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Originally published in 1967, this book discusses some key writers of the Renaissance: Machiavelli, Castiglione, Bacon and Hobbes and compares their work by relating it that of others in England and……続きを見る

A study by a team of researchers at the Jaffee Centre for Strategic Studies at Tel Aviv University. It assesses the strategic ramifications for Israel of military, political, economic and social asp……続きを見る

This book contributes important new insights into how deployment on international military missions affects soldiers and their lives. Using both quantitative data and in-depth interviews, the author……続きを見る

In this text, Dr. Hammer presents an analytical model of the Soviet political system and its process of political decisionmaking, based on the theory of "bureaucratic pluralism." He interprets the S……続きを見る

Boston has always been known for its stiff character. So how did this great New England city become home to one of the largest and most notorious adult entertainment districts in the nation? In this……続きを見る

German corporal Stephan Popp kept a diary during his time in the American Revolution. This present volume is the translation of his diary by Reinhart J. Pope, originally published in 1953. Corporal ……続きを見る

In The Death Camps of Croatia, Raphael Israeli shows that throughout Yugoslavia during World War II, anti-semitism was both deeply rooted and widespread. This book traces the circumstances and the h……続きを見る

In the American imagination, the South is a place both sexually open and closed, outwardly chaste and inwardly sultry. Sex and Sexuality in Modern Southern Culture demonstrates that there is no cent……続きを見る

No Straight Path tells the stories of ten successful female historians who came of age in an era when it was unusual for women to pursue careers in academia, especially in the field of history. Thes……続きを見る

Joseph Arthur Simon’s The Greatest of All Leathernecks is the first comprehensive biography of John Archer Lejeune (1867–1942), a Louisiana native and the most innovative and influential leader of t……続きを見る

Using textual analysis, interviews with game designers, audience surveys, and close analysis of player forum discussion, this book examines the unique nature of the producer/consumer relationship wi……続きを見る

Covering an era from the early twentieth century to the present, this volume features twenty-seven South Carolina women of varied backgrounds whose stories reflect the ever-widening array of activit……続きを見る

Punishing the Black Body examines the punitive and disciplinary technologies and ideologies embraced by ruling white elites in nineteenth-century Barbados and Jamaica. Among studies of the Caribbean……続きを見る

In this groundbreaking collection, editors Daina Ramey Berry and Leslie M. Harris place sexuality at the center of slavery studies in the Americas (the United States, the Caribbean, and South Americ……続きを見る

No man ever had a stronger inclination for travelling than myself. I consider’d the whole earth as my country, and all mankind as my brethren, and therefore thought it incumbent upon me to travel th……続きを見る

Unemployment and the state in Britain offers an important and original contribution to understandings of the 1930s. Through a comparative case study of south Wales and the north-east of England, the……続きを見る

This book contains the history that is part of Hawaiʻi – Stolen Paradise: A Travelogue. This history was originally written as the prelude to a travelogue about a trip I took in October of 2012 to O……続きを見る

C'est que, la musique étant pour tous un art, la peinture un art, la statuaire un art, - et la poésie n'en étant plus un (en effet chacun rougirait de l' ignorer, et je ne sais personne qui ait à ro……続きを見る

The surprising history of the Gowanus Canal and its role in the building of Brooklyn For more than 150 years, Brooklyn’s Gowanus Canal has been called a cesspool, an industrial dumping ground, and a……続きを見る

This book offers an institutional history of the British Legation in Kabul, which was established in response to the independence of Afghanistan in 1919. It contextualises this diplomatic mission in……続きを見る

Este libro propone como objetivo analizar las experiencias de vida de los migrantes retornados, haciendo énfasis en América Latina, y la manera en que distintos gobiernos han tratado este fenómeno a……続きを見る

Remapping Brazilian Film Culture makes a significant contribution not only to debates about Brazilian national cinema, but more generally about the development of world cinema in the twenty-first ce……続きを見る

The Levant - modern Lebanon, southern Syria, Jordan, Israel and Palestine - is one of the most intensively excavated regions of the world. This richly documented and illustrated survey offers a stat……続きを見る

Quel destin que celui de la princesse Stéphanie ! Née à la cour de Belgique en 1864, fille du roi des Belges Léopold II et de Marie-Henriette, reine des Belges, archiduchesse d'Autriche et princesse……続きを見る

The Global Perspective of Urban Labor in Mexico City, 1910–1929 examines the global entanglement of the Mexican labor movement during the Mexican Revolution. It describes how global influences made ……続きを見る

The True Story of Salem: Books 1-7 stands as a profound exploration of early American life, uniquely charting the socio-religious turmoil of the Salem witch trials through a robust collection of tes……続きを見る

In 'Scotland in Pagan Times; The Iron Age,' Joseph Anderson delves into the rich history of ancient Scotland during its pagan era, focusing specifically on the Iron Age. The book presents a detailed……続きを見る

Calgary is a typical boom-and-bust town that was first based on ranching and farming, then oil and gas, and now energy. And energy is what its citizens have, whether for skiing, work, or constructio……続きを見る

The Wars of the Roses was a complicated, bloody affair between the houses of Lancaster and York, and witnessed much changing of sides. That disjointed feuding persisted for a staggering thirty years……続きを見る

While the fledgling German paratroop operations in Belgium and the Netherlands in 1940, and on Crete in 1941, attracted worldwide attention, what is not as well known is that the use of paratroopers……続きを見る