This study explores for the first time the changing professions and roles of the women who worked to clothe six Stuart queens between 1603 1714: Anna of Denmark, Henrietta Maria, Catherine of Braganza, Mary of Modena, Queen Mary II and Queen Anne...Loe edasi...
In Antiquity (500 BCE-500 CE), leisure was always more significant than simply a short break from the hardships of everyday life. Leisure served to teach citizens about their various social roles and helped them construct identities, mainly by establ...Loe edasi...
During the Middle Ages (500-1450), active leisure was considered a productive activity, distinct from work and devotional pursuits. Running, fencing, playing ball, swimming, dancing, hunting or singing all could help to keep ones humours in balance...Loe edasi...
This book tells the story of the British votes for women campaign in a sequence of 100 objects. From the beginning of the campaign in 1866 until all women were granted the vote on the same terms as men in 1928, women used every means in their power...Loe edasi...
In the Modern Age (1920-present) leisure became inseparable from modern life. Rising incomes, less time at work, and more forms of available recreations fostered an intensive cultivation of leisure experiences for all classes of people. Between the w...Loe edasi...
During the Middle Ages (500-1450), active leisure was considered a productive activity, distinct from work and devotional pursuits. Running, fencing, playing ball, swimming, dancing, hunting or singing all could help to keep ones humours in balance...Loe edasi...
How did Christianity grow into an international faith that shaped the world as we know it? Remarkable A joy to read JOSEPHINE QUINN, author of How the World Made the West Dazzling Will change how you see Rome, and Christianity, for ever CATHERI...Loe edasi...
Dark and strange and wonderful MARK HADDON, author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-timeHilarious, moving, and delightfully weird JO HARKIN, author of The PretenderA bold, vivid and fiercely imaginative historical novel with an unf...Loe edasi...
The death of Queen Elizabeth II in 2022 deprived the United Kingdom of its longest-serving monarch. The Historical Dictionary of the Contemporary United Kingdom, Second Edition contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. Th...Loe edasi...
As societies around the globe undergo rapid change, Benjamin Nelsons theories help explain how and why civilizations evolve.This book offers a full-length, comprehensive analysis of Benjamin Nelsons ideas and historical studies, exploring his civil...Loe edasi...
In Antiquity (500 BCE-500 CE), leisure was always more significant than simply a short break from the hardships of everyday life. Leisure served to teach citizens about their various social roles and helped them construct identities, mainly by establ...Loe edasi...
In their English translation of the Yiddish play Mississippi, Ellen Perecman and Alyssa Quint have undertaken a work of cultural salvage. Penned in 1935 by Polish-Jewish playwright Leib Malach, the play was performed on the Warsaw stage by the experi...Loe edasi...
In their English translation of the Yiddish play Mississippi, Ellen Perecman and Alyssa Quint have undertaken a work of cultural salvage. Penned in 1935 by Polish-Jewish playwright Leib Malach, the play was performed on the Warsaw stage by the experi...Loe edasi...
In the Age of Enlightenment (1650-1800) the word leisure had a limited presence in intellectual discourse, but in public debates about related concepts such as pleasure and luxury modern practices of and attitudes towards leisure were increasingly...Loe edasi...
This book tells the story of the British votes for women campaign in a sequence of 100 objects. From the beginning of the campaign in 1866 until all women were granted the vote on the same terms as men in 1928, women used every means in their power...Loe edasi...
During the Renaissance (1450-1650), various forms of leisure from theatre and reading to sports became more prominent cultural phenomena due to professionalisation, institutionalisation and commercialisation. While festivals, sports and games fro...Loe edasi...
During the Renaissance (1450-1650), various forms of leisure from theatre and reading to sports became more prominent cultural phenomena due to professionalisation, institutionalisation and commercialisation. While festivals, sports and games fro...Loe edasi...
In the Modern Age (1920-present) leisure became inseparable from modern life. Rising incomes, less time at work, and more forms of available recreations fostered an intensive cultivation of leisure experiences for all classes of people. Between the w...Loe edasi...
This study explores for the first time the changing professions and roles of the women who worked to clothe six Stuart queens between 1603 1714: Anna of Denmark, Henrietta Maria, Catherine of Braganza, Mary of Modena, Queen Mary II and Queen Anne...Loe edasi...
The Age of Empire (1800-1920) stands out as a profoundly new era in the history of leisure. Especially in cities and towns the landscape of recreation substantially expanded and differentiated, motivating growing masses of people in the Western world...Loe edasi...
The Age of Empire (1800-1920) stands out as a profoundly new era in the history of leisure. Especially in cities and towns the landscape of recreation substantially expanded and differentiated, motivating growing masses of people in the Western world...Loe edasi...
In the Age of Enlightenment (1650-1800) the word leisure had a limited presence in intellectual discourse, but in public debates about related concepts such as pleasure and luxury modern practices of and attitudes towards leisure were increasingly...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jun-2026, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: AK Press, ISBN-13: 9781849356343)
Eighty years of lessons from the Black freedom struggle, labor movements, and internationalism.Raised among the entrails of chattel slavery in Durham, North Carolina, Walter shares political reflections and lessons from decades of movement experience...Loe edasi...
From a celebrated Native journalist, an electrifying memoir of travel, love, friendships, and connection across cultures.At the core of this quarter-century unfolding is Smiths personal origin story as a mighty, independent Indigenous woman with a d...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jun-2026, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Stanford University Press, ISBN-13: 9781503646841)
Purist Pursuits chronicles how and why Armenians in the Ottoman Empire fashioned a new language called Western Armenian. Tracing its rise from the eighteenth to the early-twentieth centuries, Jennifer Manoukian studies the evolution of an ever-changi...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jun-2026, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: Stanford University Press, ISBN-13: 9781503646841)
Purist Pursuits chronicles how and why Armenians in the Ottoman Empire fashioned a new language called Western Armenian. Tracing its rise from the eighteenth to the early-twentieth centuries, Jennifer Manoukian studies the evolution of an ever-changi...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 22-Jun-2026, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Ohio State University Press, ISBN-13: 9780814284940)
A memoir of race, public schooling, and identity as an "e;integration guinea pig"e; in the 1980s Midwest. Becoming Educated is Simone C. Drakes engaging and bold memoir about race, class, gender, and the meaning of education in the urban Mi...Loe edasi...
Borbala Klacsmann, Dora Pataricza, Peter Buchmuller
Sari: De Gruyter Series in Holocaust Studies and Antisemitism
(Ilmumisaeg: 22-Jun-2026, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: De Gruyter, ISBN-13: 9783111521305)
In the past decades, commemorative volumes with contributions from esteemed scholars have been published at each decade anniversary of the Hungarian Holocaust (the ghettoization and deportation of 1944). While these volumes have become milestones in...Loe edasi...
Borbala Klacsmann, Dora Pataricza, Peter Buchmuller
Sari: De Gruyter Series in Holocaust Studies and Antisemitism
(Ilmumisaeg: 22-Jun-2026, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: De Gruyter, ISBN-13: 9783111521183)
In the past decades, commemorative volumes with contributions from esteemed scholars have been published at each decade anniversary of the Hungarian Holocaust (the ghettoization and deportation of 1944). While these volumes have become milestones in...Loe edasi...
This absorbing study describes and illustrates the US, British, Japanese, French, Italian and Czechoslovak troops deployed to North Russia and Siberia at the height of the Russian Civil War.Between March 1918 and late 1920, a multinational force was...Loe edasi...
An in-depth look at one of the biggest set-piece battles and one of the most decisive in European history pre-WWI.Growing friction between the centuries-old Austrian Empire, self-styled guardian of Germany, and the smaller but more dynamic Prussian E...Loe edasi...
Fully illustrated, this study examines World War IIs most dramatic single-ship action, in which Stephen Hopkins fought a heavily armed German auxiliary cruiser, Stier. When the United States entered World War II, the Battle of the Atlantic was alre...Loe edasi...
The first authoritative, illustrated account of Russias high-risk strike on Ukraines capital, the centerpiece of its failed 2022 invasion plan.In 2022, Vladimir Putin was convinced he could seize Kyiv, install a puppet government, and close his fi...Loe edasi...
The first authoritative, illustrated account of Russias high-risk strike on Ukraines capital, the centerpiece of its failed 2022 invasion plan.In 2022, Vladimir Putin was convinced he could seize Kyiv, install a puppet government, and close his fi...Loe edasi...
This absorbing study describes and illustrates the US, British, Japanese, French, Italian and Czechoslovak troops deployed to North Russia and Siberia at the height of the Russian Civil War.Between March 1918 and late 1920, a multinational force was...Loe edasi...
The first illustrated study in English of the Finnish Air Forces battle to repel the Soviet invaders during the Winter War, one of the greatest David-and-Goliath air battles in history.In 1939, the Soviet Union invaded its neighbour Finland, sparkin...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 18-Jun-2026, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781040600894)
The studies in this book deal with religious groups and notions in late antique Arabia (ca. 150-750 CE), drawing especially on inscriptions and other contemporary sources. They explore the religious and societal dynamics of Arabia during this pivotal...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 18-Jun-2026, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781040600917)
The studies in this book deal with religious groups and notions in late antique Arabia (ca. 150-750 CE), drawing especially on inscriptions and other contemporary sources. They explore the religious and societal dynamics of Arabia during this pivotal...Loe edasi...
Fully illustrated, this study examines World War IIs most dramatic single-ship action, in which Stephen Hopkins fought a heavily armed German auxiliary cruiser, Stier. When the United States entered World War II, the Battle of the Atlantic was alre...Loe edasi...
An in-depth look at one of the biggest set-piece battles and one of the most decisive in European history pre-WWI.Growing friction between the centuries-old Austrian Empire, self-styled guardian of Germany, and the smaller but more dynamic Prussian E...Loe edasi...
The first illustrated study in English of the Finnish Air Forces battle to repel the Soviet invaders during the Winter War, one of the greatest David-and-Goliath air battles in history.In 1939, the Soviet Union invaded its neighbour Finland, sparkin...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 17-Jun-2026, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781040576298)
Lady Charlotte Susan Maria Bury nee Campbell (1775-1861) is one of the most influential and least understood womens rights activists of the nineteenth century. Her landmark text, The Divorced, has been out of circulation in the UK for almost two cen...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 17-Jun-2026, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781040606209)
Lady Charlotte Susan Maria Bury nee Campbell (1775-1861) is one of the most influential and least understood womens rights activists of the nineteenth century. Her landmark text, The Divorced, has been out of circulation in the UK for almost two cen...Loe edasi...
Sari: Reconsiderations in Southern African History
(Ilmumisaeg: 16-Jun-2026, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: University of Virginia Press, ISBN-13: 9780813955100)
Examining the evolution of South African activists attitude toward the state of IsraelIn recent decades, scholars and activists have increasingly drawn on the language of apartheid to describe the sociopolitical situation in Israel and Palestine. In...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 16-Jun-2026, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9780691274188)
The first book-length study of dream interpretation in classical GreeceLong before Freud, dreams and how to make sense of them fascinated ancient thinkers. In The Ancient Interpretation of Dreams, Mirjam Kotwick traces a continuous intellectual pract...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 16-Jun-2026, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9780691287744)
A groundbreaking history of how modern American citizenship has workedand not workedfor Jews in the United StatesThe history of Jews in the United States is often told as if they immigrated, gained citizenship, and almost immediately achieved full le...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 16-Jun-2026, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9780691286990)
The first book-length study of dream interpretation in classical GreeceLong before Freud, dreams and how to make sense of them fascinated ancient thinkers. In The Ancient Interpretation of Dreams, Mirjam Kotwick traces a continuous intellectual pract...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 16-Jun-2026, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9780691280240)
A groundbreaking history of how modern American citizenship has workedand not workedfor Jews in the United StatesThe history of Jews in the United States is often told as if they immigrated, gained citizenship, and almost immediately achieved full le...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 16-Jun-2026, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: University of California Press, ISBN-13: 9780520410459)
"e;A gutsy, razor-sharp demystification of a powerful organization."e;-Publishers Weekly (starred review)The first-ever history of the Anti-Defamation League and its determined, century-long alliance with Western empire.The Anti-Defamation Le...Loe edasi...
Sari: Reconsiderations in Southern African History
(Ilmumisaeg: 16-Jun-2026, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: University of Virginia Press, ISBN-13: 9780813955100)
Examining the evolution of South African activists attitude toward the state of IsraelIn recent decades, scholars and activists have increasingly drawn on the language of apartheid to describe the sociopolitical situation in Israel and Palestine. In...Loe edasi...
