Based on interviews with three generations of three families, this book clarifies why the Cultural Revolution in China (1966-1976) had a uniquely traumatic impact on those affected, and shows the forms this trauma has taken in the lives of their s...Loe edasi...
Reframes Cabot and Columbus within centuries of Atlantic trade and exploration. What did John Cabot and Christopher Columbus truly achieve—and what did they inherit? In this compelling reassessment, Lydia Towns traces their voyage...Loe edasi...
This edited volume brings together scholars from diverse theoretical traditions to present and discuss their perspective on theory-building in psychology. Amid ongoing discussions about a potential (theory) crisis in the discipline, this collectio...Loe edasi...
A Finaeon Guide Powered by GFDThis book provides a history of currencies for each currency-issuing country or territory on Earth. Sections offer details about coins and banknotes, along with brief histories to help contextu...Loe edasi...
This is the most up-to-date collection of essays in English on the trajectory of Taiwan and its modernist art movement currently available. Situated in a unique geopolitical and historical juncture, Taiwan provides a sole paradigm in Asia that crit...Loe edasi...
The present volume inspects the interaction of Romanias religious actors with the Roma communities. Contrary to the main historical research undertook up to the present moment, the sections of this book highlight the interplay between discourses and......Loe edasi...
In this study, Johannes Nagel examines a series of far-reaching Army and Navy reforms in the USA between 1865 and 1905 in a global context, with a particular focus on the societal effects of the First Globalization. Although security and ......Loe edasi...
This collection of studies is devoted to the social role of language in the history of East Central Europe from the Middle Ages to the beginning of the 20th century. The authors examine the specificity of East Central Europe, an area that was a ......Loe edasi...
Focusing on the Netherlands and the pivotal role of Dutch Railways, the book traces early experiments that anticipated what we now call Transit-Oriented Development. The narrative culminates in the OV-fiets, a landmark innovation that reveals how...Loe edasi...
The Godefroy Family of Scholars, 1580–1880 gives an inside look at the workings of a scholarly dynasty: the roles played by wives, its training methods for children, their habits of correspondence, and the struggles that broke out when the...Loe edasi...
This volume explores contemporary artistic practices developed in material culture museums to reimagine historic collections. It begins by examining the influence of conceptual art within art museums and the transformative impact it has had on mus...Loe edasi...
Religion, History and Identity Construction covers the historiographical shift from universalistic monogenist narratives to chauvinistic polygenist narratives in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Religion, History a...Loe edasi...
This second volume of the book A History of Chinese Art and Design systematically analyzes the development of design art from the Song, Liao, Jin, and Western Xia Dynasties to the 20th century, focusing on the design history of various traditional a...Loe edasi...
This handbook provides a detailed and comprehensive overview of the current state of research in Celtic Language Studies, covering both existing and emerging scholarship and debate in the field, as well as containing new, cutting-edge research and...Loe edasi...
This book focuses on the historical evolution of Bangzi opera, also known as Clapper opera, now collectively referred to as Hebei Bangzi. This form of Chinese opera enjoyed significant popularity primarily in Beijing and Tianjin during the four deca...Loe edasi...
This monograph examines Chosn Dynastys Zun Zhou Si Ming (Revering the Zhou and Longing for the Ming) during the period of 16371800, after Chosn entered tributary relations with the Qing. It shows how the royal family, Confucian scholars, and Ming-l...Loe edasi...
The book presents a political-scientific overview of Albanian-Chinese relations. It is an attempt to understand and explain the motives behind the close alliance between China and Albania and the role this alliance played in their domestic relations...Loe edasi...
This book discusses the origins and evolution of the U.S. Numbered Highway System. In 1926, a nationwide automobile highway network was created for the United States. For the first time, a set of numbered roads would span the country, ensuring that...Loe edasi...
Based on an extensive body of Russian and German sources, this book reconstructs the fate of the approximately 1.5 million soldiers and officers of the Russian army held in German prisoner of war camps during the First World War. Moving beyond insti...Loe edasi...
This book examines the forgotten proposal to make Constantinople the headquarters of the League of Nations after the First World War, in order to rethink the origins of modern international order. By tracing the debate between liberal internationali...Loe edasi...
This book examines the enduring appeal of Odysseus in artistic representation from antiquity to the present. The volume aims to provide a sense of how this character changes from ancient Greek myth through modern poetry, and how this capacity for ch...Loe edasi...
This book examines the development of social policy in Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan through the framework of bureaucratic regimes. It traces the institutional continuity from the colonial Indian Civil Service to its post-colonial successors - the...Loe edasi...
Abraham Lincoln and the American Experiment in Self-Government revisits the most pressing question of the republics past and present: Can a nation founded on the principles of liberty and equality sustain itself through crisis? Leveraging an interdi...Loe edasi...
This volume gathers different disciplinary, methodological and thematic perspectives on architecture understood as a cultural, critical and design practice. Through an articulated dialogue between history and contemporaneity, theory and practice, de...Loe edasi...
This book offers a comprehensive exploration of Chinese Buddhist rituals and their pivotal role in shaping both Chinese Buddhism and broader Chinese culture. Translated from the revised and enlarged Chinese edition of Zhongguo hanchuan fojiao liyi b...Loe edasi...
This book, based on extensive first-hand research conducted between 2020 and 2024, places Russian antiquity in the center of analysis, and addresses memory-making in the regions. The author seeks to examine how public history is managed in Old Russi...Loe edasi...
Emphasizing the emergence of new institutional realities from the encounter between colonizers and colonized people, this book highlights the capacity of indigenous communities, as well as settlers themselves, to shape and transform laws and legal...Loe edasi...
This handbook provides a detailed and comprehensive overview of the current state of research in Celtic Language Studies, covering both existing and emerging scholarship and debate in the field, as well as containing new, cutting-edge research and...Loe edasi...
This book focuses on the historical evolution of Bangzi opera, also known as Clapper opera, now collectively referred to as Hebei Bangzi. This form of Chinese opera enjoyed significant popularity primarily in Beijing and Tianjin during the four deca...Loe edasi...
This monograph examines Chosn Dynastys Zun Zhou Si Ming (Revering the Zhou and Longing for the Ming) during the period of 16371800, after Chosn entered tributary relations with the Qing. It shows how the royal family, Confucian scholars, and Ming-l...Loe edasi...
The book presents a political-scientific overview of Albanian-Chinese relations. It is an attempt to understand and explain the motives behind the close alliance between China and Albania and the role this alliance played in their domestic relations...Loe edasi...
This book discusses the origins and evolution of the U.S. Numbered Highway System. In 1926, a nationwide automobile highway network was created for the United States. For the first time, a set of numbered roads would span the country, ensuring that...Loe edasi...
This volume gathers different disciplinary, methodological and thematic perspectives on architecture understood as a cultural, critical and design practice. Through an articulated dialogue between history and contemporaneity, theory and practice, de...Loe edasi...
This book offers a comprehensive exploration of Chinese Buddhist rituals and their pivotal role in shaping both Chinese Buddhism and broader Chinese culture. Translated from the revised and enlarged Chinese edition of Zhongguo hanchuan fojiao liyi b...Loe edasi...
This book, based on extensive first-hand research conducted between 2020 and 2024, places Russian antiquity in the center of analysis, and addresses memory-making in the regions. The author seeks to examine how public history is managed in Old Russi...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 04-Jul-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: The Choir Press, ISBN-13: 9781789636222)
From Nazi Berlin to postwar Britain, Werner and Lotte Ackerman rebuilt shattered lives through handmade chocolates, creating a beloved royal-warranted British brand...Loe edasi...
From Nazi Berlin to postwar Britain, Werner and Lotte Ackerman rebuilt shattered lives through handmade chocolates, creating a beloved royal-warranted British brand...Loe edasi...
Abraham Lincoln and the American Experiment in Self-Government revisits the most pressing question of the republics past and present: Can a nation founded on the principles of liberty and equality sustain itself through crisis? Leveraging an interdi...Loe edasi...
This book examines the development of social policy in Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan through the framework of bureaucratic regimes. It traces the institutional continuity from the colonial Indian Civil Service to its post-colonial successors - the...Loe edasi...
This book examines the enduring appeal of Odysseus in artistic representation from antiquity to the present. The volume aims to provide a sense of how this character changes from ancient Greek myth through modern poetry, and how this capacity for ch...Loe edasi...
This book examines the forgotten proposal to make Constantinople the headquarters of the League of Nations after the First World War, in order to rethink the origins of modern international order. By tracing the debate between liberal internationali...Loe edasi...
Based on an extensive body of Russian and German sources, this book reconstructs the fate of the approximately 1.5 million soldiers and officers of the Russian army held in German prisoner of war camps during the First World War. Moving beyond insti...Loe edasi...
Emphasizing the emergence of new institutional realities from the encounter between colonizers and colonized people, this book highlights the capacity of indigenous communities, as well as settlers themselves, to shape and transform laws and legal...Loe edasi...
During the drafting of the Declaration of Independence in 1776, Thomas Jefferson and enslaved valet Robert Hemmings spent several months at 700 Market Street in Philadelphia. The editors and contributors to Declaration House reflect on the history o...Loe edasi...
