The Geography of the Port of London (1957) deals with the mid-century functions of the port studied in relation to their physical setting and in the light of their historical development.
This volume provides a concise synthesis of human-animal relations over time, charting shifting attitudes towards animals from domestication to the present day.
The British Takeover of Assam follows the huge British expansion into the Indian territory of Assam during the nineteenth century and the impact of colonial policymaking upon the population of both the hill areas and the Brahmaputra plain.
This book takes a thematic approach to questions of how to define emotion and loneliness, breaking down loneliness into a range of different dimensions - estrangement, longing, homesickness, isolation - and considers how these phenomena appear across a range of global contexts.
Food and Emotions in Italian Women's Writing discusses the relevance of food imagery in the writing of Italian women over a period of one hundred years, from the 1920s to the present day, while offering new ways to narrate women's history and creativity.
Thirteen original essays study the mobility of Classicists sensu latiore, including philologists and archaeologists, between the Anglophone and Germanophone worlds between the mid-19th C.
Das historische kollektive Bewusstsein hat das Bild des »Siegers von Wien« von 1683, Jan Sobieski, je nach Raum und Zeit unterschiedlich geformt, was Vergleiche der Perspektiven notwendig macht.
The Making of the Soviet Citizen (1987) examines the distinctive feature of Soviet education - the crucial importance it gives to the formation of a new type of person, the model socialist citizen.
Reconceptualizing the relationship between race and Islam in the United States, No God but Man theorizes race as an epistemology using the FBI's post-9/11 Most Wanted Terrorist list and its posters as its starting point.
This book offers a broad comparative perspective on regime building under Axis rule during the Second World War, exploring case studies in Europe and Asia.
The seventh edition of this two-volume narrative of English history draws on the most up-to-date primary and secondary research, encouraging students to interpret the full range of England's social, economic, cultural, and political past from its first inhabitants to the 2020s.
This volume focuses on changing marriage practices and kinship structures in a setting of interaction between the ruling elites and their Chinese subjects.
Step into the turbulent world of Renaissance Rome, where art, politics, and religion collided under the leadership of one of history's most dynamic pontiffs.
'Wonderfully Straightforward' - The IndependentMaster the art of mixology with these easy to make and beautifully illustrated infographic cocktail recipes.
