Minorities in the Middle

Minorities in the MiddleThroughout the world, certain ethnic groups have made a living through trade and have found a place for themselves in their societies' middle strata. At times, these 'middlemen minorities' have aroused the envy of their neighbors and been subjected to a variety of persecutions. In this book, Walter P. Zenner examines explanations for this phenomenon and analyzes such groups as the Jews, the Chinese, the Scots, and the South Asians abroad.

This book is not a mere study of Shakespeare’s debt to Montaigne

In addition there are reappraisals of two leading figures in the Pankhursts’ Women’s Social and Political Union

organized by country

mathematical physics

Sami Zubaida (‘Food: Egypt and the Middle East’)

the history of Yugoslav cinema has been scarcely covered

Explores how practices of dancing and Christianity

to the short story collections

Sweet Burdens presents a detailed ethnographic study of the lives of Russian-Jewish immigrants in Germany over the past twenty years

the play and the theoretical text reflect on each other in a mutual illumination

The tradition of rational theology in the mature post-classical Sunni tradition has unique philosophical insights and solutions to modern philosophical problems that have not yet been articulated in the philosophical mainstream

it is imperative to establish a material-cycling farming system to promote a material-cycling-oriented society