Zwei junge Frauen aus dem evangelischen Damenstift Fischbeck an der Weser reisen 1719 nach Halle an der Saale, um den beruhmten Theologieprofessor August Hermann Francke zu treffen, dessen Manifest fur eine verinnerlichte Religiositat bei gleichzeitigem Engagement fur Bildung und Erziehung auf landesweite Zustimmung gestoen ist.
Trotz ihrer politischen Randstandigkeit konnte die extreme Rechte in der Bundesrepublik immer wieder an gesellschaftlich breit akzeptierte Vorstellungen anknupfen und dadurch an Einfluss gewinnen.
Eine etwas andere Familiengeschichte: Ausgewahlte Personlichkeiten der Familie von Lenthe aus 800 Jahren werden mit wissenschaftlicher Expertise in den (regional)historischen Kontext gestellt.
Die Geschichte unserer Arbeitswelt ist eine Geschichte der Umbruche: von den ersten dampfbetriebenen Fabriken bis zu den digitalen Netzwerken unserer Gegenwart.
A memoir of how the Amazigh people successfully fought for their recognition in MoroccoFor decades after Moroccan independence in 1956, the struggle of the Amazigh people for their indigenous rights and cultural preservation took center stage.
Historical Communities reveals the importance of urban history writing in early modern France, from the 1560s to the 1660s, both for individual towns and the French kingdom.
This volume offers a wide-ranging account of the Mongols in western and eastern Asia in the aftermath of Genghis Khan's disruptive invasions of the early thirteenth century, focusing on the significant cultural, social, religious and political changes that followed in their wake.
Baptist Hymnody in America is a collection of primary documents on congregational singing among Baptists in the United States from the eighteenth through the early twenty-first centuries.
This innovative take on construction toys explores the development and use of building-inspired playthings between 1830 and 1940 as they became the educational toys par excellence for industrialised and industrialising societies in Europe and elsewhere.
Fully illustrated in colour, here is the first introduction in English to one of Korea's outstanding cultural assets - the banchado ('painting of the order of guests at a royal event') - relating to all those taking part (1800 people) in the eight-day royal procession to Hwaseong (Gyeonggi Province) organized by King Jeongjo in 1795 for the dual purpose of visiting his father's tomb and celebrating his mother's sixtieth birthday.
This book provides a thorough and panoramic exploration of dialectics, presenting it as both a mode of thought and a method of inquiry deeply embedded in the history of human thought.
Bruno De Nicola investigates the development of women’s status in the Mongol Empire from its original homeland in Mongolia up to the end of the Ilkhanate of Iran in 1335.
A team of University of Toronto sociologists examined Fyodor Dostoyevsky's life to determine the origins of his gambling addiction and draw interesting parallels with the experience of modern day gamblers that they interviewed and took bibliographical accounts from in their study of Toronto area residents.
The Limits of Reform examines the institutional, social, and cultural foundations of bureaucratic power and authority in Imperial Russia using the deeply rooted and wide ranging Ministry of Internal Affairs as example.
Die aktuelle Ausgabe der Geschichte in Koln bietet ein breites zeitliches Spektrum von Beitragen und Buchbesprechungen zur Kolner Stadtgeschichte von der Antike bis in die 1970er Jahre.
Viewers in the Middle Ages and Renaissance were encouraged to forge connections between their physical and affective states when they experienced works of art.
*** Premium Ebook with beautiful layout ***The men of olden times who wrought well in prayer, who brought the largest things to pass, who moved God to do great things, were those who were entirely given over to God in their praying.
Born into a low-level literati family in the port city of Ningbo, the seventeenth-century Chinese Christian convert Zhu Zongyuan likely never left his home province.
In Folklore and Ethnology of the Modern World, Simon Bronner identifies "e;cultural engagements"e; that people use to reconcile tradition and modernity and confront the anxieties of the present by bringing together the past, often represented by tradition, and the immediate digital, unreal future.
The Routledge Companion to East Asian Historiography offers a comprehensive exploration of the rich and dynamic traditions of historical writing in East Asia, tracing their evolution across two millennia.
This book applies multilevel selection theory to an examination of both the natural history of ideology, and how that natural history has unfolded through the course of civil history in the Western world.
