The Chinese Overseas

Routledge Library of Modern China

Edited by Hong Liu

With a population of more than thirty million, the Chinese living outside of the mainland, and in Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan constitute an important...

Published December 13th 2005 by Routledge.

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Artistic Capital

By David Galenson

At what stage of their careers do great artists produce their most important work? In a series of studies that bring new insights and new...

Published November 17th 2005 by Routledge.

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A History of Medieval Political Thought

300-1450

By Joseph Canning

Published November 17th 2005 by Routledge.

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Childhood in World History

By Peter N. Stearns

Filling a gap in a field with very few teaching books available, Childhood in World History provides a much-needed historical overview. Studying childhood historically greatly...

Published November 15th 2005 by Routledge.

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Roger Bannister and the Four-Minute Mile

Sports Myth and Sports History

By John Bale

Roger Bannister was the first person to run the mile in under four minutes. Fifty years on, his status, not just as a champion athlete...

Published October 28th 2005 by Routledge.

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Food in World History

By Jeffrey M. Pilcher

Providing a comparative and comprehensive study of culinary cultures and consumption throughout the world from ancient times to present day, this book examines the globalization...

Published October 18th 2005 by Routledge.

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Football: The First Hundred Years

The Untold Story

By Adrian Harvey

The story of the creation of Britain's national game has often been told. According to the accepted wisdom, the refined football games created by English...

Published August 3rd 2005 by Routledge.

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Mediterranean Paradigms and Classical Antiquity

By Irad Malkin

In this book, prominent historians apply Mediterranean paradigms to Classical Mediterranean Antiquty (Greece and Rome), allowing for a new approach to the ancient world and...

Published July 28th 2005 by Routledge.

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Abolition and Its Aftermath in the Indian Ocean Africa and Asia

Edited by Gwyn Campbell

This important collection of essays examines the history and impact of the abolition of the slave trade and slavery in the Indian Ocean World, a...

Published July 18th 2005 by Routledge.

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Encyclopedia of Traditional British Rural Sports

Edited by Tony Collins, John Martin, Wray Vamplew

Providing a social, economic and political study of field sports and those other activities and customs labelled as rural sports, from the earliest of times...

Published June 23rd 2005 by Routledge.

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