History: specific events and topics

This book challenges the assumption - just as alive today as it was in the nineteenth century - that the political sphere was an arena of reason in which feelings had no part to play.

In Surrealist sabotage and the war on work, art historian Abigail Susik uncovers the expansive parameters of the international surrealist movement's ongoing engagement with an aesthetics of sabotage between the 1920s and the 1970s, demonstrating how surrealists unceasingly sought to transform the work of art into a form of unmanageable anti-work.

This book examines the construction of ethnic communities, and of multicultural policy, in post-war England.

The only serious study of witchcraft and magic from 1736 to 1951.

Medicine was transformed in the eighteenth century.

Während der nationalsozialistischen Herrschaft wurden Menschen vor allem nach ihrem wirtschaftlichen Nutzen für die "Volksgemeinschaft" bewertet.

'An extraordinary, hallucinatory accomplishment' KAREN JOY FOWLER'[A] reminder about what it means to be alive .

This book aims to shed new light on the puzzle of the late Soviet conversion to the "e;market"e; and capitalism by revisiting the history of Soviet reform economics.

Florenz, die Wiege der Renaissance, brachte nicht nur Künstler und Denker hervor, sondern auch einen Mann, der die katholische Kirche wie kaum ein anderer prägte: Papst Leo X.

This book aims to shed new light on the puzzle of the late Soviet conversion to the "e;market"e; and capitalism by revisiting the history of Soviet reform economics.

This volume contains thirteen selected papers from the seventh international 'Beyond Camps and Forced Labour conference', held in London in January 2023.

First published in 1978, this book argues that the troubadour revival in late medieval Spain was a conservative reaction to social crisis by those who belonged, or were affiliated, to a powerful, expanding and belligerent aristocracy.

British Masculinity in Transatlantic Cinema explores the Hollywood careers and stardom of British male actors who had fought in the first World War.

This edited volume presents the latest research on the intersection of religion and medicine in Asia.

Writing as a scholar, composer, and musician, Jessie Cox foregrounds the experience of Black Swiss through sound and music in his first book, Sounds of Black Switzerland.

Shinto : La Voie des Dieux II - L'âme du Japon entre tradition et présentAvec « Shinto : La Voie des Dieux II », découvrez un voyage unique dans le monde fascinant du shintoïsme, la plus ancienne religion du Japon.

First published in 1984, Close to the Earth is a record of a vanishing age in Britain, of working communities and working individuals who made their living from the land, the rivers and the sea.

First published in 1982, Worldwide Family History is an essential reference and guide for the professional genealogist and the interested amateur alike.

How abolitionists persuaded people of their personal complicity with slavery to advance the cause of freedomGrievous Entanglement explores the most common way that people in the Atlantic world came to understand their personal connection to, and complicity with, slavery in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries: consumption.

Decolonization and Psychoanalysis challenges conventional psychoanalytic assumptions by revisiting Lacan's conceptualization of the materiality of speech through a decolonial lens.

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

Ruth Edwards was born in 1926 in Vienna.

Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams, published in 1900, has been one of the most influential texts of the modern era, fundamentally changing the ways in which people have thought about their waking lives as well as their dreams.

During the late twentieth century, the number of museums in the UK dramatically increased.

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Globalization has quickened the process of communication across the world, creating changes in material and non-material culture with the flow of ideas.

Drink like a Duttonwhether that's a Dutton from 1883, 1923, or the flagship show, Yellowstonewith drinks straight from and inspired by all three hit series!

Analysing 100 material objects which helped to shape the Spanish Civil War, this textbook explores one of the seminal events of 20th century through a unique material culture lens.

Tom Wolfe's debut collection of essays - a brilliant, form-bending dive into the future of America as it careened through the 1960s In 1965, Tom Wolfe dropped like a bomb onto the American literary scene with his first book, The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby, an incandescent panorama of American counter-culture, its dances, bouffant hairdos, customised cars and rock concerts.

Exhibiting Irishness analyses how exhibitions enabled Irish individuals and groups to work out (privately and publicly) their politicised existences across two centuries.

»Dieses Buch ist aktueller denn je: Es zeigt, wohin Rechtsextremismus und Antisemitismus führen können.

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