Preface; Introduction -- The Author; The Text and its Congeners; Lex Castrensis; Historia Compendiosa; The Lost Genealogy; Translations; The Law of...

Asia in the past nurtured great civilisations and cultures, some of which withstood the onslaughts of the mighty West. After suffering from the evi...

This is a unique book for two reasons: it focuses on neuropsychiatric casualties of war, a topic that has traditionally been avoided in the media a...

In a new and updated edition, this is a book for anyone wanting to write histories that capture the imagination and challenge the intellect. It aim...

The questions of where to locate, in whose hands to place, and how to exercise the state’s powers of deadly military force inform a perennial topic...

Dene Elder George Blondin creates a spiritual guidebook that weaves together oral stories with the recounting of how the Northern Canadian Dene cam...

On 1 February 1940, a thirty-three-year-old Jewish woman arrived alone in New York Harbor bearing, in her womb, the person who would eventually bec...

Unrest in the Arab world has amplified existing political tension in Yemen. Sustained mass protests and President Ali Abdullah Saleh's attempts to ...

Bravo to the New Westminster Museum and Archives for their groundbreaking research into the history of Yi Fao, and for their understanding that the...

When veteran broadcaster Sara Manobla represented Israel at an international conference of journalists in Moscow in 1977, little did she realise th...

Even today witchcraft is found in many socities, and ancient Mesopotamia was no exception. To the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians witchcraft was ...

The Western understanding of what happened in Ukraine during World War II has been shaped by historical and ideological constructs created in the K...

On behalf of the 90th anniversary of the U.S. engagement in World War I the articles of this volume deal with the representation of Americans and G...

The contributions of the volume focus on the First World War from a gender perspective, whereby the complex relationship between the front and the ...

Helmut Meier‘s study of pro- and anti-slavery texts from 1784–1825 focuses on understanding the distinct image of Africans in the British debate on...

This book explores the war writings of Patrick MacGill, James Hanley, and Liam O’Flaherty, working class, Roman Catholic Irishmen, all of whom foug...