Bulletin of the john rylands library 101/2

The Bulletin of the John Rylands Library is a long-running journal that publishes research complementary to the John Rylands Library’s extensive special collections.

The byzantine and early islamic near east vol. 1

This volume focuses on the problems researchers face when using (Byzantine) Greek, Syriac and Arabic sources together for the reconstruction of Near Eastern history from 400-c. 800. It sets the stage for a critical re-reading and revisionist interpretations of selected sources in the various cult...

Contemporary oman

At a time of rapid international change and marked regional dynamism, the Sultanate of Oman is emerging as a nation of surprising significance. In this book, renowned local and international authors as well as promising younger scholars present studies on the history, politics, economy and cultur...

Egyptian studies iii

This volume features fourteen articles on a wide range of subjects in the field of Egyptian studies, including a discussion of the various forms of sixteen different hieroglyphs.

Daniel neuberger the younger and anna felicitas neuberger

Maeve McGrath provides the first comprehensive presentation of biographical, historical and artistic aspects of Baroque ceroplastic artists Daniel Neuberger the younger and his daughter Anna Felicitas.

Qasr ibrim: the ballaña phase

This volume details finds from Qasr Ibrim, a key site in Egyptian Nubia, highlighting objects of wood, leather, textiles, and diverse written materials from the pre-Christian period (AD 350-600). It offers extensive descriptions and illustrations of these rare archaeological finds.

The survey of memphis vii

The Memphis site, Egypt's first capital, includes the temple of Ptah. The Egypt Exploration Society's survey, starting in 1981, utilizes a rich textual and pictorial archive. This volume highlights Joseph Hekekyan, a pioneering but largely forgotten archaeologist from the 1850s.

Security dynamics of east asia in the gulf region

The Gulf region's primary economic relationships are rapidly shifting from West to East. Relations with China, Japan and South Korea are increasingly strategic in nature, based on a mutual dependence far greater than is present in Gulf-Western relations. This book provides documentation of the tr...

The caliphate and islamic statehood (3-volume set)

This 3-volume reference work tracks the history of the Caliphate as what many Muslims believe to be a genuine and authentic Islamic political institution: from its emergence in 7th-century Arabia until highly contested and controversial attempts at its revival at the beginning of the 21st-century...

Who was who in egyptology (5th edn)

The fifth edition of Who Was Who in Egyptology is a key reference for understanding the development of Egyptology. Covering figures from the 16th century to 2019, it provides expanded biographies and updates on key contributors to the field.

Constantinople and the bosphorus

This is the first translation of three accounts by Pierre Loti (1850-1923) of his visits to Constantinople. Loti was a photographer of note and the volume is greatly enhanced by the reproduction of some of his photographs taken in and around Constantinople at the time of his visits.

Sumerian grammatical texts

Excavations at mohenjo daro, pakistan

This book details the pottery of Mohenjo-daro, a major urban center of the Indus Valley civilization. It explores Harappan ceramic technology and style, offering a unique approach to vessel form analysis and terminology. Leslie Alcock provides an account of the pottery from the 1950 excavations b...

Legacies of british slavery in australia and new zealand

This book investigates the legacies of British slavery beyond Britain, focusing upon the colonisation of Australia and New Zealand, and explores why this history has been overlooked.

Surgeon grow

Malcolm Grow’s commentary presents us with a fascinating personal account of wartime experience, one that highlights a number of pertinent issues of Russia’s experience of total war. While military historiography is replete with studies of battle plans and strategies, troop movements, numbers of ...

The 1922 general election reconsidered

Making use of newly available archival collections and digitised resources, this book captures the high and low politics of the pivotal 1922 General Election to show how it marked the birth of the modern British general election as we know it today.

Banned books and counterfeit notes

This study examines how convicts sent to France’s most notorious penal colony in French Guiana would use the colonial postal system to document and challenge lived experiences of transportation and forced labour.

Hawaii's story by hawaii's queen

LARGE PRINT EDITION. Hawaii's Story by Hawaii's Queenis a moving personal portrait of a girl who grew up to become Hawaii’s first and only queen, a beloved monarch who fought for the rights of her people.Hawaii's Story by Hawaii's Queen is an autobiography by Queen Lili‘uokalani. Published in 189...

Reynolds pamphlet

The Reynolds Pamphlet (1797) is an essay by Alexander Hamilton. Written while Hamilton was serving as Secretary of the Treasury, the Pamphlet was intended as a defense against accusations that Hamilton had conspired with James Reynolds to misuse funds meant to cover unpaid wages to Revolutionary ...

History of keoua kalanikupuapa-i-kalani-nui

History of Keoua Kalanikupuapa-i-kalani-nui, Father of Hawaiian Kings is a genealogical history by Elizabeth Kekaʻaniau La‘anui Pratt. Written towards the end of Pratt’s life, the book was intended as a tribute to her family’s history and influence in Hawaii. Raised as a member of the House of Ke...

The sacred animal necropolis at north saqqara: the mother of apis and baboon catacombs

This volume by Sue Davies is the final archaeological report on the Baboon and Mother of Apis Catacombs, excavated at the Sacred Animal Necropolis, North Saqqara, between 1968 and 1971. It concludes the documentation of the site’s cult installations, following earlier reports on the Falcon Comple...

The survey of memphis vi

The sixth 'Survey of Memphis' volume by Lisa Giddy details the late Middle Kingdom levels excavated at Kom Rabia in the 1980s. It includes an introduction, detailed stratigraphy, in-text figures, lists of contexts and objects, site reconstruction, and an evaluation of Kom Rabia's significance.

The construction of value in the ancient world

This book brings together the perspectives of leading anthropologists, archaeologists, historians, linguists, philologists, and sociologists on how value was created, defined, and expressed in a number of ancient societies around the world.

Transition & development in algeria

This book deals with the economic and developmental challenges facing contemporary society. The social structures, the political institutions, the movements and ideologies, as well as cultural dilemmas, are considered in depth to give the fullest picture of the twenty-first century development.

Negotiating spain and catalonia

The two case studies included in this book (dealing with the Football World Cups of 1994 and 2002, and the general elections of 1996 and 2000) examine competing discourses of Spain, Catalonia and their national identities, as constructed in the Spanish press. The conservative discourse offers tra...

The last empire

This book is the result of a conference organised by the Contemporary Portuguese Political History Research Centre (CPHRC) and the University of Dundee that took place during September 2000. The purpose of this conference, and the resulting book, was to bring together various experts in the field...

Genocide: a thematic approach

The purpose of this volume is not simply to compile yet another wearying chronicle of the horrors that have been committed by our fellow human beings. It is intended to give the needed context to understand why such violence has been perpetrated in the past and why it continues to occur so freque...

A diary of the russian revolution

This book presents Houghteling’s original account along with explanatory notes and an introduction that sets the diary in the wider context of American interpretations and misinterpretations of the revolutions of 1917 that did so much to shape the twentieth century."

Unchained russia

Charles Edward Russell was a major intellectual and political figure of the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century United States. As a very well-known American radical, he published many books on the US economy, the condition of workers, social issues, and other subjects.

Collaboration in space and the search for peace on earth

The book explores the peaceful exploration of space, which became a launching pad for new visions of human community and peaceful collaboration during the Cold War.

5,000 years of fine cretan wines

The long history of wine on Crete includes wine from a Minoan shipwreck, the role of Dionysos/Bacchus, and the famous Malvasia wine among other glimpses throughout the centuries. Legacy grape varietals have been recognized and replanted with a renewed appreciation by modern Cretan winemakers for ...

The poets laureate of the long eighteenth century, 1668–1813

In the eighteenth century the office of the poet laureate of Britain and the British court were evolving and entwined with one another. This book examines the office’s institutional changes and public reception, the mechanics of each laureate’s appointment, and the works they produced before and ...

Giving birth in eighteenth-century england

This fascinating new book radically rewrites all that we know about eighteenth-century childbirth by placing women’s voices at the centre of the story. Utilising an extensive and under-researched body of materials, such as letters, diaries and recipe books, the volume explores the rituals of chil...

The glasgow sugar aristocracy

This important book is the first to outline Scotland’s colonial past and Glasgow’s direct links with the slave trade through sugar plantations. It traces how significant fortunes and investments made through chattel slavery percolated into the Scottish economy and wider society, and examines, via...

Innovations in teaching history

An essential teaching companion offering practical strategies for enhancing learning for all teachers of history in higher education, this collection of seven case studies reflects on how we teach the history of the long eighteenth century. It is grounded in real academic practice and focuses on ...

Dethroning historical reputations: universities, museums and the commemoration of benefactors

The campaigns in universities across the world to reject, rename and remove historic benefactions have brought the present into collision with the past. In Britain, people are reconsidering civic monuments in light of an imperial past. In America, memorials to leaders of the Confederacy and to ot...

Providing for the poor

The Old Poor Law dispensed benefits to paupers in a uniquely comprehensive, pre-modern system of relief. Providing for the Poor re-examines the micro-politics of poverty in the long eighteenth century. It bridges the gaps in our understanding of the experiences of people across the social spectru...

Waterscapes: reservoirs, environment and identity in modern england and wales

This book explores the impacts of reservoir construction and management in England and Wales from the late-nineteenth to early-twentieth century. Taking a comparative approach with case studies from Leeds’s Washburn Valley, Liverpool’s Vyrnwy Reservoir and Birmingham’s Elan Reservoir, it examines...

Becoming a historian

Writing history is an art and a craft, which can sometimes make it feel intimidating. Becoming a Historian debunks the myths and demystifies the world of research for both research students and independent scholars. It outlines techniques to help design large-scale research projects, demonstrates...

The family firm

The Family Firm is the first major historical analysis of the way Buckingham Palace worked with the Church of England and the media to initiate a new public relations strategy in the period 1932-53. It argues that the monarchy’s deliberate elevation of a more informal and vulnerable family-centre...

The victoria history of hampshire: dummer and kempshott

Dummer, a small parish on the chalk downlands south of Basingstoke, has a rich history that includes famous faces such as Jane Austen, Joseph Arch, and Sarah Ferguson. It was also the setting for the Swing Riots and a place of religious change from the unusual level of protestant non-conformity i...

The victoria history of herefordshire: cradley

Drawing extensively on local archival sources, this volume charts the social, economic, religious and political history of Cradley in Herefordshire. It explores the fragmented model of land ownership and the development of a powerful body of wealthy yeomanry that shaped the distinctive character ...

Voice, silence and gender in south africa's anti-apartheid struggle

Tracing the political life of Masabatha Loate, a young black woman activist who testified at the trial of the ‘Soweto Eleven’ in 1978, this book examines the history of South Africa’s liberation struggle through the lens of voice, speech and silence, and what this reveals about the gendered dynam...

The victoria history of leicestershire: lutterworth

From the controversial theological writer John Wyclif to the origins of the jet engine, the history of Lutterworth, a small market town in the south-west of the county, has been both rich and varied. This work charts the evolution and development of Lutterworth from small beginnings before the No...

Democratising history

Democratising History interrogates the ways in which democracy has transformed modern Britain and how we teach its history. Nine research-led chapters offer new ways to think about the history of democracy in Britain since the early nineteenth century. These are complemented by six interludes tha...

The victoria history of essex: southend

This new history of Southend describes its growth as a town and resort in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Its thematic chapters chart Southend’s expansion and developments in its infrastructure and economy, determined both by the impact of seasonal visitors and the year-round movement of ...

Rethinking past and present in cuba

This volume comprises of essays and research articles written in homage to the seminal influence and contribution made by the late Alistair Hennessy towards the development of Cuban studies. Following Hennessy’s own cross-disciplinary and open-minded approach to the study of the history of Cuba, ...

A nicaraguan exceptionalism?

In recent years, child migrants from Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador have made the perilous journey to the United States in unprecedented numbers, but their peers in Nicaragua have remained at home. Nicaragua also enjoys lower murder rates and far fewer gang problems when compared with her ne...