For centuries forced confinement, cruel 'cures', political repression and ritualized personal degradation have all been rationalized and justified by appeals to the dogmas of psychiatry.
A Study of Contemporary Ghana Volume 1: The Economy of Ghana (1966) examines the problems of social and economic change in a rapidly developing society.
Dieses Buch untersucht jene historischen Momente, in denen geheime Akten, Memos und gezielt freigegebene Unterlagen hinter die Kulissen der Staatskunst leuchteten - von den Pentagon Papieren uber NSA Leaks bis hin zu Interventions und Rustungsgeheimnissen.
In the late 19th century, George Pullman built a massive luxury train car empire and a utopian "e;company town"e; where he controlled his workers' housing, utilities, and wages.
The South China Sea is less a monolithic "e;ocean"e; than a mosaic of rocks, reefs, shoals, and atolls that have become prizes in a contest between great powers and neighboring states.
From Samurai to Engineer-Manager reconstructs the life and work of the Japanese mining engineer Ohara Junnosuke in the early decades of Japan's industrialization.
This book provides a 'how to' guide to studying eleventh-century Norman charters, to enable readers to develop a confident command of this material, inviting them to explore the possibilities these documents have for their historical studies.
This book compares the enlightenment thought of China and Japan amid 19th-century Western imperialism, offering a groundbreaking analysis of how two iconic thinkers shaped their nations' divergent paths to modernity.
A Study of Contemporary Ghana Volume 2: Some Aspects of Social Structure (1967) focuses primarily on problems of population in Ghana and examines some aspects of occupational structure, urbanization, family, education, religion and land tenure.
This book explores how ancient disability and its reception in Classics, Ancient Mediterranean Studies (AMS), and related disciplines are relevant to disabled people today.
This comprehensive collection of chapters provides a nuanced and multifaceted analysis of the global impact of the March on Rome, offering valuable insights into the spread and adaptation of Fascist ideologies in different cultural and political contexts beyond Italy in the 1920s and 1930s.
When Frederick Morgan was appointed COSSAC (Chief of Staff to the Supreme Allied Commander), in the spring of 1943, there was no approved plan for a cross-Channel attack and no commander.
Six Victories relates one of the most interesting and instructive naval campaigns of World War II: the Mediterranean war on traffic in the fall and winter of 1941-42.
In der absoluten Fruhzeit des Automobils war das Fahren ein gefahrlicher, korperlich extrem anstrengender Kraftakt, der von schmutziger Mechanik und purer Muskelkraft gnadenlos dominiert wurde.
Sanskar Kendra stands as one of Le Corbusier's lesser-known architectural achievements, a cultural center designed for post-independence Ahmedabad that now faces an uncertain future.
Sanskar Kendra stands as one of Le Corbusier's lesser-known architectural achievements, a cultural center designed for post-independence Ahmedabad that now faces an uncertain future.
When Frederick Morgan was appointed COSSAC (Chief of Staff to the Supreme Allied Commander), in the spring of 1943, there was no approved plan for a cross-Channel attack and no commander.
Six Victories relates one of the most interesting and instructive naval campaigns of World War II: the Mediterranean war on traffic in the fall and winter of 1941-42.
This comprehensive collection of chapters provides a nuanced and multifaceted analysis of the global impact of the March on Rome, offering valuable insights into the spread and adaptation of Fascist ideologies in different cultural and political contexts beyond Italy in the 1920s and 1930s.
As the first book-length study of Nakanishi Natsuyuki's sculptural practice, this volume explores his assemblages in dialogue with the postwar history of sculpture as a global phenomenon in the 1960s and beyond.
Intermarriage from Central Europe to Central Asia examines the practice and experience of interethnic marriage in a range of countries and eras, from imperial Germany to present-day Tajikistan.
The Jazz Age, a phenomenon that shaped American leisure culture in the early twentieth century, coincided with the growth of Kansas City, Missouri, from frontier town to metropolitan city.
Der Sammelband „Zwischen Nostalgie und Innovation“ beleuchtet Otfried Preußlers Werk zwischen traditionellen, aus Märchen, Sagen, Legenden bekannten Motiven und zeitgeschichtlich innovativen Facetten.
Der Sammelband „Zwischen Nostalgie und Innovation“ beleuchtet Otfried Preußlers Werk zwischen traditionellen, aus Märchen, Sagen, Legenden bekannten Motiven und zeitgeschichtlich innovativen Facetten.