A Primer on Chiefs and Chiefdoms

A Primer on Chiefs and ChiefdomsIn this book Timothy Earle argues that studying chiefdoms is essential to understanding the role of elemental powers in social evolution. He studies chiefs and their power strategies in historically independent prehistoric and traditional societies and shows how chiefs continue to exist as powerful actors within modern states.

Hermann Wagner

together with a set of essays by colleagues

A historical ethnography of banking practices during the merger of Halifax and Bank of Scotland

where the whole becomes much more than the sum of its individual parts

This book captures the complex and often contradictory realities of the region’s peace process

Professions in Contemporary British Drama presents nine papers discussing the educational professions

The former Director of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens presents his archaeological discoveries at Ancient Nemea

Its beauty

There is a section on the business of the ‘event film’

In this context

This timely volume analyses the Northern League under its founder Umberto Bossi (1991-2012)

The End of the World and the Last God is a philosophical work that poses a disturbing existential question: what if mankind is definitively bored with Earth