Archaeologists are increasingly aware of issues of gender when studying past societies; women are becoming better represented within the discipline and are attaining top academic posts. However, until now there has been no study undertaken of the history of women in European archaeology and their co[...]
In a series of lively biographical portraits, this book forms a reign-by-reign record of the sultans, shahs, emperors and khans who all shared the Muslim persianate high civilization that flourished from Iran and Central Asia through Afghanistan to India from the 13th to the 20th centuries. A master[...]
Volume 5 of The New Cambridge History of Islam examines the history of Muslim societies from 1800 to the present. Francis Robinson, a leading historian of Islam, has brought together a team of scholars with a broad range of expertise to explore how Muslims responded to the challenges of Western conq[...]
Retold for younger readers, Daniel Defoe's classic adventure novel is based on the true story of a Scotsman who was left on a desert island after a quarrel with the captain of his shipShipwrecked and all alone, Robinson Crusoe survives on the island for nearly 30 years--often visited by cannibals--b[...]