This book examines how and why Portugal and Spain increasingly engaged with women in their African colonies in the crucial period from the 1950s to the 1970s. It explores the rhetoric of benevolent Iberian colonialism, gendered Westernization, and development for African women as well as actual imperial practices – from forced resettlement to sexual exploitation to promoting domestic skills.

The abrupt loss of Soviet financial support in 1989 resulted in the near-collapse of the Cuban economy, ushering in the almost two decades of austerity measures and severe shortages of food and basic consumer goods referred to as the Special Period.

From a widely published expert in the field, this major survey reviews two centuries of modernization and examines the dramatic changes in the economies of Eastern Europe.

Aspects of American History examines major themes, personalities and issues across American history, using topic focused essays. Each chapter focuses on key events and time periods within a broad framework looking at liberty and equality, the role of government and national identity.

As sister of Henry III and aunt of the future Edward I, Eleanor de Montfort was at the heart of the bloody conflict between the Crown and the English barons. At Lewes in 1264 Simon de Montfort captured the king and secured control of royal government.

‘A new and exciting cultural history of the political staging of ‘the people’ by left and right in 1930s France. The best thing to come out on the Popular Front in English since Julian Jackson.’

Here is an invaluable, user-friendly and compact compendium packed with facts and figures on the seventeenth century ??? one of the most tumultuous and complex periods in British history.

N. R. Dewasiri (1965), Ph.D. (2007) in History, Leiden University, is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Colombo. His main interests are peasant history in pre-colonial and colonial Sri Lanka and ethnic ideologies in late and post-colonial Sri Lanka.

The essays examine the establishment of colony, empire, and nationalism in order to expose the mechanisms of oppression through which “aboriginal,” “native” or simply pre-existent cultures are displaced, eradicated, or transformed.