Not a typical overview of Latin American Architecture, the book uncovers a series of lineages, often hidden or overlooked by international critics. This book offers a dynamic, intergenerational view of architectural evolution that contrasts with t...Loe edasi...
Not a typical overview of Latin American Architecture, the book uncovers a series of lineages, often hidden or overlooked by international critics. This book offers a dynamic, intergenerational view of architectural evolution that contrasts with t...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...
An illuminating overview of the past, present, and future of political activism and engagement of American youth. Explore the past, present, and future of political activism and engagement of American youth in this illuminating encyclop...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...
Critically addressing the experience of being a problem, of dwellingas in the paradigmatic cases of the Black and the Palestinianin a racialized world where your social existence appears as a problem of/for being...Loe edasi...
Critically addressing the experience of being a problem, of dwellingas in the paradigmatic cases of the Black and the Palestinianin a racialized world where your social existence appears as a problem of/for being...Loe edasi...
This book explores how the Cold Wars ideological conflict was played out through competition over human rights values. As the West feared that the Soviet Union might win the Cold war, it shows how they sought to aggressively outf...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...
Jenkins sets about his task with infectious enthusiasm and draws out all the most important themes in Americas 250-year history The Times In the two hundred and fifty years since its foundation, the United States of America has grown to...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...
The acclaimed historian of Russia offers his compelling analysis of a dramatic turning point in recent Russian history: the August Coup of 1991....Loe edasi...
Presents an exploration of how Pentecostal theology can be revitalized by critically engaging with the Nicene Creed through the lens of African spirituality and decolonial thought....Loe edasi...
Explores the relationship between craft and war, examining craft fabrication, practices, objects, makers and users in global contexts throughout conflicts since the mid-19th century....Loe edasi...
Explores the relationship between craft and war, examining craft fabrication, practices, objects, makers and users in global contexts throughout conflicts since the mid-19th century....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...
This book analyses the historical interactions between UNESCO and China during the often-neglected period of 1945–1971.Spans UNESCO’s inception up to the year the People’s Republic of China (PRC) regained the official Chinese seat at the Un...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 11-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Advantage Media Group, ISBN-13: 9798891886360)
When the slogans are louder than the facts, evidence becomes a moral imperative.In Israel on Trial: Examining the History, the Evidence, and the Law, United States District Judge Roy K. Altman brings legal rigor to the world’s m...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...
A vivid account of one of historys most significant events: the approval, construction, and fateful decision to drop the atomic bomb - based on new research and interviews, timed to coincide with the 80th anniversary of the Hiroshima attack....Loe edasi...
This book charts the accelerating dynamics and disruptions of transformative change between 1960 and 2011, focusing on themes of political economy and terrorism, culture and identity, and environment....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...
These volumes give an overview of this period in the journals history and its aftermath, combining biographical accounts of the critics who wrote for Cahiers in the post 1968 period with theoretical explorations of their key texts....Loe edasi...
This book examines the wide and important geographical tradition that arose from the description of the world in the Imago mundi a medieval encyclopedic bestseller, almost unrivalled in popularity from its composition in the 1110s well into the a...Loe edasi...
This book presents a comprehensive account of how archaeology in Africa evolved, was challenged, and reimagined. Moving from nineteenth-century antiquarianism through independence to today, the book dismantles dark continent myths, foregrounds Afric...Loe edasi...
Tadeas Hajek of Hajek (15261600), Latinized as Thaddaeus Hagecius ab Hagek/Hayek, was a key figure in early scientific debates not only in his native Bohemia. In this volume, the contributors study various aspects of Hayeks thought to present a less...Loe edasi...
The first English language history of Chinas Most Important Battle in World War II In April 1944, Imperial Japan launched Operation Ichigo to secure a transport route linking Japanese forces in northern China and Southeast Asia, while el...Loe edasi...
This book examines the relationship between education, schools, and Confucian classical studies during the late Qing and early Republican periods.The imperial examination system could not accommodate Western learning. Then, Chinese learning...Loe edasi...
This book discusses the medical knowledge system in the pre-Qin period and its specific development during the Han Dynasty, drawing on related accounts in non-medical literature as background evidence and analyzing in detail the texts of the current...Loe edasi...
This book offers the first comprehensive study of how Jesuit libraries were created, organised, and used across early modern Europe and throughout the overseas missions. Drawing on a broad range of archival and printed sources, including administrat...Loe edasi...
Across shifting empires and today’s digital frontiers, Liu examines the Chinese concept of tianxia—the ancient vision of “all under heaven”—as it promises harmony while organizing domination.This book moves through maps, rituals, fro...Loe edasi...
Professor Dr Fuat Sezgin meticulously documented the scientific writings and advances achieved by Muslim scholars. His celebrated Geschichte des arabischen Schrifttums (GAS), the largest bio-bibliography for the Arabic literary tradition in ge...Loe edasi...
A prose work interspersed with poetry, Le Printemps dYver was highly popular in its day, seeing thirty editions between 1572 and 1635. This modern English translation constitutes the first complete translation of the original French text....Loe edasi...
This book discusses the mishu (staff member, secretary) system and the operation of the Chinese Communist Party between 1921 and 2022, focusing on the systems impact on high-level politics and decision-making during four key periods....Loe edasi...
This volume provides important insights it draws the outlines of a new field of scholarship at the crossroads of the social histories of punishment and labour and on the ways through which they can be studied....Loe edasi...
In Objects, Commodities and Material Cultures, the interdisciplinary community of specialists around the Amsterdam Centre for the Study of Early Modernity innovatively explores the diverse early modern world of objects How did objects...Loe edasi...
This volume aims to uncover the diverse approach to plants in the Renaissance and seventeenth century that paved the way for a definition of botany as a fully-fledged discipline....Loe edasi...
Examining the functions of Sixteenth-century Flemish painter Joachim Beuckelaer strange and new subject matter, Goldstein situates his paintings and those of his closest Italian follower, Vincenzo Campi, in the physical space of the dining room....Loe edasi...
Processes of making in early modern Europe were both tacit and embodied.This volume focuses on the body of the maker to ask how processes of making, experimenting, experiencing, and reconstructing illuminate early modern assumptions and understandin...Loe edasi...
The study adds a new focus on female letter writing, the formation of social networks, and the gender dynamics at play in the households and communities of early modern Florence and Tuscany....Loe edasi...
The handwritten and printed missionary books of the Spanish viceroyalties of New Spain and Peru were key instruments designed to help study Indigenous languages. This volume considers these missionary books....Loe edasi...
Monuments of Diverse Heritage in Early America: Placemaking and Preservation by Black, Indigenous, and Jewish Peoples explores a more inclusive history of preserving public historic sites....Loe edasi...
Max Webers classical notion of enchantment serves in this book to highlight the clash and rewiring of ethical and cosmological codes in European and Indian early modern cultural encounters from the 16th century onward....Loe edasi...
Controversial Monuments: Personifying the Continents from the 18th to the 21st century explores how enduring representations of the continents continue to resonate in today’s visual and cultural imagination....Loe edasi...
The seven articles in this edited volume address the complex meanings that visual representations of plants and animals gained in early modern China and Japan. They aim to understand animals and plants in the new contexts of empirical and epistemolo...Loe edasi...
Aesops Heritage explores the evolution of the Aesopian fable in France and the Low Countries (1500-1800), examining the intricate relationship between text, illustration, and education. New light is shed on some well-known and lesser-known f...Loe edasi...
The mapping of the Netherlands East Indies was, first and foremost, meant to serve as an instrument for the government to keep its inhabitants under control and tap its resources. Only after 1900, in studies to alleviate poverty, did the colonial su...Loe edasi...
Caravaggios art is subjected to a political interpretation that draws on Erasmuss writings to explain his paintings. According to Erasmuss Philosophia christiana, in contrast to Gabriele Paleottis Discorso intorno alle immagini sacre e profane o...Loe edasi...
