Florenz, die Wiege der Renaissance, brachte nicht nur Künstler und Denker hervor, sondern auch einen Mann, der die katholische Kirche wie kaum ein anderer prägte: Papst Leo X.
This book aims to shed new light on the puzzle of the late Soviet conversion to the "e;market"e; and capitalism by revisiting the history of Soviet reform economics.
First published in 1978, this book argues that the troubadour revival in late medieval Spain was a conservative reaction to social crisis by those who belonged, or were affiliated, to a powerful, expanding and belligerent aristocracy.
Writing as a scholar, composer, and musician, Jessie Cox foregrounds the experience of Black Swiss through sound and music in his first book, Sounds of Black Switzerland.
First published in 1984, Close to the Earth is a record of a vanishing age in Britain, of working communities and working individuals who made their living from the land, the rivers and the sea.
How abolitionists persuaded people of their personal complicity with slavery to advance the cause of freedomGrievous Entanglement explores the most common way that people in the Atlantic world came to understand their personal connection to, and complicity with, slavery in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries: consumption.
Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams, published in 1900, has been one of the most influential texts of the modern era, fundamentally changing the ways in which people have thought about their waking lives as well as their dreams.
Globalization has quickened the process of communication across the world, creating changes in material and non-material culture with the flow of ideas.
Drink like a Duttonwhether that's a Dutton from 1883, 1923, or the flagship show, Yellowstonewith drinks straight from and inspired by all three hit series!
Analysing 100 material objects which helped to shape the Spanish Civil War, this textbook explores one of the seminal events of 20th century through a unique material culture lens.
Tom Wolfe's debut collection of essays - a brilliant, form-bending dive into the future of America as it careened through the 1960s In 1965, Tom Wolfe dropped like a bomb onto the American literary scene with his first book, The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby, an incandescent panorama of American counter-culture, its dances, bouffant hairdos, customised cars and rock concerts.
Exhibiting Irishness analyses how exhibitions enabled Irish individuals and groups to work out (privately and publicly) their politicised existences across two centuries.
In Made in NuYoRico, Marisol Negron tells the cultural history of salsa, tracing the music's Nuyorican meanings over a fifty-year period that begins with the establishment of Fania Records in 1964 and how it capitalized on salsa's Nuyorican imaginary to cultivate a global audience.
Professor Slim deals here with the several roles that music can play in the artworks of the Renaissance, looking in particular at Italian painting of the 16th century.
The Struggle for the Pacific (1937) examines the rivalries and postures as various powers - European, the US, Japan and China - attempted to militarily, politically and economically dominate the Asia Pacific sphere.
This textbook provides a history of modern Germany, locating the country's social, cultural, and political developments within their proper global and transnational context.
This textbook provides a history of modern Germany, locating the country's social, cultural, and political developments within their proper global and transnational context.
Als im Oktober 1929 Gustav Stresemann, der erfolgreiche Außenminister, starb, fragten sich die Zeitgenossen, wie es nun mit der Republik weitergehen könne.
