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This book examines the meanings, uses, and agency of voice, noise, sound, and sound technologies across Asia. Including a series of wide-ranging and interdisciplinary case studies, the book reveals ……続きを見る

Praised for its scope and depth, Asia in the Making of Europe is the first comprehensive study of Asian influences on Western culture. For volumes I and II, the author has sifted through virtually e……続きを見る

"The growth of medicine from the earliest times to about 1800" by Albert H. Buck is a medical history text that is highly regarded in the field. Buck shows how far medicine progressed through histor……続きを見る

This open access book is about Mozambicans and Angolans who migrated in state-sponsored schemes to East Germany in the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s. They went to work and to be trained as a v……続きを見る

This is an open access book. Histories we tell never emerge in a vacuum, and history as an academic discipline that studies the past is highly sensitive to the concerns of the present and the heated……続きを見る

Think you've read all there is know about the American Revolution? Think again. Find out where the Battle of Bunker Hill really took place (Hint: it wasn't Bunker Hill), which famous patriot was a s……続きを見る

A wide-ranging and dramatic account of the Antonine plague, the mysterious disease that struck the Roman Empire at its pinnacle In the middle of the second century AD, Rome was at its prosperous and……続きを見る

NEARLY half a century has gone since I lived among these scenes and made my observations on the grand Old Bear of the Mountains. Many new conditions have in that time developed, have changed the cou……続きを見る

Tens of thousands of Italian civilians perished in the Allied bombing raids of World War II. More of them died after the Armistice of September 1943 than before, when the air attacks were intended t……続きを見る

First published in 1985, this is a history of the Grand Tour, undertaken by young men in the eighteenth century to complete their education - a tour usually to France, Italy and Switzerland, and som……続きを見る

Edward Heawood's 'A History of Geographical Discovery in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries' is a comprehensive exploration of the significant journeys and expeditions that shaped the understa……続きを見る

Ethnic American Literatures and Critical Race Narratology explores the relationship between narrative, race, and ethnicity in the United States. Situated at the intersection of post-classical narrat……続きを見る

This open access book uncovers one important, yet forgotten, form of itinerant livelihoods, namely petty trade, more specifically how it was practiced in Northern Europe during the period 1820–1960.……続きを見る

In 'At the Emperor's Wish: A Tale of the New Japan,' Oscar K. Davis intricately weaves a vivid narrative set in post-WWII Japan, exploring the delicate balance between tradition and modernity. Throu……続きを見る

Albert F. Calvert's 'The Aborigines of Western Australia' is a comprehensive exploration of the customs, traditions, and way of life of the indigenous peoples of Western Australia. Calvert's scholar……続きを見る

This book explores the life and work of Mary Elizabeth Barber, a British-born settler scientist who lived in the Cape during the nineteenth century. It provides a lens into a range of subjects withi……続きを見る

Francois Peron's 'A Voyage of Discovery to the Southern Hemisphere' is a captivating account of his exploration of the unknown lands of the southern hemisphere. Written in a detailed and informative……続きを見る

Money provides a unique and illuminating perspective on the Middle Ages. In much of medieval Europe the central meaning of money was a prescribed unit of precious metal but in practice precious meta……続きを見る

أطل سحبان السواح بوجهه القبيح على شاشات أقنية دس السم الوهابي في الدسم متهماً الأقليات في سورية وخاصة المسيحيين والدروز بأنهم عملاء مضمرون لفرنسا والكيان الصهيوني، وأن سبب عدم انخراطهم في الثورة الس……続きを見る

★★★馮客經典作品全新中文譯本★★★ ★英國塞繆爾．約翰遜獎（Samuel Johnson Prize）得獎作品★ 改寫中國近代史的權威鉅著，了解20世紀中國史必讀之書 一場奪去至少4500萬人性命的大饑荒，是天災還是人禍？ 一部傑出的……続きを見る

This open access book maps a crucial but neglected chapter in the history of psychiatry: how was melancholia transformed in the nineteenth century from traditional melancholy madness into a modern b……続きを見る

This open access book explores creative and collaborative forms of research praxis within the social sustainability sciences. The term co-creativity is used in reference to both individual methods a……続きを見る

This open access book is the biography of one of Britain’s foremost animal welfare campaigners and of the world of activism, science, and politics she inhabited. In 1964, Ruth Harrison’s bestseller ……続きを見る

This open access book is unique in presenting the first oral history of individuals with an intellectual disability and their families in China. In this summary volume and the two accompanying volum……続きを見る

This open access book contains the oral histories that were inspired by the work of the Special Olympics in conjunction with the 50th anniversary of its founding. The foreword and prefatory material……続きを見る

This open access book provides a panoramic view of the evolution of Spanish agriculture from 1900 to the present, offering a more diverse picture to the complex and multidimensional reality of agrar……続きを見る

This book is open access under a CC-BY licence. Cancer is perhaps the modern world's most feared disease. Yet, we know relatively little about this malady's history before the nineteenth century. Th……続きを見る

This open access book investigates psychiatry in Uganda during the years of decolonisation. It examines the challenges facing a new generation of psychiatrists as they took over responsibility for p……続きを見る

This book is Open Access under a CC BY license. It is the first monograph-length study of the force-feeding of hunger strikers in English, Irish and Northern Irish prisons. It examines ethical debat……続きを見る

This open access book is the first comparative study of public, voluntary and private asylums in nineteenth-century Ireland. Examining nine institutions, it explores whether concepts of social class……続きを見る