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Modern South Asia

History, Culture, Political Economy

By Sugata Bose, Ayesha Jalal

Jointly written by two leading Indian and Pakistani historians, Modern South Asia offers a rare depth of historical understanding of the politics, cultures and economies...

2003 | Paperback: 978-0-415-30787-1 (Routledge)

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On Living Through Soviet Russia

Edited by Daniel Bertaux, Anna Rotkirch, Mr Paul R Thompson, Paul Thompson

For a period of over seventy years after the 1917 revolutions in Russia, talking about the past, either political or personal, became dangerous. The new...

2003 | Hardback: 978-0-415-30966-0 (Routledge)

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Sport and the Color Line

Black Athletes and Race Relations in Twentieth Century America

Edited by Patrick B. Miller, David K. Wiggins

The year 2003 marks the one-hundredth anniversary of W.E.B. Du Bois' Souls of Black Folk, in which he declared that "the color line" would be...

2003 | Paperback: 978-0-415-94611-7 (Routledge)

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Industrializing Organisms

Introducing Evolutionary History

Edited by Susan Schrepfer, Philip Scranton

Scientists have developed a featherless chicken designed to make industrial chicken production more efficient, while specially trained Pacific bottlenose dolphins are being deployed in the...

2003 | Paperback: 978-0-415-94548-6 (Routledge)

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Mark and Livy

The Love Story of Mark Twain and the Woman Who Almost Tamed Him

By Resa Willis

Olivia Langdon Clemens was not only the love of Mark Twain's life and the mother of his children, she was also his editor, muse, critic...

2003 | Paperback: 978-0-415-94774-9 (Routledge)

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The Witchcraft Sourcebook

Edited by Brian P. Levack

This fascinating collection of documents illustrates the development of ideas about witchcraft from ancient times to the twentieth century. Many of the sources come from...

2003 | Paperback: 978-0-415-19506-5 (Routledge)

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In the Kingdom of Coal

An American Family and the Rock That Changed the World

By Dan Rottenberg

It was a time of poverty and enterprise, when poor men slaved in the mines, rich men became barons and America grew from a backward...

2003 | Hardback: 978-0-415-93522-7 (Routledge)

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Refractions of Violence

By Martin Jay

A new collection of essays by the internationally recognized cultural critic and intellectual historian Martin Jay that revolves around the themes of violence and visuality,...

2003 | Paperback: 978-0-415-96666-5 (Routledge)

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Persian Documents

Social History of Iran and Turan in the 15th-19th Centuries

Edited by Kondo Nobuaki

After the Mongol period, Persian was the official written language in Iran, Central Asia and India. A vast amount of documents relating to administration and...

2003 | Hardback: 978-0-415-30274-6 (Routledge)

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Cricket and England

A Cultural and Social History of Cricket in England between the Wars

By Mr Jack Williams

2003 | Paperback: 978-0-7146-4418-9 (Routledge)

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