History and Archaeology

Warum lohnt sich ein Blick auf die Konsumkultur des geteilten Deutschlands?

This book examines the previously hidden and unpublished submissions made to the Irish Boundary Commission in 1924-25, offering a rare glimpse into a pivotal moment in Irish and British history.

St Columba is one of the most important figures in the early history of the British Isles.

Indigenous Spiritualities and Religious Freedom investigates the complex relationship between Indigenous legal orders and Canadian law, emphasizing the richness of Indigenous spiritual practices alongside their historical and ongoing suppression by the Canadian state.

This book presents a novel perspective on long-distance trade in the ancient world that integrates network theory and environmental analysis into our understandings of production, movement and exchange in the so-called Long Classical Millennium (c.

This book presents a novel perspective on long-distance trade in the ancient world that integrates network theory and environmental analysis into our understandings of production, movement and exchange in the so-called Long Classical Millennium (c.

Echoes of the Past delves into the collective remembrance practices of the Carinthian Slovene community since the end of the Second World War, offering a nuanced analysis of museums, memorials, civic institutions, and literature created by Carinthian Slovene artists and activists.

Before textbooks reduced American history to dates and names, Jacob Abbott told it as a living story.

This book examines patterns of national integration and the mobilisation of the peasantry across two historical regions, Central and Eastern Europe, over a long historical timeframe, spanning from the 1848 Revolution to the outbreak of the Second World War.

The industrial titans of America's Gilded Age accumulated wealth and power on unprecedented scales, transforming the United States from an agricultural republic into the world's dominant industrial economy.

This Handbook challenges the view--widely held today--that religious toleration is a specifically modern, liberal, and Western concept.

This book explores the rich and ancient tradition of Chinese astronomy, which developed as early as the third millennium BCE and was first documented on oracle bones over 4,000 years ago.

This book unpacks the multifaceted ways of living with heritage in contemporary Vietnam.

Der US-amerikanische Journalist und Pulitzer-Preistrager Chris Hedges legt mit "e;Eine angekundigte Katastrophe"e; eine umfassende Dokumentation der jungsten Ereignisse im Gazastreifen und im Westjordanland vor.

Der Band prasentiert eine frische, unverbrauchte Auswahl von 50 internationalen Top-Karikaturen der Jahre 1900 bis 1945 - vom Imperialismus uber die Weltkriege bis zur Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeschichte.

JOINT WINNER OF THE 2002 NED KELLY AWARD FOR TRUE CRIME NON-FICTIONCOMMENDED FOR THE 2003 NATIONAL BIOGRAPHY AWARDRonald Joseph Ryan was hanged in Melbourne on 3 February 1967, following his conviction for the shooting murder of a prison warder during a daring escape from the maximum-security Pentridge prison thirteen months before.

This anthology explores the fruitful encounters between deities and humans, drawing on a broad spectrum of research and discoveries ranging from ancient Levantine archaeology and iconography to history.

"e;An excellent guide that explains how different beers are crafted and what gives these different types their synergies with superior cheeses.

Embark on a captivating journey through British history, where the lives of ordinary people intersect with major events.

A careful investigation into the history and meaning of reading, Unprinted dives into the rich culture of unprinted manuscripts in early modern Iberia.