History

Why did some of Europe's most urbanized pre-industrial societies industrialize relatively late?

When banks closed and factories fell silent, the men who held power faced a choice few were prepared to make.

Der weltberühmten Totenmaske des Tutanchamun und den prunkvollen königlichen Gräbern von Ur ist ein faszinierendes Detail gemeinsam: Sie sind allesamt reich verziert mit tiefblauem Lapislazuli.

Drawing on new interviews and previously underused archival material, this book explores women's anti-apartheid activism in South Africa and within broader transnational networks from 1952 to 1962 through a comparison of the Federation of South African Women (FEDSAW) and the Black Sash.

Depuis 1982, le Cameroun n'a connu qu'un seul president.

Das britische Empire war keine militärische Schöpfung allein.

For two centuries, Western scholars declared the tropics incapable of sustaining complex societies.

Im Mai 1789 trat in Versailles etwas zusammen, das Frankreich noch nie gesehen hatte: eine Versammlung, die sich weigerte, sich nach den Regeln der Vergangenheit zu richten.

Starting in the 1970s, Palestinian theater flourished as part of a Palestinian cultural spring.

Reexamining a seminal work on British capitalism and Caribbean slavery and its continuing reverberations in the twenty-first centuryEric Williams's Capitalism and Slavery (1944), with its insightful and provocative theses about the relationship between Caribbean slavery and the growth of the British economy and the Industrial Revolution, has proved an enduring and controversial book.

Between 1945 and 1975, Western Europe built the most expansive social contracts in history.

Pourquoi travaille-t-on, hier comme aujourd'hui, en France ?

This volume provides background texts for the early modern origins of pornography including its philosophic and literary foundations.

They never fired a single shot at each other.

Anfang der 1930er-Jahre bildete sich in Göttingen das Zentrum des juristischen Neuhegelianismus heraus.

Es gibt Stadte, die eines Tages aufhoren, gebraucht zu werden.

Few countries serve as a more useful case study for understanding the global tension between liberal and illiberal conceptions of democracy than Poland.

Four centuries of Atlantic trade moved people as cargo and counted them as profit.

The parish church stood at the center of every village.

This volume examines the growth of high-end literary pornographic productions that took place towards the final quarter of the nineteenth century and were largely published on the continent where control of production was lax.

This book provides analyses of writings which have been of major importance to Protestant, Anglican, and Roman Catholic Christianity in Western Europe.

The lord owned the field.

Als die siegreichen kaiserlichen Truppen des Lucius Verus aus dem harten Partherkrieg nach Rom zurückkehrten, brachten sie eine tödliche Beute mit, die das mächtigste Imperium der Antike an den Rand der vollkommenen Vernichtung treiben sollte.

Der Sammelband nimmt sich zum Ziel, Einblick in die Sichtweise von Leitfiguren aus dem Sudosten des Kontinents zu Europa zu geben.

Hans Magnus Enzensbergers (1929-2022) Lebenswerk ist von den Auftritten des „zornigen jungen Mannes“ (Alfred Andersch) in den 1950er und 60er Jahren bis hin zu den dezidiert ironischen Brosamen des „Herrn Zett“ der 2010er Jahre ausgespannt zwischen (Anti-)Programmatik und Ideologiekritik.

Seit Jahrtausenden ist der Nordwesten Afrikas, der Maghreb, eng mit Europa verbunden.

In the dawn of the ninth century, the most powerful man in Europe received a gift that bordered on the impossible.

The pharaohs were the face, but the system was the spine.

Einfache Schwammtaucher machten vor der Küste Tunesiens eine Entdeckung, die den Kurs der Archäologie für immer verändern sollte.

The alewife measured her brew by the barrel, the weaver by the yard, the baker by the loaf.

Eine Armee marschiert nicht auf leeren Magen.

Jahrtausende bevor die Menschheit die Metallurgie entwickelte, war ein völlig anderes Material die absolute technologische Grundlage für den zivilisatorischen Fortschritt: Obsidian.

This volume concerns itself with arrival of mass pornography at the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth.

Along dusty tracks no map could fully capture, goods and ideas traveled farther than any army could march.

How Indigenous, Black, Latinx, and Asian American farmers are reviving their ancestors' methods of growing foodand fighting climate change in the processA powerful movement is happening in farming todayfarmers are reconnecting with their roots to fight climate change.

Sie stand am Stand, wog den Kase, nannte den Preis.

Weit vor den sumerischen Keilschriften oder den ägyptischen Hieroglyphen existierte auf dem europäischen Kontinent ein äußerst komplexes Zeichensystem.

When the Supreme Court overturned Louisvilles local desegregation plan in 2007, the people of Jefferson County, Kentucky, faced the question of whether and how to maintain racial diversity in their schools.

Long before the stone walls of Great Zimbabwe rose from the earth, a different empire commanded the vast wealth of southern Africa.

Nicht jeder Aufstand wird zur Revolution.

In the summer of 1789, a peasant woman in the Limousin watched her parish priest read a letter from Versailles about grain prices and taxes.

Wie haben sich die Grenzen religionsbezogener Satire im Zeitraum von 1990/92 bis 2020 in Deutschland und Frankreich verschoben?

This volume concerns itself with arrival of mass pornography at the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth.

This volume provides background texts for the early modern origins of pornography including its philosophic and literary foundations.

Attempting to bypass earlier and present discussions about Romanization, identity, and globalization, this e-book confronts the issue of cultural elite integration in the early Roman Empire in a new way by focussing on prestige language as a connecting factor in a Eurasian context.