Shatterzone of Empires. Coexistence and Violence in the German, Habsburg, Russian, and Ottoman Borderlands, Paperback - ***

Offers informed and dispassionate analyses of how the many populations of these borderlands managed to coexist

DescriptionThroughout the 'long 19th century', the Ottoman and Russian empires shared a goal of destroying one another. Yet, they also shared a sim...

Examines the often graphic depictions of violence which are characteristic of many genres of Latin literature, from Plautine comedy to the Christia...

DescriptionThree of the formative revolutions that shook the early twentieth-century world occurred almost simultaneously in regions bordering each...

Publisher: Berghahn BooksAuthor(s): Benno GammerlNumber of pages: 312Collection: Studies in British and Imperial HistoryPublication date: 2021Dimen...

DescriptionFor many years, Ottomanist historians have been accustomed to study the Ottoman Empire and/or its constituent regions as entities insula...

In the last third of the nineteenth century, the discourse on the "Jewish question" in the Habsburg crownlands of Galicia changed fundamentally, as...

Reducere. DescriptionThe U.S. military continues to be an overt presence in the Philippines, and a reminder of the country's colonial past. Using Subic Bay (...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: T. R. C. HuttonThe notorious conflict between the Hatfield and the McCoy families of West Virginia and Kentucky is often re...

A comprehensive account of how Europeans have used violence to conquer, coerce and police in pursuit of imperialism and colonial settlement

Reducere. Treats the question of interpreting difficult texts of the Bible that seem to shock our modern understanding of God and religious ideas.

Ashley M. Williard argues that early Caribbean reconstructions of masculinity and femininity sustained occupation, slavery, and nascent ideas of ra...

Publisher: Stanford University PressAuthor(s): Bedross Der MatossianNumber of pages: 360Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 230 x 151 x 25Cover type:...

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Reducere. Debunking conventional narratives of Afghanistan as a perennial war zone or marginal frontier, Faiz Ahmed presents a vibrant account of the first M...

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Reducere. The American imagination still exalts the Founders as the prime movers of the Revolution, and the War of Independence has become the stuff of legen...

DescriptionSometime in April 1285, five Muslim horsemen crossed from the Islamic kingdom of Granada into the realms of the Christian Crown of Arago...

Reducere. Indigenous women migrants from Central America and Mexico face harrowing experiences of violence before, during, and after their migration to the U...

Reducere. Indigenous women migrants from Central America and Mexico face harrowing experiences of violence before, during, and after their migration to the U...

Reducere. 'Spud Ely tells it like it was, from first-hand experience. No glory, just guts. You can almost smell the dirt and the blood' - The SunSpud Ely's S...

Reducere. During the two centuries following European contact, the world of late prehistoric Mississippian chiefdoms collapsed and Native communities there f...

The first illustrated, architectural history of the 'Alid shrines, increasingly endangered by the conflict in Syria

The German contribution, through military missions to the reform and restructuring of the Turkish army before and during the First World War. The r...

Reducere. Colonialism and Violence in Nigeria looks closely at the conditions that created a legacy of violence in Nigeria. Toyin Falola examines violence as...

Introducing Inspector Benedict Devlin...

A study of how artists and photographers shaped imperial visions of war and peace in the Victorian periodPublisher: Paul Mellon Centre for Studies ...

Illustrates how states appeal to popular morality to forge new group identities and mobilize violence against perceived threats. In an era where st...

Reducere. DescriptionSecond book in my series on the German-Russians of the Volga Colonies. Explains development of Religion in pre-history Germany, and Reli...

Reducere. Rituals of War is an investigation into the earliest historical records of violence and biopolitics. In Mesopotamia, ancient Iraq (ca. 3000-500 BC)...

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Reducere. DescriptionThird book in my series on German-Russians of the Volga Colonies. The goal of this book is to identify the hardships that our German-Rus...

Witchcraft violence is a feature of many contemporary African societies. In Ghana, belief in witchcraft and the malignant activities of putative wi...

As the Nazis staged their takeover in 1933, instances of antisemitic violence began to soar. Hermann Beck examines the types of antisemitic violenc...

Explores the diverse intra-ethnic violence that gripped the country in the months prior to Germany's defeat, and examines the interplay between the...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdIllustration(s): 8 Halftones, black and white; 8 Illustrations, black and whiteNumber of pages: 260Collection: Theme...

Reducere. From its birth in 1839, photography has participated in modernity as much as it has symbolized it. Its capacity to record and display and its claim...

Why did the Ottoman Empire enter the First World War in late October 1914, months after the war's devastations had become clear? Were its leaders '...

Reducere. It is often taken as a simple truth that the Civil War and the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution ended slavery in the United States. In the ...

Reducere. Revising the standard narrative of European-Indian relations in America, Juliana Barr reconstructs a world in which Indians were the dominant power...

The Early Ottoman Peloponnese: A study in the Light of an Annotated editio princeps of the TT10-1/14662 Ottoman Taxation Cadastre (ca. 1460-1463) i...

Reducere. In Medicinal Plants of the Borderlands: A Bilingual Resource Guide, anthropologist Dr. Antonio "Tony" Zavaleta shares medicinal plant information f...

The 2011 split of Sudan and the conflicts that have followed make it a case of ongoing significance for understanding state-building in Africa. Exa...

Women and Slavery in the Late Ottoman Empire: The Design of Difference - Madeline Zilfi

This book describes the similarities and differences between two species, bonobos and chimpanzees, based on the three decades the author has spent ...

Reducere. An examination of the origin and legacies of the captive exchange economy within and among the Native Americans and Euro-American communities throu...

Reducere. For centuries Comanches have captivated imaginations. Yet their story in popular accounts abruptly stops with the so-called fall of the Comanche em...

This book develops a comparative study on violence in Jamaica, El Salvador, and Belize based on a theoretical approach, extensive field research, a...