De tres nombreux livres ont ete ecrits sur la guerre d'Algerie, mais aucun n'a traite des annees terribles qui ont concerne des milliers de prisonniers politiques en France.
First published in 1934, Labour and War is a thought-provoking work that examines the role of labor movements in preventing war through collective action and advocacy.
Ob qualmende Schornsteine oder Vogel in grunen Landschaften: Welche Bilder wir mit "e;Umwelt"e; verbinden, ist das Ergebnis gesellschaftlicher Aushandlung - und visueller Inszenierung.
En articulant analyse litteraire et etude d'archives, Deniz Keziban Cakici explore la pensee et l'ecriture de Sevgi Soysal, figure majeure de la litterature turque contemporaine.
Gladiatoren gelten als Sinnbild romischer Spektakel: bewaffnete Einzelkampfer, deren Auftritte zwischen Inszenierung, Disziplin und kalkuliertem Risiko oszillierten.
"e;Schweizer Arztinnen"e; wurden die ersten Frauen genannt, die in der Schweiz ein Medizinstudium absolviert hatten, als ihnen der Zugang zu den Universitaten der Habsburgermonarchie noch verwehrt war.
En la Edad de Oro, el titan Crono gobierna sobre dioses y mortales, pero vive atormentado por una profecia: sera destronado por su propio hijo, igual que su padre Urano.
La laborieuse et complexe organisation du projet de descente en Angleterre amorcee depuis la rupture de la paix d'Amiens (voir le tome 1) s'acheve au debut de l'annee 1805.
In Gay Print Culture, Juan Carlos Mezo Gonzalez investigates the relationship between transnational gay liberation politics, periodicals, and images in Mexico, the United States, and Canada from the early 1970s through the mid-1990s.
Dedalo, el gran arquitecto de Atenas, es celebre por sus obras prodigiosas: edificios que desafian el tiempo, ingenios asombrosos y estatuas que parecen cobrar vida.
This volume reflects on the motivations underpinning the writing of history in Late Antique Iberia, emphasising its theoretical and practical aspects and outlining the social, political and ideological implications of the constructions and narrations of the past.
From the mid-twelfth century onwards, the development of European hospitals was shaped by their claim to the legal status of religious institutions, with its attendant privileges and responsibilities.
In the wake of the explosion in the production of essay films over the last 25 years and its subsequent theorization in scholarly literature, this volume seeks to historicize these intertwined developments within the 'long duree' of the 20th century and into the 21st.
On 1 July 1523, Johann van den Esschen and Hendrik Voes, two Augustinian friars from Antwerp, were burned on the Grand Plaza in Brussels, thereby becoming the first victims of the Reformation.
Postcolonial Hangups in Southeast Asian Cinema: Poetics of Space, Sound, and Stability rethinks theory and style through films that bring the limits of traditional postcolonial frameworks into stark relief.
In The Enlightenment's Animals Nathaniel Wolloch takes a broad view of changing conceptions of animals in European culture during the long eighteenth century.
This study of ludic literary society in sixteenth-century France addresses Italianate practices of philosophical and literary sociability as they took root there.
The Work of Terrence Malick: Time-Based Ecocinema develops a timely ecocinema approach to film analysis illuminated by Benjamin's notion of the turn of time.
This volume presents a batch of incisive new essays on the relationship between Roman imperial power and ideology and Christian and Jewish life and thought within the empire.
Women and Temporality in Literature and Cinema delves into the subject of literary and cinematic women characters entrapped in temporal spaces and their peculiar communication with visibility, enclosure, space, and time in the context of sexual and temporal discord.
This tenth volume in the series, comprising some fifty essays, offers a further wide-ranging selection of essays on different themes and personalities, grouped thematically, from portraits of key figures such as Stamford Raffles and Lord Lytton to the history of Japanese trade and investment in the UK, such as NSK at Peterlee and Mitsubishi Electric in Scotland, from scholars such as Basil Hall Chamberlain, to international Japanese banker Ogata Shijuro.
