History

This book clarifies the climatic variations in Japan from the historical period to the present based on documentary sources and meteorological data.

This book considers how music, musicality, and ideologies of musicality are working within the specific construction of waka on the theme of male love in Kitamura Kigin's Iwatsutsuji (1676) and Ihara Saikaku's Nanshoku okagami (1687) by using a modified generative theory of music.

This book presents an extended argument for the thesis that people of the present day are not debarred in principle from passing moral judgement on people who lived in former days, notwithstanding the inevitable differences in social and cultural circumstances that separate us.

The history we can't afford to forget.

This book sheds light on modern populism and discusses the link between populism and identity politics against the backdrop of populist leaders asserting the identity of their own group, while maintaining the separation from others.

Defining class broadly as an identity categorization based on status, wealth, family, bloodlines, and occupation, Intersectionalities of Class in Early Modern English Drama e xplores class as a complicated, contingent phenomenon modified by a wider range of social categories apart from those defining terms, including, but not limited to, race, gender, religion, and sexuality.

This book focuses on Socotra Island, geographically based in Yemen, and aims to explore the island from the social sciences point of view.

Can you guess the most memorable sports moments to happen in the Big Apple?

This book highlights how horror in film and television creates platforms to address distinct areas of modern-day concern.

This book discusses state-periphery relations from the view-point of a reindeer husbandry community in the Russian Far North (Murmansk Region).

This book considers how music, musicality, and ideologies of musicality are working within the specific construction of waka on the theme of male love in Kitamura Kigin's Iwatsutsuji (1676) and Ihara Saikaku's Nanshoku okagami (1687) by using a modified generative theory of music.

This book systematically and comprehensively studies on alternative media in Taiwan, using a historical approach and primary data and first hand collected materials to examine how political openness and social movement in the 1980s through the 1990s in Taiwan enabled the rapid growth and wide development of Taiwan's alternative media, what impact the alternative media in Taiwan had on its socio-political transformation, and what implications Taiwan's case of alternative media has for other societies, especially for other Asian societies.

This book clarifies the climatic variations in Japan from the historical period to the present based on documentary sources and meteorological data.

This book highlights the significant role played by Ignatius Sancho (c.

This book invites senior experts and scholars from the fields of Chinese archaeology and history to describe ten influential "e;national treasure-level"e; cultural antiquities.

This book provides readers with rich context and detailed description leading to new perspectives on major historical events in China.

This book discusses state-periphery relations from the view-point of a reindeer husbandry community in the Russian Far North (Murmansk Region).

Due to the influence of postmodernism, historical anti-realism has come to exercise a massive influence in contemporary philosophy of history.

This book highlights the significant role played by Ignatius Sancho (c.

This book invites senior experts and scholars from the fields of Chinese archaeology and history to describe ten influential "e;national treasure-level"e; cultural antiquities.

This book provides readers with rich context and detailed description leading to new perspectives on major historical events in China.

In An Incautious Man, historian Melanie Miller provides a succinct but sophisticated recounting of the life of one of our lesser-known but most engaging Founding Fathers: Gouverneur Morris.

"e;The most original historian of his generation.

This book highlights how horror in film and television creates platforms to address distinct areas of modern-day concern.

When the R101 first took to the skies, she was the largest aircraft ever to fly.

This book systematically and comprehensively studies on alternative media in Taiwan, using a historical approach and primary data and first hand collected materials to examine how political openness and social movement in the 1980s through the 1990s in Taiwan enabled the rapid growth and wide development of Taiwan's alternative media, what impact the alternative media in Taiwan had on its socio-political transformation, and what implications Taiwan's case of alternative media has for other societies, especially for other Asian societies.

Explore the rise and fall of a legend.

This book is based on research carried out by the author in Greece, addressed initially to Greek readers, mainly researchers of the Department of Urban and Regional Planning, National Technical University of Athens, where he served for a long time as professor.

Next only to Continental army commander General George Washington, Nathanael Greene was the most important American general of the War for Independence.

This book presents a theoretical and empirical investigation of sustainable economic growth in Russia.

This book presents a theoretical and empirical investigation of sustainable economic growth in Russia.

This book evaluates the legislative effectiveness of Nigeria's National Assembly under the Fourth Republic.

With joy and grace to accompany the readers to have the translocal tour to visit about thirty-seven works, this monograph applies the academic critical theories of Performance Studies, Film Studies, Psychoanalysis, Postmodernism, and Visual Culture, to interpreting the special selection works.

The book presents a historical account of the colonial foundation of African economy and diplomacy.

This book probes the complex relationship between memory and storytelling in contemporary literature.

This book evaluates the legislative effectiveness of Nigeria's National Assembly under the Fourth Republic.

With joy and grace to accompany the readers to have the translocal tour to visit about thirty-seven works, this monograph applies the academic critical theories of Performance Studies, Film Studies, Psychoanalysis, Postmodernism, and Visual Culture, to interpreting the special selection works.

The book presents a historical account of the colonial foundation of African economy and diplomacy.

This book probes the complex relationship between memory and storytelling in contemporary literature.

This book provides a supportive lending hand to researchers of constitutional law worldwide about the constitutional law of Bangladesh.

The book is an interdisciplinary study on the relationship between Muslims and their mosques in Indonesia and Malaysia.

This book provides an analysis of the latest research findings in the field of world history, and includes terse articulations of modernity vis-a-vis empire.

This book assesses the dynamics, challenges and achievements of the development processes of three Portuguese-speaking Small Island Developing States (PSSIDS) - Cabo Verde, Sao Tome and Principe, and Timor-Leste.