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Alexander Somerville

The Whistler at the Plough

PaperbackEngels9781108004466 20-7-2009

Alexander Somerville (1811–85) was an extraordinary figure, notorious in his own lifetime for his espousal of political reform. The youngest child of impoverished farmers from the Scottish border country, he was the last soldier to be flogged publicly in Britain, after openly stating that his regiment would not fire on Reform agitators. Meer

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Carson Holloway

Hamilton versus Jefferson in the Washington Administration

PaperbackEngels9781107521117 5-1-2016

By the middle of 1792, just a little more than three years after America's new government under the Constitution had been set in motion, Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson - President George Washington's two most important cabinet secretaries and two of the most eminent men among the American founders - had become open and bitter political enemies. Meer

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Stephen Meredyth Edwardes

The Rise of Bombay

PaperbackEngels9781108144070 2-6-2011

This work, reprinted from the 1901 Census of India Series in 1902, examines the growth of the great Indian port city, giving contemporary statistics as well as recounting its long history before and during British rule (the East India Company had begun trading there in the 1660s). Meer

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Anne Booth

Economic Change in Modern Indonesia

PaperbackEngels9781107521391 11-2-2016

Indonesia is often viewed as a country with substantial natural resources which has achieved solid economic growth since the 1960s, but which still faces serious economic challenges. Meer

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William J. Brenner

Confounding Powers

PaperbackEngels9781107521605 23-1-2020

Nearly a decade and a half after 9/11, the study of international politics has yet to address some of the most pressing issues raised by the attacks, most notably the relationships between Al Qaeda's international systemic origins and its international societal effects. Meer

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Peter Stamatov

The Origins of Global Humanitarianism

PaperbackEngels9781107521674 9-7-2015

Whether lauded and encouraged or criticized and maligned, action in solidarity with culturally and geographically distant strangers has been an integral part of European modernity. Meer

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The Student's Guide to the University of Cambridge

PaperbackEngels9781108004916 26-11-2009

The first Student's Guide to the University of Cambridge was published in 1863, and there were subsequent editions in 1866, 1874 (the version offered here), 1880, 1891 and 1893. Meer

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Ann Marie Wainscott

Bureaucratizing Islam

PaperbackEngels9781108399982 26-3-2020

How have states in the Middle East and North Africa responded to the War on Terror? While much scholarship has focused on terrorism in the region, there is need for critical studies of Middle Eastern states' counter-terrorism policies. Meer

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Jared Rubin

Rulers, Religion, and Riches

PaperbackEngels9781108400053 2-3-2017

For centuries following the spread of Islam, the Middle East was far ahead of Europe. Yet, the modern economy was born in Europe. Why was it not born in the Middle East? Meer

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Universal Empire

PaperbackEngels9781107527478 19-2-2015

The claim by certain rulers to universal empire has a long history stretching as far back as the Assyrian and Achaemenid Empires. This book traces its various manifestations in classical antiquity, the Islamic world, Asia and Central America as well as considering seventeenth- and eighteenth-century European discussions of international order. Meer

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Karine Chemla

The History of Mathematical Proof in Ancient Traditions

PaperbackEngels9781107527539 21-5-2015

This radical, profoundly scholarly book explores the purposes and nature of proof in a range of historical settings. It overturns the view that the first mathematical proofs were in Greek geometry and rested on the logical insights of Aristotle by showing how much of that view is an artefact of nineteenth-century historical scholarship. Meer

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Michele Renee (University of California, Riverside) Salzman

The Falls of Rome

PaperbackEngels9781107529090 12-9-2024

This book is essential reading for understanding what happened to Rome at the end of antiquity. By focusing on the actions of senatorial aristocrats, I explore the restoration of the city of Rome and the slow growth of the influence of the papacy at the beginning of the middle ages. Meer

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Rémy Ambühl

Prisoners of War in the Hundred Years War

PaperbackEngels9781107529304 1-10-2015

The status of prisoners of war was firmly rooted in the practice of ransoming in the Middle Ages. By the opening stages of the Hundred Years War, ransoming had become widespread among the knightly community, and the crown had already begun to exercise tighter control over the practice of war. Meer

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Samuel K. Cohn, Jr

PaperbackEngels9781107529359 1-10-2015

Contrary to received opinion, revolts and popular protests in medieval English towns were as frequent and as sophisticated, if not more so, as those in the countryside. Meer

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Mariana Candido

An African Slaving Port and the Atlantic World

PaperbackEngels9781107529748 21-5-2015

This book traces the history and development of the port of Benguela, the third largest port of slave embarkation on the coast of Africa, from the early seventeenth to the mid-nineteenth century. Meer

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Iren Ozgur

Islamic Schools in Modern Turkey

PaperbackEngels9781107529793 21-5-2015

In recent years, the Islamization of Turkish politics and public life has been the subject of much debate in Turkey and the West. This book makes an important contribution to those debates by focusing on a group of religious schools, known as Imam-Hatip schools, founded a year after the Turkish Republic, in 1924. Meer

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Katherine Luongo

Witchcraft and Colonial Rule in Kenya, 1900–1955

PaperbackEngels9781107529847 21-5-2015

Focusing on colonial Kenya, this book shows how conflicts between state authorities and Africans over witchcraft-related crimes provided an important space in which the meanings of justice, law and order in the empire were debated. Meer

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Sarah Bowen Savant

The New Muslims of Post-Conquest Iran

PaperbackEngels9781107529854 21-5-2015

How do converts to a religion come to feel an attachment to it? The New Muslims of Post-Conquest Iran answers this important question for Iran by focusing on the role of memory and its revision and erasure in the ninth to eleventh centuries. Meer

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Eljas Oksanen

Flanders and the Anglo-Norman World, 1066–1216

PaperbackEngels9781107529892 1-10-2015

The union of Normandy and England in 1066 recast the political map of western Europe and marked the beginning of a new era in the region's international history. Meer

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Sarra Tlili

Animals in the Qur'an

PaperbackEngels9781107529915 21-5-2015

The Islamic tradition has always held animals in high esteem, deserving the same level of consideration as humans. The Qur'an opines that 'there is not an animal in the earth nor a flying creature flying on two wings, but they are people like you'. Meer

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