Sari: Monsters, Prodigies, and Demons: Medieval and Early Modern Constructions of Alterity
(Ilmumisaeg: 10-Jul-2025, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: Medieval Institute Publications, ISBN-13: 9781580442763)
At the center of this interdisciplinary study are court monsters--dwarves, hirsutes, and misshapen individuals--who, by their very presence, altered Renaissance ethics vis-a-vis anatomical difference, social virtues, and scientific knowledge. The stu...Loe edasi...
This volume presents innovative studies of how the emerging disciplines of archaeology and ancient history shaped the modern Middle East, and how they were in turn shaped by competing visions and agendas of empires and new nations. The Middle East wa...Loe edasi...
This volume presents innovative studies of how the emerging disciplines of archaeology and ancient history shaped the modern Middle East, and how they were in turn shaped by competing visions and agendas of empires and new nations. The Middle East wa...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 13-May-2025, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: University of Texas Press, ISBN-13: 9781477330692)
A comparative, empire-wide study of the ceramics associated with the imperial Inca state, theorizing the role of these highly recognizable vessel forms in legitimizing Inca rule and establishing imperial identities.The beautiful polychrome ceramics o...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-May-2025, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781040341902)
A Study in Creative History (1932) aims to present the main movements of thought as they emerge clearly into history. The book offers the view that the main developments prior to 500 B.C. were the emergence of the Prophetic school in Israel, of Mazda...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-May-2025, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781040341759)
A Study in Creative History (1932) aims to present the main movements of thought as they emerge clearly into history. The book offers the view that the main developments prior to 500 B.C. were the emergence of the Prophetic school in Israel, of Mazda...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 22-Apr-2025, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9780691236674)
From one of todays most innovative ancient historians, a provocative new vision of why ancient history mattersand why it needs to be told in a radically different, global wayIts easy to think that ancient history is, well, ancient historyobsolete,...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 22-Apr-2025, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9780691236674)
From one of todays most innovative ancient historians, a provocative new vision of why ancient history mattersand why it needs to be told in a radically different, global wayIts easy to think that ancient history is, well, ancient historyobsolete,...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Apr-2025, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: University of Arizona Press, ISBN-13: 9780816554676)
Reframing Paquime: Community Formation in Northwest Chihuahua is a groundbreaking reinterpretation of the Casas Grandes region by scholars Michael E. Whalen and Paul E. Minnis. This final installment in their comprehensive study challenges the domina...Loe edasi...
Presents archaeological evidence from the Azerbaijan-Japan excavations, revealing insights into Mesolithic to Neolithic transition and farming communities in the South Caucasus.Modern archaeological research carried out since the late 19th century ha...Loe edasi...
Presents archaeological evidence from the Azerbaijan-Japan excavations, revealing insights into Mesolithic to Neolithic transition and farming communities in the South Caucasus.Modern archaeological research carried out since the late 19th century ha...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 21-Mar-2025, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781040316771)
Mothering and Archaeology brings to light new insights connecting mothering in the past and present by exploring all aspects of this important but frequently under-valued and thus neglected subject and is underpinned by feminist theorizing of motherh...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 21-Mar-2025, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781040316733)
Mothering and Archaeology brings to light new insights connecting mothering in the past and present by exploring all aspects of this important but frequently under-valued and thus neglected subject and is underpinned by feminist theorizing of motherh...Loe edasi...
Analyzes the lives, roles, and experiences of Viking women, highlighting their societal contributions through interdisciplinary perspectives.This edited volume brings together an international group of scholars to address the lives, roles, myths, myt...Loe edasi...
Sari: Architecture and Urbanism in the Global South
(Ilmumisaeg: 18-Mar-2025, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781040331149)
This book explores brick architecture of the nineteenth century in South India, through the lens of tectonics and materiality. The book is a diachronically elaborated history of brick architecture, especially analysing the hybridity due to the indige...Loe edasi...
Sari: Architecture and Urbanism in the Global South
(Ilmumisaeg: 18-Mar-2025, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781040331132)
This book explores brick architecture of the nineteenth century in South India, through the lens of tectonics and materiality. The book is a diachronically elaborated history of brick architecture, especially analysing the hybridity due to the indige...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 12-Mar-2025, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781040306208)
This reference work provides detailed lists of the names and titles of Roman emperors from Augustus to Severus Alexander, as well as a chronology of significant historical events and a brief overview of imperial portraiture for each of these emperors...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 12-Mar-2025, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781040306086)
This reference work provides detailed lists of the names and titles of Roman emperors from Augustus to Severus Alexander, as well as a chronology of significant historical events and a brief overview of imperial portraiture for each of these emperors...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 10-Mar-2025, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: Amsterdam University Press, ISBN-13: 9789048522842)
The identification of ceramic imports within prehistoric and historic assemblages has long been the primary indicator for identifying connections between different sites and regions. Yet this has fostered a presence/absence diagnosis for contact betw...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 04-Mar-2025, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: University of Arizona Press, ISBN-13: 9780816553495)
People traveling around the Sonoran Desert will see the traces of an ancient society, the Hohokam, through the material that they left behind-pottery, shell ornaments, carved stone, and rock imagery. The Hohokam and Their World offers readers the opp...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 28-Feb-2025, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781040270318)
In the Beginning describes the basic methods and theoretical approaches of archaeology. This is a book about fundamental principles written in a clear, engaging style, with minimal use of technical jargon, which approaches archaeology from a global p...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 28-Feb-2025, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781040270356)
In the Beginning describes the basic methods and theoretical approaches of archaeology. This is a book about fundamental principles written in a clear, engaging style, with minimal use of technical jargon, which approaches archaeology from a global p...Loe edasi...
First full publication of a cemetery of the Bronze Age Wadi Suq period (2000-1650 BC) in the region of the UAE, a period marked by large scale cultural and economic changes.The end of the 3rd millennium was a time of significant transformation in sou...Loe edasi...
First full publication of a cemetery of the Bronze Age Wadi Suq period (2000-1650 BC) in the region of the UAE, a period marked by large scale cultural and economic changes.The end of the 3rd millennium was a time of significant transformation in sou...Loe edasi...
Analyzes the use of water features in late antique homes across the Western Roman Empire, highlighting their aesthetic, social, and practical significance.For ambitious late antique homeowners seeking to demonstrate their status and taste, water and...Loe edasi...
In championing the work of local scholars, especially female, this volume begins to fill a politically imposed lacuna in the English language reporting of high quality research in one of the most formative regions for the development of human civiliz...Loe edasi...
In championing the work of local scholars, especially female, this volume begins to fill a politically imposed lacuna in the English language reporting of high quality research in one of the most formative regions for the development of human civiliz...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 25-Feb-2025, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781040314104)
This edited volume discusses images that bleed, speak, cry, move, and behave in ways we usually attribute to living creatures.Living images have been the object of devotion as well as targets of destruction, and they have been marginalised in both cu...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 25-Feb-2025, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781040314043)
This edited volume discusses images that bleed, speak, cry, move, and behave in ways we usually attribute to living creatures.Living images have been the object of devotion as well as targets of destruction, and they have been marginalised in both cu...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 25-Feb-2025, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Verso Books, ISBN-13: 9781839760785)
Christopher Hill was one of the leading historians of his generation. His work across more than fifteen books and dozens of articles fundamentally rewrote the way we understand the English Revolution and the development of the modern British state. W...Loe edasi...
