviet model on which they are based. An interesting comparison is made between the levels of economic development in these ...
The Professions in Early Modern England
1st Edition
Edited
By Wilfrid Prest
August 01, 2025
First published in 1987, The Professions in Early Modern England highlights the significant role of professional and quasi-professional occupations in English society before the industrial revolution, contrary to what was once historiographical and sociological orthodoxy. The editorial introduction...
The State and Democracy: Revitalizing America's Government
1st Edition
By Marc V. Levine, Carol MacLennan, John J. Kushma, Charles Noble, Jeff Faux, Marcus G. Raskin
August 01, 2025
Corporate domination of public policy during the Reagan years resulted not only in increasing inequality and deteriorating living standards for millions of Americans, but in a diminution in the capacity of government to solve basic problems that are not amenable to market-oriented solutions. The ...
The Western Saharans: Background to Conflict
1st Edition
By Virginia Thompson, Richard Adloff
August 01, 2025
Since the Spanish withdrawal from their Saharan colonies in 1975, a determined guerrilla war was fought against the Moroccans by the Polisario who claimed the territory as their rightful country. This war, which also involved Mauritania, threatened to involve Morocco and Algeria in open conflict ...
Tristan da Cunha: 1506–1902
1st Edition
By J. Brander
August 01, 2025
The story of the lonely island of Tristan da Cunha is one of enduring interest. It was discovered in 1506 by the Portuguese when sailing to India. In the following century the Dutch and English considered the possibilities of industrialization and colonization of the island. French explorers and ...
Welfare Politics in Mexico: Papering Over the Cracks
1st Edition
By Peter Ward
August 01, 2025
When it was originally published in 1986, this was the first book to deal simultaneously with several aspects of social welfare provision in a developing country. The unique contribution of the book is based on the analysis of 3 substantive welfare areas – land (for self-help housing), urban ...
West Africa Under Colonial Rule
1st Edition
By Michael Crowder
August 01, 2025
Originally published in 1968, this book became the standard work on the colonial period in the vast and varied areas of the coast and hinterland of West Africa. It is a comprehensive survey of the domination of West Africa by the British and the French, which challenges the accepted view of the ...
West African Resistance: The Military Response to Colonial Occupation
1st Edition
By Michael Crowder
August 01, 2025
Originally published in 1971, this book is a study by 9 historians of West Africa, three of whom are themselves African, of the military response to the colonial occupation of West Africa. Apart from the fact that the extent and effectiveness of African resistance to 19th Century European invasion ...
Who Will Feed China?: Wake-Up Call for a Small Planet
1st Edition
By Lester Brown
August 01, 2025
Originally published in 1995, but with enduring relevance in a time of global population growth and food insecurity, when it was first published, this book attracted much global attention, and criticism from Beijing. It argued that even as water becomes scarcer in a land where 80% of the grain crop...
Working at Leisure
1st Edition
By Barrie Sherman
August 01, 2025
In Working at Leisure (originally published in 1986), Barrie Sherman envisages a world where homeworking will be the norm, the cities will be deserted, the suburbs the new centres of work and leisure. And what of unemployment? We must recognise that never again can we expect to be in full-time ...