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This book provides a fresh interdisciplinary analysis into the lives of migrant children and youth over the course of the twentieth century and up to the present day. Adopting biopolitics as a theoretical framework, the authors examine the complex interplay of structures, contexts and relations of power which influence the evolution of child migration across national borders. The volume also investigates children's experiences, views, priorities and expectations and their roles as active agents...

A detailed glimpse into the weapons, equipment and uniforms worn by Roman Centurions from the Roman Kingdom right through to the height of the Republic. Including new research, photographs of artefacts and the signature Men-at-Arms artwork, this is an essential addition to the series and includes several artwork reconstructions of actual named individuals and two lavish scenes depicting combat between Centurions and a Triumphal procession.

The Tudor and Stuart centuries are among the most dramatic in the history of the British Isles. From Henry VIII's divorce from Catherine of Aragon to Charles I's beheading and the Glorious Revolution that sent James II ignominiously into exile, radical solutions were found to old problems - with far-reaching effects on monarchy, state, and people alike. These centuries witnessed the Reformation, the civil wars, and two Revolutions, in which two monarchs, two wives of a king, and two archbishops...

An illustrated technical history of the Fouga Magister - the 1950s French two-seat jet trainer. The different versions of the plane are described and illustrated; all the changes in specification, equipment and performance are recorded. Drawings and data from the original technical manuals, full dimensional details and photographs of surviving examples preserved in aviation museums illustrate all aspects of the airframe, inside and out. Features a brief operational history of all export users in...

This edited collection explores the ways in which our understanding of the past in Dutch history and culture can be rethought to consider not only how it forms part of the present but how it can relate also to the future. Divided into three parts ? the uses of myth and history, the past as illumination of cultural context, and historiography in focus ? this book seeks to demonstrate the importance of the past by investigating the transmission of culture and its transformations. It reflects on th...

First published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Lives and Times is a biographical reader designed to acquaint students with major issues in American history through the lives of individuals, prominent and otherwise, whose activities and ideas were crucial in shaping the course of the nation's history. Employing a narrative style, each volume consists of thirteen chapters in which the lives of two individuals are examined in the broader context of major historical themes. Readers will find not only a diversity of individuals profiled, but also...

CQ Press has published Historic Documents annually since 1972. The approximately 750-page book pairs 70 original, comprehensive narratives ( 140,000 words total) with important documents chosen by SAGE and the volume editor, Heather Kerrigan, to chronicle the major events of the year. Organized chronologically, each volume covers the same wide range of U.S.-based and global topics: business, the economy and labor; energy, environment, science, technology, and transportation; government and po...

Collects the valuable and oft-quoted articles on Polish American folkways which Helen Stankiewicz Zand published in various issues of Polish American Studies between 1949 and 1961. Co-published with the Polish American Historical Association.