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Between 1954 and 1960, in the midst of the Algerian War, more than two million Algerian peasants – a quarter of the population – were forcibly rese...

Uranium, the most atomically unstable natural element on earth, has a unique place in the global geopolitics of resources. It provides energy to mi...

Uranium, the most atomically unstable natural element on earth, has a unique place in the global geopolitics of resources. It provides energy to mi...

What is the role of the neighbourhood in our understanding of community and how has this role changed over the last century? Talja Blokland seeks t...

What is the role of the neighbourhood in our understanding of community and how has this role changed over the last century? Talja Blokland seeks t...

Currently there are more than 125 Chinese cities with a population exceeding one million. The unprecedented urban growth in China presents a cr...

Currently there are more than 125 Chinese cities with a population exceeding one million. The unprecedented urban growth in China presents a cr...

Urban Inequalities offers a masterful and critical introduction to key issues and processes shaping contemporary cities, drawing on a whole host of...

Breaking with the exoticizing cast of public discourse and conventional research, Urban Outcasts takes the reader inside the black ghetto of Chicag...

Breaking with the exoticizing cast of public discourse and conventional research, Urban Outcasts takes the reader inside the black ghetto of Chicag...

War is urbanising. From Mosul to Mumbai, Aleppo to Marawi, the largest and most intense battles of the twenty-first century have taken place in den...

War is urbanising. From Mosul to Mumbai, Aleppo to Marawi, the largest and most intense battles of the twenty-first century have taken place in den...

Utilitarianism – a commitment to ‘the greatest happiness for the greatest number’ – has been the target of endless opposition. According to its cri...

Utilitarianism – a commitment to ‘the greatest happiness for the greatest number’ – has been the target of endless opposition. According to its cri...

Human beings universally dream of a better world. For centuries they have expressed their yearning for ways of life that are free from oppression, ...

Human beings universally dream of a better world. For centuries they have expressed their yearning for ways of life that are free from oppression, ...

'Value' seems like an elusive and abstract concept. Nonetheless, notions of value underpin how we understand our lives, from discussions about the ...

'Value' seems like an elusive and abstract concept. Nonetheless, notions of value underpin how we understand our lives, from discussions about the ...

The aim of this book is both to illustrate and to discuss some of the main varieties of cultural history which have emerged since the questioning o...

The Islamic headscarf has become the subject of heated legal and political debate. France and Germany have legislated against it, and even the UK, ...

The Islamic headscarf has become the subject of heated legal and political debate. France and Germany have legislated against it, and even the UK, ...

Published in a thoroughly revised second edition, Venice and Amsterdam is a comparative history of the elites of these two major cities in early ...

We live in a time when we are overwhelmed with talk and images of violence. Whether on television, the internet, films or the video screen, we can’...