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Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012
This magisterial study proposes a revised and innovative view of the political history of Renaissance Italy. Drawing on comparative examples from across the peninsula and the kingdoms of Sicily, Sardinia and Corsica, an international team of leading scholars highlights the complexity and variety of...
Paradigm Found
Archaeological Theory – Present, Past and Future. Essays in Honour of Evžen Neustupný
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2015
Paradigm Found brings together papers by renowned researchers from across Europe, Asia and America to discuss a selection of pressing issues in current archaeological theory and method. The book also reviews the effects and potential of various theoretical stances in the context of prehistoric archaeology.
The...
by Mats Larsson, Geoffrey Lemdahl
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2014
Covering the approximately 6,500 years from the beginning of the Late Mesolithic to the transition to the Bronze Age, Mats Larsson takes the reader on a journey through the development of Swedish prehistoric society and culture set against the backdrop of climatic and landscape change. Using examples...
Revisiting the National Socialist Legacy
Coming to Terms with Forced Labor, Expropriation, Compensation, and Restitution
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2019
Since the mid-1990s, political, legal, and historical debates about Nazi theft and confiscation of property, the use of slave labor during World War II, and restitution and compensation have reemerged. Revisiting the National Socialist Legacy presents completely new historical research on these issues...
The Battle of Konotop 1659
Exploring alternatives in East European history
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2016
The battle that took place near Konotop in late June 1659 was a continuation of the Muscovite-Cossack war, which began in the fall of 1658, soon after the signing of the Union of Hadiach. Cossack and Tatar detachments trapped a significant portion of the Muscovite army, leading to enormous Russian...
Pogrom Cries Essays on Polish-Jewish History, 19391946
2nd Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2019
This book focuses on the fate of Polish Jews and Polish-Jewish relations during the Holocaust and its aftermath, in the ill-recognized era of Eastern-European pogroms after the WW2. It is based on the author’s own ethnographic research in those areas of Poland where the Holocaust machinery operated....
Devotion to St. Anne in Texts and Images
From Byzantium to the Late European Middle Ages
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2018
St. Anne was popular with representatives of various segments of society – from monks, nuns, members of the clergy, royal patrons, to church-goers of every rank. This book looks into both the public and private worship of this holy woman and brings to the surface some under-exposed aspects of it....
The Neolithic of Europe
Papers in Honour of Alasdair Whittle
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2017
The Neolithic of Europe comprises eighteen specially commissioned papers on prehistoric archaeology, written by leading international scholars. The coverage is broad, ranging geographically from southeast Europe to Britain and Ireland and chronologically from the Neolithic to the Iron Age, but with...
by Sandro Letta
Language: Italian
Release Date: January 31, 2016
Language: Italian
Release Date: January 31, 2016
C'era una volta l'Europa? Dopo il crollo del muro di Berlino e la grande crisi esplosa a partire dal 2007 il progetto di unione europea sembra vacillare. "Antenati" raccoglie la speranza di una generazione che ha creduto nell'Europa civile e libera. Una storia delle letterature europee non...
The Papacy in the Modern World
A Political History
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2014
In March 2013, millions of people sat glued to news channels and live Internet feeds, waiting to see white smoke rise from the Sistine Chapel, signaling the election of the new pope. For two millennia, the papacy, leader of the Roman Catholic Church, has played a fundamentally important role in European...
by Carina Bauer
Language: German
Release Date: July 9, 2015
Language: German
Release Date: July 9, 2015
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The Wealth of England
The Medieval Wool trade and Its Political Importance 1100–1600
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
The wool trade was undoubtedly one of the most important elements of the British economy throughout the medieval period - even the seat occupied by the speaker of the House of lords rests on a woolsack. In The Wealth of England Susan Rose brings together the social, economic and political strands...
Pierre Legendre Lessons III God in the Mirror
A Study of the Institution of Images
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2018
In the context of our increasingly global legal order, Pierre Legendre’s God in the Mirror reconsiders the place of law within the division of existing bodies of knowledge. Navigating the texts of Ovid, Augustine, Roman jurists, medieval canon lawyers, Freud, Lacan, the notebooks of Leonardo de...
by Catia Brilli
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
The Republic of Genoa was once a major commercial power. Following the Republic's decline in the seventeenth century, Genoese merchants adapted and thrived in the changing Atlantic market. Scholars have examined how other foreign merchant groups operated within the Spanish empire, but until now no...