This text explores how modern and industrial and scientific advances shaped black Atlantic population centres. It provides historical analysis of how shifting environmental factors and disease control aid from the…

In Caring for Equality David McBride chronicles the struggle by African Americans and their white allies to improve poor black health conditions as well as inadequate medical care-caused by slavery…

Volume 5 in this series on the enemies of Imperial Rome. This volume details those who threatened the Empire’s desert frontiers including the Berberi of North Africa, the Arabs, and…

This volume covers medieval Russian armies from the foundation of Kiev by the pagan Rus’, through the many internecine and external wars, the rise of the Novgorod Empire, to the…

This campaign marked the emergence of Spain as a major military power in Europe and was one of the first campaigns in which artillery played a significant part. By 1481…

Looking at all forty-six Tests that have taken place since the nineteenth century, respected rugby writers Chris Schoeman and David McLennan look at one of the greatest rivalries in sport…

Deals with issues regarding democracy in theory and in practice in globalized world. This work contains essays that challenge and defend assumptions about the role of democracy as a viable…

This book focuses on connections between biblical, literary, film, and music studies, as well as ecotheology and studies of how ecology and theology interact. This collection features chapters about creation…