This pioneering book establishes the theoretical framework of Terrapoetic Urbanism, integrating human geography, urban planning, and landscape architecture to decode the co-evolutionary mechanisms of traditional Chinese mountain-water-city systems...Loe edasi...
This book conducts an in-depth exploration of the dissemination of Chinese characters in East Asia and the formation and development of Chinese character-based writing systems, emphasizing the unique contributions of various ethnic groups within the...Loe edasi...
Iran Amplified: One Hundred Years of Music and Society, the first edited volume on music in modern Iran, collects compelling scholarship, musician narratives, and primary sources. It offers historiography and critical examination of music’s si...Loe edasi...
A revelatory look at one of Americas most progressive cities—Minneapolis—as journalist Justin Ellis returns to his hometown to grapple with the quiet history of white supremacy there in the wake of George Floyd’s murder, and in turn uncov...Loe edasi...
Between the 1830s and 1930s, companies established by Beirut-based businessmen emerged among the largest shareholders in major British manufacturing and trading companies. These companies transformed from small family partnerships to large sharehold...Loe edasi...
Sari: Stanford Ottoman World Series: Critical Studies in Empire, Nature, and Knowledge
(Ilmumisaeg: 16-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Stanford University Press, ISBN-13: 9781503645967)
Between the 1830s and 1930s, companies established by Beirut-based businessmen emerged among the largest shareholders in major British manufacturing and trading companies. These companies transformed from small family partnerships to large shareho...Loe edasi...
From award-winning journalist Nicole Carr comes a landmark narrative revealing the untold history of Black medical professionals who have long fought to heal their communities—while confronting a system built to exclude th...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 16-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780197789551)
Out of the Ballpark strips away the mythology that has accumulated around baseball in the United States to better appreciate the different sites of the sports development and the various sources of its appeal. It explores baseballs function as a m...Loe edasi...
This book investigates the many ways in which African literature has engaged with themes of migration and postcolonial disillusionment. Highlighting the interconnectedness of postcolonial instability and migratory experiences, this is an important...Loe edasi...
Traces how Shostakovichs music in France shifted from being seen in its communist context to an emblem of humanism and resistance across the twentieth century....Loe edasi...
This book explores the history of the Flat Earth idea and its advocates to determine what the political dimensions inherent to the idea of a Flat Earth are. For thousands of years, the belief that the Earth is flat has been a minority view expressed...Loe edasi...
This book examines how various Australians understood or expressed their experience of the Great War and early war commemoration in transcendent terms, and in so doing contributed to the creation of an Australian foundation myth, Anzac. The signific...Loe edasi...
From the late eleventh to the early fourteenth century, western Europeans established the crusader states of the Levant and had unprecedented commercial, cultural, and military exchanges with the Middle East. Through a focused analysis of fifty ob...Loe edasi...
From the late eleventh to the early fourteenth century, western Europeans established the crusader states of the Levant and had unprecedented commercial, cultural, and military exchanges with the Middle East. From the late eleventh...Loe edasi...
This open access volume explores the history of short-term employment and precarious work in pre-industrial Northern Europe. Contrary to popular belief, stable, long-term employmentpotentially lasting decadeswas uncommon in Northern Europe until the...Loe edasi...
This book presents a comprehensive overview of womens activities in various spheres of life in medieval Poland and its neighbouring countries, seeking to move beyond the commonly accepted perspective of queens and higher nobility from the social...Loe edasi...
This book explores the tangible societal contributions of Zhu Xi (11301200) and his disciples during their lifetimes, alongside the enduring impact of their practices on contemporaries and subsequent generations. A towering Neo-Confucian philosopher...Loe edasi...
This book attempts to map the vernacular diffractions of longing in Spain and Portugal in order to explore their political, aesthetic and social role in the national and cultural imagination of the past two centuries. Special attention is paid not o...Loe edasi...
This book highlights all the women who have received the National Medal of Science and the National Medal of Technology and Innovation from 1970 - 2007 (a companion book continues through 2024). The book provides an overview of the life of each woma...Loe edasi...
This volume, the first of its kind, investigates the representation of women in the travel accounts of European travellers from the Age of Explorati...Loe edasi...
This edited volume brings together scholars from diverse theoretical traditions to present and discuss their perspective on theory-building in psychology. Amid ongoing discussions about a potential (theory) crisis in the discipline, this collectio...Loe edasi...
This Palgrave Handbook offers the first comprehensive survey of the history and memory of the Holocaust in Australia. Divided into four parts, the handbook covers key historical connections between Australia and the events of the Holocaust, includ...Loe edasi...
This lecture explores the pivotal role of suppression in shaping the course of mid-19th-century rebellions in China. It emphasizes the significance of the suppression efforts, which ultimately dismantled the Chinese state and ushered in a new era of...Loe edasi...
This book analyses the complex relationship between European historical cities and their visual representations from the postwar period to the present. Using approaches and methodologies from different disciplinary fields, authors address the tangib...Loe edasi...
It is rare to write about history as it unfolds. A coronation at Westminster Abbey is at once a ceremony steeped in over a thousand years of tradition, dating back to the Anglo-Saxon period, and an event firmly of the present era. Coronations are mo...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...
This book breaks new ground by exploring regional scenes beyond London during the years 1965 to 1975. Whilst many accounts of this era have tended to focus on the Capital, John Griffiths journeys beyond its boundaries to assess how far the cultures...Loe edasi...
This book focuses on the historical evolution of Bangzi opera, also known as Clapper opera, now collectively referred to as Hebei Bangzi. This form of Chinese opera enjoyed significant popularity primarily in Beijing and Tianjin during the four deca...Loe edasi...
This pioneering book establishes the theoretical framework of Terrapoetic Urbanism, integrating human geography, urban planning, and landscape architecture to decode the co-evolutionary mechanisms of traditional Chinese mountain-water-city systems...Loe edasi...
This book conducts an in-depth exploration of the dissemination of Chinese characters in East Asia and the formation and development of Chinese character-based writing systems, emphasizing the unique contributions of various ethnic groups within the...Loe edasi...
Iran Amplified: One Hundred Years of Music and Society, the first edited volume on music in modern Iran, collects compelling scholarship, musician narratives, and primary sources. It offers historiography and critical examination of music’s si...Loe edasi...
A revelatory look at one of Americas most progressive cities—Minneapolis—as journalist Justin Ellis returns to his hometown to grapple with the quiet history of white supremacy there in the wake of George Floyd’s murder, and in turn uncov...Loe edasi...
We need to talk about the reality of warWar remains a clear and present evil, yet North American Christians often dont feel equipped to talk about it. When a US Air Force drone drops a bomb on a wedding party in Yemen, for example,...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 16-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Getty Research Institute,U.S., ISBN-13: 9781606069899)
This volume presents the first visual history of the people and organizations that led the fight for change during the civil rights era in Los Angeles....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 16-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: The University Press of Kentucky, ISBN-13: 9781985903340)
Self-Rising: The Magic Rise Behind Biscuit and Cornbread Culture reveals how a combination of simple ingredients sparked a quiet culinary and cultural revolution. Self-rising flour and cornmealpre-mixed blends of flour or meal, baking powder, and sa...Loe edasi...
This study examines how convicts sent to Frances most notorious penal colony in French Guiana would use the colonial postal system to document and challenge lived experiences of transportation and forced labour....Loe edasi...
Between the 1830s and 1930s, companies established by Beirut-based businessmen emerged among the largest shareholders in major British manufacturing and trading companies. These companies transformed from small family partnerships to large sharehold...Loe edasi...
Sari: Stanford Ottoman World Series: Critical Studies in Empire, Nature, and Knowledge
(Ilmumisaeg: 16-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Stanford University Press, ISBN-13: 9781503645967)
Between the 1830s and 1930s, companies established by Beirut-based businessmen emerged among the largest shareholders in major British manufacturing and trading companies. These companies transformed from small family partnerships to large shareho...Loe edasi...
From award-winning journalist Nicole Carr comes a landmark narrative revealing the untold history of Black medical professionals who have long fought to heal their communities—while confronting a system built to exclude th...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 16-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780197789551)
Out of the Ballpark strips away the mythology that has accumulated around baseball in the United States to better appreciate the different sites of the sports development and the various sources of its appeal. It explores baseballs function as a m...Loe edasi...
This book investigates the many ways in which African literature has engaged with themes of migration and postcolonial disillusionment. Highlighting the interconnectedness of postcolonial instability and migratory experiences, this is an important...Loe edasi...
During the twentieth century Australia was embroiled in the military and civilian nuclear programs of numerous global powers. From uranium extraction to weapons testing, Australias lands became sites of imperial exploitation under the guise of nati...Loe edasi...
Traces how Shostakovichs music in France shifted from being seen in its communist context to an emblem of humanism and resistance across the twentieth century....Loe edasi...
This book explores the history of the Flat Earth idea and its advocates to determine what the political dimensions inherent to the idea of a Flat Earth are. For thousands of years, the belief that the Earth is flat has been a minority view expressed...Loe edasi...
This book examines how various Australians understood or expressed their experience of the Great War and early war commemoration in transcendent terms, and in so doing contributed to the creation of an Australian foundation myth, Anzac. The signific...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 16-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: James Currey, ISBN-13: 9781847014870)
What lies ahead for rural Africa, given a rapidly increasing population, climate change, poverty, inequality and projections of an increasing vulnerability to natural hazards and food shortages?...Loe edasi...
This is history as you long to read it, charismatic, concise and unputdownable. – HORATIO CLARELike Sir Francis Drake and Lord Horatio Nelson in Kevin Jackson’s acclaimed maritime history series, Captain James Cook was also born of h...Loe edasi...
From the late eleventh to the early fourteenth century, western Europeans established the crusader states of the Levant and had unprecedented commercial, cultural, and military exchanges with the Middle East. Through a focused analysis of fifty ob...Loe edasi...
