This book presents a lecture on the history of ancient Chinese architecture, which was offered by Chinese archaeologist Bai SU for students of archaeology at Peking University. It first introduces readers to the site of the late Yangshao Culture ca....Loe edasi...
The Englishman is the gripping story of an Edwardian hero who fights for the glory of his country on the Western Front only to have his world torn apart. Can he find salvation and fulfil his destiny in the new world that emerges from the ashes of t...Loe edasi...
Drawing on new interviews and previously underused archival material, this book explores women’s anti-apartheid activism in South Africa and within broader transnational networks from 1952 to 1962 through a comparison of the Federation of South Af...Loe edasi...
This edited book offers an overview of how political structures, ethnic tensions, and emerging warfare continue to shape the region within the borders of the former Soviet Union. This edited book offers an overview of how political...Loe edasi...
This book explores how low-wage labour migration policies in seven Asian economies affect millions of migrant workers. It identifies two contrasting regulatory approaches that bookend a governance spectrum, offering an original theoretical framewo...Loe edasi...
This book brings together a compelling collection of articles that delve into the multifaceted dimensions of feminist and LGBTQ organizing within contemporary social movements....Loe edasi...
This book explores Russia’s relations with Eurasian countries in response to its growing isolation from the Western world. This book explores Russia’s relations with Eurasian countries in response to its growing isolation fr...Loe edasi...
This book examines a military occupation famous for institutional changes, state building, and Russias military and political endeavours in Eastern Europe. However, these topics are not the focus of this book. Instead, it focuses on the actors and r...Loe edasi...
This book offers a compelling archaeological exploration of Chinas millennia-old civilization. It masterfully synthesizes material evidence with classical texts such as The Rites of Zhou (Zhouli), anchored by 15 iconic cultural artifacts. These rang...Loe edasi...
Indian and South African Labor Responses to the International Labor Organization’s Green Initiatives:Through the Eyes of the Colonized explores the differences in attitudes of developing states to the International Labor Organization (ILO)...Loe edasi...
This book analyses the interconnection of space and experience in Roman Antiquity, Byzantium, and the Middle Ages, ca. 100 BCE – 1500 CE....Loe edasi...
Radical initiatives to collectivise the land were defining features of the social revolution at the start of the Spanish Civil War. This book examines these agrarian collectives as integral to the upheaval that disabled the functions of the state...Loe edasi...
This book presents a panorama of the history of China-U.S. relations from 1949 to 1972 and covers a wide range of topics in this significant period: China-U.S. Confrontation in the Korean War, American Containment of China from the 1950s to 1970s, T...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 08-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780192844736)
The short-lived Ministry of Information (MoI, 1939–1946) had an outsized impact. It played a key role in the allied war effort, and its work has reverberated in British culture ever since, from its much darker version (as the Ministry of Truth) in...Loe edasi...
This book brings together a diverse array of perspectives and histories that weave together notions of Black-ness, British-ness, and danc...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 08-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Chicago Press, ISBN-13: 9780226845166)
Upends current thinking about how early modern people started to conceptualize human beings in terms of populations. Bloody Numbers is a provocative account of the violent world of the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century South Atlantic slave-tradin...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 08-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Chicago Press, ISBN-13: 9780226845142)
Upends current thinking about how early modern people started to conceptualize human beings in terms of populations. Bloody Numbers is a provocative account of the violent world of the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century South Atlantic slave-tradin...Loe edasi...
Few cities in the world have as many football clubs as London; none have the history explored in Turf Wars. It was here the world-famous FA Cup began, before the capitals new crop of clubs had to meet the challenge posed by the North and Midlands....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 examines how institutional spaces, lecture theatres, corridors, offices, and boardrooms actively shape who belongs and who is marginalised. While diversity and inclusion efforts often focus on representation, leadership, and policy, this...Loe edasi...
