Gjør som tusenvis av andre bokelskere
Abonner på vårt nyhetsbrev og få rabatter og inspirasjon til din neste leseopplevelse.
Ved å abonnere godtar du vår personvernerklæring.Du kan når som helst melde deg av våre nyhetsbrev.
The Antifascist Chronicles of Aurelio Pego: A Critical Anthology collects and contextualizes Pegös 118 literary chronicles published between 1940 and 1967 in the periodical España Libre, New York.
This book explores the legacies of the Russian Revolution across the Asian continent and maritime Southeast Asia, with a broad geographic sweep including Iran, the Caucasus, Central Asia, China, the Philippines, Vietnam, Indonesia, and India.
This edited volume views Ireland's place in the world, from the 18th century to the present, from a number of methodological perspectives. Deploying diverse sources - including interviews, press reports, convict records, wills, letters, diaries and social media - and spanning the globe from Ireland itself to Scotland, Wales, Australia, New Zea
Denial spans a broad geographic and thematic range in its explorations of varied forms of denial¿which is embedded in each stage of genocide.This book will be of interest to scholars and students of history, genocide studies, anthropology, political science, international law, gender studies, and human rights.
This book brings together twenty-one scholars and a host of original ideas, revisionist arguments, and new information to mark the bicentennial of the Greek Revolution of 1821. It will appeal to scholars and students of the Age of Revolution, transnational history, political theory and constitutional law.
This book elevates the senses to a central role in the study of food history as the traditional focus upon food types, quantities, and nutritional values is incomplete without some recognition of smell, touch, sight, hearing, and taste. It is ideal for scholars of food history, studies and culture, as well as social and cultural historians.
This book provides case-studies of how teachers and practitioners have attempted to develop more effective 'experiential learning' strategies in order to better equip students for their voluntary engagements in communities, working for sustainable peace and a tolerant society free of discrimination.
This volume presents research from a European international, interdisciplinary and intersectoral research project in which fifteen doctoral researchers explored a range of issues related to the life-course experiences of children born of war in 20th-century conflicts.
Unlike most books on the Atlantic that associate its history with European colonialism and thus end in 1800, this volume demonstrates that the connections not only outlasted colonialism, they also reached unprecedented levels in postcolonial times, when the Atlantic truly became the world¿s major crossroads and dominant economy.
Deploying empirical studies from early Imperial China to the global security landscape after the Nine-Eleven terrorist attacks, 17 scholars offer a comprehensive overview of the history of surveillance that sheds new light on the hidden mechanisms of power that impels surveillance as societal phenomenon.
This book introduces the conceptual framework of the `Hispanic-Anglosphere¿ to open a window into the interactions between the British Isles and the global Hispanic world. It offers insights on trade, pandemics, the arts, education, language, politics, the press, religion, biodiversity, philanthropy, anti-slavery and imperialism.
This book compares processes of pacification leading to the end of tribal warfare in seven societies from all over the world between the 19th and 21st centuries. It shows that pacification needs to be approached as the result of specific interactions between state actors and non-state local groups.
This volume surveys transnational entanglements between Germany and East Asia, which have become increasingly bi-directional since 1945. Its twelve chapters by scholars from the fields of history, sinology, sociology, literature, music, and film reveal these unprecedented global connections.
This book provides a comparative and transnational examination of the complex and multifaceted experiences of anti-labour mobilization, from the bitter social conflicts of the pre-war period, through the epochal tremors of war and revolution, and the violent spasms of the 1920s and 1930s.
This book explores the connection between history and mythology by engaging with myths not as allegories or falsehoods, but as representations of historical experience.
This book revisits the central issue of how propaganda was understood within China's Communist Party system. The contributions to this volume capture the sweep of propaganda and its systematic continuities and discontinuities from the perspective of policymakers, bureaucratic functionaries, and artists.
Encompassing five continents and twenty centuries, this book puts ruler personality cults on the crossroads of disciplines rarely, if ever, juxtaposed before: among its authors are historians, linguists, media scholars, political scientists and communication sociologists from Europe, the United States and New Zealand.
Abonner på vårt nyhetsbrev og få rabatter og inspirasjon til din neste leseopplevelse.
Ved å abonnere godtar du vår personvernerklæring.