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Workhouse

'The stories of those who lived in the shadow of the workhouse' During the nineteenth century the workhouse cast a shadow over the lives of the poor. The destitute and the desperate sought refuge with...

Consumerism in World History

This second edition of Consumerism in World History draws on recent research of the consumer experience in the West and Japan, while also examining societies less renowned for consumerism, such as tho...

Money, Power and Politics in Early Islamic Syria

The transformation of the eastern provinces of the Roman empire from the middle of the seventh century CE under the impact of Islam has attracted a good deal of scholarly attention in recent years, an...

Money, Power and Politics in Early Islamic Syria

The transformation of the eastern provinces of the Roman empire from the middle of the seventh century CE under the impact of Islam has attracted a good deal of scholarly attention in recent years, an...

Troublemakers

Acclaimed historian Leslie Berlin&;s &;deeply researched and dramatic narrative of Silicon Valley&;s early years&;is a meticulously told&;compelling history&; (The New York Times) of the men and women...

A History of Greek Economic Thought

Dealing with Dictators

Dealing with Dictators explores America's Cold War efforts to make the dictatorships of Eastern Europe less tyrannical and more responsive to the country's international interests. During this period,...

Commentary on De Administrando Imperio

The De Administrando Imperio, compiled by Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus in the tenth century, is one of the most important historical documents surviving from the middle Byzantine period, containing...

Militarizing Men

A state's ability to maintain mandatory conscription and wage war rests on the idea that a real man is one who has served in the military. Yet masculinity has no inherent ties to militarism. The lin...

Swansea in the 1950s

The 1950s. The mid-point of the twentieth century. When those born in the nineteenth century met their grandchildren who would live in the twenty-first. A pivotal moment, certainly. And is it really t...