This book revisits and updates some classic Anthropology - the Xhosa in Town series - based on research in the South African city of East London conducted during the 1950s. The original studies concluded that there were two opposed responses to urbanisation in East London's Afri…
Shi'i Islam has been the focus of sustained attention since the success of the Iranian revolution in 1979. Yet beyond the Iranian case, the role of Shi'ism in politics across the Middle East has attracted little serious research. Even less attention has been given to Shi'ism and…
In his first year working in Los Angeles's Skid Row, Forrest Stuart was stopped on the street by police fourteen times. Usually for doing little more than standing there. Juliette, a woman he met during that time, has been stopped by police well over 100 times, arrested upward o…
Conspiracy theories are everywhere in postwar American culture. But, where they once served to bolster a sense of identity by imagining the personal and national immune system under threat from a convenient scapegoat, in recent decades Cold War paranoia has been replaced by an i…
"A Political Economy of the Middle East is the most comprehensive analysis of developments in the political economy of the region over the past several decades, examining the interaction of economic development processes, state systems and policies, and social actors in the Midd…
The author examines six signposts of American history - the settlements at Plymouth and Jamestown, the ratification of the Constitution, the Statue of Liberty, the cowboy, the "kitchen debate" between Richard Nixon and Nikita Khrushchev, and Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream"…
