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...
(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...
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 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...
(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...
(Ilmumisaeg: 05-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780190622091)
Editors Andrew Donnelly, Beth M. Forrest, and Deirdre Murphy bring together leading scholars from across disciplines to consider the relationship between the sauces we eat and our cultural identities, beginning in the ancient Roman world and ending...Loe edasi...
Early Modern English Foodways: A Critical Sourcebook is the first anthology devoted to food-related writing in Renaissance England. Bringing together seventy passages from a two-hundred-year sweep of British history, the volume demonstrates...Loe edasi...
A captivating journey blending memoir, history, and biography that takes the reader on one of the worlds most famous trains and tells of carving the dramatic route it follows, while pondering other international railways through the eyes of travell...Loe edasi...
In a world obsessed with expertise and control, the figure of the idiot illuminates deeper truths about society. Dostoevsky and Nietzsche wrote about him; Dadaists and punks idolized him; artists like Warhol and Beuys made him their ic...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 05-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Seagull Books London Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781803096261)
In a world obsessed with expertise and control, the figure of the idiot illuminates deeper truths about society. Dostoevsky and Nietzsche wrote about him; Dadaists and punks idolized him; artists like Warhol and Beuys made him their ic...Loe edasi...
Sari: Pioneering Women: Leaders and Trailblazers, Sponsored by the Jane Nelson Institute for Women's Leadership, Texas Woman's University
(Ilmumisaeg: 05-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Texas A & M University Press, ISBN-13: 9781648433856)
In 1964, the task of racial desegregation of public schools hung over the country. In Denton, North Texas town, a remarkable alliance transcended racial divides, ignited a city-wide grassroots civil rights movement. Denton Womens Interracial Fellow...Loe edasi...
