The author's aim in these essays, which complement his pioneering books on natural history, has been to find out more about the different categories of people who engaged in this field in the past, and to piece together how the subject has been shaped by changes in society as a whole.
Starting with the premise that clothing is political and that analysing clothing can enhance understanding of political style, this collection explores the relationships among political theory, dress, and self-presentation during a period in which imperial and colonial empires assumed their modern form.
Most writing on modern China dwells on those aspects which are new to China since the Communist takeover, stressing above all politics, Marxism, economic and agricultural development.
'From the Scottish islands with love, a treasure trove of recipes and folklore' - DIANA GABALDON,author of OutlanderFailte, I'm Coinneach, the Hebridean Baker.
The year 1688 is a turning point in English culture, and one from which can be dated numerous distinctively 'modern' notions of truth, property and political order.
En la actualidad, cuando la globalizacion ha llegado a su apogeo y las fronteras nacionales parecen debilitadas, cuando miles de personas arriesgan todo por cruzar a otros territorios y otras dan su vida por su pais en medio de guerras, reflexionar sobre la nacion y su formacion como institucion no solo resulta pertinente, sino que es urgente.
Einige literaturwissenschaftliche Begriffe und Konzepte haben ihre Kontur erst allmählich im Laufe von Austauschbewegungen zwischen Ost und West gewonnen.
One Word Shapes a Nation demonstrates that integration politics limit how immigrants, refugees, and their descendants can participate in German society and how Germans imagine their national future.
Michelangelo Buonarroti, ein künstlerisches Genie der Renaissance, arbeitete im Spannungsfeld zwischen kreativer Freiheit und den ambitionierten Plänen der mächtigsten Mäzene seiner Zeit: den Päpsten.
The Decline of Neutrality (1971) examines the impartial, disinterested neutrality as it was codified in the Hague Convention in 1907 and the changes the concept underwent from the beginning of World War I in 1914 up to Pearl Habor, December 1941.
This volume is an edited collection of primary sources which throw light on the interplay between zoology and visual culture in nineteenth-century Britain.
El proposito fundamental de este libro es reconstruir la historia de San Basilio de Palenque como un homenaje a los antiguos cimarrones que tuvieron la capacidad de escapar de la vida en esclavitud.
Als eine der herausragenden, aber weithin unbekannten Gestalten der Reformation prägte Ambrosius Blarer von Giersberg den religiösen Wandel Südwestdeutschlands wie kaum ein anderer seiner Zeit.
Introducing Yugoslavia (1954) looks at the racial and historic chequer-board of 1950s Yugoslavia, providing a fascinating insight into the social and cultural aspects of a land that few Westerners visited at the time.
This book is a collective reflection on the relationship between theory and methods, as practiced by American archaeologists of the Byzantine period in Greece, Turkey, Ukraine, and Egypt between the 1990s and 2020s.
This collection raises incisive questions about the links between the postcolonial carceral system, which thrived in Ireland after 1922, and larger questions of gender, sexuality, identity, class, race and religion.