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...
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 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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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 monograph interrogates the construction of the Peoples Republic of China across seven plays by White British playwrights. It analyses these original plays to explore the ways in which China is constructed as a political entity in relation to t...Loe edasi...
This volume traces the experiences of seven African American abolitionists who travelled to Ireland during the tumultuous years after the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850: Eli Stokes, William Allen, Isaac Davison, William Mitchell, William Troy, James C...Loe edasi...
This book is about irrationality and policy failures. It argues that policy failures are not rational in the sense of a policy action plan that led to an error of implementation or lack of success, followed by decision-making, coping and learning....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 offers a sweeping reappraisal of nativism as a central force within global capitalism rather than a simple reaction against it. Peter Bloom shows how the figure of the “native,” inherited from colonial rule, continues to shape how capita...Loe edasi...
William C Donahue, Paul Reitter, Martha B. Helfer, Wolf Biermann, Jan Bürger, Brad Prager, Jeffrey A. Grossman, Barbara Honigmann, Molly Krueger, Leo A Lensing...
Sari: Nexus: Essays in German Jewish Studies
(Ilmumisaeg: 09-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Camden House Inc, ISBN-13: 9781640141728)
Features speeches celebrating literary prize recipient Barbara Honigmann, a film forum on Ruth Beckermanns 2018 documentary Waldheims Walzer, and essays on Anne Frank, translating Marx, Yiddish studies, and other topics....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 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...
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 analyses the interconnection of space and experience in Roman Antiquity, Byzantium, and the Middle Ages, ca. 100 BCE – 1500 CE....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...
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 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 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 demonstrates how monarchy adjusted to the contours of modernity in remarkably diverse kinds of ways and contexts, preserving a central role in the configuration of the post-revolutionary world. It focuses on three geographically and poli...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...
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 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...
(Ilmumisaeg: 06-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780197823408)
In this book, Farid Hafez reveals how Europes colonial past still shapes its present-day relationship with Muslim communities and Islam. By examining how the Austro-Hungarian and German empires governed the Muslim populations under colonization, ...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...
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 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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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 monograph interrogates the construction of the Peoples Republic of China across seven plays by White British playwrights. It analyses these original plays to explore the ways in which China is constructed as a political entity in relation to t...Loe edasi...
This volume traces the experiences of seven African American abolitionists who travelled to Ireland during the tumultuous years after the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850: Eli Stokes, William Allen, Isaac Davison, William Mitchell, William Troy, James C...Loe edasi...
This book is about irrationality and policy failures. It argues that policy failures are not rational in the sense of a policy action plan that led to an error of implementation or lack of success, followed by decision-making, coping and learning....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...
(Ilmumisaeg: 09-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Delaware Press, ISBN-13: 9781644534199)
How did workers experience cut glass during its cultural heyday? Rather than privilege the stories of factory owners or wealthy consumers, Undercut: Cut Glass in Working-Class Life during the Long Gilded Age refracts the medium’s history th...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 09-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Rutgers University Press, ISBN-13: 9781978842953)
In Stay Tuned, Patrick Sullivan treats network-era television sound as a formative texture of aesthetic life in postwar America. He analyzes television’s iconic sounds, such as the laugh track and Hanna-Barbera Productions’ sound effects, a...Loe edasi...
In Stay Tuned, Patrick Sullivan treats network-era television sound as a formative texture of aesthetic life in postwar America. He analyzes television’s iconic sounds, such as the laugh track and Hanna-Barbera Productions’ sound effects, a...Loe edasi...
Sari: Africa and the Diaspora: History, Politics, Culture
(Ilmumisaeg: 09-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Wisconsin Press, ISBN-13: 9780299356903)
Beginning in the late fifteenth century, more than two million people were taken from areas that lay behind the Bight of Benin, enslaved, and forced into the perilous Middle Passage bound for the New World. While a vast swath of scholarly work on th...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 09-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Grand Central Publishing, ISBN-13: 9781538783115)
Writer and historian Fay Bound Alberti synthesizes over twenty years of research to offer a breathtaking cultural history of our most decisive—and sometimes divisive—body part. Whats in a face? And how much power does it hold? ...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 09-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Rutgers University Press, ISBN-13: 9781978844858)
Television is Where You Find It is a revelatory journey into the overlooked world of feature filmmakers who brought their cinematic vision to the small screen between 1955 and 1990—long before directing for television became trendy in the a...Loe edasi...
