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Disasters and Social Resilience
The interconnectedness of communities, organisations, governing bodies, policy and individuals in the field of disaster studies has never been accurately examined or …
Law of Defamation in Commonwealth Africa
First published in 1998, this book is an exposition of the law of defamation as it applies in those countries (excluding South Africa). It discusses or refers to hundreds of cases …
Icons of American Popular Culture
Traces the evolution of American popular culture over the past two centuries. In a lengthy chronology of landmark events, and ten chapters, each revolving around the lives of two …
The World of Private Banking
This is a full and authoritative account of the history of private banking, beginning with its development in conjunction with the world markets served by and centred on a few …
Classical Econophysics
This monograph examines the domain of classical political economy using the methodologies developed in recent years both by the new discipline of econo-physics and by computing …
Lost Pharaohs
Published in the year 2006, Lost Pharaohs is a valuable contrubution to the field of History.
Modern American Lives: Individuals and Issues in American History Since 1945
The individuals presented in these narrative biographies significantly, and sometimes decisively, impacted contemporary American life in a wide range of areas, including national …
Social Classes in Marxist Theory
First published in 1984. This study critically examines the conceptions of social class employed by Marx and by modern Marxist writers, to probe their problematic areas and to …
The League of Nations
The League of Nations occupies a fascinating yet paradoxical place in human history. Over time, it’s come to symbolize both a path to peace and to war, a promising vision of world …
Professional Music-Making in London
Professional Music-Making in London is an engaging yet innovative study which examines the lives and work of Western art musicians from an ethnographic perspective. Drawing in part …
East Meets West - Banking, Commerce and Investment in the Ottoman Empire
Bringing together cultural, economic and social historians from across Europe and beyond, this volume offers a consideration from a number of perspectives of the principal forces …
Industrial Finance, 1830-1914
The nineteenth century was a time of rapid change in forms of organization of economic activity. A central feature of such change was, inevitably, the development of new types of …