Nelida Fuccaro 
Histories of City and State in the Persian Gulf 
Manama since 1800

Biblical Exegesis and Mystical Theology in the Venerable Bede brings together 17 essays by Arthur Holder exploring the theology and spirituality found in Bede s biblical commentaries and homilies. …

The book probes how the serious and sometimes fatal decision was made to admit individuals to asylums during Germany’s age of extremes. The book shows that – even during the Nazi killing of the sick …

The Rise and Fall of Communist Yugoslavism: Soft Nation-Building in Yugoslavia examines how the Communist Party of Yugoslavia incorporated the idea of a Yugoslav nation into its ideology and created …

This volume is both a study of the history of Polish Jews and Jewish Poland before, during, and immediately after the Holocaust and a collection of personal explorations focusing on the historians …

This book is the first to use a multidisciplinary approach to study the Knights’ Templars of Bologna, Italy. Archaeological, scientific, historical and archival sources are combined to consider the …

Leprosy, widely mentioned in different religious texts and ancient scriptures, is the oldest scourge of humankind. Cases of leprosy continue to be found across the world as the most crucial health …

Maximiliano Korstanje presents an overview and analysis of the work of the Argentinian sociologist and physician, Jose Ingenieros (1877 1925). In fact, Jose Ingenieros was a seminal scholar who …

This book studies the Gaidinliu uprising led by Rani Gaidinliu, a spiritual and political leader from Northeast India. It follows the journey of Gaidinliu, who was at the forefront of the revolt whic …

This book investigates Afrikaner anticommunism in South Africa in the twentieth century, focusing on the Dutch Reformed Church (DRC). Following contemporary understandings of anticommunism as a fluid …

This book studies the first 50 years of Bangladesh politics since independence. It looks at Bangladesh politics as a unique case for study to analyze and understand the role of institutions, …