Inspired by the "e;spatial turn,"e; this volume links for the first time the study of diplomacy and spatiality in the premodern Islamicate world to understand practices and meanings ascribed to territory and realms.
In this fascinating collection, twelve colleagues of the late Mark Kishlansky come together to reconsider the meanings of England's mid-seventeenth-century revolution.
Becoming a mother charts the diverse and complex history of Australian mothering for the first time, exposing the ways it has been both connected to and distinct from parallel developments in other industrialised societies.
En abril de 1977 el partido nazi estadounidense pretendía manifestarse en Skokie, una localidad del Estado de Illinois donde residía la mayor comunidad de supervivientes del Holocausto en Estados Unidos después de Nueva York.
This book examines the impact of shipbuilding on the society of the Song Dynasty from multiple perspectives and points out the positive contribution of ancient manufacture industry to social development at that time.
This book examines the impact of shipbuilding on the society of the Song Dynasty from multiple perspectives and points out the positive contribution of ancient manufacture industry to social development at that time.
With startling speed, Spanish conquistadors invaded hundreds of Native American kingdoms, took over the mighty empires of the Aztecs and Incas, and initiated an unprecedented redistribution of the world's resources and balance of power.
As the 20th century dawned, the German Empire stood as a powerful force in Europe-an industrial giant, a military powerhouse, and a symbol of imperial ambition.
The Indian Rebellion 1857-1859: A Military History in the Global Context focuses on the military dimension of this conflict, in which Indian rebels waged both conventional and unconventional warfare against the British.
Religion and life cycles in early modern England assembles scholars working in the fields of history, English literature and art history to further our understanding of the intersection between religion and the life course in the period c.
Tracking the Jews analyses the beliefs, ideas, concepts, arguments and policies of an unprecedented conversionary initiative during the years immediately before, during and after the Holocaust.
This book aims to reconceive the field of knowledge of the "e;Gallic past"e; in French discourse of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries by focusing on the monument as an object capable of underpinning insights into that past, the evolution of the concept, and the epistemic practices used to produce it.
In recent years it has become apparent that the interaction of imperialism with disease, medical research, and the administration of health policies is considerably more complex.
The Origins of the Criminal Justice System: Historical Explorations by the Justice-Involved provides an introduction to the historical roots of modern-day Western systems of justice.
Beyond Decolonial African Philosophy dives into decoloniality discourse, challenging some of its shortcomings and offering alternative perspectives on the nature of Africanity and Afrotopia (Africa's better future) from leading African philosophers.
Step into the enigmatic world of Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor, whose reign marked a unique crossroads between mysticism, art, and emerging scientific thought.
'I found it fascinating - it's an integral part of the history of Dublin that has been lost to time for too long' - Rick O'SheaA feminist history of Europe's largest red-light district and an examination of the lives of the women who worked there.
Von den bescheidenen Anfängen in Hispania bis zur Eroberung Dakiens und der Festigung des römischen Reiches – Kaiser Trajan verkörpert wie kaum ein anderer Herrscher die Ideale von Stärke, Weisheit und Integrität.
Timely in its contribution to on-going debates on the decolonization of education, this novel volume charts the development of a scheme of postgraduate transnational education that saw British students sent to Indian and South Asian Universities while political decolonization was still ongoing.
This book examines key moments in which collective and state violence invigorated racialized social boundaries around Mexican and African Americans in the United States, and in which they violently contested them.
