History: specific events and topics

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Science Policy in the Soviet Union (1990) examines the major institutional and behavioural aspects influencing scientific research in the USSR.

This edited volume traces the development of art practices in Ukraine from the 2004 Orange Revolution, through the 2013-2014 Revolution of Dignity, to the ongoing Russian war of aggression.

John Harrison, ein schottischer Uhrmacher, setzte sich ein ehrgeiziges und unmöglich erscheinendes Ziel: eine Methode zu ersinnen, die es Seeleuten ermöglicht, den genauen Längengrad ihrer Position auf See zu bestimmen.

Part of The Making of the Modern World series, this innovative textbook offers an introduction to the 19th-century world with a focus on human perspectives through social and cultural histories.

How did Johnny Depp and Amber Heard's divorce become the centre of the anti-#MeToo backlash?

Genocide is the word Pope Francis used on July 20, 2022, to describe the 150-year history of Canada's involvement in the Residential Boarding School System.

This book provides a detailed study of approved schools for girls, which operated in England and Wales between 1933-1973.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Landhandwerk im Übergang vom Feudalismus zum Kapitalismus" verfügbar.

Using the works and theories of Carl Gustav Jung and the astrologers Alan Leo, Dane Rudhyar and Liz Greene, this volume provides a cultural history of psychological astrology in the twentieth century, demonstrating the prevalence of 'magic' in modern culture through its presence in astrology.

This companion comprises essays that analyze interactions between art and global imperial relationships from 1800 to World War II.

Originally published in 1992, as part of the Ethnoscapes: Current Challenges in the Environmental Social Sciences series, reissued now with a new series introduction and new preface, Forms of Dominance: On the Architecture and Urbanism of the Colonial Enterprise examines the complex experience of colonial domination, social reaction, and physical adaptation within the built environment of regions such as Morocco, Eastern Europe, India, Guatemala and East Africa, and provides a multi-disciplinary and cross-cultural perspective on the colonial experience.

The great merchant port of Danzig, now Gdansk, is at the centre of this set of studies by Professor Maria Bogucka.

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.

Peter Kurer was born in 1931 in Austria.

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.

A cutting-edge exploration of how Marx's ideas have been adopted and adapted by revolutionary thinkers in the Global South.

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.

This book presents a re-engagement with oral histories as a way of documenting, understanding, and discussing experiences of work and economic life in Africa under neoliberal capitalism.

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 explores how the figure of the slave has been used to construct ideas of freedom in Western political and legal philosophy.

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.