This book is an interdisciplinary study that draws on a combination of archaeological evidence, building archaeological analysis, archival sources to explore the dynamic relations between dwelling houses, social organization of households, and patterns of cohabitation during the eighteenth century.
En las últimas décadas del siglo XIX y las primeras del siglo XX en Colombia, empezó un fenómeno de modernización que implicó el paso de una visión rural a una urbana de nación.
Este libro presenta y pone en discusión, en primera persona, las diversas vivencias, lecturas y análisis que tanto actores como detractores, recopiladores y estudiosos de las consultas populares y del referéndum de autodeterminación de Cataluña, ofrecieron acerca del proceso independentista catalán, señalando sus inicios y reflexionando sobre su desarrollo y perspectivas a mediano plazo.
La temática central del texto es el examen de las formas de conflicto que nacieron en la progresiva definición de las formas jurídicas de la nueva república después de la independencia, en particular, de la creación de una sociedad laica que quería limitar los derechos tradicionales de la iglesia en el campo de la educación, la pluralidad jurídica implicada en la permanencia del fuero eclesiástico e imponer, al mismo tiempo, un contra autoritario sobre la libertad de la prensa cuando implicaba críticas a la política oficial.
With ';arresting prose and keen insights' (Donna Brazile, New York Times bestselling author of Hacks), bestselling author Juan Williams turns his attention to the rise of a new 21st-century civil rights movement in this highly anticipated follow-up to Eyes on the Prize.
A resource on marital infedlity for all involved, even onlookersWritten by respected pastor and marriage counselor Dave Carder, this revised and expanded version of Torn Asunder sorts through the factors that contribute to infidelity and then maps out a recovery process for both partners.
When plans to overhaul Southwest Philadelphia in the 1950s scheduled both the integrated neighborhood of Eastwick and the ecologically valuable Tinicum marshes to be razed, two grassroots movements took up the cause-battling eminent domain in the name of environmental conservation and economic injustice.
This book presents a variety of approaches to better understanding piracy through archaeological investigations, landscape studies, material culture analyses, and documentary and cartographic evidence.
Warum weisen Länder mit muslimischer Bevölkerungsmehrheit im Vergleich zum Weltdurchschnitt ein niedriges Maß an Demokratie und sozioökonomischer Entwicklung auf?
Focusing on the period between the beginning of the eighteenth century and the late twentieth century, this edited volume examines the histories of objects, museums, exhibitions, and collections in Portugal or outside Portugal but representing Portugal, or related to it through colonial relationships.
Der Zweite Weltkrieg auf hoher SeeIm Zweiten Weltkrieg führte die deutsche Kriegsmarine einen intensiven Seekrieg, hauptsächlich mit U-Booten, um die Seewege der Alliierten im Atlantik zu stören.
Women on the Right explores the complex relationships between conservative and right-wing politics, social action, and women actors from the late 19th to the late 20th century.
The Stationers' Company (1960) examines the corporate existence, under one name or another, of the Stationers' Company over five hundred and fifty years.
This book studies British cultural engagement with Napoleon Bonaparte from his 1815 surrender and time in British custody, until the return of his remains to France in 1840.
Transcultural things examines four sets of artefacts from the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth: maps pointing to Poland-Lithuania's roots in the supposedly 'Oriental' land of Sarmatia, portrayals of fashions that purport to trace Polish culture back to a distant and revered past, Ottomanesque costumes worn by Polish ambassadors and carpets labelled as Polish despite their foreign provenance.
Investigating the representation of artefacts, objects and 'things' in a range of predominantly Western archaeological fiction from the late Victorian period to the modern day, this book examines the narratives through which humanity represents its own material heritage in relation to notions of enchantment, exhibition, estrangement, adventure, tourism and waste.
