History of other geographical groupings and regions

It is well known that energy is a fundamental concept in physics.

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This book, the first long-range history of the voluntary sector in Australia and the first internationally to compare philanthropy for Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples in a settler society, explores how the race and gender ideologies embedded in philanthropy contributed to the construction of Australia's welfare state.

Can humans know God?

Vladimir Babitsky was born before the Second World War and migrated West after Perestroika.

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.

How can one believe in an age of doubt?

A historical analysis of economic thought in Islamic tradition which interrogates contemporary Islamic economics as a hybrid system.

The Gulag at War reveals for the first time official documents kept in the archives of the Soviet forced labour system.

Seven Russian Archetypes is a description of seven seminal Russian figures: the Victim (zhertva), the Fool (iurodivyi), the Rebel or the Bandit (buntar' ili razboinik), the Wanderer (strannik), the Mother (mat'), the Peasant (muzhik), and the Intellectual (intelligent).

In 1918 the U.

This book examines how proverbs can carry ethnonyms and contradictory oppositions in everyday speech, and interrogates the belief that such nuances are national in nature by comparing across languages and cultures.

This book explores the people of the Kikori River Delta, in the Gulf of Papua, as established historical agents of intercultural exchange.

This book takes a timely look at histories of radical Jewish movements, their modes of Holocaust memorialisation, and their relationships with broader anti-colonial and anti-racist struggles.

This study treats the Victorian Antipodes as a compelling site of romance and satire for middle-class writers who went to New Zealand between 1840 and 1872.

This book is the first comprehensive cultural and historical introduction to modern Georgia.

Originally published in 1950, Harold A.

Through a painstaking gathering and synthesis of the surviving documents of Georgia social history before the Revolution, many of them fragmentary, Davis re-creates much of the texture and quality of life in that southernmost province.

Magazines and the Making of Mass Culture in Japan provides a detailed yet approachable analysis of the mechanisms central to the birth of mass culture in Japan by tracing the creation, production, and circulation of two critically important family magazines: Kingu (King) and Ie no hikari (Light of the Home).

By 1880, London, capital of the largest empire ever known, was the richest, most populous city in the world.

This book explores the history of banditry in the medieval Balkans between the ninth and fifteenth centuries.

In this book, Marta T.

Seven leading specialists present chapters devoted to key themes in Soviet and post-Soviet Russian politics.

Seit 2014 herrscht im Osten der Ukraine Krieg zwischen der ukrainischen Armee und prorussischen Separatisten.

This book examines the response of the Western Alliance to the Polish Crisis (1980-83).

This book explores origins, manifestations, and functions of Pan-Slavism in contemporary Central and Eastern Europe, arguing that despite the extinction of Pan-Slavism as an articulated Romantic-era geopolitical ideology, a number of related discourses, metaphors, and emotions have spilled over into the mainstream debates and popular imagination.

Seit Anbeginn der Menschheit faszinieren und ängstigen uns Dämonen.

Is modern racism a product of secularisation and the decline of Christian universalism?

This book describes the role of the medieval Orthodox Church in the Byzantine Empire (c.

This book sets out to navigate questions of the future of Australian poetry.

This book deals with film adaptations of literary works created in Communist Czechoslovakia between 1954 and 1969, such as The Fabulous World of Jules Verne (Zeman 1958), Marketa Lazarova (Vlacil 1967), and The Joke (Jires 1969).

This distinctive book deconstructs the foundational elements of Russian foreign policy from a Russian perspective and with references to Russian sources, rather than the typical Western perspective.

The book tells about people who lived in an era of historical cataclysms, wars and revolutions, changes in political formations.

This edited collection invites the reader to enter the diverse worlds of Australia's migrant and minority communities through the latest research on the contemporary printed press, spanning the mid-nineteenth century to our current day.

By the early twentieth century, consumers around the world had developed a taste for Ottoman-grown tobacco.

Care of the State blends archival, oral history, interview and ethnographic data to study the changing relationships and kinship ties of children who lived in state residential care in socialist Hungary.

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

This book uses a specialized corpus of public language-related discourse to investigate links between language ideologies and ethnonationalism in contemporary West Central Balkans.

This text considers the prevalence of Lao-Zhuang Daoism and Huang-Lao Daoism in late pre-imperial and early imperial Chinese traditional thought.

This book is devoted to the problem of the decolonization of Kazakhstan, which is considered in the framework of postcolonial studies.

This book reveals the primary causes of Habsburg defeat both in the Austro-Prussian War and the First World War.