History: specific events and topics

The book deals with the policy of the Byzantine state in the field of ecclesiastical matters from the end of Iconoclasm in 843 to the death of Emperor Basil I in 886.

This volume forms a unique and remarkable enterprise in the context of contemporary Japanese literature, social studies and the nature of Japanese society.

For the first time in modern Canadian history, the leader of one of the two governing party was chosen on a decidedly populist platform.

The Sawaba movement and its rebellion in Niger are a totally neglected subject.

Wenn sie in Prag uber die Hauptstrae gehe, kreuzten mehr Bekannte ihren Weg als in Berlin, schrieb die emigrierte Arztin und Sozialdemokratin Kate Frankenthal.

The book deals with the policy of the Byzantine state in the field of ecclesiastical matters from the end of Iconoclasm in 843 to the death of Emperor Basil I in 886.

Re-Membering Hospitality in the Mediterranean examines the embodied praxis of hospitality-whether through the ritual modes of religious history, the pages of literature, the visual arts, dystopian narratives of the future, or the realpolitik of shelter and asylum.

In Picturing the Islamicate World, Nadja Danilenko explores the message of the first preserved maps from the Islamicate world.

Post-Cold War historiography of modern Central Asia has been characterized by a focus on cultural history.

The authors explore the life and leadership of extraordinary political leaders in different socio-cultural contexts and epochs and present new insights in political psychobiography.

The authors explore the life and leadership of extraordinary political leaders in different socio-cultural contexts and epochs and present new insights in political psychobiography.

Negative images of Africa, which define the continent as being riven with poverty, crime, or war, are increasingly being challenged.

In 1818 the Royal Forest of Exmoor was sold by the Crown to the Worcestershire ironfounder John Knight.

This book focuses on a biographical and cultural rendering of Adlai E.

This book focuses on a biographical and cultural rendering of Adlai E.

This is the first critical history of the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century monuments of Westminster Abbey.

This book offers a comprehensive exploration of the intricate relationship between radicalism and sociability in late Georgian parliamentary and extra-parliamentary politics, focusing on the Foxite-Whig faction.

This book analyzes the roots of widespread disenchantment with American government.

This book offers a new interpretation of the origins of the contemporary global order - the set of institutions and international practices created by the USA and its allies after the Second World War.

This book arises out of a long series of conversations about one of the most intriguing, but still under-researched, aspects of testimony: how the remembering and telling of an individual Holocaust survivor changes through time, through shifting contexts and with increasing age.

This book offers a new interpretation of the origins of the contemporary global order - the set of institutions and international practices created by the USA and its allies after the Second World War.

What does it mean to fight for women's rights in the 21st century?

This is the first edited collection to focus on women, gender, and history education in Canada.

This is the first edited collection to focus on women, gender, and history education in Canada.

The making and remaking of Bukovina, a disputed Eastern European borderland, from the eighteenth century to the present dayBukovina, when it has existed on official maps, has always fit uneasily among its neighbors.

Why did early modern Europeans hunt for witches?

Why did early modern Europeans hunt for witches?

This book explores the transformation of the state in Wallachia, an Ottoman tributary principality, between 1740 and 1800, by focusing on three administrative techniques: regulations, paperwork (registers, identification certificates), and weights and measures.

Genocide murders innocents in a society, and it leaves behind moral corruption and societal twistedness.

Genocide murders innocents in a society, and it leaves behind moral corruption and societal twistedness.

This book maps an emerging cycle of films made by Iranian diasporic women filmmakers and produced outside of Iran, focusing on five significant examples: Shirin Neshat's Women Without Men (2009), Sepideh Farsi's Red Rose (2014), Maryam Keshavarz's Circumstance (2011), Ana Lily Amirpour's A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014) and Desiree Akhavan's Appropriate Behaviour (2014).