Power and Time: Temporalities in Conflict and the Making of History, Hardcover - Dan Edelstein

Time is the backdrop of historical inquiry, yet it is much more than a featureless setting for events. Different temporalities interact dynamically...

In this seminal study, Robert Cox offers a new approach to the study of power by identifying the connections between production, the state, and wor...

Social conflict and the making of a globalized place at Rosia Montana - Filip Alexandrescu

Reducere. Compellingly written and even-handed in its judgments, this is by far the clearest account of what has happened through the years in the Northern I...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Dan EdelsteinIllustration(s): 1 halftone, 5 tablesNumber of pages: 334Collection: The Life of ...

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Publisher: Oxford University Press IncAuthor(s): Adam B. (Permanent Lecturer (Assistant Professor) of Politics and International Relations, Permane...

Reducere. Examines how the Irish American community, the American public, and the American government played a crucial role in the making of a sovereign inde...

DescriptionBy the end of the eighteenth century, politicians in America and France were invoking the natural rights of man to wrest sovereignty awa...

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers IncAuthor(s): Clyde W. FordNumber of pages: 416Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 237 x 161 x 39Cover type: Hard...

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Reducere. Demystifying the links between theory and practice for those studying in the field of early childhood.About the AuthorDr Tim Waller is Reader in Ea...

Time surrounds us. It defines our experience of the world; it echoes through our every waking hour. Time is the very foundation of conscious experi...

Reducere. While the Civil War is famous for epic battles involving massive armies engaged in conventional warfare, A Savage Conflict is the first work to tre...

Why the future of great power politics is likely to resemble its dismal past Can great powers be confident that their peers have benign intentions?...

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DescriptionFrom the author of the national bestseller The Sleepwalkers, a book about how the exercise of power is shaped by different concepts of t...

Reducere. DescriptionMore than a decade after the publication of his dazzling book on the cultural, technological, and manufacturing aspects of measuring tim...

Reducere. Why and how America's defense strategy must change in light of China's power and ambition Elbridge A. Colby was the lead architect of the 2018 Nati...

Reducere. In August 1862 the worst massacre in U.S. history unfolded on the Minnesota prairie, launching what has come to be known as the Dakota War, the mos...

DescriptionIf the twentieth century saw the rise of "Big Science, " then the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were surely an age of thrift. As ...

Reducere. "Cyber warfare" evokes different images to different people. This book deals with the technological aspects denoted by "cyber" and also with the in...

Publisher: De GruyterIllustration(s): 17 Illustrations, black and white; 21 Tables, black and whiteNumber of pages: 302Publication date: 2022Dimens...

The Italian Renaissance was a golden age for bronze sculpture, both on a grand scale--such as Ghiberti's Gates of Paradise, or Cellini's Perseus--a...

Michael Edelstein was headstrong and independent, a self-described mamzer. He was 10 years old when he rolled under barbed wire and escaped the rou...

DescriptionLeonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) was one of the preeminent figures of the Italian Renaissance. He was also one of the most paradoxical. He ...

Veteran photographer Simon Edelstein has spent 12 years travelling the world - the USA, France, Italy, India, Morocco and Cuba - in search of aband...

Art in Time is the first book to embed art movements within the larger context of politics and history. Global in scope and featuring an innovative...

Reducere. The Bents might be the most famous family in the history of the American West. From the 1820s to 1920 they participated in many of the major events...

Reducere. Praise for The Court of the Last Tsar ""Any book by Greg King is a book to be kept and savored. He has not only given us a fresh, clear-eyed, and o...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Sarah Taylor EllisIllustration(s): 10 bw illusNumber of pages: 288Publication date: 2022Dimensions: ...

DescriptionCo-published with the Royal Mint Museum. War has shaped currencies, creating, abolishing and moulding them. By providing the means throu...

Reducere. It's a book that looks like a magazine [...] and full of detail to die for - Crawford Gribben, New Books Network From one of the world's leading hi...

DescriptionA sweeping global human history that describes the separate beginnings of the world's major cultural movements--Confucianism, Islam, Jud...

DescriptionPeter Crawford examines the life and career of the fifth-century Roman emperor Zeno and the various problems he faced before and during ...

Reducere. For thousands of years, people of all cultures have made and used clocks, from the city sundials of ancient Rome to the medieval water clocks of im...

Reducere. Explore the fascinating story of Harry Gordon Selfridge in Chicago, Illinois.

How are forbidden histories told and transmitted among young people in Israel/Palestine? What can their stories teach us about their everyday exper...

DescriptionHow the history of technological revolutions can help us better understand economic and political polarization in the age of automation ...

Reducere. "Almost 24 hours to the minute since the tsunami hit Fukushima Daiichi, Unit 1 exploded. The building wrenched apart, sending shards of irradiated ...

Reducere. Political polarization and unrest are not exclusive to our era, but in the twenty-first century, we are living with seemingly unresolvable disagree...