General and world history

Emotional Labour in Oral History Research critically appraises the many complex ways in which emotion management features in oral history research and its specific implications for the researcher.

Im Herzen Pekings erhebt sich die Verbotene Stadt – ein Monument der Macht und ein Symbol für die glanzvolle Herrschaft der chinesischen Kaiser.

How did the temple-scape of Suzhou transform into garden-scape during the 13th to 16th centuries?

In May 2017, after sixty years as an ordained United Methodist minister, Rev.

Seit Jahrtausenden wird die Macht von Herrschern durch religiöse Rituale, Symbole und den Glauben an eine göttliche Ordnung gestützt.

Based on theatrical research of unusual depth and enterprise, Theatre as a Weapon (1986) shows how the workers' theatre of the 1920s and 1930s transformed the social function of theatre.

Block Printing & Book Illustration in Japan (1924) was one of the first guides to Japanese illustration, and remains indispensable to this day.

This book compares the school image of the wartime past of the Falange and
the Polish Workers’ Party (PPR), created during the turbulent first decade of
Francoism in Spain and Communism in Poland.

Soviet Science (1936) gives information about the sort and conditions of research in Soviet scientific institutes in the 1930s.

Dieses Buch nimmt Sie mit auf eine packende Reise durch die düstersten Kapitel der europäischen Rechtsgeschichte.

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A sweeping yet penetrating collection of interviews with Noam Chomsky, exploring the most pressing global concerns of our time.

Arriving in India, Amy Carmichael sees little children married to pagan priests for temple prostitution.

In this book, readers can experience the tumultuous era of silent First World War propaganda films that helped shape U.

In this book, readers can experience the tumultuous era of silent First World War propaganda films that helped shape U.

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Using the works and theories of Carl Gustav Jung and the astrologers Alan Leo, Dane Rudhyar and Liz Greene, this volume provides a cultural history of psychological astrology in the twentieth century, demonstrating the prevalence of 'magic' in modern culture through its presence in astrology.

Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte, später bekannt als Napoléon III.

Haskell Institute of Lawrence, Kansas, first opened its doors in 1884 to twenty-two Ponca and Ottawa children, sent there to be taught Anglo-Protestant cultural values.

Investigates the dynamic relationship between experiences of profound social and cultural disruption, and human memory.

This book explores what it meant to be 'liberal ' in interwar Czech, Austrian, and Slovenian politics.

El continente vacío es un análisis del colonialismo como aparato híbrido, a la vez que teológico, militar e industrial, de destrucción de cultura y eliminación de los pueblos, especies y ecosistemas.

When Alfredo Sanchez was approached on the street in May of 1928, he received life-changing news about his own past.

Der Zweite Weltkrieg auf hoher SeeIm Zweiten Weltkrieg führte die deutsche Kriegsmarine einen intensiven Seekrieg, hauptsächlich mit U-Booten, um die Seewege der Alliierten im Atlantik zu stören.

The End of Social Inequality (1982) examines class and social stratification under state socialism and in particular in the Soviet Union.

Soviet Composers and the Development of Soviet Music (1970) is a thought-provoking review of Soviet music and musicians.

At the turn of the twentieth century, the city of Edirne was a bustling center linking Istanbul to Ottoman Europe.

The Guide to the Historical Record and Up-to-Date Policies and Practices for Governance of The United Methodist Church.

Bansenshukai is the oldest surviving manual on ninjutsu, compiled in the 17th century by the outstanding ninja Samuji Fujibayashi.

After the 1939 Soviet and 1941 Nazi invasions, the people of Southeast Poland underwent a third and even more terrible ordeal when they were subjected to mass genocide by the Ukrainian Nationalists.

In the Beginning (1957) represents a series of lectures given by the author at Cornell University, examining the views of the Ancient Greeks on the central foundation myths of their civilisation.