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 45120, was born at Chaeronea in Boeotia, in central Greece. He is renowned for his forty-six Parallel Lives, biographies planned to be ethical examp...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 breaks new ground by exploring regional scenes beyond London during the years 1965 to 1975. Whilst many accounts of this era have tended to focus on the Capital, John Griffiths journeys beyond its boundaries to assess how far the cultures...Loe edasi...
This volume examines the intertwined meanings of reason, crisis, and Europe against the backdrop of acute political, ethical, and geopolitical instability. Eschewing any singular diagnosis or overarching interpretive frame, it assembles a range of...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 11-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198821458)
The index volume of the definitive scholarly edition of the Letters and Charters of Henry II, King of England 1154-1189. Edited by Nicholas Vincent, this scholarly set is the most considerable body of charter evidence ever presented for the history o...Loe edasi...
The first book based exclusively on Arabic sources in the study of the early modern religious encounters between Western Europe and the Islamic Mediterran...Loe edasi...
Sari: Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series
(Ilmumisaeg: 11-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009628877)
This book offers an innovative study of the uses of writing in early medieval England during a pivotal century of political and societal upheaval. It will appeal to students and scholars interested in Anglo-Saxon and early medieval England, the viki...Loe edasi...
Fashioning London charts the history of clothing in Englands capital through its manufacture, promotion, cultural significance, and the unique styles of dress that, ultimately, challenged the fashion dominance of Paris, Milan and New York....Loe edasi...
Fashioning London charts the history of clothing in Englands capital through its manufacture, promotion, cultural significance, and the unique styles of dress that, ultimately, challenged the fashion dominance of Paris, Milan and New York....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 11-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198867050)
We all know that inns and taverns occupy a special place in British history and our culture today. A Night at the Inn shows that inns were not just important as social spaces - somewhere to meet friends for a drink - but essential parts of the toolk...Loe edasi...
An exploration of the 1525 German Peasants War which emphasises the crucial role of media and the printing press in the conflict and its legacy.Why did German agrarian protests, normally very local or regional, all meld together in...Loe edasi...
A history of US-European relations through the long 20th century, focusing on the development of the EU and the economic, political, security and cultural implications for the Atlantic Alliance....Loe edasi...
A history of US-European relations through the long 20th century, focusing on the development of the EU and the economic, political, security and cultural implications for the Atlantic Alliance....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 11-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198794721)
This book explores Paris-educated intellectuals in the thirteenth century. It outlines their attempts to combine promotion of social and moral reforms with recruiting for crusade campaigns, and assesses their impact on contemporary secular and eccle...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 11-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780192870889)
This book explores the influence of perceived lessons from national history, particularly the resonance between these lessons at the elite level and memory discourses in society, on Germanys grand strategy...Loe edasi...
This book explores the European stances of three of Northern Ireland’s political parties, culminating in one of the most tumultuous episodes in recent UK, Irish, and European politics....Loe edasi...
Female convents in early modern Lisbon were important economic, cultural, social and even political spaces which housed generations of elite women. Until now they have received much less attention than comparable institutions across the early mode...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 11-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009456128)
From Dynamo Moscows postwar tour of Britain to the inaugural Womens World Cup, Cold War Football charts the clash between capitalism and communism through ten iconic matches. This is a fascinating and unique history of how the Cold War shaped foot...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 45120, was born at Chaeronea in Boeotia, in central Greece. He is renowned for his forty-six Parallel Lives, biographies planned to be ethical examp...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...
