The Cambridge History of Magic and Witchcraft in the West: From Antiquity to the Present, Paperback - David J. Collins S. J.

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In a journey spanning 2, 000 years, this book describes the ties of trade, migration and investment between India and the rest of the world, showin...

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Reducere. Treats the Pantheon from the unique perspective of its construction history, survival, and reception through history.

Now in a fully revised and updated edition including new primary sources and illustrations, this comprehensive book surveys Korean history from Neo...

Reducere. Hermits have thrived in every major historical era, geography, culture, and society - from antiquity to the present, East and West, in deserts, for...

Reducere. This final volume in the Cambridge History of Ireland covers the period from the 1880s to the present. Based on the most recent and innovative scho...

Inspired by the work of eminent scholar Richard Kieckhefer, The Sacred and the Sinister explores the ambiguities that made (and make) medieval reli...

Reducere. This unprecedented work is the first one-volume study of the history of Christianity in Africa. Written by Elizabeth Isichei, a leading scholar in ...

Explores Jewish women's lives in what is now Eastern and Western Europe, Britain, Israel, Turkey, North Africa, and North America. The volume focus...

Offers the first overarching history of the humanities from Antiquity to the present.

Archaeological explorations of magic and witchcraft in Iron Age Transylvania - Aurel Rustoiu

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Reducere. Women Artists in History from Antiquity to the Present introduces students to the many ways in which women have participated in the visual cultures...

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This short history of history is an ideal introduction for courses on the historian's craft, historical theory and method, and historiography. It s...

aeo Highly original and innovative account of the history of humour through the ages from Antiquity to the present day. aeo Includes accounts of jo...

Barbarians are back. These small, highly mobile, and stateless groups are no longer confined to the pages of history; they are a contemporary reali...

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What we know of war is always mediated knowledge and feeling. We need lenses to filter out some of its blinding, terrifying light. These lenses are...

Ranging from ancient to contemporary sculpture, this book is the first study of the history of sculpture to present such an original and comprehens...

"A sweeping look at the history of voting rights in the U.S."--VoxWho has the right to vote? And who benefits from exclusion?For most of American h...

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Augustine of Hippo's The City of God is generally considered to be one of the key works of Late Antiquity. Written in response to allegations that ...

Now in a fully revised and updated edition, this comprehensive and balanced history of modern Korea explores the social, economic, and political is...

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Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Johanna DruckerIllustration(s): 100 halftonesNumber of pages: 384Publication date: 2022Dimensi...

Historian Thomas J. Misa's sweeping history of the relationship between technology and society over the past 500 years reveals how technological in...

Reducere. DescriptionIn the three decades since New York City's Stonewall rebellion, gay literature has exploded as a distinctive form of cultural expression...

How did the statues of ancient Greece wind up dictating art history in the West? How did the material culture of the Greeks and Romans come to be s...

Now in a fully revised and updated edition, this engaging text provides a concise history of Korea from the beginning of human settlement in the re...

This book offers a bold re-interpretation of the prevailing narrative that US foreign policy after the Cold War was a failure. In chapters that ret...

Despite a terrible two-stage 'European civil war' and the traumatic rise and fall of communism, wealth has increased dramatically alongside a four-...

Publisher: West Virginia University PressIllustration(s): 7 tables, 8 graphsNumber of pages: 336Collection: Energy and SocietyPublication date: 202...