Since large-scale excavations began in the mid-19th century, scholarly studies of houses in Pompeii have emphasised the ’public’ nature of their design. Most Pompeian dwellings are viewed as spaces with high levels of transparency and permeability to...Loe edasi...
Reframes Cabot and Columbus within centuries of Atlantic trade and exploration. What did John Cabot and Christopher Columbus truly achieve—and what did they inherit? In this compelling reassessment, Lydia Towns traces their voyage...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Nebraska Press, ISBN-13: 9781496243461)
Rainforest Radicals presents the first history of one of the most innovative and successful environmental organizations of the late twentieth century. Rainforest Action Network emerged in 1985, when it took over a fledgling effort to protect rainfor...Loe edasi...
Sari: SUNY series, New Perspectives on the History of Political Thought
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: State University of New York Press, ISBN-13: 9798855807769)
Elucidates the shared insight into the critique of tyrannical rule among Plato, Xenophon, and Aristotle. Universal Tyranny offers the first comprehensive interpretation of the critique of tyranny in the thought of Socratess greatest stud...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Nebraska Press, ISBN-13: 9781496246820)
Rainforest Radicals presents the first history of one of the most innovative and successful environmental organizations of the late twentieth century. Rainforest Action Network emerged in 1985, when it took over a fledgling effort to protect rainfor...Loe edasi...
Sari: This Hallowed Ground: Guides to Civil War Battlefields
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Nebraska Press, ISBN-13: 9781496236203)
Through the winter of 1862 and spring of 1863, the U.S. Army and Robert E. Lees Army of Northern Virginia clashed along the Rappahannock River in two major battles. Both demonstrated the height of power for the Confederacy in the eastern theater. T...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Virginia Press, ISBN-13: 9780813953786)
In an exciting new approach to witchcraft studies, The Witch in the Western Imagination examines the visual representation of witches in early modern Europe. With vibrant and lucid prose, Lyndal Roper moves away from the typical witchcraft studies o...Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1983, this book discusses the emergence of a new concept of the state as a substantive entity and the source of the rulers authority over his subjects. It maintains that such a concept emerged in French political thought of t...Loe edasi...
Revolutionaries traces the gendered experiences of revolution from the 18th century Atlantic Revolutions through the late 20th century. With an explanatory framework that focuses on the evolution of revolutionary scripts, Revolutionaries synthesizes...Loe edasi...
Revolutionaries traces the gendered experiences of revolution from the 18th century Atlantic Revolutions through the late 20th century. With an explanatory framework that focuses on the evolution of revolutionary ‘scri...Loe edasi...
More than a century has passed since the arrival of British, French, and Italian forces in Istanbul in 1918, marking the defeat of the Ottoman Empire in the First World War. The almost five-year-long occupation of the city that followed remains larg...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Essex Publications (Imprint of University of Hertfordshire Press), ISBN-13: 9781912260799)
How did the profession of medicine evolve during Queen Victorias reign? In this book Jane Pearson shows how doctors working in Colchester during the Victorian period developed professionally and also investigates the extent to which they effected m...Loe edasi...
This open access book examines intelligence organization in sixteenth-century Sweden. The specific aim is to examine the intelligence networks organized in Sweden during the reigns of Gustav Vasa, Erik XIV and Johan III. The study explores the ope...Loe edasi...
The Revolution in Time explores the idea that people in Western Europe changed the way they thought about the concept of time over the early modern period, by examining reactions to the 1688-1689 revolution in England. The study exam...Loe edasi...
Catalina flying boats had unique characteristics and were operated by the RAAF in the Pacific War combat zone from the first day of the war to the last, serving in several key roles. This is a complete operational history of the Catalina in Australi...Loe edasi...
