Die Autorin untersucht den Aufstieg der Medici, die durch geschicktes Agieren in den Bereichen «Territorium, Dynastie und Diplomatie sowie Memoria» zu «Herzögen der Republik» avancierten.
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.
Examining the history of Soviet museums in the 1920s and 1930s, this book engages with the core problem of interwar museology: adequately representing the historical development of art to create a plausible and coherent version of its evolution.
This book offers a vivid account of women's religiosity in Italy between 1400 and 1550, a crucial period of spiritual ferment and ecclesiastical change.
With a new afterword by the authorsA powerful, intimate collection of conversations with Indigenous Americans on the climate crisis and the Earth's futureAlthough for a great many people, the human impact on the Earth countless species becoming extinct, pandemics claiming millions of lives, and climate crisis causing worldwide social and environmental upheaval was not apparent until recently, this is not the case for all people or cultures.
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.
Established at the Bretton Woods conference in 1944, the World Bank soon emerged as a central pillar of the postwar order, and the world's leading development institution.
Established at the Bretton Woods conference in 1944, the World Bank soon emerged as a central pillar of the postwar order, and the world's leading development institution.
Research Paper (postgraduate) from the year 2008 in the subject South Asian Studies, South-Eastern Asian Studies, grade: A, , language: English, abstract: Online media and its increasing usage rate have changed the marketer's world for targeting their consumers.
The Routledge Handbook of African Borderlands provides a comprehensive analysis of the factors shaping the past, present, and future of African borderlands, in all their complexity.
Der Triumph stellt fur die romische Gesellschaft einen zentralen Ort der Selbstauslegung, der Inszenierung von Macht sowie der Formierung des kollektiven Gedachtnisses dar.
In 463 Einträgen erschließt der Katalog die Leichenpredigten und sonstigen Trauerschriften in der Bibliothek der Evangelisch-Lutherischen Kirchgemeinde Arnstadt, die zu den ältesten überlieferten protestantischen Kirchenbibliotheken in Thüringen zählt.
Mit der Erschließung der Hennebergischen Gymnasialbibliothek in Schleusingen wendet sich die Forschungsstelle für Personalschriften einem Bestand zu, der insbesondere für die Erforschung thüringischer und fränkischer Regionalgeschichte der Frühen Neuzeit von hohem Interesse ist.
So eindeutig eine alltagsweltliche Definition von Luxus zu sein scheint, so komplex wird es, wenn man sich dem schillernden Phänomen wissenschaftlich nähern möchte: Welche Objekte und Praktiken gelten als Luxus?
Well before the Jamestown settlers first sighted the Chesapeake Bay or the Mayflower reached the coast of Massachusetts, the first English colony in America was established on Roanoke Island.
This book recenters the agrarian question within contemporary capitalism, examining social differentiation in rural societies through a rigorous historical-comparative lens.
In the nineteenth century, the colonial territories of California and Hawai'i underwent important cultural, economic, and ecological transformations influenced by an unlikely factor: cows.
A groundbreaking look at how America exported mass incarceration around the globe, from a rising young historian"e;American Purgatory will forever change how we understand the rise of mass incarceration.
Después de más de cinco décadas de conflicto social y armado, el gobierno de Colombia y las FARC firmaron en noviembre del año 2016 un acuerdo para poner fin a la confrontación militar que causó casi seis millones de víctimas.
Historians of the Civil War often speak of wars within a warthe military fight, wartime struggles on the home front, and the political and moral battle to preserve the Union and end slavery.
The phrase dude food likely brings to mind a range of images: burgers stacked impossibly high with an assortment of toppings that were themselves once considered a meal; crazed sports fans demolishing plates of radioactively hot wings; barbecued or bacon-wrapped .
From battlefields, boxcars, and forgotten warehouses to notorious prison camps like Andersonville and Elmira, prisoners seemed to be everywhere during the American Civil War.
This pathbreaking book documents the transformation of reproductive practices and politics on Indian reservations from the late nineteenth century to the present, integrating a localized history of childbearing, motherhood, and activism on the Crow Reservation in Montana with an analysis of trends affecting Indigenous women more broadly.
This collection of essays profiles a diverse array of North Carolinians, all of whom had a hand in the founding of the state and the United States of America.
Spanning a thousand years of history and bringing the story to the present through ethnographic fieldwork in Senegal, Gambia, and Mauritania Rudolph Ware documents the profound significance of Qur'an schools for West African Muslim communities.
