(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198998624)
Mawdudi (19031979), a major South Asian Muslim thinker and founder of Jamaat-i Islami, profoundly shaped modern Islamic thought. This book introduces and reassesses his key idea of Islam as a comprehensive system, highlighting his unique impact on c...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009736503)
This Element is about language, water and power. It challenges the terracentric bias of much scholarship in language studies, suggesting instead that oceans and rivers should be central in investigations of language, history, culture, society and po...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Harvard University Press, ISBN-13: 9780674258297)
A collection of texts in Latin, Hebrew, Church Slavonic, and Arabic, and their English translations, Jews in Old Rus’ offers unique insight into Slavic–Jewish relations, realigns the position of East European Jews within the larger diaspora of...Loe edasi...
Marc Blecher presents a seminal analysis on development of the urban working class in China. Chinese workers have been the subjects of a great deal of analysis by scholars, documentation by journalists and activists, and portrayal by writers, film...Loe edasi...
The Making of China’s Working Class: A World to Lose offers a contribution not just to scholarship on Chinese labor politics, but on the country’s politics and the state’s hegemony more widely. This book is an outstanding resource fo...Loe edasi...
This book uncovers the rich history of amateur sound recording enthusiasts—sound hunters— and studies their practice from the beginning of sound recording technologies to the cassette. This book will interest researchers and advanced students in...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009411301)
In the history of Western music, no figure has been as closely tied to the Enlightenment as Beethoven. But what if we have got this narrative all wrong? Through a careful historical re-evaluation, this book questions the portrait of Beethoven in the...Loe edasi...
States torn by violent conflicts such as civil wars may survive rather than collapse and disappear. The history of Lebanon from the civil war, Syria since 2011, and Iraq after the 2003 invasion explains why disintegration may be balanced by resilien...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781108836531)
States torn by violent conflicts such as civil wars may survive rather than collapse and disappear. The history of Lebanon from the civil war, Syria since 2011, and Iraq after the 2003 invasion explains why disintegration may be balanced by resilien...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9780521762069)
Tracing the development of Rome over a span of 1200 years, this book offers an overview of the changing appearance of the city and the social, political, and military factors that shaped it. It places Romes architecture, coinage, inscriptions and m...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198978602)
Women, Indenture, and Resistance explores the lived experiences of Indian indentured (girmitiya) women in the Fiji Islands between 1879 and 1920, during the height of British colonial rule. Set against the backdrop of sugar-cane plantations,...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009315692)
Irelands partition was ultimately about religious minorities and their oppression real or imagined, anticipated or remembered. This book explains how in the twenty-six Counties, Jews and Protestants, with an oppositional cultural vocation, attract...Loe edasi...
Traces the process of industrial decline and urban transformation As the Victorian era drew to a close, Dundee was the worlds jute manufacturing capital - Juteopolis. But behind that success was a harsh working environment and low wages...Loe edasi...
Sari: Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009612258)
Offering the first in-depth study of religious violence in seventeenth-century Ireland, this book explores how religious division became the dominant force in unrest. With particular focus on the cataclysmic 1641 Rebellion, Joan Redmond examines how...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Harvard University Press, ISBN-13: 9780674301498)
Originally written as an introduction, Amir Khusraw Dihlavi’s Dibacha-yi divan-i ghurrat al-kamal blends manifesto and autobiography to offer a defense of poetry and a challenge to assumptions about culture, religion, and authority. Exquisi...Loe edasi...
This Element is about language, water and power. It challenges the terracentric bias of much scholarship in language studies, suggesting instead that oceans and rivers should be central in investigations of language, history, culture, society and po...Loe edasi...
Learning from Queer and Trans Studies introduces readers to key topics in queer and trans studies and employs a queer and trans pedagogy through its non-linear structure that makes connections across disciplines, topics, fields of study, ti...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009683371)
This remarkable new history cuts through the many myths that have obscured the extraordinary life-story of Emperor Aurangzeb Alamgir (r. 16581707). Contesting simplistic narratives, Faruqui presents a richly researched and deeply nuanced picture o...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Duke University Press, ISBN-13: 9781478033820)
Who Tells Your Story gathers contemporary analyses of monument and commemoration controversies from across the United States and the world. Sanford Levinson and the contributors in this volume ask whose stories get to be told, who gets to tell...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009748452)
Analysing the past two decades of young literature grappling with Holocaust memory and migration stories, Agnes Mueller engages with diverse fictional texts first written in German to explore current debates and challenge entrenched ideas on Israe...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009709248)
This Element introduces various justifications for reparations and redress for historical injustice discussed in political theory and philosophy. It examines multiple real-world cases to illustrate and test theories. It is accessible to students and...Loe edasi...
This Element introduces various justifications for reparations and redress for historical injustice discussed in political theory and philosophy. It examines multiple real-world cases to illustrate and test theories. It is accessible to students and...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Duke University Press, ISBN-13: 9781478038733)
Who Tells Your Story gathers contemporary analyses of monument and commemoration controversies from across the United States and the world. Sanford Levinson and the contributors in this volume ask whose stories get to be told, who gets to tell...Loe edasi...
Learning from Queer and Trans Studies introduces readers to key topics in queer and trans studies and employs a queer and trans pedagogy through its non-linear structure that makes connections across disciplines, topics, fields of study, time, and p...Loe edasi...
This book examines the relationship between education, schools, and Confucian classical studies during the late Qing and early Republican periods.The imperial examination system could not accommodate Western learning. Then, Chinese learning...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009474276)
Greek and Roman bronzes were produced in multiples, but very few survived. This book examines ancient literary texts, workshop debris, and the surviving bits and pieces of bronze statues, and explores what they reveal about the appearance of an anci...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009724173)
A social and cultural history of the world from the Paleolithic to the present, designed for courses in world and global history and general readers. This new edition includes updates to each chapter, drawing on material from the history of the emot...Loe edasi...
A social and cultural history of the world from the Paleolithic to the present, designed for courses in world and global history and general readers. This new edition includes updates to each chapter, drawing on material from the history of the emot...Loe edasi...
Marc Blecher presents a seminal analysis on development of the urban working class in China. Chinese workers have been the subjects of a great deal of analysis by scholars, documentation by journalists and activists, and portrayal by writers, film...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Harvard University Press, ISBN-13: 9780674258297)
A collection of texts in Latin, Hebrew, Church Slavonic, and Arabic, and their English translations, Jews in Old Rus’ offers unique insight into Slavic–Jewish relations, realigns the position of East European Jews within the larger diaspora of...Loe edasi...
At 16.00 hours on 27 July 1944, the Stars and Stripes were raised over the central Pacific island of Guam. The symbolism of this moment was not lost on the officers and men who saluted the raising of Old Glory. This was because the first American fl...Loe edasi...
When the call went out in 1917 for volunteers willing to serve both at home and on the Western Front in a newly founded Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps, young women from every province of Ireland responded just as eagerly as those from homes in Scotland...Loe edasi...
This book starts with the Incident at Mosty, in which we explore a little-known event which took place on August 25, 1939 near the Czechoslovakian/Polish border. The next chapter is The Gleiwitz Incident where we tell the story of an incident on the...Loe edasi...
At 08.15 hours on 6 August 1945, one of the most seismic events in human history unfolded over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. An atomic bomb, nicknamed Little Boy, exploded about 1,500 feet above the city with a force of 15,000 tons of TNT. Around f...Loe edasi...
The importance of engaging the problems of contemporary political theory has brought us to an unprecedented reliance on the historical commentary already provided by giants like Alexis de Tocqueville and Edmund Burke. Among these is also the less oft...Loe edasi...
Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh – later Lord – Dowding was one of the greatest Englishmen of the 20th century. He created Fighter Command with its unique early warning system (radar) from nothing in 1936 to the efficient defensive force it became in 1940...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Anglia Young Books, ISBN-13: 9781871173772)
Two boys, Milo and Demetrius, are firm friends and outstanding athletes. But as the all important Olympic games approach they have to leave Athens to go into training. Can their friendship survive the intense competition?...Loe edasi...
In a quest to to discover the forgotten Irishmen in twenty-seven Irish newspapers, many of which are now obsolete, the author uncovered unbelievable and forgotten newspaper articles, cast aside since the 1920s – until now. The year 1916 brought new e...Loe edasi...
Royal Seals is an introduction to the seals of the kings and queens of England, Scotland and latterly the United Kingdom, as well as the Church and nobility.Ranging from Medieval times to modern day, it uses images of impressive wax seals held at The...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198998624)
Mawdudi (19031979), a major South Asian Muslim thinker and founder of Jamaat-i Islami, profoundly shaped modern Islamic thought. This book introduces and reassesses his key idea of Islam as a comprehensive system, highlighting his unique impact on c...Loe edasi...
Despite Rome’s conquest of the Mediterranean, by the turn of the first century BC, Rome’s influence barely stretched into the East. In the century since Rome’s defeat of the Seleucid Empire in the 180s BC, the East was dominated by the rise of new em...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009736503)
This Element is about language, water and power. It challenges the terracentric bias of much scholarship in language studies, suggesting instead that oceans and rivers should be central in investigations of language, history, culture, society and po...Loe edasi...
