Oxford University Press

The Kharijites were a splinter group that broke away from the main forces of Islam during the formative medieval period, purportedly refusing arbitration and committing bloody outrages against their fellow muslims. Their influence in the political and theological life of the nascent faith has ensured their place in both critical and religious...

Colin Clarke investigates the role of class, colour, race, and culture in the changing social stratification and spatial patterning of Kingston, Jamaica since independence. He concludes with a comparison with the post-colonial urban problems of South Africa and Brazil. Includes multiple maps produced and compiled using GIS....

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In this collection of sixteen illuminating essays, Donald Worster examines the interaction of humanity and the environment, and the history this relationship has produced....

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