History

This book examines how the Embassy members approached, selected, and represented information, and how, in doing so, they helped to shape European perceptions of China.

This book covers various forms of the production of girmitiya culture and literature.

This book documents Japan's psychological deterioration caused by its defeat in August 1945.

An international team of scholars explore China''s transformative revolutionary decade, the 1950s, calling into question existing narratives.

This is a collection of essays marking the 30th anniversary of the historic Cold War's formal conclusion in 1991.

This book updates the policy and practice developments affecting youth services since the publication in 2019 of Austerity, Youth Policy and the Deconstruction of the Youth Service in England.

This book is a pioneering multi-disciplinary analytical study of Caribbean political corruption grounded in Caribbean epistemology, challenging universalist perceptions generated outside the region which take no account of historical and cultural elativity.

Drawing on a wide range of primary sources, this book explains what made skin newsworthy in Victorian Britain.

This book explores the development of coffee substitutes in nineteenth-century Sweden.

This book details the perspectives of women of African ancestry who witnessed a twentieth-century uprising in St.

This book details the perspectives of women of African ancestry who witnessed a twentieth-century uprising in St.

This book examines for the first time how ancient Egypt is reflected in early modern Venetian sources.

This book places the contemporary fear of climate change in historical perspective, showing that throughout human history the dominant perspective on the future has been one of fear.

This book challenges the definition of a new approach for integrating protection and enhancing the Chinese heritage category of "e;Traditional Villages"e;.

"e;An impressive contribution both to the history of ideas and to political philosophy.

This book presents detailed research regarding the Xia, Shang, and Zhou dynasties, including studies of inscriptions on bones or tortoise shells, bronzeware, bamboo scripts, and silk manuscripts, in order to demonstrate the main features of various historical periods during the establishment and development of ancient Chinese civilization based on an a view of ancient Chinese civilization studies as a whole.

This book is the second of a three-volume set introducing the history of scientific thought (including social and human science) and covers the Latin Middle Ages, the Renaissance period, and the 17th century.

The objective of this book is to elucidate the characteristics and significance of the relationships between industry and banks in Germany.

This book sheds light on the fact that the proclamation of an emergency can be a legitimate constitutional method to take prompt preventative measures in protecting the interests of the society in times of grave crises.

';The art of war is of vital importance to the State.

This book contributes to a worldwide history of textual criticism and critical editions of ancient scientific texts.

This book provides a history of Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI), a large Britain- based chemical firm which was a major industrial player in the twentieth century.

This book addresses the transformation of primary education in the former Czechoslovakia (now the Czech Republic) after the fall of the communist regime in 1989.

This book contends that the development of modern Chinese international thought has been profoundly shaped by the distinctive nature of the Chinese state as a contender state and its global positioning since 1912.

The book offers an in-depth analysis of how ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) is portrayed in the Chinese media, focusing on the multifaceted dynamics of economic cooperation, regional connectivity, cultural exchange, and non-traditional security governance.

This book focuses on rapprochement and normalisation between Israel and some Arab countries within the context of global and regional geopolitics, bringing together broader perspectives on transformations resulting from this.

Winner: Fabiola Cabeza de Baca AwardHelen Tiegs didnt take to driving a tractor when she became a farmers wife, but after fifty years she considers herself the hub of the family operation.

Winner: Fabiola Cabeza de Baca AwardHelen Tiegs didnt take to driving a tractor when she became a farmers wife, but after fifty years she considers herself the hub of the family operation.