The conquest of Constantinople by the Fourth Crusade shattered irreversibly the political and cultural unity of the Byzantine world in the Greek peninsula, the Aegean and western Asia Minor.
Disentangling a controversial history of turmoil and progress, this Handbook provides essential guidance through the complex past of a region that was previously known as the Balkans but is now better known as Southeastern Europe.
The Routledge History of Death Since 1800 looks at how death has been treated and dealt with in modern history - the history of the past 250 years - in a global context, through a mix of definite, often quantifiable changes and a complex, qualitative assessment of the subject.
This book explores the relationship between socialist psychiatry and political ideology during the Cold War, tracing Yugoslav 'psy' sciences as they experienced multiple internationalisations and globalisations in the post-WWII period.
During the early eighteenth century, three phratries or tribes (Turtle, Turkey, and Wolf) of Delaware Indians left their traditional homeland in the Delaware River watershed and moved west to the Allegheny Valley of western Pennsylvania and eventually across the Ohio River into the Muskingum River valley.
In the past decades historians have interpreted early modern Christian missions not simply as an adjunct to Western imperialism, but a privileged field for cross-cultural encounters.
First published in 1934, Artists in Uniform confronts what the author describes as 'two of the worst features of the Soviet experiment' following Lenin's death - bigotry and bureaucratism - and shows how they have functioned in the sphere of arts and letters.
Die Entwicklung des Frauenstudiums und die Geschichte der Universität München im Nationalsozialismus erfahren mit dieser Arbeit eine substantielle Erweiterung.
This book examines the radicalization of beliefs, tactics, and oppression by a dominant governing group when faced with a subordinate group's historic quest for basic human rights dating back for five centuries.
Within the context of the debate between idealism and empiricism, this book studies the ideas of six representative Canadian intellectuals of the late Victorian era.
Über lange Zeit galt in Bezug auf den Ludwigstein das Hauptinteresse der historischen Forschung der Rolle der Burg in der Geschichte der deutschen Jugendbewegung, ihrer Ideen- und Organisationsgeschichte sowie der Geschichte von Reformbewegungen und Reformpädagogik.
The greatly expanded and enhanced 2nd edition of A World History of War Crimes provides an authoritative and accessible introduction to the global history of war crimes and the laws of war.
This volume analyses the transition of Chinese medicine during the modern era, and the development of product and service niches in selected countries: China, Malaysia, Japan and the Philippines.
Der »Fall Pinochet« - die durch den spanischen Ermittlungsrichter Garzón veranlasste Verhaftung des chilenischen Ex-Diktators - löste Debatten über Straflosigkeit sowie »verschwundene« Repressionsopfer aus.
In this collection of primary sources, Eugene Smelyansky highlights instances of persecution and violence, as well as those relatively rare but significant episodes of toleration, that impacted a broad spectrum of people who existed at the margins of medieval society: heretics, Jews and Muslims, the poor, the displaced and disabled, women, and those deemed sexually deviant.
This "e;riveting account of one of history's greatest blunders"e; chronicles Russia's tragic mishandling of Nazi Germany's invasion during WWII (William L.
