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The Sciences in Islamicate Societies in Context - Patronage, Education, Narratives

This book reprints ten papers on contextual elements of the so-called ancient sciences in Islamicate societies between the thirteenth and...

Handbook of Historical Animal Studies

The handbook provides a comprehensive evaluation of approaches, topics and research areas of the rapidly developing field of Historical A...

Sport and the Pursuit of War and Peace from the Nineteenth Century to the Present - War Minus the Shooting?

This volume of wide-ranging essays by sport historians and sociologists examines the complex relations of war, peace and sport through a ...

Greening Europe - Environmental Protection in the Long Twentieth Century - A Handbook

Today, the environment seems omnipresent in European policy within and beyond the European Union. The idea of a shared European environme...

Remarriage and Stepfamilies in East Central Europe, 1600-1900

This book draws essential comparisons in terms of remarriage patterns and stepfamily life with Northwestern Europe.

The Problem of Piracy in the Early Modern World - Maritime Predation, Empire, and the Construction of Authority at Sea

In the early modern period, both legal and illegal maritime predation was a common occurrence, but the expansion of European maritime emp...

Youth and Justice in Western States, 1815-1950 - From Punishment to Welfare

This book explores the treatment of junevile offenders in modern Western history. The last few decades have witnessed major debates over ...

Living with the Land - Rural and Agricultural Actors in Twentieth-Century Europe - A Handbook

For a long time agriculture and rural life were dismissed by many contemporaries as irrelevant or old-fashioned. Contrasted with cities a...

Politisches Handlungswissen im Venedig des Quattrocento - Die Briefsammlung des Ludovico Foscarini. Band I: Analyse Band II: Edition

Wie konnten Abwesende politische Prozesse im Venedig der Renaissance beeinflussen? Wie wurden entsprechende Praktiken tradiert? Antworten...

Histories of Sexology - Between Science and Politics

¿Histories of Sexology: Between Science and Politics takes an interdisciplinary and reflexive approach to the historiography of sexology....

Lutheran Theology and Contract Law in Early Modern Germany (ca. 1520-1720)

It is clear that the Lutheran Reformation greatly contributed to changes in theological and legal ideas - but what was the extent of its ...

Enlightened Colonialism - Civilization Narratives and Imperial Politics in the Age of Reason

This book further qualifies the postcolonial thesis and shows its limits. To reach these goals, it links text analysis and political hist...

¿Femininity¿ and the History of Women's Education - Shifting the Frame

This book draws on recent deconstructions around the idea of 'femininity' as a social, racial and class construct and explores the divers...

Lexicon of Argead Macedonia

This is the first lexicon focusing exclusively on Argead Makedonia. Spanning from the mythical foundation of the realm to the death of th...

The Hidden Origins of the German Enlightenment

The early German Enlightenment is seen as a reform movement that broke free from traditional ties without falling into anti-Christian and...

Militarization and Democracy in West Germany's Border Police, 1951-2005

A social history of West Germany's Bundesgrenzschutz (BGS, Federal Border Police) that complicates the telling of the country's history a...

Sepecat Jaguar and Thumrait Thuggies

A book of reminiscences of both the Sepecat Jaguar and of Thumrait and its people from 1977 to 2014 - The era of the Jaguar. For those wh...

Between the Great Show of the Party-State and Religious Counter-Cultures. Zwischen partei-staatlicher Selbstinszenierung und kirchlichen Gegenwelten - Public Spheres in Soviet-Type Societies. Sphären von Öffentlichkeit in Gesellschaften sowjetischen Typs

Der Band versammelt Beiträge zu vielfältigen Erscheinungsformen von Öffentlichkeit in Gesellschaften sowjetischen Typs. Die Tragfähigkeit...

The Jewish Community of Acre in Mandatory Palestine - The Story of a Forgotten Community

For a brief moment in the history of Acre, there was a Hebrew community that linked old and new settlements. It had a national-Zionist or...

Machiavelli and the Orders of Violence

Machiavelli and the Orders of Violence shows how Machiavelli challenges conventional conceptions of how force and cruelty operate in poli...

President Kennedy speaks - Eine Auswahl aus seinen Reden mit Einführung und Anmerkungen

Frontmatter -- INHALT -- EINLEITUNG -- 1. THE NEW FRONTIER -- 2. SPEECH TO THE MASSACHUSETTS STATE LEGISLATURE -- 3. INAUGURAL ADDRESS --...

The Archaeology of the Pampas and Patagonia

"In this book, Gustavo Politis and Luis Borrero explore the archaeology and ethnography of the indigenous people who inhabited Argentina'...

Seeing History: Public History in China

When public history was imported from the United States to China around the turn of the twenty-first century, it was introduced as a sub-...

Western Historiography in Asia - Circulation, Critique and Comparison

This volume provides a unique and critical perspective on how Chinese, Japanese and Korean scholars engage and critique the West in their...

Der Wiener Kongress und seine Folgen / The Congress of Vienna and its Aftermaths - Großbritannien, Europa und der Friede im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert / Great Britain, Europe and Peace in the 19th and 20th Century

1814/15 versammelte der Wiener Kongress Vertreter aller europäischen Länder, um nach den Umbrüchen dem Kontinent Ruhe und Sicherheit durc...

Patterns in the History of Polycentric Governance in European Cities - From Antiquity to the 21st Century

The autonomy granted to local communities (such as towns, municipalities, and city-states) by larger, central powers (such as empires, ki...

Environment and Infrastructure - Challenges, Knowledge and Innovationfrom the Early Modern Period to the Present

The material and energy flows that characterized the metabolism of preindustrial and industrial societies were organized through complex ...

Tempels, Synagogues, Churches, and Mosques - Sacred Architecture in Palestine from the Bronze Age to Medieval Times

The construction of sacred spaces has been shaped throughout millennia by the idea of a divine presence within the realm of human life. I...

History, Politics and Theory in the Great Divergence Debate - A Comparative Analysis of the California School, World Systems Analysis and Marxism

World history suffers from a paucity of clearly articulated, convincing explanations. While the rise of postmodernism and challenges to E...

Time - A Multidisciplinary Introduction

Time permeates language, society, and individual lives, but time eludes definition. From grand scales of geologic time to the exasperatio...

A History of World Societies, Combined Volume

A regional and global approach to world history that highlights society and culture Long praised by instructors and students for its acce...

Rulers of the Sea - Maritime Strategy and Sea Power in Ancient Greece, 550-321 BCE

This is a study of sea power and maritime strategy in the Classical Greek world. More than just a study of navies and battles, it examine...

The Greek Gastarbeiter in the Federal Republic of Germany (1960-1974)

Was migration to Germany a blessing or a curse? The main argument of this book is that the Greek state conceived labor migration as a tra...

Current Trends in Slavery Studies in Brazil

African slaves were brought into Brazil as early as 1530, with abolition in 1888. During those three centuries, Brazil received 4,000,000...

(Not) In the Game - History, Paratexts, and Games

How do games represent history, and how do we make sense of the history of games? The industry regularly uses history to sell products, w...

Francisco I. Madero - Apostle of Mexican Democracy

Historische Mitteilungen 33 (2022) - Ukraine und Ukrainische Geschichte unter Beschuss. Historische Perspektiven im transepochalen und transregionalen Zugriff

Russlands äußerst brutaler Angriffskrieg gegen die Ukraine richtet sich gegen alle Ukrainer:innen und alles Ukrainische, gegen die ukrain...

Rockstar Games and American History - Promotional Materials and the Construction of Authenticity

Commercially successful, fan-beloved, and a frequent source of media attention, Rockstar Games have a reputation¿as a game-changing compa...

Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union, and Africa - New Perspectives on the Era of Decolonization, 1950s to 1990s

It is now widely recognised that a Cold War perspective falls short in unfolding the complex geographies of connections and the multipola...

Gender and Protest - On the Historical and Contemporary Interrelation of Two Social Phenomena

For centuries women and other "gendered minorities" had to protest to gain equality. Their demands were often matched by counter-protest ...

A History of Western Society Since 1300

Praised by instructors and students alike for its readability and attention to everyday life, the twelfth edition of A History of Western...

Children and Youth at Risk in Times of Transition - International and Interdisciplinary Perspectives

Children and youth belong to one of the most vulnerable groups in societies. This was the case even before the current humanitarian crise...

Ancient and Historical Ceramics - Materials, Technology, Art and Culinary Traditions

By stressing the congruence between cooking ceramics and tableware, and food and its consumption, this book offers a completely new view ...

A History of Hindu Architecture in India

A History of Hindu Architecture in India explores the history of Hindu architecture in South Asia in a way that connects the times, place...

Die Wittelsbacher - Ein Jahrtausend in Bildern / S: K: H: Herzog Franz von Bayern zum 80. Geburtstag

Die Wittelsbacher herrschten 738 Jahre ununterbrochen über Bayern. Doch ihre Geschichte reicht weit über diese Zeit hinaus: Schon um das ...

Nodes of Translation - Intellectual History between Modern India and Germany

The volume is organized around some key questions. Which texts were being translated? The point or period in time when this happened? And...

A History of World Societies. Volume 2: Since 1450

A regional and global approach to world history that highlights society and culture Long praised by instructors and students for its acce...

Early Zoroastrianism and Orality

Early Zoroastrianism was transmitted orally, as is now generally accepted by scholars. There is no consensus, however, regarding the impl...

Expressive Space - Embodying Meaning in Video Game Environments

Video game spaces have vastly expanded the built environment, offering new worlds to explore and inhabit. Like buildings, cities, and gar...

Spatial Entrepreneurs - Actors and Practices of Space-Making Under the Global Condition

As essential components of globalization, the study of practices and processes of space formation promotes a nuanced understanding of glo...

Tea and Horsepower - How the horse built the beverage industry

Using horses for transportation changed the world much like computers and social media have changed the world today. Once the power of th...

Eva Perón - A Reference Guide to Her Life and Works

No Latin American woman has ever elicited such extreme feelings of love and hate as Eva Perón. She was an actress of humble origins who f...

Rights under Trial, Rights Reflections - 13 Further Acts of Academic Journalism and Historical Commentary on Human Rights

As the second decade of the twenty-first century closes, challenges to human rights have deepened. Democracy is under stress, cultural ba...

The Dead of the Irish Revolution

The first comprehensive account to record and analyze all deaths arising from the Irish revolution between 1916 and 1921â A monumental n...

Jews in Japan: Presence and Perception - Antisemitism, Philosemitism and International Relations

Jews in Japan: Presence and Perception. Antisemitism, Philosemitism and International Relations is a study on the history of real and ima...

2023 - Bewegung - Organisation - Ideologie. Sportliche Mobilisierung in Südosteuropa im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert

In welchem Verhältnis standen Sport, Ideologie und Mobilisierung in Südosteuropa im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert zueinander? Bereits in der zw...

The Therapized Antisemite - The Myth of Psychology and the Evasion of Responsibility

The Therapized Antisemite determines the failure of psychology in the understanding and punishment of antisemitism. Through exploring soc...

Challenging Olympic Narratives - Japan, the Olympic Games and Tokyo 2020/21

Dieser Band bringt renommierte Wissenschaftler und Nachwuchswissenschaftler aus Japan, den Vereinigten Staaten und Europa zusammen, um ve...

belarmino - the red october - eng usa

Belarmino moved after a move into a corrupt stroke of genius and intended for it and lived officially in the clutches of the state power ...

Ernst Papanek and Jewish Refugee Children - Genocide and Displacement

Ernst Papanek was an Austrian pedagogue who worked with Jewish refugee children in France in 1939/40, before he was forced to leave to th...