Neil Murphy 
Plague, Towns and Monarchy in Early Modern France 

Drawing on historical sources, myth and folklore, Fantastic Creatures in Mythology and Folklore explores the roles of fantastical beasts – particularly the unicorn, the mermaid, and the dragon – in …

First published in 1999, Illegal Drug Use in the United Kingdom provides a comprehensive review of information and interventions available in drug misuse in order to inform local drug policies. In ke …

Originally published in 1999, this book was the first study to provide a systematic reconstruction of the OAU”s ideological ground-work. It is based on OAU documents; a corpus of African perceptions …

The millennium has sharpened perspectives on the history of women in twentieth-century Britain. Many features of the contemporary gender order date only from the last decades of the century – the …

This volume cross-examines the stability of heritage as a concept. It interrogates the past which materialises through multi-layered narratives on monuments and other objects that sustain cultural di …

In 1903 Tsar Nicholas II issued a decree allowing the confiscation of Armenian Church property, marking the low point in relations between imperial Russia and its Armenian subjects. Yet just over a …