The Histories, Paperback

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Reducere. This major study explores the spatial history of the Dutch East Indies as an imperial formation between the early nineteenth century and the end of...

Reducere. About the AuthorMark Pizzato teaches theatre history, drama, and film at UNC-Charlotte, USA. His books include Edges of Loss (1998), Theatres of Hu...

In this volume, Andrew Green examines the progress by which the Official Histories of World War I was written, the motives and influences of its pa...

Reducere. Historical scholarship is currently undergoing a digital turn. All historians have experienced this change in one way or another, by writing on wor...

This thoroughly revised and updated third edition of the innovative and widely acclaimed Theatre Histories: An Introduction offers a critical overv...

DescriptionTim Cassedy's fascinating study examines the role that language played at the turn of the nineteenth century as a marker of one's identi...

Publisher: Transcript VerlagAuthor(s): Anna LeonNumber of pages: 354Collection: Critical Dance StudiesPublication date: 2022Dimensions: 147 x 224 x...

Web 25: Histories from the first 25 years of the World Wide Web is a must-read for anyone interested in how our online present has been shaped by t...

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Museum Representations of Chinese Diasporas is the first book to analyse the recent upsurge in museums on Chinese diasporas in China. Examining her...

This book maps key moments in the history of post-war art from a global perspective.Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdNumber of pages: 252Collection: ...

This book focuses on the way in which legal historians and legal scientists used the past to legitimize, challenge, explain and familiarize the soc...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Keith DowmanIn Tibetan Buddhism, Mahamudra represents a perfected level of meditative realization: it is the inseparable un...

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Laughing Histories breaks new ground by exploring moments of laughter in early modern Europe, showing how laughter was inflected by gender and soci...

Through multiple perspectives from both sides of the border, the collected essays in These Ragged Edges argue that rapidly changing conditions alon...

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Publisher: Edinburgh University PressAuthor(s): Nezar (University of California Berkeley) AlsayyadIllustration(s): 92 Illustrations, colorNumber of...

Looks at the results of nationalist imagination in Asia and Africa that are posited not on identity but on difference with the nationalism propagat...

Scholars have debated the role of the occult in Nazism since it first appeared on the German political landscape in the 1920s. After 1945, a consen...

This book is the first, long overdue biography on this woman of immense stature in her field. She was the first woman to serve as President of the ...

Observation is the most pervasive and fundamental practice of all the modern sciences, both natural and human. This collection offers an examinatio...

Reducere. Slavery and the University is the first edited collection of scholarly essays devoted solely to the histories and legacies of this subject on North...

Reducere. In this groundbreaking collection, editors Daina Ramey Berry and Leslie M. Harris place sexuality at the center of slavery studies in the Americas ...

Drawing on hundreds of sources, this innovative book combines the history of scholarship, science, philosophy and religion to demonstrate how chang...

Abu Sa'id 'Abd al-Hayy Gardizi was an author and historian living in the mid-eleventh century at the height of the Turkish Ghazvanid dynasty.

The first comprehensive re-assessment of the phenomenon of Greek 'local history-writing', which emerged as a popular and important form of history ...

The Akunin Project is the first book to study the fiction and popular history of Grigorii Chkhartishvili, one of the most successful writers in pos...

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A collection of first-person narratives from an international group of art historians, curators, artists and archivists. Fills a significant gap in...

Reducere. The first book-length study of women's involvement in the Chicano Movement of the late 1960s and 1970s, Chicana Power tells the powerful story of t...

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Reducere. The Black Populations of France is a study of Black peoples and their history in France and the French Empire during the modern era, from the eight...

Publisher: Berghahn BooksNumber of pages: 352Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 229 x 184 x 24Cover type: Paperback / softbackEditor(s): Nils Edling...

DescriptionA gorgeous, oversized, full-color art book showcasing the artwork from the massively popular online video game Final Fantasy XIV. Delve ...

This is an elegant, readable narrative of Nauru's imperial history that makes a compelling argument for the island's significance in the history of...

This essential study takes a fresh look at four of Shakespeare's major History plays. Part I uses carefully selected short extracts for close textu...

Through historical case studies of ten different countries, this book offers new insights into both the successes and the limitations of Latin Amer...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCIllustration(s): 48 bw illus, 4 tablesNumber of pages: 312Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 157 x 234 x 24Cover...

Publisher: Four Courts Press LtdNumber of pages: 288Publication date: 2017Dimensions: 157 x 233 x 25Cover type: Paperback / softbackEditor(s): Pat ...

Reducere. From the editor of the widely praised The Landmark Thucydides, a new Landmark Edition of The Histories by Herodotus. Cicero called Herodotus "the f...

Reducere. This book studies the connections between the political reform of the Holy Roman Empire and the German lands around 1500 and the sixteenth-century ...

Reducere. An intersectional take on design history and the design discourse, with feminist, decolonial, anti-racist, activist, non-Western and indigenous per...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Gideon (University of Minnesota, USA) MailerIllustration(s): 24 bw illusNumber of pages: 304Publicat...

Publisher: MIT Press LtdAuthor(s): Dolly (Professor, University of Stavanger) JorgensenIllustration(s): 13 b 26 Illustrations, unspecifiedNumber of...

Publisher: University of Minnesota PressAuthor(s): John TaggIllustration(s): 40 black & whilte illustrationsNumber of pages: 272Publication date: 2...

DescriptionIn Art to Come Terry Smith--who is widely recognized as one of the world's leading historians and theorists of contemporary art--traces ...

For many years, histories of the Holocaust focused on its perpetrators, and only recently have more scholars begun to consider in detail the experi...

Reducere. In the mid-eighteenth century, the French naturalist Buffon contended that the New World was in fact geologically new--that it had recently emerged...

This book offers a new interpretation of Ozu Yasujiro's career, from his earliest work in the 1920s up to his death in 1963, focusing on Ozu's depi...

Modernist Life Histories explores how new models of embryonic development helped inspire new kinds of coming-of-age plots during the first half of ...

For better or worse, E.P. Thompson's monumental book The Making of the English Working Class has played an essential role in shaping the intellectu...

Based on an analysis of textual and audio-visual materials, the book surveys radical Left traditions in the Arab world that took shape between the ...

Reducere. In this anthology of weird fiction, twenty-two authors share their harrowing visions of worlds shaped by the Yellow Sign, in stories and poems insp...

DescriptionBringing together the work of over twenty international scholars from various disciplines, Cultural Histories of the Material World prov...

Showing how the Gothic can be read as a complex reaction to Enlightenment methods of historical representation, Sinister histories uncovers hithert...

The aim of this book is to explain in simple language what we know about time and about the history of time. It is shown that the briefest (as well...

Publisher: Oxford University Press IncAuthor(s): Tim (Professor in Critical Heritage Studies, Professor in Critical Heritage Studies, University of...

DescriptionA groundbreaking twentieth-century history of transgender children With transgender rights front and center in American politics, media,...

Reducere. Throughout modern-day Israel, over four hundred Palestinian villages were depopulated in the 1947-1949 war. With houses mostly destroyed, mosques a...

David Hey was one of the leading local historians of our age and the author of a number of highly regarded books on the practice of local history. ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: David AndersonDavid Anderson's troubling account of British conduct during the Mau Mau rebellion in the 1950s comes at a ti...

Reducere. Written in the 2nd century by the Greek historian Polybius, "The Histories" is a multi-volume work detailing many of the events, people, and ideas ...

DescriptionThe Reader Art and Its Global Histories represents an invaluable teaching tool, offering content ranging from academic essays and excerp...

Controversial Histories assembles current international views on the Crusades from across Europe, Russia, Turkey, the USA and the Near and Middle E...

Blood in the Streets investigates the various ways in which 1970s Italian crime films were embedded in their immediate cultural and political conte...

Reducere. From ancient rock drawings to today's urban living, the Native American Almanac: More than 50, 000 Years of the Cultures and Histories of Indigenou...

Reducere. While this work tries to be a primer in Cuban history in its relationship with its northern neighbor and mentor, the United States, before the Cast...