World/International History

A survey of world history from earliest times to the present, focusing on the role of ecology (climate, demography and agriculture) in the development of humankind. It also considers the role that technological innovation has played in humans' attempts to cope with the natural world...

First Published in 1990. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an Informa company...

The trade in slaves is perhaps the most notorious feature of the era of European expansion. Though begun in ancient times, and continued well after 1800, in the early modern period there developed a particular nexus in which it boomed. This volume distinguishes between procurement and trade, and the..

Society and Religion from Jahiliyya to Islam..

Society and Trade in South Arabia..

This book has three main themes: the socio-economic history of Turkish society in the 17th-18th centuries; the outcome of the Tanzimat (Reforms) in the province of Jerusalem, as an example of the whole phenomenon; and the historical origins of Turkish and Arab identities leading to the modern phenom..

A fresh look at the causes, course and consequences of student activism across the world since the 1960s. Starting with the familiar - often romanticised - Sixties themselves, the book goes on to examine more recent, and hazardous, examples of student activism, particularly in China, Korea and Iran...

A fresh look at the causes, course and consequences of student activism across the world since the 1960s. Starting with the familiar - often romanticised - Sixties themselves, the book goes on to examine more recent, and hazardous, examples of student activism, particularly in China, Korea and Iran...

This volume complements the selections of Wilferd Madelung’s articles previously published by Variorum (Religious Schools and Sects in Medieval Islam, Religious and Ethnic Movements in Medieval Islam and Studies in Medieval ShÄ«ism). The first sections contain articles examining intellectual and his..

Kakuei Tanaka was the most powerful politician in Japan for nearly two decades, and his followers have dominated Japanese politics for most of the country's recent history. This account of the life and times of Tanaka explores the public profile and private power-broking of a controversial and power..

Tanaka was a populist Japanese politician. He came from a very humble background in a poor part of the country. He helped shape the political climate of modern Japan, particularly in terms of his corruption and sinister connections with business and organized crime...

Technology and European Overseas Enterprise..