Published to coincide with the 700-year anniversary of her death, Busse-Wilsons study caused a storm of controversy. Translated for the first time into English, this book reintroduces to a contemporary audience this long-forgotten but still provoca...Loe edasi...
This volume aims to uncover the diverse approach to plants in the Renaissance and seventeenth century that paved the way for a definition of botany as a fully-fledged discipline....Loe edasi...
Aesops Heritage explores the evolution of the Aesopian fable in France and the Low Countries (1500-1800), examining the intricate relationship between text, illustration, and education. New light is shed on some well-known and lesser-known f...Loe edasi...
Caravaggios art is subjected to a political interpretation that draws on Erasmuss writings to explain his paintings. According to Erasmuss Philosophia christiana, in contrast to Gabriele Paleottis Discorso intorno alle immagini sacre e profane o...Loe edasi...
This book offers the first comprehensive study of how Jesuit libraries were created, organised, and used across early modern Europe and throughout the overseas missions. Drawing on a broad range of archival and printed sources, including administrat...Loe edasi...
The volume deals with Jerusalem as an idea and traces it not only in time but in various forms of art as well such as architecture, book and wall-painting, and different literary genres with the aim of covering the whole spectrum of Jerusalem imag...Loe edasi...
Frans Hals (1582/83-1666) is rightfully considered one of the most important seventeenth-century Dutch painters. This volume, with fourteen contributions by twenty-six specialists on Halss paintings and his artistic network in Haarlem and beyond,...Loe edasi...
This volume traces the experiences of seven African American abolitionists who travelled to Ireland during the tumultuous years after the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850: Eli Stokes, William Allen, Isaac Davison, William Mitchell, William Troy, James C...Loe edasi...
Heroes, Traitors, and Survivors redefines Southeastern Europe’s role in modern military history. Long dismissed as a “powder keg” of violence, the region emerges here as a crucial laboratory of military innovation, governance, and state for...Loe edasi...
In seventeenth-century England goldsmiths became what we would now recognise as bankers. Goldsmiths shops sold not only gold and silver plate but also instruments of credit, such as bonds and bills of exchange, and offered safe places to lodge capit...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 09-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: New York University Press, ISBN-13: 9781479832583)
A bold new exploration of Fenian revolutionary activity across the AmericasIn the aftermath of the American Civil War, the Fenian movement stood at a crossroads. Thousands of demobilized Irish soldiers held the power to reshape hist...Loe edasi...
Sari: Stanford Studies on Central and Eastern Europe
(Ilmumisaeg: 09-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Stanford University Press, ISBN-13: 9781503646001)
This book explores the social costs of urban change and the limits of modernity through a comparative study of two Balkan cities, Belgrade and Sofia. Between 1820 and 1920, both cities grew from small Ottoman towns into large national capitals, as t...Loe edasi...
This book explores the social costs of urban change and the limits of modernity through a comparative study of two Balkan cities, Belgrade and Sofia. Between 1820 and 1920, both cities grew from small Ottoman towns into large national capitals, as t...Loe edasi...
From the New York Times bestselling author, the incredible true story of the American archaeologists and classicists who went undercover as OSS spies during World War II to fight the Nazis and protect the worlds most precious relics...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 09-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Toronto Press, ISBN-13: 9781487548087)
This book challenges the city-centered view of Europe by highlighting the importance of suburbs and peripheries, where millions live. It argues that Europe has long been shaped by suburbanization, which, since World War II, is closely linked to in...Loe edasi...
A major new history of the Crusades that illuminates the strength and sophistication of the Western and Muslim armies During the Crusades, the Western and Muslim armies developed various highly sophisticated strategies of both att...Loe edasi...
Offering an interdisciplinary analysis of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank’s (WB) interventions in Southern Europe during a transformative period in the 20th century and focusing on Southern Europe as its geographical frame, th...Loe edasi...
Sari: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
(Ilmumisaeg: 09-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Camden House Inc, ISBN-13: 9781640142091)
First English translation of an 1885 novel by one of the foremost writers of nineteenth-century Germany, examining fragmented communities in the modern times of the early Second Empire and resonating with our twenty-first century....Loe edasi...
This book examines the intellectual trajectories of international mid-career scholars working on the Second World War and the Holocaust in France across a wide range of disciplines, including history, literature, and cultural studies. It scrutinises...Loe edasi...
Radical initiatives to collectivise the land were defining features of the social revolution at the start of the Spanish Civil War. This book examines these agrarian collectives as integral to the upheaval that disabled the functions of the state...Loe edasi...
This book examines a military occupation famous for institutional changes, state building, and Russias military and political endeavours in Eastern Europe. However, these topics are not the focus of this book. Instead, it focuses on the actors and r...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 demonstrates how monarchy adjusted to the contours of modernity in remarkably diverse kinds of ways and contexts, preserving a central role in the configuration of the post-revolutionary world. It focuses on three geographically and poli...Loe edasi...
This open access book examines how Piedmont, in early modern Italy, developed silk production into a distinctive system of technological and social innovation. It explores the ways in which this fragile yet economically significant material shaped r...Loe edasi...
This book attempts to map the vernacular diffractions of longing in Spain and Portugal in order to explore their political, aesthetic and social role in the national and cultural imagination of the past two centuries. Special attention is paid not o...Loe edasi...
Early Modern English Foodways: A Critical Sourcebook is the first anthology devoted to food-related writing in Renaissance England. Bringing together seventy passages from a two-hundred-year sweep of British history, the volume demonstrates...Loe edasi...
A tribute to the distinguished diplomatic historian, Professor Michael Dockrill (1936-2018), this collection provides a comprehensive overview of the field of twentieth-century British foreign and defence policy. With contributions from the most est...Loe edasi...
Over the past two decades, academic, sociological/historical writing on football has flourished, mainly on the back of the debate over the games early development. This book adds to that debate, providing more information on the early meetings of...Loe edasi...
Moses and Homer explores the eradication of the Jewish tradition from German intellectual history between 1770 and 1800 and analyzes the numerous ruptures triggered by the exclusion of the representatives of Judaism from the German-speaking...Loe edasi...
Published to coincide with the 700-year anniversary of her death, Busse-Wilsons study caused a storm of controversy. Translated for the first time into English, this book reintroduces to a contemporary audience this long-forgotten but still provoca...Loe edasi...
This volume aims to uncover the diverse approach to plants in the Renaissance and seventeenth century that paved the way for a definition of botany as a fully-fledged discipline....Loe edasi...
Aesops Heritage explores the evolution of the Aesopian fable in France and the Low Countries (1500-1800), examining the intricate relationship between text, illustration, and education. New light is shed on some well-known and lesser-known f...Loe edasi...
Caravaggios art is subjected to a political interpretation that draws on Erasmuss writings to explain his paintings. According to Erasmuss Philosophia christiana, in contrast to Gabriele Paleottis Discorso intorno alle immagini sacre e profane o...Loe edasi...
This book offers the first comprehensive study of how Jesuit libraries were created, organised, and used across early modern Europe and throughout the overseas missions. Drawing on a broad range of archival and printed sources, including administrat...Loe edasi...
The volume deals with Jerusalem as an idea and traces it not only in time but in various forms of art as well such as architecture, book and wall-painting, and different literary genres with the aim of covering the whole spectrum of Jerusalem imag...Loe edasi...
Frans Hals (1582/83-1666) is rightfully considered one of the most important seventeenth-century Dutch painters. This volume, with fourteen contributions by twenty-six specialists on Halss paintings and his artistic network in Haarlem and beyond,...Loe edasi...
This volume traces the experiences of seven African American abolitionists who travelled to Ireland during the tumultuous years after the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850: Eli Stokes, William Allen, Isaac Davison, William Mitchell, William Troy, James C...Loe edasi...
Heroes, Traitors, and Survivors redefines Southeastern Europe’s role in modern military history. Long dismissed as a “powder keg” of violence, the region emerges here as a crucial laboratory of military innovation, governance, and state for...Loe edasi...
In seventeenth-century England goldsmiths became what we would now recognise as bankers. Goldsmiths shops sold not only gold and silver plate but also instruments of credit, such as bonds and bills of exchange, and offered safe places to lodge capit...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 09-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: New York University Press, ISBN-13: 9781479832583)
A bold new exploration of Fenian revolutionary activity across the AmericasIn the aftermath of the American Civil War, the Fenian movement stood at a crossroads. Thousands of demobilized Irish soldiers held the power to reshape hist...Loe edasi...
Sari: Stanford Studies on Central and Eastern Europe
(Ilmumisaeg: 09-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Stanford University Press, ISBN-13: 9781503646001)
This book explores the social costs of urban change and the limits of modernity through a comparative study of two Balkan cities, Belgrade and Sofia. Between 1820 and 1920, both cities grew from small Ottoman towns into large national capitals, as t...Loe edasi...
This book explores the social costs of urban change and the limits of modernity through a comparative study of two Balkan cities, Belgrade and Sofia. Between 1820 and 1920, both cities grew from small Ottoman towns into large national capitals, as t...Loe edasi...
A masterful new translation of Suetonius renowned biography of the twelve Caesars, bringing to life a portrait of the first Roman emperors in stunning detailThe ancient Roman empire was the supreme arena, where emperors had no choice...Loe edasi...
From the New York Times bestselling author, the incredible true story of the American archaeologists and classicists who went undercover as OSS spies during World War II to fight the Nazis and protect the worlds most precious relics...Loe edasi...
The Central German town of Weimar is perhaps most familiar to non-Germans for giving its name to the Weimar Republic. After Germany’s inglorious defeat in World War I, the signing of a new constitution in Weimar marked the nation’s first experiment w...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 09-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Toronto Press, ISBN-13: 9781487548087)
This book challenges the city-centered view of Europe by highlighting the importance of suburbs and peripheries, where millions live. It argues that Europe has long been shaped by suburbanization, which, since World War II, is closely linked to in...Loe edasi...
A major new history of the Crusades that illuminates the strength and sophistication of the Western and Muslim armies During the Crusades, the Western and Muslim armies developed various highly sophisticated strategies of both att...Loe edasi...
