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Every family carries a story. Some are whispered. Some are buried. And some wait decades to be found. In this sweeping multi-generational memoir, Shachar Elkayam unravels the most haunting mystery o……続きを見る

Winner of the 2018 Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ Nonfiction “If Black women were free, it would mean that everyone else would have to be free.” **ーCombahee River Collective Statement The Combahee……続きを見る

Layamon's Brut is a sweeping Middle English chronicle tracing Britain from Brutus of Troy to Cadwaladr, with Arthur at its blazing center. Written in the West Midlands c.1200, it adapts Geoffrey of ……続きを見る

Certains faits divers condensent l’essence et l’esprit d’une époque. L’histoire de Takahashi Oden, femme ordinaire exécutée en 1879 pour meurtre et qualifiée de « démoniaque », symbolise ainsi ce qu……続きを見る

In a time of polarisation and misinformation, this book dares to challenge the reader: set aside inherited narratives, and approach the most divisive conflict on Earth with radical empathy and histo……続きを見る

How elite Roman families used genealogy, architecture, and the urban fabric to appropriate the city’s saints for their own Domesticating Saints in Medieval and Early Modern Rome explores the creativ……続きを見る

It was far from inevitable that Rome would emerge as the spiritual center of Western Christianity in the early Middle Ages. After the move of the Empire's capital to Constantinople in the fourth cen……続きを見る

The Lebanese state is structured through religious freedom and secular power sharing across sectarian groups. Every sect has specific laws that govern kinship matters like marriage or inheritance. T……続きを見る

Comment le mouvement Black Lives Matter a-t-il pu naître sous le mandat du premier président noir ? Une plongée dans l’histoire du racisme aux États-Unis, écrite par une universitaire et militante m……続きを見る

How elite Roman families used genealogy, architecture, and the urban fabric to appropriate the city’s saints for their own Domesticating Saints in Medieval and Early Modern Rome explores the creativ……続きを見る

If you thought the only way for you to return home safe was to embody the vilest evil, would you do it? We’ve always viewed veterans as patriots who defended our nation and destroyed worldwide threa……続きを見る

"A ferocious conflict between Mongol and Samurai. The Japanese word 'Ghenko' is the term employed for the Mongol invasion of Japan. The event was an immensely significant one for the Japanese and it……続きを見る

Passing, Posing, Persuasion interrogates the intersections between cultural production, identity, and persuasive messaging that idealized inclusion and unity across Japan’s East Asian empire (1895–1……続きを見る

En este libro los autores plantean el modo de subsistencia lacustre como una estrategia adaptativa llamada generalizada apoyada en los saberes tradicionales, trasmitidos de generación en generación ……続きを見る

Writing Disaster in South Asian Literature and Culture: The Limits of Empathy and Cosmopolitan Imagination looks at the myriad ways in which disaster events (both man-made and natural) are perceived……続きを見る

Layamon's Brut is a Middle English poem assembled and remold by the vicar Layamon. The Brut relates the history of Britain and is the main historiography created in English since the Anglo-Saxon Chr……続きを見る

"This collection contains everything we need to understand the world that gave us Trump, and to arm ourselves for the battles to come" (Sarah Jaffe, author of Necessary Trouble: Americans in Revolt)……続きを見る

Historic Philadelphia has long yielded archaeological treasures from its past. Excavations required by the National Historic Preservation Act have recovered pottery shards, pots, plates, coins, bone……続きを見る

Collective remembering is an important way that communities name and make sense of the past. Places and stories about the past influence how communities remember the past, how they try to preserve i……続きを見る

This book offers a compelling account of the two-pronged fight against both leprosy and the discrimination that comes with it. Leprosy is generally weak against the immune system, yet it persists in……続きを見る

It was far from inevitable that Rome would emerge as the spiritual center of Western Christianity in the early Middle Ages. After the move of the Empire's capital to Constantinople in the fourth cen……続きを見る

మా నాన్నగారు కీ. శే. దిగవల్లి వేంకట శివరావు గారు (1898-1992) వృత్తిరీత్యా న్యాయవాది గా 40 ఏండ్లు మాత్రమే పనిచేసినప్పటికీ చరిత్ర పరిశోధకులుగా జీవితాంతమూ కృషిచేసి బ్రిటిషు ఇండియా కాలంనాటి అనేక విశేషము……続きを見る

Originally published in 1950, this is the English translation of the book written by the Buddhist chaplain in Sugamo Prison who attended the Japanese war criminals before their execution. It is a co……続きを見る

This book explains in fascinating detail how economic and social transformations in pre-1600 Japan led to an industrious revolution in the early modern period and how the fruits of the Industrious R……続きを見る

Utilising archives in mainland China, Taiwan, Japan and the USA, Nagatomi Hirayama examines the pivotal role of the Chinese Youth Party in China in the transformative years 1918-51. Tracing the part……続きを見る

In this timely, informative edited volume, major Iranian scholars and civic actors address some of the most pressing questions about Iranian civil society and the process of democratization in Iran.……続きを見る

Layamon's Brut, an epic poem written in Middle English between 1200 and 1225, serves as a monumental retelling of the legendary history of Britain, weaving together elements from Arthurian lore and ……続きを見る

The epic tale of how the samurai warriors of Japan fended off the Mongol armada in 1274 and again in 1281 has all the ingredients of a compelling thriller: political intrigue, shifting alliances, es……続きを見る

Waltzing with Bashir proposes a new paradigm for cinema trauma studies - the trauma of the perpetrator. Recognizing a current shift in interest from the trauma suffered by victims to that suffered b……続きを見る

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2019 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST, 2020 PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORY By the late 1960s and early 1970s, reeling from a wave of urban uprisings, politicians finally worked to end the ……続きを見る