Decolonising the Hajj Enrico Pitozzi

Decolonising the Hajj Enrico PitozziThis book recounts the effects of British colonial rule and decolonization on the transformation of the pilgrimage to Mecca (Hajj) from Nigeria over the course of the twentieth century. In so doing, it incorporates Nigeria into broader historical understanding of one of the most important transnational processes in the world.

It includes an extensive overview of the history of nanoart from the work of Umberto Boccioni right up to present-day artists

and the influence played by gender

the literary works of the Left Bank Group

learning and teaching

The Art of Defiance is an ethnographic portrait of how graffiti writers see their city and

we can perceive it only in life – with the predictable result that we treat it either as a clinical or social problem to be managed or as a phenomenon to be studied quantitatively

the Irish and the Scots

Offers a fresh analysis of the originality and character of Leveller thought

then and now

These writers included West Indians George Padmore

An in-depth examination of one of the defining issues that separates capitalism from socialism – the system of ownership

arguing that since the early modern period a paradigm shift has taken place in our attitudes to laughter and investigates the role Shakespeare played in this connection