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 provides readers with the first biography in English on Leonor of England, bringing to life an understudied figure who has been overshadowed by her famed parents and brothers. Leonor, or Eleanor, was queen consort of Castile (1170-1214), t...Loe edasi...
This book provides readers with the first biography in English on Leonor of England, bringing to life an understudied figure who has been overshadowed by her famed parents and brothers. Leonor, or Eleanor, was queen consort of Castile (1170-1214), t...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 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 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 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 investigates the origins and evolutions of gender benchmarking in Asian literature. It examines how various agents such as ritualistic practices, family expectations, cultural orientations and even dogmatic factors contribute to the benchm...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 concise, highly readable volume explores Americas enduring fascination with secession. Using case studies of successful and unsuccessful secessionist movements at the subnational level, the authors illustrate the complexities surrounding effort...Loe edasi...
Not a typical overview of Latin American Architecture, the book uncovers a series of lineages, often hidden or overlooked by international critics. This book offers a dynamic, intergenerational view of architectural evolution that contrasts with t...Loe edasi...
Not a typical overview of Latin American Architecture, the book uncovers a series of lineages, often hidden or overlooked by international critics. This book offers a dynamic, intergenerational view of architectural evolution that contrasts with t...Loe edasi...
An illuminating overview of the past, present, and future of political activism and engagement of American youth. Explore the past, present, and future of political activism and engagement of American youth in this illuminating encyclop...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 11-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198867050)
We all know that inns and taverns occupy a special place in British history and our culture today. A Night at the Inn shows that inns were not just important as social spaces - somewhere to meet friends for a drink - but essential parts of the toolk...Loe edasi...
Critically addressing the experience of being a problem, of dwellingas in the paradigmatic cases of the Black and the Palestinianin a racialized world where your social existence appears as a problem of/for being...Loe edasi...
Critically addressing the experience of being a problem, of dwellingas in the paradigmatic cases of the Black and the Palestinianin a racialized world where your social existence appears as a problem of/for being...Loe edasi...
This book explores how the Cold Wars ideological conflict was played out through competition over human rights values. As the West feared that the Soviet Union might win the Cold war, it shows how they sought to aggressively outf...Loe edasi...
The acclaimed historian of Russia offers his compelling analysis of a dramatic turning point in recent Russian history: the August Coup of 1991....Loe edasi...
Presents an exploration of how Pentecostal theology can be revitalized by critically engaging with the Nicene Creed through the lens of African spirituality and decolonial thought....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 11-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Advantage Media Group, ISBN-13: 9798891886360)
When the slogans are louder than the facts, evidence becomes a moral imperative.In Israel on Trial: Examining the History, the Evidence, and the Law, United States District Judge Roy K. Altman brings legal rigor to the world’s m...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 11-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780192870889)
This book explores the influence of perceived lessons from national history, particularly the resonance between these lessons at the elite level and memory discourses in society, on Germanys grand strategy...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...
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...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Notre Dame Press, ISBN-13: 9780268210908)
Ali Altaf Mian demonstrates how attention to genre and embodiment illuminates the concepts and practices of the Islamic traditionand how theologians, Sufi mystics, and ordinary Muslims respond to the incapacitating tribulations of creaturely existen...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Georgia Press, ISBN-13: 9780820376899)
Cuban Tobacco in the Age of Second Slavery directly refutes the myth of tobacco as a small-scale, family, and free-labor crop promoted by scholarship. It also rejects the prevailing use of sugar as the model for epitomizing Cuban slaverya paradigm t...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Georgia Press, ISBN-13: 9780820376981)
We Are American Citizens offers a groundbreaking reexamination of the antebellum national Colored Conventions, demonstrating that these gatherings constituted the first structured civil rights movement in the United States, and examines the emergenc...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Georgia Press, ISBN-13: 9780820376974)
We Are American Citizens offers a groundbreaking reexamination of the antebellum national Colored Conventions, demonstrating that these gatherings constituted the first structured civil rights movement in the United States, and examines the emergenc...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Georgia Press, ISBN-13: 9780820376929)
Cuban Tobacco in the Age of Second Slavery directly refutes the myth of tobacco as a small-scale, family, and free-labor crop promoted by scholarship. It also rejects the prevailing use of sugar as the model for epitomizing Cuban slaverya paradigm t...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cornell University Press, ISBN-13: 9781501787027)
Uniformed Murderers investigates the causes, logistics, motivations, and legal awareness of the Romanian servicemen both military and gendarmerie who massacred or otherwise caused the death of more than three thousand Jews, Roma, and others in 1941...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Calgary Press, ISBN-13: 9781773856919)
Chaim Frydman survived the Holocaust. He was the only Frydman who did. In Sole Survivor, architect and academic Avi Friedman travels to Europe to trace his fathers journey through the Holocaust and find his familys genesis. He visits the homes, fa...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Calgary Press, ISBN-13: 9781773856902)
Chaim Frydman survived the Holocaust. He was the only Frydman who did. In Sole Survivor, architect and academic Avi Friedman travels to Europe to trace his fathers journey through the Holocaust and find his familys genesis. He visits the homes, fact...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Notre Dame Press, ISBN-13: 9780268210915)
Ali Altaf Mian demonstrates how attention to genre and embodiment illuminates the concepts and practices of the Islamic traditionand how theologians, Sufi mystics, and ordinary Muslims respond to the incapacitating tribulations of creaturely existen...Loe edasi...
The vast majority of people throughout history have left few written traces. That is especially the case for those who were brutally forced from their homes, stripped of their possessions, and swiftly imprisoned, enslaved, or murdered. Objects of...Loe edasi...
The vast majority of people throughout history have left few written traces. That is especially the case for those who were brutally forced from their homes, stripped of their possessions, and swiftly imprisoned, enslaved, or murdered. Objects of...Loe edasi...
A newly restored edition of Judith Malinas legendary diaries narrating a key moment of social, political, and cultural upheaval Originally published by Judith Malina as The Enormous Despair, this slim, gripping collection of diaries from...Loe edasi...
Judith Malinas newly restored diaries from a critical early decade in her personal, artistic, and political development Judith Malinas diaries from 1947 to 1957 are brought back into print in this volume, which charts her cofounding of...Loe edasi...
The final collection of Judith Malina’s previously unpublished diaries in this canonical four-volume set, in which The Living Theatre, and Malina herself, contend with the political reckonings of a fraught historical moment. Judi...Loe edasi...
