In A History of Manchuria, Ian Nish describes the turbulent times which the three Northeastern Provinces of China experienced in the last two centuries. The site of three serious wars in 1894, 1904 and 1919, the territory rarely enjoyed peace though...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-May-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: 31-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009715447)
This Element examines the roles of royal women like Mihriah Valide Sultan under Selim III, focusing on their philanthropy, political influence, and architectural patronage, and showing how their diplomacy, correspondence, and courtly roles supported...Loe edasi...
This Element examines the roles of royal women like Mihriah Valide Sultan under Selim III, focusing on their philanthropy, political influence, and architectural patronage, and showing how their diplomacy, correspondence, and courtly roles supported...Loe edasi...
This edited book discusses the historical role of textbooks in promoting national ideology. It brings together chapters from several continents, establishing a dialogue between the Global North and South, and between authors from relatively newly in...Loe edasi...
Not a typical overview of Latin American Architecture, the book uncovers a series of lineages, often hidden or overlooked by international critics. This book offers a dynamic, intergenerational view of architectural evolution that contrasts with t...Loe edasi...
Not a typical overview of Latin American Architecture, the book uncovers a series of lineages, often hidden or overlooked by international critics. This book offers a dynamic, intergenerational view of architectural evolution that contrasts with t...Loe edasi...
Offering an incisive examination into aspects of the controversy regarding ownership of the marble sculptures infamously removed from the Parthenon by Lord Elgin in the early nineteenth century, this volume challenges long-held scholarly assumptions...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 29-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd, ISBN-13: 9789819824915)
Volume 2 of Heritage Hotels of Asia follows the movement of Europeans across Southeast and East Asia in search of trading wealth, establishing colonies as they went and founding new towns, cities, and even countries. Colonial settlements evolved int...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 28-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd, ISBN-13: 9789819824885)
Heritage Hotels of Asia: South Asia is the first volume of a two-volume set documenting the rich heritage and history of hotels across Asia. The narrative describes the colonial-era hotels still in business and proud of their heritage, and the forts...Loe edasi...
This book offers an accessible introduction to the relationship between tourism and politics. Moving beyond traditional ideas about borders and passports, the chapters in this volume examine how everyday interactions, cultural ideologies, celebrit...Loe edasi...
Notes from the EUs Eastern Edge is a bold, singular book—auto-ethnography with analytic bite, theoretically literate without scholasticism, and ethically self-aware. Along the Belarus–Poland frontier, it shows how Kremlin “migration engine...Loe edasi...
Provides a connected history of the ends of the French and British empires, through an examination of the support the British left gave Algerian liberation movements...Loe edasi...
This edited volume explores how caste has been theorized and critiqued in multiple philosophical, religious and narrative traditions in India across ancient, medieval and modern times. The essays in this volume explore the myriad ways in w...Loe edasi...
This volume explains how security was crucial to 19th-century Empire, showing how imperial rule was characterised by international competition and cooperation against perceived threats. This volume explores how the quest for security re...Loe edasi...
The prize-winning author uncovers the revelatory global story of Tudor and Stuart England - told through the merchants, migrants, sailors, travellers and spies who helped forge a nation....Loe edasi...
This book explores how Polish writers in colonial West Africa positioned themselves as neither colonized or colonizers, employing their unique in-between position to influence international discourse and policy on colonialism and its legacy....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 27-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Amsterdam University Press, ISBN-13: 9789463720199)
This book curates and examines colonial-era photographs from the late nineteenth to early twentieth centuries sourced from photo-archives of former British and Dutch colonies in Southeast Asia, uncovering how femininities in the Malay world are re...Loe edasi...
This open access book explores the story of early modern Swedish sailors and merchants captured and enslaved in the North African territory then known as ‘Barbary’ (Algeria, Libya, Tunisia, and Moroc...Loe edasi...
