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Senegal: A Study of French Assimilation Policy
1st Edition
By Michael Crowder
August 01, 2025
Originally published as a revised edition in 1967, this book covers an aspect of Senegalese history of great importance not only for the student of French Colonial policy but also for those interested in the development of nationalism in French-speaking Africa. Senegal was the only French colony in...
Taiwan's Security in the Post-Deng Xiaoping Era
1st Edition
By Martin L. Lasater, Peter Kien-Hong Yu
August 01, 2025
Originally published in 2000, Taiwan’s Security in the Post-Deng Xiaoping Era analyses the many domestic and international factors comprising Taiwan’s security situation in the late 1990s and early 21st Century. The security of Taiwan remains of international strategic concern, and the military ...
The Development of African Drama
1st Edition
By Michael Crowder
August 01, 2025
Originally published in 1982, this book explores concepts such as ‘traditional performance’ and African theatre’. It analyses the links between drama and ritual, and drama and music and diagnoses the confusions in our thought. The reader is reminded that drama is never merely the printed word, but ...
The Evolution of a Community: A Study of Dagenham After Forty Years
1st Edition
By Peter Willmott
August 01, 2025
In earlier studies, Peter Willmott and other investigators had documented the social problems of new housing estates – the loneliness, the tensions, the disruption of family and neighbourhood ties. But how far are such troubles transitory? What kind of life would develop in communities like these ...
The Professions in Early Modern England
1st Edition
Edited
By Wilfrid Prest
August 01, 2025
First published in 1987, The Professions in Early Modern England highlights the significant role of professional and quasi-professional occupations in English society before the industrial revolution, contrary to what was once historiographical and sociological orthodoxy. The editorial introduction...
Welfare Politics in Mexico: Papering Over the Cracks
1st Edition
By Peter Ward
August 01, 2025
When it was originally published in 1986, this was the first book to deal simultaneously with several aspects of social welfare provision in a developing country. The unique contribution of the book is based on the analysis of 3 substantive welfare areas – land (for self-help housing), urban ...
West Africa Under Colonial Rule
1st Edition
By Michael Crowder
August 01, 2025
Originally published in 1968, this book became the standard work on the colonial period in the vast and varied areas of the coast and hinterland of West Africa. It is a comprehensive survey of the domination of West Africa by the British and the French, which challenges the accepted view of the ...
West African Resistance: The Military Response to Colonial Occupation
1st Edition
By Michael Crowder
August 01, 2025
Originally published in 1971, this book is a study by 9 historians of West Africa, three of whom are themselves African, of the military response to the colonial occupation of West Africa. Apart from the fact that the extent and effectiveness of African resistance to 19th Century European invasion ...
Who Will Feed China?: Wake-Up Call for a Small Planet
1st Edition
By Lester R. Brown
August 01, 2025
Originally published in 1995, but with enduring relevance in a time of global population growth and food insecurity, when it was first published, this book attracted much global attention, and criticism from Beijing. It argued that even as water becomes scarcer in a land where 80% of the grain crop...
Capitalism and Public Policy in the UK
1st Edition
By Tom Burden, Mike Campbell
July 31, 2025
First published in 1985, Capitalism and Public Policy in the UK provides a comprehensive account of the development, contemporary character and impact of public policy in the UK. It relates public policy to the distinctive features of capitalism, class relations and the state. The first chapter is ...
Chaos and Order in Industry
1st Edition
By G.D.H. Cole
July 31, 2025
First published in 1920, Chaos and Order in Industry studies the causes and solutions to labour strikes as well as inadequacies in industry organizations. It proposes that the problems afflicting industry and labour does not only affect the working class, but also affects the middle and the upper ...
Does Pornography Matter?
1st Edition
Edited
By C H Rolph
July 31, 2025
First published in 1961, Does Pornography Matter? consists of chapters written by seven men who were likely to have different points of view, and who would write with authority from the interest they represented. There was no assumption behind the question, and in fact each author has concluded ...