In this book, Catherine Bell offers a practical introduction to ritual practice and its study; she surveys the most influential theories of religion and ritual, the major categories of ritual activity, and the key debates that have shaped ...

Examines the relationship between imperialism and international law.

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This book analyses the development of Catholic schooling in Scotland over the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process.

This in-depth study exposes the tensions and conflicts at a local level between Gypsies and travellers and the host community in pre-First World War Surrey.