This book presents the first comprehensive study of Mohammad Zahir Shah’s forty-year reign, uncovering how conservative governance sustained the longest period of political stability in modern Afghan history.
Beginning with the premise that religious and non-religious identities were fluid, overlapping phenomena rather than static, binary conditions, this timely edited collection challenges the traditional notion that atheism was an acute intellectual innovation of Western modernity by rethinking its multifarious pre-modern manifestations and impact in Brazil, China, England, France, Italy, New England, Poland, Scotland, Spain, and Transylvania.
Beginning with the premise that religious and non-religious identities were fluid, overlapping phenomena rather than static, binary conditions, this timely edited collection challenges the traditional notion that atheism was an acute intellectual innovation of Western modernity by rethinking its multifarious pre-modern manifestations and impact in Brazil, China, England, France, Italy, New England, Poland, Scotland, Spain, and Transylvania.
Entre 1960 y 1975 mas de tres millones de espanoles salieron de su patria con destino a Europa impulsados por el atraso economico de la Espana franquista.
The Melancholy of Kinship in Post-reform China and Postcolonial Literature, brings post-reform Chinese cultural texts into conversation with postcolonial novels from Africa and Asia to examine the shared experiences of kinship loss as a response to historical trauma, state violence, and socioeconomic dispossession.
The Melancholy of Kinship in Post-reform China and Postcolonial Literature, brings post-reform Chinese cultural texts into conversation with postcolonial novels from Africa and Asia to examine the shared experiences of kinship loss as a response to historical trauma, state violence, and socioeconomic dispossession.
Dieses Sachbuch bietet einen kompakten, gut verstandlichen Uberblick uber die historische Entwicklung Hawaiis von der geologischen Entstehung uber die polynesische Besiedlung, das Konigreich Hawaii, Annexion und Staatswerdung bis zur heutigen gesellschaftlichen Situation.
In den Bänden dieser Reihe werden erstmalig detailliert die wichtigsten Strömungen und Themen der ungemein fruchtbaren Periode der Soziologie der Zwischenkriegszeit im deutschen Sprachraum in theoretischer, empirischer und institutioneller Hinsicht dargelegt und die eingehende Erörterung Spezieller Soziologien durch die Bezugnahme auf Nachbardisziplinen vertieft.
In den Bänden dieser Reihe werden erstmalig detailliert die wichtigsten Strömungen und Themen der ungemein fruchtbaren Periode der Soziologie der Zwischenkriegszeit im deutschen Sprachraum in theoretischer, empirischer und institutioneller Hinsicht dargelegt und die eingehende Erörterung Spezieller Soziologien durch die Bezugnahme auf Nachbardisziplinen vertieft.
This book examines the influence and strategic efforts of the Comintern, the agency created in 1919 by Lenin to promote world revolution, during the Spanish civil war.
This book examines the previously hidden and unpublished submissions made to the Irish Boundary Commission in 1924-25, offering a rare glimpse into a pivotal moment in Irish and British history.
Das Buch begrundet ein geschichtstheoretisch fundiertes, praxisorientiertes Planungsmodell fur Geschichtsunterricht, durch den die komplexe Fahigkeit historische Urteilskompetenz von Lernenden wirksam und nachhaltig auf- und ausgebaut werden kann.
In October 1942, thirteen-year-old Rozia Handelsman (Rose Lipszyc) manages to escape certain death as her family is being deported from their home near Lublin, Poland.
Liberation and Libido delves into the vibrant, messy, and deeply political history of gay liberation in Canada, exploring how The Body Politic (TBP) shaped and challenged ideas of gay male masculinity - and gender more broadly - between 1971 and 1987.
The history of secret societies is often a tapestry of myth, conjecture, and fragmented records, but few organizations carry the weight of mystery associated with the Sphinx Society.
