History and Archaeology

This book situates the development of 20th and 21st century Chinese art in such fundamental contexts as Chinese politics and social change and is ideally suited for readers to understand the particularities of Chinese art that are distinct from Western art history.

What does it mean to fight for women's rights in the 21st century?

This Handbook analyses explores the Catholic Church in East Asia following a chronological framework to trace events to the 21st century.

This Handbook analyses explores the Catholic Church in East Asia following a chronological framework to trace events to the 21st century.

This book offers a new investigation of the Needham Question.

This book offers a new investigation of the Needham Question.

This book offers a global overview of the history of blood donation using evidence-based research to provide accurate information on the beginnings of blood donation and transfusion medicine, developed as the result of numerous trials and successes throughout history.

This book offers a global overview of the history of blood donation using evidence-based research to provide accurate information on the beginnings of blood donation and transfusion medicine, developed as the result of numerous trials and successes throughout history.

This is the first edited collection to focus on women, gender, and history education in Canada.

This is the first edited collection to focus on women, gender, and history education in Canada.

Why did early modern Europeans hunt for witches?

Why did early modern Europeans hunt for witches?

This book explores the transformation of the state in Wallachia, an Ottoman tributary principality, between 1740 and 1800, by focusing on three administrative techniques: regulations, paperwork (registers, identification certificates), and weights and measures.

Genocide murders innocents in a society, and it leaves behind moral corruption and societal twistedness.

Genocide murders innocents in a society, and it leaves behind moral corruption and societal twistedness.

This book explores the multifaceted dimensions of the Girmitya diaspora and post-memory.

This book explores the multifaceted dimensions of the Girmitya diaspora and post-memory.

A powerful, shocking and profoundly moving collection of testimonies from Palestinians, Israelis, Christians and volunteer workers, each telling their own stories about life in the disputed territories.

Prompted by the need for accessible teaching materials on Central Asian literature and history, this anthology surveys the literature of modern Central Asia from the late 19th century to the present.

Prompted by the need for accessible teaching materials on Central Asian literature and history, this anthology surveys the literature of modern Central Asia from the late 19th century to the present.

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

This book maps an emerging cycle of films made by Iranian diasporic women filmmakers and produced outside of Iran, focusing on five significant examples: Shirin Neshat's Women Without Men (2009), Sepideh Farsi's Red Rose (2014), Maryam Keshavarz's Circumstance (2011), Ana Lily Amirpour's A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014) and Desiree Akhavan's Appropriate Behaviour (2014).

This book maps an emerging cycle of films made by Iranian diasporic women filmmakers and produced outside of Iran, focusing on five significant examples: Shirin Neshat's Women Without Men (2009), Sepideh Farsi's Red Rose (2014), Maryam Keshavarz's Circumstance (2011), Ana Lily Amirpour's A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014) and Desiree Akhavan's Appropriate Behaviour (2014).

This book starts from the very beginning of the cultural exchanges between China and the western regions, to the exchanges in modern times, featuring large time span and interdisciplinarity.

Considering metropolitan and colonial cultural production as a "e;unitary field of analysis,"e; this book shows how tensions in the 1830s between utilitarian and Romantic perspectives on steam power marked meaningful divisions within the pervasive liberal imperialism of the period and generated divergent speculative fantasies, set in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, about the future of Indian nationalism.

Considering metropolitan and colonial cultural production as a "e;unitary field of analysis,"e; this book shows how tensions in the 1830s between utilitarian and Romantic perspectives on steam power marked meaningful divisions within the pervasive liberal imperialism of the period and generated divergent speculative fantasies, set in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, about the future of Indian nationalism.

Women's Voices in Manga investigates how manga reflect women's gender issues and social problems within the context of Japanese history, culture, and society.

This book starts from the very beginning of the cultural exchanges between China and the western regions, to the exchanges in modern times, featuring large time span and interdisciplinarity.

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

This groundbreaking study examines Peking Opera legend Mei Lanfang’s 1930 U.

This book revisits Rabindranath Tagore's opinion and standpoints on constituent elements of politics from the stance of this marker--axiology, so that many well-known aspects of his thought may be seen in a different light.

This book revisits Rabindranath Tagore's opinion and standpoints on constituent elements of politics from the stance of this marker--axiology, so that many well-known aspects of his thought may be seen in a different light.

As the COVID-19 pandemic struck peoples throughout the world, it disproportionately devastated Native American communities.

This book deeply examines the definition, formation, translation purpose, stylistic features, and modernity connotation of Liang's "e;unfettered translation.

This book deeply examines the definition, formation, translation purpose, stylistic features, and modernity connotation of Liang's "e;unfettered translation.

This book will argue that lodging is a hugely ignored, largely invisible but critical sector of housing provision and economic contributor of burgeoning African cities.

This book will argue that lodging is a hugely ignored, largely invisible but critical sector of housing provision and economic contributor of burgeoning African cities.

This book proposes a new historical framework for the analysis of the relationship between communist Poland and neutral Austria during the final decade of the Cold War.

The nature and purpose of elementary education featured prominently in English periodicals throughout the nineteenth century.

The nature and purpose of elementary education featured prominently in English periodicals throughout the nineteenth century.

This book mainly seeks to explain, define and update the recurring forms of populism in the 21st century.

As the COVID-19 pandemic struck peoples throughout the world, it disproportionately devastated Native American communities.

This textbook examines encounters between different cultures during the Global Age, outlining their historical, social, political, and economic contexts.

This textbook examines encounters between different cultures during the Global Age, outlining their historical, social, political, and economic contexts.

This book is the first comprehensive study of the history, nature, and purposes of peace museums, comprising twenty-one essays by a leading authority in the field.