Educating European Citizens (1995) explores problems and issues in citizenship education in the context of the move towards European cultural, economic and political union.
Autrefois, la waide, ou pastel, était au cœur de la richesse de la Picardie et du sud-ouest de la France, offrant un bleu profond qui embellissait les étoffes recherchées à travers toute l’Europe.
For centuries travelers have been drawn to the stunning and mysterious Dead Sea and Jordan River, a region which is unlike any other on earth in its religious and historical significance.
Als Fortsetzer des Kirchenvaters Hieronymus befasst sich Prosper Tiro als einer von wenigen zeitgenossischen Autoren mit der Geschichte des Westromischen Reichs in der ersten Halfte des 5.
Exploring Film through Bad Cinema offers an overview of the practice of film analysis through a specific focus on the concept of "e;bad"e; cinema within a series of broad cultural and historical contexts.
Desde la caída de los regímenes comunistas, Washington ha expandido su influencia sobre la mayor parte de los antiguos países comunistas – desde el Báltico por Europa Oriental a los Balcanes y más allá al Asia Central y Meridional, mediante guerras, invasiones y operaciones encubiertas.
Die Geschichtswissenschaft wirft derzeit mit Hilfe verschiedener Historikerkommissionen einen zweiten Blick auf die personellen und institutionellen Kontinuitäten und Brüche im Nachkriegsdeutschland.
Pictures of Cotton in Eighteenth-Century China narrates cotton's journey from a little understand material to a cherished commodity ennobled by associations with the classical heritage of China.
Black Mirror: Allegories for the Atomised addresses the ways that media and communications technologies shape our relationships with society, with others, and ultimately, with ourselves.
This study is the first to analyze both the Nazi party's membership development and composition, as well as the motives for joining and the exoneration strategies of former party members chosen during the denazification process.
Echoing new trends in central banking history, this book traces the story of the Swiss National Bank from the end of World War II, going beyond monetary policy and inflation to explore the full scope of the bank's activities.
La celebracion del Bicentenario de nuestra Independencia tuvo para Quito una especial significacion y convoco la remembranza, recuperacion y revision de toda una antigua memoria colectiva, en busca de entender, desde las realidades de hoy, la dimension admirable de esas luchas, la riqueza de ideas que se gesto alrededor de ellas y el proceso general de constitucion del Estado Nacional ecuatoriano, que arranco en medio del fuego y la sangre de aquellos combates.
This book addresses the rise of the concept of the "e;Global Anglophone"e; in contemporary literary studies, both as an intellectual category and as a field designation.
This edited volume assembles a wide array of writings by Hirabayashi Hatsunosuke, one of 20th-century Japan's foremost intellectuals, translated for the first time into English.
Negotiating Digital Heritage Infrastructures examines the infrastructural qualities of museum work that influence the ability of cultural institutions to support participatory and socially inclusive missions.
Cet ouvrage rassemble plusieurs communications présentées en France et à Taïwan, consacrées aux échanges de porcelaines entre la Chine et la France au XVIIIᵉ siècle.
While religious diversity is often considered a recent phenomenon in America, the Cape Fear region of southeastern North Carolina has been a diverse community since the area was first settled.
This book is the second in a two-volume set examining the social history of the Hanjiang River region in southern China from the Song Dynasty to the modern era.
This social history explores the lives of urban commoners in early modern Kyoto during the dramatic political shift from famine to revolution in the final decades of the Tokugawa regime, through an extensive survey of the detailed record changes from 1843 in response to these crises.
This book is the second in a two-volume set examining the social history of the Hanjiang River region in southern China from the Song Dynasty to the modern era.
