Based on an extensive body of Russian and German sources, this book reconstructs the fate of the approximately 1.5 million soldiers and officers of the Russian army held in German prisoner of war camps during the First World War. Moving beyond insti...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...
This book examines the enduring appeal of Odysseus in artistic representation from antiquity to the present. The volume aims to provide a sense of how this character changes from ancient Greek myth through modern poetry, and how this capacity for ch...Loe edasi...
This book examines the development of social policy in Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan through the framework of bureaucratic regimes. It traces the institutional continuity from the colonial Indian Civil Service to its post-colonial successors - the...Loe edasi...
Abraham Lincoln and the American Experiment in Self-Government revisits the most pressing question of the republics past and present: Can a nation founded on the principles of liberty and equality sustain itself through crisis? Leveraging an interdi...Loe edasi...
This volume gathers different disciplinary, methodological and thematic perspectives on architecture understood as a cultural, critical and design practice. Through an articulated dialogue between history and contemporaneity, theory and practice, de...Loe edasi...
This book offers a comprehensive exploration of Chinese Buddhist rituals and their pivotal role in shaping both Chinese Buddhism and broader Chinese culture. Translated from the revised and enlarged Chinese edition of Zhongguo hanchuan fojiao liyi b...Loe edasi...
This book, based on extensive first-hand research conducted between 2020 and 2024, places Russian antiquity in the center of analysis, and addresses memory-making in the regions. The author seeks to examine how public history is managed in Old Russi...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...
During the drafting of the Declaration of Independence in 1776, Thomas Jefferson and enslaved valet Robert Hemmings spent several months at 700 Market Street in Philadelphia. The editors and contributors to Declaration House reflect on the history o...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 03-Jul-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780197827635)
The Shikshapatri (1826) is a scripture presented as a letter to devotees from Swaminarayan (1781-1830), the founder and principal deity of the eponymous Swaminarayan tradition. Designated by millions as a revelatory scripture down to the bel...Loe edasi...
Australia is gaining a reputation as the proverbial canary in the coal mine of global environmental change. The driest inhabited continent on earth, Australia is now exposed to rising planetary temperatures and an increase in disastrous events suc...Loe edasi...
This study of Anne of Cleves, the fourth wife of King Henry VIII, offers readers a more nuanced retelling of her queenship, which has often been dismissed as unimportant due to its brevity. Re-evaluating many of the misconceptions surroundi...Loe edasi...
This study of Anne of Cleves, the fourth wife of King Henry VIII, offers readers a more nuanced retelling of her queenship, which has often been dismissed as unimportant due to its brevity. Re-evaluating many of the misconceptions surroundi...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 03-Jul-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Routledge India, ISBN-13: 9781032608075)
This volume explores the ways in which religion in the South Asian literary landscape play a significant role in the creation of political structures and secular democracies in South Asia. It highlights how the concepts of nation, nationalism, and se...Loe edasi...
This book examines the presence and patterns of posttraumatic growth in selected biblical texts in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament to show how ancient Israelites interpreted trauma, particularly the fall of Jerusalem, and how these responses reshap...Loe edasi...
Through the lens of whiteness as applied to White-body supremacy, this book examines the role racism played in shaping American dance from the late nineteenth century to the present. Thus, this book centralizes the actions of White dancers/choreogra...Loe edasi...
This book tells the bewildering tale of one of the most insidious, yet almost forgotten crimes against humanity planned by the Nazis during the Third Reich. Soon after taking power in 1933, the Nazis introduced a program of involuntary sterilization...Loe edasi...
Sari: Race In Nineteenth-Century Literatures And Cultures
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Jul-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198905950)
Fermanis argues that nineteenth-century settler fiction encodes complex and mobile interrelationships between settlers and migrants across the colonial southern hemisphere. By focusing on novels that depict short-term movement, this book demonstrate...Loe edasi...
This open access book examines how Piedmont, in early modern Italy, developed silk production into a distinctive system of technological and social innovation. It explores the ways in which this fragile yet economically significant material shaped r...Loe edasi...
In recent years an audacious attempt has been made to deprive us of our heroes. We have been told that instead of admiring and enjoying these brilliant figures from British history, we should be deeply embarrassed by them. No reasonable person suppo...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Jul-2026, Sheet music, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780193573192)
This anthology celebrates the rich legacy of Black composers from the nineteenth century to the present day. Highlighting music that has often been overlooked, it places the repertoire in its historical context and serves as a compelling introduction...Loe edasi...
Sari: Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Jul-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009609982)
This book examines the role of religion in the British Army in an era of rapid and far-reaching change. Michael Snape explores the religious culture of the Army, the religious contexts of its warfighting, counterinsurgency, and peacekeeping operatio...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Jul-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Allen Lane, ISBN-13: 9780241761083)
Utopia is not somewhere you can go. But neither is it an idle fantasy. It runs through history and literature from Plato to Thomas More, Margaret Cavendish to Ursula Le Guin. Utopia, this book shows, was for them a tool for exploring the h...Loe edasi...
Born into imperial splendour, Louis-Napoléon - the nephew of Napoléon Bonaparte - grew up far from power after the defeat at Waterloo. Three years later, he seized power to become emperor. Napoleon IIIs story is one of self-belief, polit...Loe edasi...
A cultured, engaging collection of historical vignettes ranging from prehistoric times to the early 20th century - all focused on the ancient roads, tracks and pathways of Europe For a million years people have been traveling throu...Loe edasi...
A brilliant, kaleidoscopic cultural history of Diana, her many lives and the world she created The best thing Ive ever read about Princess Diana and Ive read all of it, including her own books - Marina Hyde A wide-ranging cu...Loe edasi...
The untold history of the extraordinary women who drove the modern dance movement and changed cultural narratives about sex, power and womens rights....Loe edasi...
From Nazi Berlin to postwar Britain, Werner and Lotte Ackerman rebuilt shattered lives through handmade chocolates, creating a beloved royal-warranted British brand...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 04-Jul-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: The Choir Press, ISBN-13: 9781789636222)
From Nazi Berlin to postwar Britain, Werner and Lotte Ackerman rebuilt shattered lives through handmade chocolates, creating a beloved royal-warranted British brand...Loe edasi...
This book, based on extensive first-hand research conducted between 2020 and 2024, places Russian antiquity in the center of analysis, and addresses memory-making in the regions. The author seeks to examine how public history is managed in Old Russi...Loe edasi...
This book offers a comprehensive exploration of Chinese Buddhist rituals and their pivotal role in shaping both Chinese Buddhism and broader Chinese culture. Translated from the revised and enlarged Chinese edition of Zhongguo hanchuan fojiao liyi b...Loe edasi...
This volume gathers different disciplinary, methodological and thematic perspectives on architecture understood as a cultural, critical and design practice. Through an articulated dialogue between history and contemporaneity, theory and practice, de...Loe edasi...
Abraham Lincoln and the American Experiment in Self-Government revisits the most pressing question of the republics past and present: Can a nation founded on the principles of liberty and equality sustain itself through crisis? Leveraging an interdi...Loe edasi...
This book examines the development of social policy in Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan through the framework of bureaucratic regimes. It traces the institutional continuity from the colonial Indian Civil Service to its post-colonial successors - the...Loe edasi...
This book examines the enduring appeal of Odysseus in artistic representation from antiquity to the present. The volume aims to provide a sense of how this character changes from ancient Greek myth through modern poetry, and how this capacity for ch...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...
Based on an extensive body of Russian and German sources, this book reconstructs the fate of the approximately 1.5 million soldiers and officers of the Russian army held in German prisoner of war camps during the First World War. Moving beyond insti...Loe edasi...
This study of Anne of Cleves, the fourth wife of King Henry VIII, offers readers a more nuanced retelling of her queenship, which has often been dismissed as unimportant due to its brevity. Re-evaluating many of the misconceptions surroundi...Loe edasi...
Australia is gaining a reputation as the proverbial canary in the coal mine of global environmental change. The driest inhabited continent on earth, Australia is now exposed to rising planetary temperatures and an increase in disastrous events suc...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 03-Jul-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780197827635)
The Shikshapatri (1826) is a scripture presented as a letter to devotees from Swaminarayan (1781-1830), the founder and principal deity of the eponymous Swaminarayan tradition. Designated by millions as a revelatory scripture down to the bel...Loe edasi...
During the drafting of the Declaration of Independence in 1776, Thomas Jefferson and enslaved valet Robert Hemmings spent several months at 700 Market Street in Philadelphia. The editors and contributors to Declaration House reflect on the history o...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...
This study of Anne of Cleves, the fourth wife of King Henry VIII, offers readers a more nuanced retelling of her queenship, which has often been dismissed as unimportant due to its brevity. Re-evaluating many of the misconceptions surroundi...Loe edasi...
