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The Crusades began as armed pilgrimages but quickly evolved into centuries of religious conflict shaped by theology, political ambition, and competing claims to sacred geography. Both Christian and ……続きを見る

How Zambian Pentecostal activists worked to transform their country into a self-styled “Christian nation” In 2015, Zambia began an ambitious program to “actualize” the country’s constitutional decla……続きを見る

L'équipée de Varennes ne figure pas dans le canon des "journées révolutionnaires" : ni foules anonymes en fureur, ni sang versé, ni exploits individuels, ni vaincus. À Varennes, un roi s'en est venu……続きを見る

How are intergenerational relationships playing out in and through the digital rhythms of the household? Through extensive fieldwork in Tokyo, Shanghai and Melbourne, this book ethnographically expl……続きを見る

Maidstone is the county town of Kent. The medieval town grew as an agricultural and industrial centre alongside the River Medway and played a pivotal role in the Peasants’ Revolt. Industries attract……続きを見る

From the wooded depths of the Wealden forest to the fortified cliffs of the Channel coast, and from the high hills of the North Downs to the wide flats of the Romney Marsh, Kent is a county of contr……続きを見る

This richly illustrated book presents the art, architecture, and material culture of a little-known Byzantine dynasty, the Laskarids of Nicaea (1204–1261), uncovering their multiple contributions to……続きを見る

La strategia di equiparare antisionismo e antisemitismo, ideata da Israele per zittire ogni critica alle proprie politiche, è usata da decenni anche dalle forze conservatrici europee e statunitensi ……続きを見る

Confront history's most tantalizing puzzles that defy closure, from lost colonies to cryptic codes. Roanoke's 1587 settlers etched "CROATOAN" before vanishing into thin air, Jack the Ripper's taunti……続きを見る

«Si l’Histoire n’a retenu que les exploits du chasseur, c’est parce que le lion n’a pas d’historiens», écrit Jean-Yves Le Naour. À côté des grandes figures de proue, des êtres ordinaires ont eux aus……続きを見る

Before the ancient world understood the scale of its own oceans, one civilization quietly mastered them. Masters of the Early Waves transports readers into the exhilarating rise of the Phoenician na……続きを見る

Descubra os segredos do reinado mais enigmático da história de Portugal! Chronica de el-rei D. Pedro I de Fernão Lopes é uma obra-prima que transporta o leitor para o coração do século XIV, reveland……続きを見る

Led by the charismatic Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana won its political independence from the United Kingdom in 1957. It precipitated both the dying spiral of colonialism across the African continent and the ……続きを見る

This Open Access book describes the history of the relationship between the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF), the heir to the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN), and the United States Navy (US Na……続きを見る

This is the first book to investigate how constitutional monarchy could survive in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, during which many monarchies were overthrown by revolutions or coups d’ét……続きを見る

This volume retraces Carl Lutz’s diplomatic wartime rescue efforts in Budapest, Hungary, through the lens of Jewish eyewitness testimonies. Together with his wife, Gertrud Lutz-Fankhauser, the direc……続きを見る

Blickt man auf die Regentschaft des ersten rumänischen Königspaars zurück, so kann Carol I. (1866-1881 Fürst, 1881-1914 König von Rumänien) und Elisabeth/Elisabeta (1869-1881 Fürstin, 1881-1914 Köni……続きを見る

The French state has long had a troubled relationship with its diverse Muslim populations. In Only Muslim, Naomi Davidson traces this turbulence to the 1920s and 1930s, when North Africans first imm……続きを見る

Stalin's Quest for Gold tells the story of Torgsin, a chain of retail shops established in 1930 with the aim of raising the hard currency needed to finance the USSR's ambitious industrialization pro……続きを見る

Opening with the ominous scene of one young school girl whispering an urgent account of Nazi horror to another over birthday cake, Ozsváth’s extraordinary and chilling memoir tells the story of her ……続きを見る

Voici un ouvrage qui pourra intéresser tous ceux qui veulent connaître le théâtre gabonais. Un théâtre largement méconnu tant au niveau national qu’international. L’auteur y révèle le talent des fig……続きを見る

One of the few female poets from ancient Greece whose work survives, Corinna was a lyric poet from Boeotia, who is traditionally described as a rival of Pindar. The fragments of her poetry reveal a ……続きを見る

The phenomenon of “war brides” from Japan moving to the West has been quite widely discussed, but this book tells the stories of women whose lives followed a rather different path after they married……続きを見る

In this comprehensive and accessible sourcebook, Ilias Arnaoutoglou presents a collection of ancient Greek laws, which are situated in their legal and historical contexts and are elucidated with rel……続きを見る

Dreaming with Open Eyes examines visual symbolism in late seventeenth-century Italian opera, contextualizing the genre amid the broad ocularcentric debates emerging at the crossroads of the early mo……続きを見る

The Music of Tragedy offers a new approach to the study of classical Greek theater by examining the use of musical language, imagery, and performance in the late work of Euripides. Naomi Weiss demon……続きを見る

**'‘Exactly the book you need right now’ Stylist 'You know how the best writers pinpoint something you’ve felt for ages but haven’t been able to articulate? This is like that. It’s so good. She shou……続きを見る

'Ik heb het boek gelezen met herkenning – ja, zo ging het, soms met verbazing – oh, zo kun je er dus ook tegenaan kijken, en soms ook met schaamte – waarom hebben we niet meer bijgestuurd?' – Jet Bu……続きを見る

Yasmine Hasnaoui’s The Western Sahara Deadlock: Understanding Algeria's Role and the Path to Resolution investigates the extent of continuity and change of Algeria’s foreign policy in the Western Sa……続きを見る

Das Wechselspiel von Frieden, Konflikten, Gewalt und Krieg prägt unsere Gegenwart ebenso wie die Vergangenheit. Dieser Band bietet einen aktuellen Überblick über die programmatischen und methodische……続きを見る