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Based on a comprehensive analysis of over 200 contemporary slave narratives, this study foregrounds survivors' voices, illustrating that an anti-slavery movement that listens to the experiences of enslaved people can lead to important insights and enable the implementation of more effective interventions.

This innovative study brings diverse transnational characters to life, foregrounding the entangled history of China and the Philippines, and advancing a nuanced reading of world history. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.

Drawing on half-a-century of research in Zambia, Karen Tranberg Hansen offers a vibrant, detailed account of changing dress practices from the late-colonial period to the present day. Brought to life with colour illustrations and personal anecdotes, this book examines how dress cultures engage with wider social, economic, and political issues.

Using rare primary sources and interviews with over 80 Syrians and other experts, Marika Sosnowski explores the previously unexamined consequences of ceasefires on wartime order and statebuilding in Syria. From rebel governance to citizen and property rights, Sosnowski shows that the impact of ceasefires goes far beyond temporary halts to violence.

Using oral and archival sources, Toivo Asheeke excavates the neglected history of the Black Consciousness Movement (BCM), a militant revolutionary nationalist wing of the anti-colonial struggle in South Africa. Asheeke highlights the BCM's engagement with guerrilla warfare, community feminism and Black Internationalism.

Lloyd Ridgeon offers an original examination of the writings of radical reformist Muslim thinker, Ahmad Qabel, whose work sought to rationalise and modernise Islamic law. With chapters covering a broad range of topics and extended translations from Qabel's writings, Ridgeon illuminates the significance of Qabel's ideas and arguments.

Original and innovative, this book tells the story of Senegalese children freed from slavery in 1848 only to be relegated to tutelle or guardianship. Bernard Moitt demonstrates that tutelle allowed slavery to persist under another name, with children continuing to be subject to the same widespread labor exploitation and abuse.

A masterful new history of Europe's last unchristianised peoples in the period between 1387 and 1900, from the Sámi of northern Fennoscandia to the Balts and the Finno-Ugric peoples of European Russia, exploring the reasons for their late adoption of Christianity and their creative religious responses to encounters with missionaries.

It investigates the Indian state's efforts to implement social justice reforms, focusing on the 2011 Census caste data collection. The book critiques the institutionalization of 'castelessness' and the persistence of caste privilege.

The only text to cover all the major human neuroimaging techniques in an accessible and practical manner. With example research studies, color illustrations, and practice questions, it is ideal for advanced undergraduate and graduate students in the behavioral and brain sciences taking introductory courses on human neuroimaging.

This book explores the semantic-syntactic development of composite predicates (CPs) in English from the sixteenth to twentieth centuries. Large-scale corpus data reveal that the morphologically and semantically related simple verb (e.g. notice in the case of take notice of) works as a powerful predictor of the CP's semantic evolution.

Introduction to Epidemiology for the Health Sciences is highly approachable from start to finish, providing foundational knowledge for students new to epidemiology. Its focus on critical thinking allows readers to become competent consumers of health literature, equipping them with skills that transfer to various health sciences workplaces.

Showcasing a new approach that broadens the scope of emotion research, this groundbreaking book builds on growing recognition that emotion is a pivotal factor for understanding human language, communication, and social interaction. It is a must read for academic researchers and students interested in the captivating topic of human emotion.