PROSE Award for Excellence in Humanities Finalist 2023Climate Change and Human History provides a concise introduction to the relationship between human beings and climate change throughout history.
Surveillance is a key notion for understanding power and control in the modern world, but it has been curiously neglected by historians of science and technology.
The relationship between music and the nervous system is now the subject of intense interest for scientists and people in the humanities, but this is by no means a new phenomenon.
This local history of Griqua Philippolis (1824-1862) and Afrikaner Orania (1990-2013) gets at the crux of the ever-pertinent land question in South Africa.
This volume, which continues the same author's Early Byzantine Historians , is the first book to analyze the lives and works of all forty-three significant Byzantine historians from the seventh to the thirteenth century, including the authors of three of the world's greatest histories: Michael Psellus, Princess Anna Comnena, and Nicetas Choniates.
This book explores the parameters of the African Methodist Episcopal Church's dual existence as evangelical Christians and as children of Ham, and how the denomination relied on both the rhetoric of evangelicalism and heathenism.
De les actes dels processos inquisitorials fins a festes populars com el Ball del Cornut de Cornellà del Terri, de l'obra de poetes com Salvador Espriu a les arrels basques de la cultura ibera, Bilbeny ens embarca en un viatge per l'imaginari cultural català, sempre desvetllant les veritats que s'amaguen més enllà dels relats oficials.
Traditional histories of war have typically explored masculine narratives of military and political action, leaving private, domestic life relatively unstudied.
Exploring the work of William Blake within the context of Methodism - the largest 'dissenting' religious group during his lifetime - this book contributes to ongoing critical debates surrounding Blake's religious affinities by suggesting that, contrary to previous thinking, Blake held sympathies with certain aspects of Methodism.
The first comprehensive history of lung cancer from around 1800 to the present day; a story of doctors and patients, hopes and fears, expectations and frustrations.
Despite the claims of Steven Pinker and others, violence has remained a historical constant since the Enlightenment, even though its forms and visibility have been radically transformed.
A magnificent debut novel, which follows in the spirit of Conrad's Heart of Darkness, in which an alienated student named Lopez joins the Vietnam war to escape from his past and himself.
Presenting the first English-language collection of essays on Jorge Semprun, this volume explores the life and work of the Spanish Holocaust survivor, author, and political activist.
This volume is devoted to the shaping of British foreign and defence policymaking in the twentieth century and illustrates why it's relatively easy for states to lose their way as they grope for a safe passage forward when confronted by mounting international crises and the antics of a few desperate men.
From the harsh realities of basic training to post-war chaos in Iraq and knife-edge tension in Northern Ireland, Squaddie takes us to a place not advertised in army recruitment brochures.
Eine Chronik der Fröbelstadt Oberweißbach - von den Anfängen bis zur Fusion mit den Nachbarorten Meuselbach-Schwarzmühle und Mellenbach-Glasbach zur Stadt Schwarzatal und darüber hinaus bis zum Jahr 2022.
Despite the explosion of interest in the "e;global 1968,"e; the arts in this period - both popular and avant-garde forms - have too often been neglected.
This handbook explores anti-communism as an overarching phenomenon of twentieth-century global history, showing how anti-communist policies and practices transformed societies around the world.
This volume explores how international organizations became involved in the making of global development policy, and looks at the driving forces and dynamics behind that process, critically assessing the consequences their policies have had around the world.
Para los estudiantes de Wesley, pastores que se dedican a la renovación y los wesleyanos llamados al nuevo monasticismo y formación de comunidades misionales, esta edición revisada de El Wesley Radical es un recurso formidable.
Para los estudiantes de Wesley, pastores que se dedican a la renovación y los wesleyanos llamados al nuevo monasticismo y formación de comunidades misionales, esta edición revisada de El Wesley Radical es un recurso formidable.
Brother Lawrence entered the monastic order in 1642 believing that he was giving up this world's happiness to become a monk, but there discovered a much deeper happiness than he had ever imagined.
Ben Witherington opens up the world of the four Gospels and helps us hear the story of Jesus as one seamless narrative with cultural and historical details.
Brother Lawrence entered the monastic order in 1642 believing that he was giving up this world's happiness to become a monk, but there discovered a much deeper happiness than he had ever imagined.
