Based on an extensive body of Russian and German sources, this book reconstructs the fate of the approximately 1.5 million soldiers and officers of the Russian army held in German prisoner of war camps during the First World War. Moving beyond insti...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...
Through the lens of whiteness as applied to White-body supremacy, this book examines the role racism played in shaping American dance from the late nineteenth century to the present. Thus, this book centralizes the actions of White dancers/choreogra...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...
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Jul-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Allen Lane, ISBN-13: 9780241761083)
Utopia is not somewhere you can go. But neither is it an idle fantasy. It runs through history and literature from Plato to Thomas More, Margaret Cavendish to Ursula Le Guin. Utopia, this book shows, was for them a tool for exploring the h...Loe edasi...
A cultured, engaging collection of historical vignettes ranging from prehistoric times to the early 20th century - all focused on the ancient roads, tracks and pathways of Europe For a million years people have been traveling throu...Loe edasi...
A brilliant, kaleidoscopic cultural history of Diana, her many lives and the world she created The best thing Ive ever read about Princess Diana and Ive read all of it, including her own books - Marina Hyde A wide-ranging cu...Loe edasi...
The untold history of the extraordinary women who drove the modern dance movement and changed cultural narratives about sex, power and womens rights....Loe edasi...
From the ancient world expert and author of Goddess with a Thousand Faces Jasmine Elmer, comes a distinctive and revelatory historical and mythological exploration of dragons, the stories and cultures around them, and the fierce women who slayed the...Loe edasi...
**SHORTLISTED FOR 2025 THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION**A startling exploration of slavery in the Islamic world from the 7th century to the presentSlavery in the Islamic world has a long, diverse and controversial history...Loe edasi...
A stunning global history of West Africa ... with this new tour de force, Green confirms himself as the most innovative historian, writer, and thinker of his generation Ana Lucia Araujo, author of Humans in Shackles: An Atlantic History o...Loe edasi...
Perth Then and Now accurately matches historic photographs of the city with specially commissioned contemporary views that show how each site looks today....Loe edasi...
A searching look at the rise and fall of the youth club by renowned cultural documentarian Emma Warren, highlighting the seismic impact they have had on UK culture and why we need to ensure their existence for future generations....Loe edasi...
This book offers a history of shyness in France. In particular, it interrogates the seeming strangeness of shyness in the long nineteenth century, positing it as an everyday experience which nonetheless troubled the stories that the nation sought to...Loe edasi...
In the wake of recent protests against police violence and racism, calls to dismantle problematic memorials have reverberated around the globe. This is not a new phenomenon, however, nor is it limited to the Anglo-Saxon world. De-Commemoration focus...Loe edasi...
This anthology of scholarly translations of medieval French farces continues Jody Enderss recovery of a repertoire that remains surprisingly little known. While more than 200 comedies have survived from late medieval and early Renaissance France, t...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Jul-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Nebraska Press, ISBN-13: 9781496246547)
The Life of Ten Bears is a remarkable collection of nineteenth-century Comanche oral histories given by Francis Joseph Joe A Attocknie. Although various elements of Ten Bearss life (ca. 17901872) are widely known, including several versions of ho...Loe edasi...
Sari: Studies in the Anthropology of North American Indians
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Jul-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Nebraska Press, ISBN-13: 9781496247551)
In The Pursuit of Family Thomas Grillot examines how Dakota and Lakota people on the Standing Rock Reservation have lived as families since the 1870s in what is now North Dakota and South Dakota. Grillot examines the collective and individual effort...Loe edasi...
Sari: Studies in the Anthropology of North American Indians
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Jul-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Nebraska Press, ISBN-13: 9781496244833)
In The Pursuit of Family Thomas Grillot examines how Dakota and Lakota people on the Standing Rock Reservation have lived as families since the 1870s in what is now North Dakota and South Dakota. Grillot examines the collective and individual effort...Loe edasi...
This four-volume collection brings together primary sources on British food during the long nineteenth century. Volumes explore manufacturing and markets, cooking and cuisine, and food catering and culture. Accompanied by extensive editorial commenta...Loe edasi...
This four-volume collection brings together primary sources on British food during the long nineteenth century. Volumes explore manufacturing and markets, food and the body, cooking and cuisine, and food catering and culture. Accompanied by extensive...Loe edasi...
This four-volume collection brings together primary sources on British food during the long nineteenth century. Volumes explore manufacturing and markets, food and the body, cooking and cuisine, and food catering and culture. Accompanied by extensive...Loe edasi...
This four-volume collection brings together primary sources on British food during the long nineteenth century. Volumes explore manufacturing and markets, cooking and cuisine, and food catering and culture. Accompanied by extensive editorial commenta...Loe edasi...
This four-volume collection brings together primary sources on British food during the long nineteenth century. Volumes explore manufacturing and markets, food and the body, cooking and cuisine, and food catering and culture. Accompanied by extensive...Loe edasi...
Political Friendship demonstrates the central role of the German liberal elites interpersonal relationships in the uncertain path to unification and 19th century Germany political culture....Loe edasi...
The history of timekeeping is complex and ever progressing. The Unsettled Clock: The Persistence of Time Pluralism explores time pluralism by documenting historical cases and examining its persistence in present time, offering a political and histor...Loe edasi...
Through wide-ranging thematic chapters, this book offers students a comprehensive introduction to the theory and practice of monarchy across Europe in the Middle Ages....Loe edasi...
Based on an extensive body of Russian and German sources, this book reconstructs the fate of the approximately 1.5 million soldiers and officers of the Russian army held in German prisoner of war camps during the First World War. Moving beyond insti...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...
(Ilmumisaeg: 04-Jul-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: The Choir Press, ISBN-13: 9781789636222)
From Nazi Berlin to postwar Britain, Werner and Lotte Ackerman rebuilt shattered lives through handmade chocolates, creating a beloved royal-warranted British brand...Loe edasi...
From Nazi Berlin to postwar Britain, Werner and Lotte Ackerman rebuilt shattered lives through handmade chocolates, creating a beloved royal-warranted British brand...Loe edasi...
Through the lens of whiteness as applied to White-body supremacy, this book examines the role racism played in shaping American dance from the late nineteenth century to the present. Thus, this book centralizes the actions of White dancers/choreogra...Loe edasi...
A definitive social history of modern Ireland. How did Catholic bishops lose their control over Irish women and Irish life? T.P. OMahony traces seven decades of ChurchState conflict in Ireland, from the Mother and Baby crisis to the Magdalene laund...Loe edasi...
Enthralling Lucy Worsley Wonderful Judith Flanders A whirling, waltzing panorama through the last carefree age of British nobility New Statesman Adrian Tinniswood opens the doors on the excess, intrigue and absur...Loe edasi...
On November 28, 1729, Natchez warriors walked into Fort Rosalie, Louisiana, and opened fire on French colonists. Within an hour, nearly 250 French were dead, and as many women and children were taken hostage. After several punitive expeditions...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...
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Jul-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Allen Lane, ISBN-13: 9780241761083)
Utopia is not somewhere you can go. But neither is it an idle fantasy. It runs through history and literature from Plato to Thomas More, Margaret Cavendish to Ursula Le Guin. Utopia, this book shows, was for them a tool for exploring the h...Loe edasi...
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Venture behind closed doors to uncover the secrets of life in the interwar country house... During the 1920s and 1930s, as the sun set slowly on the British Empire, Englands stately homes concealed w...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Jul-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: White Rabbit, ISBN-13: 9781399619141)
Dub Revolution explores the most innovative and sonically adventurous sub-genre of reggae: dub. Dub emerged in the early 1970s through the work of legendary producers like Lee Scratch Perry, Prince Jammy, Scientist, Mad Professor, and in particular...Loe edasi...
A cultured, engaging collection of historical vignettes ranging from prehistoric times to the early 20th century - all focused on the ancient roads, tracks and pathways of Europe For a million years people have been traveling throu...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Jul-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Massachusetts Press, ISBN-13: 9781625349323)
Artists fighting racism and sexism from the end of the Great Depression through the Civil Rights era In 1943, the production of the Columbia Pictures film The Heat’s On halted for three days due to an on-set protest by featur...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Jul-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Massachusetts Press, ISBN-13: 9781625349330)
Artists fighting racism and sexism from the end of the Great Depression through the Civil Rights era In 1943, the production of the Columbia Pictures film The Heat’s On halted for three days due to an on-set protest by featur...Loe edasi...
A brilliant, kaleidoscopic cultural history of Diana, her many lives and the world she created The best thing Ive ever read about Princess Diana and Ive read all of it, including her own books - Marina Hyde A wide-ranging cu...Loe edasi...
The untold history of the extraordinary women who drove the modern dance movement and changed cultural narratives about sex, power and womens rights....Loe edasi...
From the ancient world expert and author of Goddess with a Thousand Faces Jasmine Elmer, comes a distinctive and revelatory historical and mythological exploration of dragons, the stories and cultures around them, and the fierce women who slayed the...Loe edasi...
