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This book examines the struggle for indigenous rights in eight Latin American countries. Initial studies of indigenous movements celebrated the return of the Indians as relevant political actors, often approaching their struggles

This is the first book to tell the story of the Jews of Lebanon in the twentieth century. It challenges the prevailing view that Jews everywhere in the Middle East were second-class

Since the 1970s, the Latin Based on new or newly interpreted Israeli, British and Arab documents, this book attempts to integrate present controversies concerning the development of the Jewish-Palestinian war from December

A comprehensive guide to the individual churches, catacombs, embellishments and artefacts of Early Christian Rome.

This book provides the first full-scale, scholarly analysis of the political, religious and social rationale, which underlay Huguenot support for William of Orange in 1688. In the context of the Huguenot exodus

This book addresses the evidence for the widespread belief that enjoyment of fashion is necessarily inconsistent with feminist values, from a feminist (as opposed to a post-feminist) point of view. It begins

Lowenfeld realised that 'Play' was the medium through which children worked out their emotional conflicts. She recognised that it was a cognitive process which could be analysed (in a non-Freudian way) to

This title is published in association with the Canada Blanch Centre for Contemporary Spanish Studies.

This book has three distinctive characteristics: - It offers a widely interdisciplinary perspective. - It provides a comprehensive view of poetry, with groups of chapters on: the Sound Stratum of Poetry (rhyme

This book has three distinctive characteristics: It offers a widely interdisciplinary perspective; It provides a comprehensive view of poetry, with groups of chapters on - the Sound Stratum of Poetry (rhyme patterns

This detailed examination of Israeli foreign policy towards the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) between the 1967 war and the 2005 withdrawal from the Gaza Strip focuses on the impact and process of

This is a groundbreaking English-language examination of the final period of Nazi rule in Germany's eastern provinces at the end of the Second World War. It outlines the wartime role of this

This book compares the impact of the League of Nations mandates system on British and French rule in African mandated territories.

This book explores the ways in which dress has been influential in the political agendas and self-representations of politicians in a variety of regimes from democratic to authoritarian. Arguing that dress is

The first comprehensive account of British policy on French war debts in the period following the First World War.

Focusing on dramatic works by contemporary British and American playwrights, in conjunction with feminist political and theoretical texts, this book discusses feminist constructions of the category "Woman".

This volume compares the colonial experience of native peoples of the conquered Aztec, Maya and Inca civilizations, from the 16th to the early 19th centuries.