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Hammers clanging' was the sound that the great nineteenth-century novelist William Makepeace Thackeray associated with Belfast when he visited it in 1842. By then, Belfast's industrial development was well under way. Had Thackeray visited the city in 1900, he would not have been surprised to find that it was by then the fastest-growing city in the British Isles. It had outstripped Dublin as the largest on the island of Ireland, indeed, it rank...

In April 1885 the British navy seized the small archipelago of Port Hamilton (now Geomundo) off Korea, an incident dubbed the Port Hamilton Affair. This book is the first full-length study of the incident.

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This book assesses the capabilities of an Islamic approach in aiding self-organisation by examining the case of the occupied Palestinian territories in conjunction with a comparative analysis of four other nations. Three main mechanisms of Islamic development are explored, finance, microfinance and charity. Identifying the need to recognise

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A Geography of Islands" gives a comprehensive survey of 'islandness' and its defining features. Steve Royle has visited and studied 312 islands in 49 countries in all the worlds oceans. It is full of up to date global case studies, from Okinawa to Inishboffin, and Hawaii to Crete. In the final chapter, all the themes are brought together in a case study of the Atlantic island of St Helena. It is well illustrated with the authors own photograph...

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In St Helena, when the East India Company had to establish a society the civilian population rebelled, the garrison mutinied, assassinating the governor, and a rebellion by black slaves was savagely punished. This book presents this tale involving issues of race, morality, gender, trade and defence within the context of Empire.

Filled with illustrations, Islands is a comprehensive exploration of the geographical and cultural aspects of island life - their habitation and environments, their permanent residents and vast transitional populace, their colonial history and enduring appeal to people around the world.

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The Port Hamilton Affair saw the English navy seize the Nam How Islands and the harbour between them. Intended to prevent increasing Russian influence in the Pacific, the incident involved Japan, China and Korea in a geopolitical struggle that lasted for almost two years. This is the first book to examine the affair in detail.