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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...

Habsburg kartieren - Schriftbildliche Entwürfe von Herrschaft im 16. und 17. Jahrhundert

Seit einiger Zeit werden Karten als hybride Ordnung von Wissen in den Kontext der bildlichen wie auch schriftlichen Überlieferung ihrer Z...

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Enchanted Creatures - On Monsters and Their Meanings

From Palaeolithic cave carvings to science fiction cyborgs, Natalie Lawrence takes us on a fascinating journey through 15,000 years of hi...

Conflict Legacies - Understanding Youth's Post-peace Agreement Practices in Yumbe, North-Western Uganda

How youth as a generation was born and raised during conflict, how they relate to the past and how that influences their social navigatio...

Zoomland - Exploring Scale in Digital History and Humanities

Despite a variety of theoretical and practical undertakings, there is no coherent understanding of the concept of scale in digital histor...

Österreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaften 34/3/2023 - Motions of Knowledge - Knowledge in Motion / Bewegungen des Wissens - Wissen in Bewegung

Dieses Themenheft diskutiert die Möglichkeiten und Grenzen des Konzepts der "Wissenszirkulation" in der Geschichtswissenschaft. Die Wisse...

Lenin Lives?

A lively, accessible and wide-ranging account of one of the most influential figures of the twentieth century. Through a brief but stimul...

Mungo Park's Ghost - The Haunted Hubris of British Explorers in Nineteenth-Century Africa

In 1816 the British sent two large, ambitious expeditions to Africa, one to follow the Niger River to its outlet, the other to trace the ...

Kind und Gesellschaft (II) - Spiegelungen. Zeitschrift für deutsche Kultur und Geschichte Südosteuropas

Mit Ausgabe 2.23 setzen die Spiegelungen den Themen schwerpunkt "Kind und Gesellschaft" mit weiteren Fallstudien fort, die zeitlich vom a...

Reading Silences - Essays on Women, Memory and War in 20th Century Turkey

Illuminating the unique experiences of Armenian and Turkish women both during and after genocide, this book explains why women's difficul...

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...

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...

Handbook Roman Empire

The Roman Empire is the paradigmatic empire of world history. Its rise, stability and prosperity but also decline and fall has impressed ...

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...

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...

The Politics of Service - American Quakers and the Emergence of International Humanitarian Aid 1917-1945

This book provides the first comprehensive history of the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), the central aid agency of Religious ...

A chronicle of success - 200 Jahre Geschichte eines Erfolges. Das Ronnefeldt Jubiläumsbuch

Fernab der großen Seehäfen in Frankfurt am Main gegründet, steht Ronnefeldt seit 200 Jahren für exzellenten Tee. Das Buch erzählt von der...

Europe's Troubled Pasts in Comparative Perspective - Past and Present of a Complex Relation

How are deep, divisive conflicts remembered after they have ended? How can collective memories of the past shape the future? And what is ...

Cold War Boys Overseas - True Tales by Those Who Served with the Royal Air Force Abroad

Until the end of the Cold War in 1990, the RAF had several major bases worldwide - largely in those areas where the service had been base...

Political Violence - Historical, Philosophical and Theological Perspectives

This volume brings together scholars from intellectual history, social sciences, philosophy and theology to evaluate central questions co...

Aufmerksamkeit und Wachsamkeit - Praktiken und Semantiken in der mittelalterlichen Literatur und Frömmigkeit

Den Ausgangspunkt bildet die Beobachtung, dass christliche Autoren seit altkirchlicher Zeit die Gläubigen zur unablässigen, absoluten Auf...

Foreign Bodies - The Terror of Contagion, the Ingenuity of Science

An epic story of humanity’s struggle against pandemics from the renowned historian and broadcaster

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. For over a hundred ye...

Beyond Tolerance and Prejudice - Jewish and Protestant Responses to Violence in Post-Reformation Cracow

To understand the nature of interreligious coexistence, Beyond Tolerance and Prejudice, tests its boundaries from the original perspectiv...

Public History on the Battlefields of Europe - Experiences of Dealing with Painful Pasts in Former Yugoslavia

History and representations of the past have become an increasingly public issue, especially over the past decades. Public and Applied Hi...

Narratives Without Guilt - Japanese Perpetrators and the Question of Responsibility

During the Second World War Japanese soldiers committed several different war crimes, including the kidnapping and raping of women or the...

Invisible Campaigns - Assessing Bomber Command's Minelaying Operations 1940-1945

Aerial mining by RAF Bomber Command was a vital part of the Allied war effort - claiming far more tonnage of Axis shipping destroyed than...

Berlin - A Postcolonial Metropolis - A Critical History Walking Tour of Central Berlin

Around 1900, Berlin briefly sat at the center of German colonial imperialism. After World War I, the colonial revisionist movement formed...

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...

The Dark Path - The Structure of War and the Rise of the West

From an esteemed military historian, a sweeping history of the revolutions in war-fighting that have shaped the modern world

Northern Mythology - Tales from Norse, Finnish, and Sami Traditions

Discover the complex mythology of the legendary Nordic people who inspired Hollywood films, epic novels, and more.

Modernity and the Construction of Sacred Space

This volume focuses on the connection between modern design and architectural practices and the construction of "sacred spaces." Not only...

Country Marathon Collecting - Passion, Determination, Obsession

Running marathons and collecting countries is a serious hobby and passion among a small but elite group of runners in the world. It requi...

The Posthumous Papers of the Manuscripts Club

'Exquisite... intelligent, illuminating, mischievous ... delightful The Times The acclaimed author of Meetings with Remarkable Manuscript...

Writing Mormon History 2: Authors' Stories Behind Their Works

Like its predecessor, Writing Mormon History, this book delves into the captivating narratives of multiple historians as they unfold the ...

The Comet Escape Line - The Inside Story of the Most Successful Escape Line of the Second World War

This is the story of the brave civilians who helped Allied airmen and other evaders to escape from occupied Europe and return to Britain,...

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 ...

A Hillfort Through Time - Excavations at Rathgall, Co Wicklow

Rathgall Hillfort is a site of exceptional importance for Irish archaeology, with its concentration of artifactual evidence unmatched by ...

Reforming Galway - Civic Society, Religious Change and St Nicholas's Collegiate Church, 1550-1750

This book explores a new way of looking at the reformation in Ireland. Traditionally Irish historians have described early modern religio...

Designing the Vulcan

The Avro Vulcan is one of the most striking aircraft ever made - its enormous wing stretching back from an improbably thick leading edge ...

End-Game - Apocalyptic Video Games, Contemporary Society, and Digital Media Culture

The video-game is among the most prominent media of the explosion of apocalyptic popular culture in the twenty-first century. Apocalyptic...

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...

Japan, the Jews, and Israel - Similarities and Contrasts

Although an ally of Nazi Germany during World War II, Japan adamantly refused to accede to German demands to deal harshly with the some 4...

Exiled in East Germany - Life Stories of Malawian and South African Freedom Fighters during the Cold War

The presence of Africans in the German Democratic Republic is very rarely thought of in connection with the experience of exile. Instead,...

Rebel Sounds - Music as Resistance

Joe Mulhall uncovers how music has shaped resistance movements across the globe, from Irish protest songs to Apartheid South Africa to th...

Faithful Unto Death - Pet Cemeteries, Animal Graves, and Eternal Devotion

The remarkable stories of beloved pets--from the famous and unusual to the everyday--memorialized at burial sites around the world, accom...

Iron and Blood - A Military History of the German-speaking Peoples Since 1500

*WINNER OF THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON MEDAL FOR MILITARY HISTORY* *A DAILY TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022* 'No one interested in the history...

Eisenbahndenkmalpflege - Préservation du patrimoine ferroviaire - Railway Heritage Preservation - Dokumentationsband zur internationalen Tagung vom 23.-25. Juni 2022

Der Bau des europäischen Bahnnetzes war im Wesentlichen um 1900 abgeschlossen. Seither erfordert der Betrieb des Systems Bahn mit seinen ...

Worlds of Management: Transregional Perspectives on Management Knowledge, 1950s-1970s

Comparativ. Zeitschrift für Globalgeschichte und vergleichende Gesellschaftsforschung rückt Themen einer innovativen Weltgeschichte in de...

Cuneiform Texts from Nimrud - Volume VI - Documents from the Nabu Temple and from Private Houses on the Citadel

History for Tomorrow - Inspiration from the Past for the Future of Humanity

'Brimming with ideas and insights, this is a welcome, important and clear-eyed view of how understanding the past can help us better prep...

Zwischen Gott, Mensch und Teufel - Beobachtungskonstellationen in der deutschen Flugpublizistik der frühen Neuzeit

Im Gros frühneuzeitlicher Darstellungen des Teufels als angsteinflößende Monstrosität fallen die erzählerischen und graphischen Umsetzung...

Libertine London - Sex in the Eighteenth-Century Metropolis

An eye-opening and richly detailed history of women's sexuality that upends entrenched perceptions of the long eighteenth century. Libert...

The Shadow in the Shadow - A US-American woman working as an East German undercover agent to prevent a hot war

"I soon realized that we were going to be recruited to work for the GDR (East Germany) in West Germany. We could actually make a differen...

The Battle of the Arctic

From the #1 bestselling author Hugh Sebag Montefiore, a spellbinding and fiercely told history of one of the most extreme episodes of the...

The Settlement of the Poor in England, c.1660-1780 - Law, Society, and State Formation

Engagement, Enlargement, and Confrontation - A Political History of the European Union's Eastern Policies After the Cold War

Engagement, Enlargement, and Confrontation provides a holistic view of the European Union's eastern relations explored in an historical c...

Managing Mobility - The British Imperial State and Global Migration, 1840-1860

Between 1840 and 1860 the British Empire expanded rapidly in scale, with rampant annexation of territory and ruthless suppression of rebe...