"After the abolition of slavery in 1897, Islamic courts in Zanzibar (East Africa) became central institutions where former slaves negotiated socio-economic participation. By using difficult-to-read Islamic court records in Arabic, Elke Stockreiter reassesses the workings of thes…
"After the abolition of slavery in 1897, Islamic courts in Zanzibar (East Africa) became central institutions where former slaves negotiated socio-economic participation. By using difficult-to-read Islamic court records in Arabic, Elke Stockreiter reassesses the workings of thes…
What Is a People? seeks to reclaim "people" as an effective political concept by revisiting its uses and abuses over time. Alain Badiou surveys the idea of a people as a productive force of solidarity and emancipation and as a negative tool of categorization and suppression. Pie…
Ethnic continuity in the Carpatho-Danubian area
As the politics of identity begin to replace the politics of ideology, can religion become a force for peace? In a radical proposal for reconciling hatreds, Sacks argues that we must do more than search for values common to all faiths; we must also reframe the way we see our dif…
As the politics of identity begin to replace the politics of ideology, can religion become a force for peace? In a radical proposal for reconciling hatreds, Sacks argues that we must do more than search for values common to all faiths; we must also reframe the way we see our dif…
Russia s Orient investigates the relationship between the Russian Empire and the non-Russian peoples of its southern and eastern borderlands from the 18th to the early 20th centuries. -- Amazon.com.