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Managing Religion and Religious Changes in Iran
This Element offers a theoretically informed examination of the manner in which religion, especially religious and spiritual movements, is managed by law and legal mechanisms in …
The Cambridge Companion to Tango
Tango music rapidly became a global phenomenon as early as the beginning of the twentieth century, with about 30% of gramophone records made between 1903 and 1910 devoted to it. …
Slavery and Dependence in Ancient Egypt
Ancient Egypt offers rich sources of documentary evidence for the study of the experiences of dependent people, particularly enslaved persons, and how they changed over almost four …
Culture, Economic Growth, and Interstate Power Shift
A country's culture influences its economic growth, which in turn influences its international position. Confucian heritage appears to be the common factor explaining the rapid …
Playwriting, Dramaturgy and Space
Theatre has come back to text, but with perspectives shifted by the experimental practices of the twentieth century across performance forms. Contemporary playwriting brings its …
The Nile Delta
This is the first volume on the history of the Nile Delta to cover the c.7000 years from the Predynastic period to the twentieth century. It offers a multidisciplinary approach …
Health Economics
This Element examines economic perspectives on improving quality and safety in healthcare. Though competition is generally recognised by economists as an important driver of …
Contesting the World
Over the past thirty years, norms research has evolved into a significant subfield within International Relations and beyond. 'Contesting the World' delves into the development of …
Polls, Pollsters, and Public Opinion
A vast literature exists on theories of public opinion - how to measure, analyze, predict, and influence it; however, there is no synthesis of best practices for interpreting …
Tactical Air Power and the Vietnam War
This book introduces a much-needed theory of tactical air power to explain air power effectiveness in modern warfare with a particular focus on the Vietnam War as the first and …
Generalized Additive Models for Location, Scale and Shape
An emerging field in statistics, distributional regression facilitates the modelling of the complete conditional distribution, rather than just the mean. This book introduces …