Social and cultural history

The Baltic in the early modern period has been called a 'Nordic Mediterranean'.

This book fills the long-standing void in the existing scholarship by constructing an empirical study of colonial governance and political culture in Hong Kong from 1966 to 1997.

Over the last twenty-five years, the 'history of emotion' field has become one of the most dynamic and productive areas for humanities research.

This book investigates how people have thought about and experienced time, and how their ideas about time have shaped their political views and actions.

The Christian culture of Rus (the medieval precursor of modern Russia, Ukraine and Belarus) is sometimes presented either as a reflection of an indigenous spirituality wrapped in borrowed (Byzantine) forms or, by contrast, as merely a provincial version of its Byzantine original.

This book reconceptualises the idea of communalism in independent India.

East Anglia has provided inspiration for writers for centuries.

THE INSTANT NYT BESTSELLER'Fascinating' - The GuardianA gripping account of the little-known plot that could have put an end to JFK's historic presidency - before it even began.

This book investigates the radical transformation of the relationship between Germany and France, neighbors whose border constituted one of the deepest fault lines of European history.

Mit Weitsicht, Diplomatie und unerschütterlicher Entschlossenheit führte Papst Pius IV.

The subject of this volume is the relationship between production and consumption, considered not only as the supply and demand sides of economic life, but within the broader context of the societies of the Low Countries between the 12th and the 16th centuries.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Zum Pentathlon der Antike" verfügbar.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Beiträge zur Frühgeschichte der Landwirtschaft III" verfügbar.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Beiträge zur kulturellen und politischen Geheimtätigkeit der Griechen in Wien vor dem griechischen Aufstand" verfügbar.

This volume examines the cultural history of European and North American hunting from the Middle Ages to the present day from the perspective of gender as well as animal studies.

Este trabajo, fruto del proyecto "Reconocimiento de los valores culturales de los afrodescendientes del Pacífico Colombiano y fortalecimiento de su identidad" pretende como objetivos generales el rescate, valoración y difusión del patrimonio urbano y arquitectónico de la región del Pacífico colombiano, el cual incluye desde la vivienda y su arquitectura hasta los modelos urbanos y los componentes del ordenamiento territorial que son específicos del Litoral Pacífico.

Este libro comienza con una reseña sobre la historia en general para luego pasar a la historia de Italia y luego a la de España.

A book of stunning black and white photographs, capturing the events, people, and landscape of Chicago's Washington Park during the summer of 1987.

Discover the origins, traditions, and use of the everyday foods served on our plates, from salt to sushi and rice to ravioli.

This book takes a thematic approach to the global history of water, covering a wide range of human interactions with water and the ways in which it carries both life and death.

Rather than providing a dictionary of superstitions, of which there are already numerous excellent, exhaustive and, in many cases, academic works which list superstitions from A to Z, Bainton gives us an entertaining flight over the terrain, landing from time to time in more thought-provoking areas.

A centennial edition of the classic work that instilled a liberal spirit into the study of American historyJ.

This book sheds new light on labor and laboring in the Roman world.

This book sheds new light on labor and laboring in the Roman world.

A human history of one of the planet’s most iconic lakes, and the civilizations that surrounded its shores   The Dead Sea is a place of many contradictions.

Exile, its pain and possibility, is the starting point of this book.

Ireland and the Renaissance court is an interdisciplinary collection of essays exploring Irish and English courts, courtiers and politics in the early modern period, c.

Gender and punishment in Ireland explores women's lethal violence in Ireland.

Cornwall has a special literary heritage.

This innovative collection examines how European queens participated in the conceptualisation, mobilisation, and transformation of 'natural resources' from the fifteenth to the end of the eighteenth century.

Da der österreichische Staat die Fürsorge von Holocaust-Überlebenden verweigerte, lag die Verantwortung bei der jüdischen Gemeinde selbst.