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A Matter of Honour: Being Chinese in South Africa

Yoon Jung Park - Social Science - 2009 - 250 pages
A Matter of Honour examines the shifting social, ethnic, racial, and national identities of Chinese South Africans over time. Park's study breaks away from the often narrow ...
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A History of the Maghrib in the Islamic Period

Jamil M. Abun-Nasr - History - 1987 - 474 pages
A new history of North Africa within the Islamic period from the Arab conquest to the present.
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Firearms: A Global History to 1700

Kenneth Warren Chase - History - 2003 - 324 pages
This book is a history of firearms across the world from the 1100s up to the 1700s, from the time of their invention in China to the time when European firearms had become ...
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Law, Society and Culture in the Maghrib, 1300-1500

David S. Powers - History - 2002 - 296 pages
Focusing on the Maghrib in the period between 1300 and 1500, in this 2002 book David Powers analyses the application of Islamic law through the role of the mufti. To unravel ...
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Packaging Post/coloniality: The Manufacture of Literary Identity in the ...

Richard Watts - History - 2005 - 206 pages
In Packaging Post/Coloniality, Richard Watts breaks from convention and reads Francophone books by their covers, focusing on the package over the content. Watts looks at the ...
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A World at Arms: A Global History of World War II

Gerhard L. Weinberg - History - 2005 - 1216 pages
A truly global account of WWII - the war that encompassed six continents.
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