This book offers the first major analysis of William Wilberforce’s clerical networks, demonstrating that while a devoted Anglican, he was deeply intertwined with evangelicals of various ecclesiastical traditions. This book offers th...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 18-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: William Collins, ISBN-13: 9780008743246)
From awe-inspiring Norman castles, to the homes we live in, Simon Thurley explores how the architecture of this small island influenced the world....Loe edasi...
How do you restore churches and sacred spaces after the devastation of confessional violence and warfare? This study analyses how this was achieved and the multiple agents involved, amidst the on-going political upheaval and Catholic renewal in the L...Loe edasi...
This is a collection of the most important charter materials from medieval Sardinia. Translated into English for the first time, they open up an important, but little-known, history of an island at the very centre of the medieval Mediterranean....Loe edasi...
This book offers a novel approach to the study of the Roman imperial cult, disrupting the traditional Eurocentric narrative and tendency to relativise the cults religious dimension in favour of its political implications. Instead, this collection ar...Loe edasi...
Nicholas of Cusa (Nicolaus Cusanus), the 15th-century church lawyer, bishop, and cardinal, fascinates up to this day as an independent mind. His original scholarly work emerges from a critical distance to the scholastic universities of his age. At t...Loe edasi...
This collection of essays offers the first comprehensive examination of the English community of Rome from the late fifteenth century to the early decades of the nineteenth century. It explains the arrival and settlement of this migrant group in the...Loe edasi...
Anselm of Canterburys monastic world was woven from scriptural material, yet the Bibles selective presence (and absence) in his writings remains a puzzle. In Anselms program of faith seeking understanding, where does scripture stand? This...Loe edasi...
Who is your favourite woman writer from the 1800s? Today, many readers are likely to name Jane Austen, but in the 1880s, a common answer across Europe might well have been E. Marlitt. Redrawing Europes Literary Map sets out to uncover which female a...Loe edasi...
This book brings together a diverse array of perspectives and histories that weave together notions of Black-ness, British-ness, and danc...Loe edasi...
This is first full account of the most portrayed figural subject in Anglo-Saxon sculpture: the Crucifixion. It brings together in a single volume a record of every known stone depiction related to the Crucifixion from the pre-Conquest kingdoms, from...Loe edasi...
Churchmen in the Middle Ages were, in theory, men of peace; in reality, the Church became inextricably enmeshed in the violence of the age, not infrequently functioning as a major contributing factor. This collection of essays explores th...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 18-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198980711)
This book explores the history of the persecution of the Sinti and Roma communities in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland from 1870 to 1945. Using a transnational approach, it reveals how Nazi racial policies evolved from attempts at assimilation to...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 18-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: John Murray Publishers Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781399824385)
A respected historian of the British Empire closes the chasm between how the British see themselves and how they are actually seen abroad....Loe edasi...
A landmark new two thousand year history of the entire Roman Empire - from its emergence in the Iron Age to the capture of Constantinople in the thirteenth century...Loe edasi...
In the centuries between the invention of printing and the birth of copyright, even the most enlightened men and women believed in the need to monitor the circulation of books and repress ideas considered harmful to society. What distinguished the R...Loe edasi...
Beyond hegemonic thoughts, the Post-Western sociology enables a new dialogue between East Asia (China, Japan, Korea) and Europe on common and local knowledge to consider theoretical continuities and discontinuities, to develop transnational methodo...Loe edasi...
Lady Charlotte Susan Maria Bury née Campbell is one of the most influential womens rights activists of the 19th century. The Divorced has been out of circulation in the UK for almost two centuries; this new edition redefines her work not as silver-f...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 16-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Harvard University Press, ISBN-13: 9780674997790)
Eclectic essays on ethics, education, and much else besides.Plutarch (Plutarchus), ca. AD 45–120, was born at Chaeronea in Boeotia, in central Greece. He is renowned for his forty-six Parallel Lives, biographies planned to be...Loe edasi...
Sari: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
(Ilmumisaeg: 16-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Camden House Inc, ISBN-13: 9781640142350)
Describes the relationship between economic and novelistic form within the period 1900-1934 by way of major novels by Kafka, Thomas Mann, Brecht, B. Traven, Ödön von Horváth, and Vicki Baum....Loe edasi...
Traces how Shostakovichs music in France shifted from being seen in its communist context to an emblem of humanism and resistance across the twentieth century....Loe edasi...
This open access volume explores the history of short-term employment and precarious work in pre-industrial Northern Europe. Contrary to popular belief, stable, long-term employmentpotentially lasting decadeswas uncommon in Northern Europe until the...Loe edasi...
This book highlights significant social and political developments in the late antique Mediterranean world. It will appeal to scholars and readers interested in the military, political, and social history of Late Antiquity, as well as those working...Loe edasi...
This book presents a comprehensive overview of womens activities in various spheres of life in medieval Poland and its neighbouring countries, seeking to move beyond the commonly accepted perspective of queens and higher nobility from the social...Loe edasi...
This book explores the interaction of European Enlightenment thinkers with Chinese theory and shows how ideas from China and ideas about China had a profound impact on Enlightenment thought....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...
This volume, the first of its kind, investigates the representation of women in the travel accounts of European travellers from the Age of Explorati...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...
It is rare to write about history as it unfolds. A coronation at Westminster Abbey is at once a ceremony steeped in over a thousand years of tradition, dating back to the Anglo-Saxon period, and an event firmly of the present era. Coronations are mo...Loe edasi...
This book offers the first major analysis of William Wilberforce’s clerical networks, demonstrating that while a devoted Anglican, he was deeply intertwined with evangelicals of various ecclesiastical traditions. This book offers th...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 18-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: William Collins, ISBN-13: 9780008743246)
From awe-inspiring Norman castles, to the homes we live in, Simon Thurley explores how the architecture of this small island influenced the world....Loe edasi...
A collection of interviews with the current Prime Minister of Italy. A few weeks after taking charge of the Italian government, Giorgia Meloni was told by journalist Alessandro Sallusti: Its a shame that a sitting Prime Minister can...Loe edasi...
How do you restore churches and sacred spaces after the devastation of confessional violence and warfare? This study analyses how this was achieved and the multiple agents involved, amidst the on-going political upheaval and Catholic renewal in the L...Loe edasi...
This is a collection of the most important charter materials from medieval Sardinia. Translated into English for the first time, they open up an important, but little-known, history of an island at the very centre of the medieval Mediterranean....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 18-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781805265832)
An absorbing new history of European colonialism, showing how ideas of retribution and revenge were used to justify violent conquest and rule....Loe edasi...
Cromwell: Parliaments Crusading Politician is unique, an account of one great parliamentarian written by another great parliamentarian, with an insiders perspective on what Oliver Cromwell in Parliament achieved and how he achieved it....Loe edasi...
This book offers a novel approach to the study of the Roman imperial cult, disrupting the traditional Eurocentric narrative and tendency to relativise the cults religious dimension in favour of its political implications. Instead, this collection ar...Loe edasi...
Nicholas of Cusa (Nicolaus Cusanus), the 15th-century church lawyer, bishop, and cardinal, fascinates up to this day as an independent mind. His original scholarly work emerges from a critical distance to the scholastic universities of his age. At t...Loe edasi...
This collection of essays offers the first comprehensive examination of the English community of Rome from the late fifteenth century to the early decades of the nineteenth century. It explains the arrival and settlement of this migrant group in the...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 18-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: John Donald, ISBN-13: 9780859767484)
Winner of the Frank Watson Book Prize for the best book published on Scottish History. The legendary Scottish king Máel Coluim III, also known as Malcolm Canmore, is often held to epitomise Scotlands ancient Gaelic k...Loe edasi...
Anselm of Canterburys monastic world was woven from scriptural material, yet the Bibles selective presence (and absence) in his writings remains a puzzle. In Anselms program of faith seeking understanding, where does scripture stand? This...Loe edasi...
Who is your favourite woman writer from the 1800s? Today, many readers are likely to name Jane Austen, but in the 1880s, a common answer across Europe might well have been E. Marlitt. Redrawing Europes Literary Map sets out to uncover which female a...Loe edasi...
This book brings together a diverse array of perspectives and histories that weave together notions of Black-ness, British-ness, and danc...Loe edasi...
This is first full account of the most portrayed figural subject in Anglo-Saxon sculpture: the Crucifixion. It brings together in a single volume a record of every known stone depiction related to the Crucifixion from the pre-Conquest kingdoms, from...Loe edasi...
Churchmen in the Middle Ages were, in theory, men of peace; in reality, the Church became inextricably enmeshed in the violence of the age, not infrequently functioning as a major contributing factor. This collection of essays explores th...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 18-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198980711)
This book explores the history of the persecution of the Sinti and Roma communities in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland from 1870 to 1945. Using a transnational approach, it reveals how Nazi racial policies evolved from attempts at assimilation to...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 18-Jun-2026, Jigsaw, Kirjastus: Laurence King Publishing, ISBN-13: 9781399632829)
Immerse yourself in some of the most interesting scandals in British and European royal history, from the intrigues of Henry VIII to Guy Fawkes gunpowder plot. Illustrated by Barry Falls and accompanied by an expert text from historian and author P...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 18-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: John Murray Publishers Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781399824385)
A respected historian of the British Empire closes the chasm between how the British see themselves and how they are actually seen abroad....Loe edasi...
A landmark new two thousand year history of the entire Roman Empire - from its emergence in the Iron Age to the capture of Constantinople in the thirteenth century...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 18-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: John Donald, ISBN-13: 9780859767491)
Winner of the 2025 Frank Watson Book PrizeWhy did Scots in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries know so little about their past and even less about those who controlled their history? Is the historical narrative the only legitimate medium t...Loe edasi...
In the centuries between the invention of printing and the birth of copyright, even the most enlightened men and women believed in the need to monitor the circulation of books and repress ideas considered harmful to society. What distinguished the R...Loe edasi...
Beyond hegemonic thoughts, the Post-Western sociology enables a new dialogue between East Asia (China, Japan, Korea) and Europe on common and local knowledge to consider theoretical continuities and discontinuities, to develop transnational methodo...Loe edasi...
Lady Charlotte Susan Maria Bury née Campbell is one of the most influential womens rights activists of the 19th century. The Divorced has been out of circulation in the UK for almost two centuries; this new edition redefines her work not as silver-f...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 16-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Harvard University Press, ISBN-13: 9780674997790)
Eclectic essays on ethics, education, and much else besides.Plutarch (Plutarchus), ca. AD 45–120, was born at Chaeronea in Boeotia, in central Greece. He is renowned for his forty-six Parallel Lives, biographies planned to be...Loe edasi...
Sari: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
(Ilmumisaeg: 16-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Camden House Inc, ISBN-13: 9781640142350)
Describes the relationship between economic and novelistic form within the period 1900-1934 by way of major novels by Kafka, Thomas Mann, Brecht, B. Traven, Ödön von Horváth, and Vicki Baum....Loe edasi...
Traces how Shostakovichs music in France shifted from being seen in its communist context to an emblem of humanism and resistance across the twentieth century....Loe edasi...
• Francisco de Holandas Dialogues record Michelangelos participation in art discussions hosted by Vittoria Colonna, revealing his thoughts and world as he painted The Last JudgementThe Dialogues by Portuguese painter and writer Fra...Loe edasi...
• Condivis unparalleled biography presents his friend Michelangelos life, work and struggles in the world of Papal politics and Italian warsMichelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564) remains arguably the most powerful artist in the Wester...Loe edasi...
For four days in early 1991, Royal Navy Lynx helicopters buzzed low around the Shatt-al-Arab marshlands of southern Iraq. They were searching for the Iraqi fleet, and whenever discovered their hulls became targets for cutting edge smart munitions. Th...Loe edasi...
The New Area Studies enable a rethinking of world history and a more critical approach to traditional historical writing. An additional factor contributing to the critical reflection on traditional area studies was the contemporary political ......Loe edasi...
This open access volume explores the history of short-term employment and precarious work in pre-industrial Northern Europe. Contrary to popular belief, stable, long-term employmentpotentially lasting decadeswas uncommon in Northern Europe until the...Loe edasi...
This book highlights significant social and political developments in the late antique Mediterranean world. It will appeal to scholars and readers interested in the military, political, and social history of Late Antiquity, as well as those working...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cornell University Press, ISBN-13: 9781501787027)
Uniformed Murderers investigates the causes, logistics, motivations, and legal awareness of the Romanian servicemen both military and gendarmerie who massacred or otherwise caused the death of more than three thousand Jews, Roma, and others in 1941...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cornell University Press, ISBN-13: 9781501786952)
A Protestant Air focuses on the Protestant connection linking three intellectual giants of twentieth-century French thought: André Gide, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Roland Barthes. All three came from a Protestant background and thus shared a common margi...Loe edasi...
A Protestant Air focuses on the Protestant connection linking three intellectual giants of twentieth-century French thought: André Gide, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Roland Barthes. All three came from a Protestant background and thus shared a common margi...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cornell University Press, ISBN-13: 9781501787294)
Trees abound in Shakespeares plays, and in Tree-Becoming Shannon Kelley explores how he uses his characters identification with cypress, balsam, bay-laurel, myrrh, and pine trees as metaphors to express emotional distress...Loe edasi...
Trees abound in Shakespeares plays, and in Tree-Becoming Shannon Kelley explores how he uses his characters identification with cypress, balsam, bay laurel, myrrh, and pine trees as metaphors to express emotional distress. Opening new avenues for...Loe edasi...
Herzens Letters offers readers a biographical narrative based on translated and annotated correspondence written by and to Alexander Herzen (18121870), one of the most consequential figures in the run-up to the Russian Revolution and an inspiration...Loe edasi...
Sari: NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Northern Illinois University Press, ISBN-13: 9781501787058)
Herzens Letters offers readers a biographical narrative based on translated and annotated correspondence written by and to Alexander Herzen (18121870), one of the most consequential figures in the run-up to the Russian Revolution and an inspiration...Loe edasi...
The vast majority of people throughout history have left few written traces. That is especially the case for those who were brutally forced from their homes, stripped of their possessions, and swiftly imprisoned, enslaved, or murdered. Objects of...Loe edasi...
The vast majority of people throughout history have left few written traces. That is especially the case for those who were brutally forced from their homes, stripped of their possessions, and swiftly imprisoned, enslaved, or murdered. Objects of...Loe edasi...
