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A History of Everyday Things
Things which we regard as the everyday objects of consumption (and hence re-purchase), and essential to any decent, civilised lifestyle, have not always been so: in former times, …
Beyond Barbie and Mortal Kombat
Girls and women as game players and game designers in the new digital landscape of massively multiplayer online games, "second lives," "modding," serious games, and casual …
How I made it
Learn the secrets of success from twenty current, successful Sierra Leoneans as they reveal how they made it to where they are today.
The Mental and the Material
What is the specificity of the human race within nature? How is its history to be explained? What impact do material realities, natural and man-made, have on human beings? What …
French Absolutism: The Crucial Phase, 1620–1629
As an introduction to her detailed study Professor Lublinskaya presents a summary and critique of the whole 'general crisis' interpretation of seventeenth-century European history …
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 …
Muscovy and Sweden in the Thirty Years' War 1630–1635
This is an English translation of important writings on the Thirty Years' War by the great Soviet historian B. F. Porshnev. Little is known of the Muscovite contribution to the …
Tough Love
The third of six children born to struggling parents in Sierra Leone in the 1940s, Femi Iris Hamilton did not set out to become a leader. She had no big dreams of conquering the …