History of other geographical groupings and regions

This books explores varying conceptions of the Nightmare hag, mara, in Scandinavian folk belief.

A landmark history of the world economic order, exploring how developing countries have fought to escape impoverishment Over the past two decades, experiments in neoliberal economics have opened up a chasm of inequality between the Global South and the West.

Seit Anbeginn der Menschheit faszinieren und ängstigen uns Dämonen.

When Alexander the Great died in 323 BC without a chosen successor he left behind a huge empire and ushered in a turbulent period, as his generals fought for control of vast territories.

The relationship between society and the regime has been central to much recent research in the field of Soviet history.

The Coptic Christians of Egypt have traditionally been portrayed as a 'beleaguered minority', persecuted in a Muslim majority state and by the threat of political Islam.

A sizeable minority of people with no particular connection to Eastern religions now believe in reincarnation.

The book explores the intersection between the Great War and patriotism through an examination of the effects of both on Australia's most popular football code.

With expert scholars and great sensitivity, Out of Line, Out of Place illuminates and analyzes how the proliferation of internment camps emerged as a biopolitical tool of governance.

Scotland has long had a romantic appeal which has tended to be focused on a few over-dramatized personalities or events, notably Mary Queen of Scots, Bonnie Prince Charlie, the Highland Clearances - the failures and the sad - though more positively, William Wallace and Robert the Bruce have also got in on the act, because of their heroism in resisting English aggression.

Polish populism, which advocated agrarian socialism by either revolutionary or reformist means, emerged first among the émigrés who had left Poland after the Russians defeated the nationalist uprising of 1830.

Entering the shady world of what he calls "e;violent entrepreneurship,"e; Vadim Volkov explores the economic uses of violence and coercion in Russia in the 1990s.

This book brings together long-obscured histories to discuss Australia's cultural, social, and political diversity in depth.

Latinos are already the largest minority group in the United States, and experts estimate that by 2050, one out of three Americans will identify as Latino.

Rowley documents an era of arctic exploration of which little has been written and which is fast passing from living memory.

A concise and accessible introduction to the gender histories of eastern Europe and the Soviet Union in the twentieth century.

This groundbreaking book delves into the lived experiences and collective wisdom of Indigenous communities impacted by colonialism.

Russian rethinking of the past has immense political significance.

The First World War destroyed the old European balance of power.

Father Andrei Papkovs unique textbook is the only book addressing the liturgical performance practices of religious singing in the Russian Orthodox Church.

This book discusses the emergence of care for orphaned, abandoned and poor children in Lithuania from the early twentieth century to the beginning of the Second World War.

This is an English translation of "e;The Private Life of the Romanoffs"e;, originally published in German and written by Bernhard Stern.

"Historiar la locura no solo entraña mostrar el desarrollo de la atmósfera emocional y cultural, los criterios sociales que la definen y que distinguen quién está enfermo de quién está sano; supone asimismo desvelar los contextos morales, jurídicos y médicos desde donde se configura la respuesta institucional para estas personas.

In this examination of Solzhenitsyn and his work, Lee Congdon explores the consequences of the atheistic socialism that drove the Russian revolutionary movement.

Arkady Polishchuk came of age in Stalin's Russia, in the turbulent times before, during and after World War II.

This book analyzes the central vision of three student movements organized by different generations of Kosovo Albanian students in 1968, 1981 and 1997.

First published in 1918, this volume contains the fascinating memoirs of Renee Elton Maud, who spent a year in the Russian Court during the rule of Czar Nicholas II, the last Romanov to rule Russia.

This book develops a novel way of thinking about crises in world politics.

This book presents key works of Boris Hessen, outstanding Soviet philosopher of science, available here in English for the first time.

Drawing on the extensive and underused body of legal records on marriage that exist in Europe’s ecclesiastical and secular archives, Marriage in Europe, 1400–1800 examines the institution not just as it was theorized by jurists and theologians, but as it was lived in reality.

The book explores the intersection between the Great War and patriotism through an examination of the effects of both on Australia's most popular football code.

The opportunities opened up by the Gorbachev reforms have shown that religion is one of the most significant dynamic forces in Soviet society.

This book explores a panorama of historical studies, focused on the historical tensions between genealogical knowledge and well-known Pacific Islander engagements with genomic research in a postwar era of simultaneous decolonization and Big Science.

This edited collection contributes to the current vivid multidisciplinary debate on East European memory politics and the post-communist instrumentalization and re-mythologization of World War II memories.

When did Australian women first enter the advertising industry?

This book represents a new reading of a key moment in the history of East European Jewry, namely the period preceding the collapse of the Russian Empire.

The announcement of the imminent withdrawal of the British Royal Navy's ice patrol ship HMS Endurance in early 1982 prompted the Argentinian Junta in Buenos Aires to plan a military grab of the Falklands-a siege they assumed would succeed with little resistance.

Explore Ireland's fascinating story with more than 100 maps.

The art of interpreting Holy Scriptures flourished throughout the culturally heterogeneous pre-modern Orient among Jews, Christians and Muslims.

This textbook offers a wide-ranging, comprehensive analysis of the contemporary Russian economy (as it functions in the early 2020s) concentrated on the economy, economic policy, and economic governance.

The title of this publication, "e;The Tradition of the Adoration of the Theotokos in the Orthodox Church,"e; implies the phenomenon of the Virgin Mary as one of the basic values of mankind.

A gripping account of the Russian visionaries who are pursuing human immortalityAs long as we have known death, we have dreamed of life without end.