Neither Slave nor Free Steven A. Riess Professor Emeritus at the London

Professor Emeritus at the London School of Economics Penal Systems: A Comparative Approach is a comprehensive and original introduction to the comparative study of punishment

McCall argues that Renaissance masculine dress was a political phenomenon that fashioned power and patriarchal authority

It is also the first to juxtapose such communities with those of Japanese emigrants as ethnic minorities elsewhere

Trending topics such as the maltreatment of athletes

alongside works by innovative masters such as Raymond Roussel and Giorgio de Chirico

Neither Slave nor Free Steven A. Riess Professor Emeritus at the LondonThese ten essays constitute ''a distinctive contribution to the enticing but treacherous domain of a comparative history. (The book) succeeds because it is written by qualified scholars who address a delimited, manageable subject'' (''American Historical Review'').