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New directions in queer theory continue to trouble the boundaries of both queerness and the classical, leading to an explosion of new work in the vast-and increasingly uncharted-intersection between these disciplines, which this interdisciplinary volume...

Following victory in World War II, the US and Western Europe claimed to be the champions of the political ideals of democracy and freedom, along with the economic ideal of free market capitalism.Two decades into the twenty-first century, these once noble...

This book provides a comprehensive study of refugee movements and population transfers across Europe during the First World War and the early postwar period.Drawing parallels with contemporary migration issues, the book serves a social and educational...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781918277340Author Douglas C VosperFormat PaperbackImprint Arthur L Clamp PublishingPublisher Arthur L Clamp Publishing

The Working Men’s College (WMC) is the UK’s oldest continuously running adult education institution, and a very distinctive example of the British adult education tradition. This volume brings the history of the WMC up to date, following the 1954...

Understanding culture as a whole way of life, this book touches on various aspects of Sino-foreign interactions, tracing cultural exchanges depicted in Chinese and foreign sources, with particular attention to events or anecdotes in the Tang and Qing...

This volume maps the phenomenon of medievalism in Aotearoa, initially as an import by the early white settler society, and as a form of nation building that would reinforce Britishness and ancestral belonging. This colonial narrative underpins the...

This book offers snapshots of sex work in global history, examining how it has differed in different places around the world at different points in time. Focusing on certain moments in certain places and examinations of historical lives, it offers a...

This book revisits the aftermath of the partition of 1947, and the war of 1971, to examine some of the longer-term consequences of the redrawing of borders across South Asia. From the eastern frontier of Assam to the westernmost reaches of Gujarat and...

This volume aims to offer a fresh perspective towards the evaluation of Soviet war crimes trials of Holocaust perpetrators, their representation through various means of media, and their reception in the context of the Cold War.By examining the 1964...

The Byzantine world contained many important cities throughout its empire. Although it was not 'urban' in the sense of the word today, its cities played a far more fundamental role than those of its European neighbors. This book, through a collection of...

Corruption, Anti-Corruption, Vigilance, and State Building from Early to Late Modern Times challenges current historiographical approaches, proposing new interpretations to rethink the relation between corruption and the socio-political and economic...

The Dominicans in the Americas and the Philippines (c. 1500-c. 1820) is part of a renewal of interest in the global history of the Dominican Order. Many of the essays were carefully selected among some of the papers presented at the III International...

As the first volume of a two-volume set on Chinese ancient characters and newly unearthed literature, this book brings together the author's research articles that discuss the development of Chinese characters and the tradition of Chinese palaeography...

This book explores the everyday life of Muslims in late imperial China proper ("Sino-Muslims"), revealing how they integrated themselves into Chinese society, while also maintaining distinct Islamic features. Deeming "identity" as practical, interactive,...

This book is the first to recover and analyse at length the extent, complexity, and character of African American responses to the Nigerian Civil War (1967-1970).Far from having only marginal significance, the Nigerian Civil War collided at full velocity...

This book provides a comprehensive overview and explanation of China's population, analyzing its special characteristics and patterns of growth over the past 2,000 years. Topics include its composition, distribution, migration, and deep analysis into...

This volume brings together scholars of history, manuscript studies, and art and architectural history to examine in conversation the varieties of medieval archival acts, the heterogeneity of collections, and the motivations of collectors. It is united...

This interdisciplinary volume focuses on the politics, economics, technologies, uses, and cultures of maintenance of different forms of communication over long time or in Longue Duree.Throughout the chapters, contributors from a wide range of fields...

In 1963 a collection of fifty-seven silver vessels was discovered during illegal excavations by villagers in Antalya Province, Turkey. The Sion Treasure, named after the inscription 'Holy Sion' on several vessels in the hoard, is now divided between five...

This book uses the concept of "arrival spaces" to examine the relationship between migration processes, social infrastructures, and the transformation of urban spaces in Europe since the mid-19th century.Case studies cover cities from London to Palermo...

This book explores the path that led to the Treaty of Rapallo (1920) between Italy and the new Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, later the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, in the aftermath of the First World War, when the territories of the former...

This book explores the events that marked the last decades of Jewish presence in the kingdom of Naples from 1492 to 1541. It employs a comparative approach in the examination of the mass conversion of the Jews in the Kingdom of Naples in 1495, the failed...

The time span covered by The Routledge History of Fashion and Dress starts in the nineteenth century, with the aftermath of the consumers' revolution, and reaches all the way to the present. The fashion and garment industries have been international from...

Robert of Nantes was Latin patriarch of Jerusalem from 1240 to 1254, and, according to Bernard Hamilton, was "the most important single person" in the Frankish Kingdom of Jerusalem after the Battle of Forbie in 1244. Despite this importance, he was a...

This book examines the issue of plagiarism in the Chinese context of history and education, both in classical and contemporary times.In view of the effort on a global scale to fight against plagiarism and consolidating anti-plagiarism education, this...

This monograph provides an analysis and contextualization of an extraordinarily successful book, the History of the Great Kingdom of China (Rome 1585), by the Spanish Augustinian friar Juan Gonzalez de Mendoza (1545-1618). Within a few years, this book...

This book is the second in a three-part, multi-authored study of Polish American history which aims to present the history of Polish Americans in the United States from the beginning of Polish presence on the continent to the current times, shown against...

This book concentrates on the political economies of Germany and France in the period spanning between the end of the Second World War and the 1970s, with a subsequent consideration of Italy and Britain as 'shadow cases'.European postwar accounts have...

This book is the first to use a multidisciplinary approach to study the Knights' Templars of Bologna, Italy. Archaeological, scientific, historical and archival sources are combined to consider the Templars in the context of Bologna's growing economic...

Different approaches have been conducted to analyse the interactions of the different belief systems in the early medieval world. This book assesses the relationship between clerics and Scandinavian-influenced laity in the Irish Sea area through the...

Henry B. Motty's A Desperate Fight views Civil War Louisiana through the lens of its soldiers' experiences—and interdependence—with civilians. Louisiana fielded approximately sixty thousand men for the Confederacy, equaling nearly 18 percent of the...

Analysing a struggle for neutrality amid a rapidly changing European scene, this book illustrates how the small state of Tuscany cunningly managed to preserve its sovereignty and independence during a dangerous diplomatic dispute with England.Endangered...

The alliance between the United States and its Nato partners has been strained severely in recent years. Ethics & European Security (1986) develops a broad understanding of the problem of European security and American backing based on Christian ethics...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781918277531Author Marshall WareFormat PaperbackImprint Arthur L Clamp PublishingPublisher Arthur L Clamp Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781836953937Author Frantisek SistekFormat PaperbackPage Count 302Imprint Berghahn BooksPublisher Berghahn Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781918277326Author Dennis C TeagueFormat PaperbackImprint Arthur L Clamp PublishingPublisher Arthur L Clamp Publishing

This Element is concerned with narrative as a mode of knowing. It draws attention to the epistemic value of historical narrative qua narrative. This it does not only in an abstract sense, but also with the help of recent works of history. Special...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781292757124Author Darryl TomlinFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Pearson Education LimitedPublisher Pearson Education LimitedWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781292757148Author Christopher CatherwoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Pearson Education LimitedPublisher Pearson Education LimitedWeight(grams)...