With a regional lens enriched by case studies from Brazil, El Salvador, Central America, and Chile, the book demonstrates how illicit economies regulate territory, shape politics, and erode democracy. This is essential reading for students and scholars in politics, sociology, criminology, and Latin American studies.

Kuah explores the centrality of ancestors and ancestor worship of the Chinese in the Diaspora Chinese and China universes. Building on the original work and book on “Rebuilding the Ancestral Village: Singaporeans in China”, this book goes beyond the premise of remaking the ancestral home to uncover the complexities of ancestor worship.

Ancient Warfare: The Basics offers an engaging introduction to warfare in the ancient Mediterranean World from the mythical Trojan War, through the rise of hoplites and conquests of Alexander the Great to Roman hegemony and the Arab conquests of western Asia.

Ancient Warfare: The Basics offers an engaging introduction to warfare in the ancient Mediterranean World from the mythical Trojan War, through the rise of hoplites and conquests of Alexander the Great to Roman hegemony and the Arab conquests of western Asia.

This book analyses the ANC and its attitudes and relationships with the nascent formations of the black working class, with particular attention to the most conscious and active workers. It focuses on the formative period of engagement of political and socioeconomic forces and also discusses migrant, rural, domestic, and women workers.

This book analyses the ANC and its attitudes and relationships with the nascent formations of the black working class, with particular attention to the most conscious and active workers. It focuses on the formative period of engagement of political and socioeconomic forces and also discusses migrant, rural, domestic, and women workers.

In this collection, the result of a lifetime’s study, Brendan Bradshaw provides an insight into how concepts of ’nationalism’ and ’national identity’ can be understood and applied to pre-modern Ireland. Drawing upon a selection of his most provocative and pioneering essays, together with three new pieces, the limits and contexts of Irish nationalis

Michael Foot's two-volume biography of Aneurin 'Nye' Bevan (1897-1960) - arguably Britain's greatest socialist, indelibly associated with the founding of the National Health Service - is one of the major political biographies of the last century.

Michael Foot's two-volume biography of Aneurin 'Nye' Bevan (1897-1960) - arguably Britain's greatest socialist, indelibly associated with the founding of the National Health Service - is one of the major political biographies of the last century.