City sights in traditional Islamic garb
Islamic Urban Studies, Historical Review and Perspectives - Dictionary of Islamic Architecture
Islamic Urban Studies, Historical Review and Perspectives - Dictionary of Islamic Architecture
An optic fibre cable that carries Australia's burgeoning Internet traffic across the Pacific Ocean failed for the first time last month - five kilometres below the surface of the sea and 2,000...
Did the prime minister of Canada tell the Mounties to assault student protestors in order to spare Asian leaders embarrassment? W. Wesley Pue says that if he did, he should resign On October 5, a...
At midnight on June 30, 155 years of British rule in Hong Kong cease. The handover to China raises complex questions for the colony's institutions, economy and citizens, with Hong Kong's thriving...
Plague, Pox and Pestilence - Epidemics and History
AT THE END of this semester I planned to throw myself into 19th-century American history, but two new books - 1968: Magnum Throughout the World, a collection of photographs introduced by Eric...
Angkor Wat
Kunapipi Journal of Post-colonial Writing
The Politics of Display
When I graduated from University College London in 1959, virtually the only non-British students I had met were from the Commonwealth and North America, and it was mostly to the latter that we went...
The British believe they bade a graceful goodbye to empire. But Peter Marshall (left) discerns weakness behind the grace, while Patrick French reveals how Britain relied on espionage to prop up its...
International Journal of Population Geography (four times a year)
Journal of Vegetable Crop Production (twice a year)
Achieving Our Country
In this part of the world, it is commonplace to argue that English is important to the Chinese because of its usefulness in trade and finance. Anyone who is bilingual in Chinese and English can...