This explosive new book challenges many of the long-prevailing assumptions about blacks, about Jews, about Germans, about slavery, and about education.

This fresh translation of one of the only surviving Mongol sources about the Mongol empire, brings out the excitement of this epic with its wide-ranging commentaries on military and social conditions, religion and philosophy, while ...

This volume offers a wide-ranging account of the Mongols in western and eastern Asia in the aftermath of Genghis Khan’s disruptive invasions of the early thirteenth century, focusing on the significant cultural, social, religious and ...

New expanded edition of a classic anthropology title that examines ethnicity as a dynamic and shifting aspect of social relations.

Translated by E. Gulbekian, edited with introduction by N.V. Nersessian. Komitas Vardapet was the giant of Armenian sacred and folk music.

This book traces the origins of the "illegal alien" in American law and society, explaining why and how illegal migration became the central problem in U.S. immigration policy—a process that profoundly shaped ideas and practices about ...

Woven throughout the book is the story of Soul Fire Farm, a national leader in the food justice movement.--AMAZON.

This encyclopedia offers a comprehensive look at the roles race and ethnicity play in society and in our daily lives.

This book explores the origins and effects, successes and failures of "colour revolutions" in the former Soviet Republics - the non-violent protests which succeeded in overthrowing post-communist authoritarian regimes, for example in ...

Today, with the Arab world facing profound social and political challenges, it constitutesan essential introduction to the Arabs and their history.