A Finaeon Guide Powered by GFDThis book provides a history of currencies for each currency-issuing country or territory on Earth. Sections offer details about coins and banknotes, along with brief histories to help contextu...Loe edasi...
Religion, History and Identity Construction covers the historiographical shift from universalistic monogenist narratives to chauvinistic polygenist narratives in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Religion, History a...Loe edasi...
This book examines the forgotten proposal to make Constantinople the headquarters of the League of Nations after the First World War, in order to rethink the origins of modern international order. By tracing the debate between liberal internationali...Loe edasi...
Emphasizing the emergence of new institutional realities from the encounter between colonizers and colonized people, this book highlights the capacity of indigenous communities, as well as settlers themselves, to shape and transform laws and legal...Loe edasi...
**SHORTLISTED FOR 2025 THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION**A startling exploration of slavery in the Islamic world from the 7th century to the presentSlavery in the Islamic world has a long, diverse and controversial history...Loe edasi...
Detlef Siegfrieds long-awaited English translation chronicles Ernest Bornemans journey from his days as a young Jewish Communist in Berlin to his ventures in England and Canada, and ultimately, to his endeavors as the most prominent sexologist spear...Loe edasi...
This book focuses exclusively on women in Soviet dissident movements and their contributions to calling for change in the Soviet Union from the 1960s until the regime’s collapse in 1991. Through compelling case studies, vivid snapshots, an...Loe edasi...
Commodity Conflict (1978) examines the world economy after the crises of the early 1970s, with the collapse of the international monetary system, the quadrupling of oil prices, the boom in commodity prices in 1973 and 1974 and by unpreceden...Loe edasi...
Radical Economics (1982) explores the major themes of radical economics. It begins by considering the shortcomings of orthodox economics, and goes on to consider how radical economics evolved. The question of Marxian economics and how this...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009724173)
A social and cultural history of the world from the Paleolithic to the present, designed for courses in world and global history and general readers. This new edition includes updates to each chapter, drawing on material from the history of the emot...Loe edasi...
A social and cultural history of the world from the Paleolithic to the present, designed for courses in world and global history and general readers. This new edition includes updates to each chapter, drawing on material from the history of the emot...Loe edasi...
Between Rebels and Rulers in the Early Islamicate World offers the first dedicated examination of the phenomenon of rebellion across the early Islamicate world. It combines discourse analysis with a return to long-neglected social-historical a...Loe edasi...
Positioned at the crossroads of global and military history, this is a major contribution to the cultural and social history of war and its aftermath. Cabanes and Givens bring together leading experts to offer an interlaced history which rethinks th...Loe edasi...
Sari: Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Jul-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009692946)
Positioned at the crossroads of global and military history, this is a major contribution to the cultural and social history of war and its aftermath. Cabanes and Givens bring together leading experts to offer an interlaced history which rethinks th...Loe edasi...
This book explores the history of the Flat Earth idea and its advocates to determine what the political dimensions inherent to the idea of a Flat Earth are. For thousands of years, the belief that the Earth is flat has been a minority view expressed...Loe edasi...
From the early nineteenth century, Indian itinerant artists have been journeying to the imperial centers This volume features source materials, including advertisements, biographies, legal documents, news articles, playbills, posters, reviews, the...Loe edasi...
This volume contextualizes the circus as a cultural force in North America during the long nineteenth century. Individually, resources provide insight into the business, people, acts, and audience experience in a period that witnessed explosive gr...Loe edasi...
This volume of documentary sources and critical commentary provides a history of circus in Australia in the long nineteenth century. Taking root by the 1840s, Australia’s lively circus culture became the region’s dominant entertainment by the cent...Loe edasi...
This volume establishes the historical foundations of the modern circus, tracing its development from pre-Astley entertainments to nineteenth-century British performance culture. Drawing extensively on rare archival materials, it situates circus w...Loe edasi...
This is a history of circus clowning in the long nineteenth century, told through original documents. It demonstrates how particular types, acts and stunts originated, were performed and underwent variation over time. The equestrian and acrobatic...Loe edasi...
Gillian Arrighi, Aastha Gandhi, Kate Holmes, Jenny Leigh Dupuis, Kim Baston, Jennifer Lemmer Posey, Betsy Golden Kellem, Mark St Leon, Laurence Senelick, Matthew McMahan...
This collection of primary sources brings together a series of documents derived from archives, journals, newspapers, out-of-print books, memoirs, letters, and other written materials pertaining to the circus during the long nineteenth century (1789-...Loe edasi...
Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Humanitarian crises are a central problem of modern history and contemporary international relations. According to United Nations estimates, 300 million people required humanitar...Loe edasi...
This book provides a succinct history of a medium-sized silk-weaving firm, Grout & Co, concentrating on the Canadian branch plant it set up following the First World War and operated for three decades. Extraordinarily full records of this proto-mult...Loe edasi...
Wreckers sinks the old narratives of imperialism, revealing the violent, chaotic and improvised reality of empire-building from the fifteenth to seventeenth centuries. Clever and compelling book. The storytelling and the scholarship fair...Loe edasi...
WINNER OF THE SOCIETY OF AMERICAN ARCHIVISTS WALDO GIFFORD LELAND AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE AND USEFULNESS IN ARCHIVAL HISTORY, THEORY, AND PRACTICE 2025Archives and Emotions argues, at its most fundamental level, that emotion...Loe edasi...
This collection questions the supremacy of the human species in British imperial history and explores the relationship between human and nonhuman worlds to reimagine empire as the effect of biological, chemical and cultural processes....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.Challenging the orthodox account of the Enlightenm...Loe edasi...
The Gallipoli campaign of the First World War seems to have been exhaustively studied by shelves of books and thousands of articles. This edited volume challenges this perception of completion, revealing extensive uncovered ground, misunderstandin...Loe edasi...
A Finaeon Guide Powered by GFDThis book provides a history of currencies for each currency-issuing country or territory on Earth. Sections offer details about coins and banknotes, along with brief histories to help contextu...Loe edasi...
Religion, History and Identity Construction covers the historiographical shift from universalistic monogenist narratives to chauvinistic polygenist narratives in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Religion, History a...Loe edasi...
Institut für die Geschichte und Zukunft der Arbeit, Horst Neumann, Cornelius Markert, Marc Amlinger
Sari: Work in Global and Historical Perspective
(Ilmumisaeg: 06-Jul-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, ISBN-13: 9783119145695)
The Matrix of Work provides an interdisciplinary big picture of the global history of human work from its beginnings to the end of the 21st century. In the sense of a matrix, the book encompasses both an in-depth analysis of the essential structural...Loe edasi...
This book examines the forgotten proposal to make Constantinople the headquarters of the League of Nations after the First World War, in order to rethink the origins of modern international order. By tracing the debate between liberal internationali...Loe edasi...
Wooden barrels have facilitated the past 2000 years of commerce. During the height of their demand from the 1400s to the late 1900s, wine, whiskey, and beer led to a long list of commodities that were made, aged, transported, and stored in barr...Loe edasi...
Emphasizing the emergence of new institutional realities from the encounter between colonizers and colonized people, this book highlights the capacity of indigenous communities, as well as settlers themselves, to shape and transform laws and legal...Loe edasi...
From the author of the New York Times bestselling The Mysterious Case of Rudolf Diesel comes the enthralling hidden history of one of the world’s most successful business titans, a rival to the Rockefellers and the Rothschilds, whose...Loe edasi...
**SHORTLISTED FOR 2025 THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION**A startling exploration of slavery in the Islamic world from the 7th century to the presentSlavery in the Islamic world has a long, diverse and controversial history...Loe edasi...
Detlef Siegfrieds long-awaited English translation chronicles Ernest Bornemans journey from his days as a young Jewish Communist in Berlin to his ventures in England and Canada, and ultimately, to his endeavors as the most prominent sexologist spear...Loe edasi...
This book focuses exclusively on women in Soviet dissident movements and their contributions to calling for change in the Soviet Union from the 1960s until the regime’s collapse in 1991. Through compelling case studies, vivid snapshots, an...Loe edasi...
Commodity Conflict (1978) examines the world economy after the crises of the early 1970s, with the collapse of the international monetary system, the quadrupling of oil prices, the boom in commodity prices in 1973 and 1974 and by unpreceden...Loe edasi...
Radical Economics (1982) explores the major themes of radical economics. It begins by considering the shortcomings of orthodox economics, and goes on to consider how radical economics evolved. The question of Marxian economics and how this...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009724173)
A social and cultural history of the world from the Paleolithic to the present, designed for courses in world and global history and general readers. This new edition includes updates to each chapter, drawing on material from the history of the emot...Loe edasi...
A social and cultural history of the world from the Paleolithic to the present, designed for courses in world and global history and general readers. This new edition includes updates to each chapter, drawing on material from the history of the emot...Loe edasi...
