This edited volume is centred on the production, discussion and consumption of contemporary art in the post-Yugoslav space now. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, contemporary art, gender studies, Slavic studies, politi...Loe edasi...
Laughter, Power, and the Unconscious presents groundbreaking research on humors psychological and sociopolitical aspects. Based on Shakespeares Globe experiments, it proposes humor as manic defence, challenging Freudian theory while examining Re...Loe edasi...
This book analyses processes of depoliticisation in modern Europe from the emergence of a distinct ‘political’ sphere in the late eighteenth century until the present day. Drawing on case studies from across the continent, it demonstrates that dep...Loe edasi...
On a sunny May morning in 1990, a bank courier strode out of the Bank of England and, minutes later, was robbed at knifepoint of 301 bearer bonds valued at £292 million. It was the biggest theft in British history. The thing is... when Ke...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: BBC Books, ISBN-13: 9781785948732)
What do our gardens say about us? Monty Don has spent many years travelling the world, from America to Japan, from Italy and the Adriatic to Spain and the Mediterranean, getting under the skin of a country through its gardens and gardening...Loe edasi...
The Reformation was a seismic event in European history, one that changed the medieval world. Much of what followed in European history can be traced back to this event. In this Very Short Introduction, Peter Marshall explains the causes and consequ...Loe edasi...
A fully illustrated study of the 6th-century campaigns that saw the Byzantine Empire largely reconquer the Mediterranean, examining Emperor Justinian Is generals and troops in detail....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: The History Press Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781803997650)
Mother to Anne Boleyn and grandmother of Elizabeth I, this fresh appraisal places Elizabeth Boleyn back in the centre of the Tudor world...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780192886613)
This book provides the first transnational history of one of the worlds oldest continuously performed dramas: the passion play at Oberammergau in Bavaria. Drawing on archival material in multiple countries and languages, the book shows how the play...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198881650)
Solidarity and Pressure is the first full-length study of the Irish Anti-Apartheid Movement (IAAM), founded in 1964. Drawing on seventy interviews, the IAAMs own records, and private papers from Anti-Apartheid activists, Solidarity and Pressure cap...Loe edasi...
The Routledge Handbook of European Borderlands reassesses the concept of borderlands in Europe, balancing case-specific perspectives with rich theoretical and conceptual avenues of research. This handbook will interest researchers of geography, poli...Loe edasi...
This book presents a critical history of Yugoslav socialist economics, from its inception in the late 1940s to its dissolution in the late 1980s. After the dramatic break with the Soviet Union in 1948, Yugoslavia found itself in urgent need of a t...Loe edasi...
Award-winning journalist Julia Ioffe tells the story of modern Russia through the history of its women, from revolution to utopia to autocracy. In 1990, seven-year-old Julia Ioffe and her family fled the Soviet Union. Nearl...Loe edasi...
Sari: George L. Mosse Series in the History of European Culture, Sexuality, and Ideas
(Ilmumisaeg: 21-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Wisconsin Press, ISBN-13: 9780299353100)
Founded in 1932, Thunder Cross (Perkonkrusts) was the largest and most prominent right-wing political party in Latvia in the early twentieth century. Its motto—“Latvia for Latvians!”—echoed the ultranationalist rhetoric of similar movements throughou...Loe edasi...