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Since 2017, Mozambique has been confronted with a jihadi insurgency. This book looks at the origins of that insurgency, and the broader and longer history of the relationship between Islam and politics in the country. Did Mozambique's Muslim politics always point towards jihad? Eric Morier-Genoud examines the period immediately after independence, when the state engaged in anticlericalism, he then moves across the decades to the 2000s, when th...

This is an analytical history of the role Tigrinya-speakers have played and are still playing in the history of Ethiopia and Eritrea, from Tigray's very ancient incipience to the origins of today's tragically fratricidal war. Drawing from his huge corpus of publications on the Horn of Africa, Haggai Erlich sheds new light on major turning-points, as well as patterns of continuity. His history revolves around one key question: what was 'the mys...

In contemporary philosophy, materialist theories of the mind have dominated discussion in the philosophy of mind, with versions of the Computational theory of the Mind (CTM) being in the mainstream. The CTM is based on the intuition that the mind is a computer, and mental processes involve computations. The idea of the mind as a computer program was originally proposed by Putnam (1960). It was based on the abstract idea of computation derived ...

In modern society, can people viably be generalists, who translate information, methods, and techniques from external disciplines to improve their own? This thesis considers arguments from writers in the tradition of social theory like Smith, Hegel, and Durkheim, which claim that professional specialisation is an inherent feature of modern society because of its productivity and its role in socially integrating and developing the personality o...

Regime change in Libya (2011) and Iraq (2003) catapulted a host of sub-state actors to the fore, including tribes, which have emerged as influential political, security and social actors. But despite this increased role and visibility, tribes remain poorly understood. Often mistakenly associated with the 'periphery' or with 'pre-national' or 'pre-modern' forms of political organisation, they are routinely portrayed as the antithesis of the sta...

A definitive account of a fiercely independent Balkan people, whose fate was long shaped by the Great Powers.

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The grass family is of prime agricultural importance and includes all cereal crops of the world, forage grasses which feed farm animals, sugarcane which is a major industrial raw material, and bamboos which have a multitude of uses. However, grasses are also of inherent interest to biologists, incorporating both superficial simplicity and evolutionary innovation. This book provides an introduction to the subject, covering structure, developmen...

Successful poultry production must be based on sound biological principles. It is evident that poultry biology and behavior must be taken fully into account in the design and management of systems, and in the production and overcoming of problems. This book considers the ways in which the biology and behavior of the birds concerned influences the performance of different systems and are in turn influenced by the environment. Reflecting current...

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This book is the first to provide a systematic review of the latest techniques of plant biotechnology as applied to perennial fruit crops, a subject that has seen many recent advances. The emphasis is on molecular and tissue culture techniques that facilitate genetic manipulation rather than on tissue culture techniques that facilitate plant propagation (miropropatation). The book is divided into two parts: the first seven chapters cover vario...

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