This volume explores the daily lives, security measures, and health practices in the borderland regions of the Ottoman Empire and its successor states (1700-1939).
Los piratas ocupan un lugar destacado en el imaginario popular, con un atractivo particular en la idea de la lucha por la libertad, la igualdad, el romanticismo, las hazañas audaces, la búsqueda de tesoros y el desafío al orden social.
Between 1845 and 1852, a devastating fungal blight destroyed the potato crop across Ireland, triggering a catastrophic period of starvation and disease.
Covering a colourful period of medieval history from the schism between the eastern and western churches to the death of Dante, The Two Cities provides an introduction to key topics such as: The Crusades The expansionist force of the Normans Major developments in the way kings, emperors and popes exercised their powers A great flourishing of art and architecture The foundation of the very first universities Four major sections covering The Social and Economic Structure, The Church, Political Change and Perceptions of the World, analyse and discuss the delicate relationship between the spiritual and secular worlds - the two 'cities' of the title.
Despite the immense literature on the social history of industrialization and workers' political movements, there had been virtually no published work on the social history of health hazards and of work-related diseases.
The hundred years that began with the Great Exhibition of 1851 and ended with the Festival of Britain in 1951 was a period of remarkable progress in science and technology.
This book, the second in a two- volume work resulting from a 2018 conference organized by the International Railway History Association (IRHA), examines the relationship between the railways and the First World War from a global theoretical, methodological and geographical perspective.
This book, the second in a two- volume work resulting from a 2018 conference organized by the International Railway History Association (IRHA), examines the relationship between the railways and the First World War from a global theoretical, methodological and geographical perspective.
This probing and innovative monograph, based on an interdisciplinary and multicultural approach, traces the trajectory of the Japanese influence on Klimt's heterogeneous and idiosyncratic oeuvre.
Covering a colourful period of medieval history from the schism between the eastern and western churches to the death of Dante, The Two Cities provides an introduction to key topics such as: The Crusades The expansionist force of the Normans Major developments in the way kings, emperors and popes exercised their powers A great flourishing of art and architecture The foundation of the very first universities Four major sections covering The Social and Economic Structure, The Church, Political Change and Perceptions of the World, analyse and discuss the delicate relationship between the spiritual and secular worlds - the two 'cities' of the title.
This probing and innovative monograph, based on an interdisciplinary and multicultural approach, traces the trajectory of the Japanese influence on Klimt's heterogeneous and idiosyncratic oeuvre.
The hundred years that began with the Great Exhibition of 1851 and ended with the Festival of Britain in 1951 was a period of remarkable progress in science and technology.
Despite the immense literature on the social history of industrialization and workers' political movements, there had been virtually no published work on the social history of health hazards and of work-related diseases.
The Boycott or the Bullet: A Global History of Debates over Nonviolence since 1850 examines debates within nonviolent movements, including labor movements in Europe, Gandhi's Indian independence struggle, and Martin Luther King's US civil rights campaigns.
A timeless collection of stoic wisdom, Dialogues brings together a series of philosophical conversations and essays from one of ancient Rome's greatest thinkers.
In 899, the accession of Edward the Elder, son of Alfred the Great, ushered in a tumultuous period that would see seven reigning kings in England over seventy-six years.
The Boycott or the Bullet: A Global History of Debates over Nonviolence since 1850 examines debates within nonviolent movements, including labor movements in Europe, Gandhi's Indian independence struggle, and Martin Luther King's US civil rights campaigns.
Vivid, succinct, and highly accessible, Heinrich Winkler's magisterial history of modern Germany offers the history of a nation and its people through two turbulent centuries.
The borderers - people forged and hardened by endemic warfare over generations, whether by raids and skirmishes or set piece battles - are marked even today as a distinct group.
In the early hours of 26th June 1942, six airmen from 102 Squadron return from Bremen in their Halifax, Q for Queenie, having taken part in the third Thousand Bomber Raid.
