This book explores the colonial history of Cyprus through technology. Examining infrastructural projects like the island’s railway, harbours, and electrification, it reveals how the British Empire used technological development to reproduce and prolong its rule.
The Scientific Revolution decentered humanity, but modern physics reveals the observer’s central role in actualizing reality. This book explores a return of science to natural philosophy, offering a new pathway to understanding our place in the Universe.
Legacies of Trade and Empire
This book challenges established histories of slavery and indentured labour under European empires, focusing on the Indian Ocean. To break the silence on legacies of empire, authors explore decolonisation, agency, and the assertion of identities, musical practices, and cuisines.
Simón Bolívar. Fidel Castro. Hugo Chávez. Dictators or liberators? This book challenges the loaded term “dictatorship,” re-examining Latin American independence movements and exposing the politics behind a word often used as a weapon.
Why did the idealistic goals of revolutionary periods in Britain (1642-1688) and Egypt (2011-2013) lead to counter-revolutions? This book explains how sectarian strains magnified the blunders of new rulers, causing religion to destabilize their regimes instead of saving them.
Twenty Years in Ukraine
For twenty years before the war, Ukraine was a land of turbulence. This compelling account is told through its five presidential terms, revealing a geopolitical chess game and the unyielding spirit of the Ukrainian people fighting for freedom, democracy, and a European future.
This book explores the relationship between African American males and the police through their own eyes. It reveals this is not a black or white issue, but a global human problem, and is essential for understanding their realities, fears, and concerns.
The Making of Refugee Memory
The first English-language history of how Asia Minor refugees sustained memories of their “lost homeland” in Greece. This ground-breaking study explores refugee identity through an in-depth case-study of the Thracian Centre and its conduits of memory.
This book illuminates the Islamic World journal’s propaganda from 1893 to 1907. It highlights the journal’s utility in defending Sultan Abdul Hamid II’s policies and sheds light on the political views of the first Grand Sheikh of the British Isles, Sheikh Abdullah Quilliam.
The Life of James Hamilton Stanhope (1788-1825)
A soldier present at the deaths of Prime Minister William Pitt and General Sir John Moore, James Stanhope’s life was marked by war and tragedy. This first biography uses his letters and diaries to reveal his short, idyllic marriage and the heartbreak that led to his suicide.
This book analyzes the leading role of civil protest movements in South Korea’s democracy. It covers the major protests of 1960, 1980, and 1987, where diverse classes fought for human rights and democratization, resulting in lasting achievements like new laws and a constitution.
The Estate of Major General Claude Martin at Lucknow
Explore the 18th-century Indian household of Claude Martin, a common soldier who became a magnate in Lucknow. This book inventories his possessions—from paintings and weapons to hot air balloons—revealing a man fascinated by Enlightenment science and European luxury.
W. L. Mackenzie King was Canada’s longest-serving and most unusual prime minister. The keeper of famous personal diaries, he inspired some 24 biographies—a study in extreme contrasts. This is a critical collective history of those works.
This book explores how casino capitalism in Macau propelled economic prosperity but also exacerbated inequality. To tackle this, the developmental state combined casino capitalism with social welfarism, but its path to economic diversification remains long and difficult.
The untold story of the contentious wartime relationship between Franklin D. Roosevelt and Charles de Gaulle. Despite mutual dislike, they manipulated each other to defeat Hitler. Their four years of distrust and animosity played a critical role in the Allies’ path to victory.
Narrative Criminology
This guide on narrative criminology shows how academia and entertainment can blend. For true crime creators and criminology students, it is an insider’s guide to crafting compelling, responsible narratives that educate and entertain without lowering academic standards.
The Political Warfare Executive Syllabus Volume I
The syllabus of WWII’s ultra-secret Political Warfare Executive reveals for the first time the controversial methods of its elite propagandists. From delivering a lethal dose of propaganda to shaping a hidden vision for a British-led Europe, their dark arts shaped the continent.
By using both modern and ancient sources, this volume explores the relationship between official religion and popular belief in Greece, as illustrated by the relations between competing ideologies, and the relationship between ideology and mentality.
The Political Warfare Executive Syllabus Volume II
The Political Warfare Executive Syllabus reveals the dark arts of WWII’s elite propagandists. Believing propagandists were trained, not born, they taught how to deliver lethal propaganda, use murder to amplify a message, and planned for a shocking, British-led Europe.
The Literary Representation of World War II Childhood
Focusing on twenty one primary texts about childhood under Nazism, Honan examines how childhood in literature has changed over the years, from the Romantic writers to child slave labour in the Victorian era, the child-soldier and the impact of deportation.
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