(Paperback)

The story of a short-lived but vehement eugenics movement that emerged among a group of Europeans in Kenya in the 1930s, unleashing a set of writings on racial differences in intelligence more extreme than that emanating from any other British colony in the twentieth century. -- .

(Hardback)

Through exploration of black British community activism in three geographical case studies, this book argues that the 1980-1 anti-police disturbances should be viewed as collective bargaining by riot. Utilising many original sources, it charts dichotomous attitudes towards public inquiries and discussions of increased political participation.

(Paperback)

Through exploration of black British community activism in three geographical case studies, this book argues that the 1980-1 anti-police disturbances should be viewed as collective bargaining by riot. Utilising many original sources, it charts dichotomous attitudes towards public inquiries and discussions of increased political participation.

(Hardback)

This book is about the ways in which questions of race and empire have figured in British history writing since the late 18th century. -- .

(Hardback)

"A 20th-century saga of interracial Anglo-Indian tea dynasties prised apart and scattered as far away as New Zealand"--Provided by publisher.

(Paperback)

(Hardback)

(Paperback)

(Hardback)

(Paperback)

Selected portions from Pacifism in the United States: From the Colonial Era to the First World War Originally published in 1968. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the or

(Hardback)

(Hardback)

"Unpacks the cultural phenomenon of radiophilia, the popular sensation of live radio transmission, and the reactions to it by critics, cultural producers and audiences across the globe"--

(Hardback)

This contributed volume explores the relationship between imperialism, railways and informal empire. Contributors account for the origins of main lines in several independent and self-governing countries. The essays reflect on the imperial and anti-imperial effects of railways.

(Hardback)

Despite supernatural scepticism, stories about spirits were regularly printed and shared throughout the 18th and 19th centuries. This case-study in the transmission of a single story (of a young gunsmith near Bristol conjuring spirits, leading to his early death) reveals both how and why successive generations found meaning in such accounts.

(Hardback)

This study examines the discourse surrounding Josippon in religious polemics and in the construction of historical and mythical narratives during the Renaissance period.

(Paperback)

(Paperback)

(Paperback)

Shawn Levy, brings alive London in the swinging sixties with a story of those who created the scene that changed the world.

(Hardback)

This book examines a decade of extraordinary ferment in ideas, and the battles about those ideas out of which emerged the Britain of the late-twentieth century. -- .

(Paperback)

This book examines a decade of extraordinary ferment in ideas, and the battles about those ideas out of which emerged the Britain of the late-twentieth century. -- .

(Paperback)

In this text, one of America's leading scholars of Mexico looks not only at the Chiapas conflict of the end of the 1990s, but at 500 years of struggle and uneasy accommodation between Chiapas's primarily Maya population and the Spanish conquerors and "criollo" landowners.

(Paperback)

Provides a chronicle of the the Irish revolution - by the people who were there In 1947 the Bureau of Military History was established by the Irish government to record the experiences of those who took part in the fight for independence.

(Hardback)

(Paperback)

Closely linked essays examine distinctive national patterns of industrialization.