Subject(s): Byzantine Empire -- Social conditions
Contents:Towards a social history of Byzantium / John Haldon -- Men, women, Eunchs: gender, sex, and power / Liz James -- Family structure and the transmission of property / Angeliki E. Laiou -- The social function of the law / Bernard Stolte -- Social relations and the land: the Early Peri
Subject(s): Writing -- History | Alphabet -- History
Contents:The first IT revolution -- Cuneiform: forgotten legacy of a forgotten people -- Egyptian hieroglyphs and the quest for eternity -- Chinese: a love of paperwork -- Maya glyphs: calendars of kings -- Linear B: the clerks of Agamemnon -- Japanese: three scripts are better than one
Subject(s): Shi'ah -- Political aspects | Shi٠ah -- Political activity -- Persian Gulf Region | Islam and politics -- Persian Gulf Region | Social networks -- Political aspects -- Persian Gulf Region
Contents:Imposed states -- The Shias in the ambit of the state -- Meanwhile in Iraq -- From Iraq to the Gulf -- Societies face the Islam
Subject(s): Chinatowns -- Southeast Asia | Chinese -- Social life and customs -- Southeast Asia | Chinese -- Social conditions -- Southeast Asia | City and town life -- Southeast Asia | Culture and globalization -- Southeast Asia
Holdings:
,Book - General,Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas Library,General Collection,Open Shelf,DS523.4C
