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This title was first published in 2002. When did Africa emerge as a continent in the European mind? This book aims to trace the origins of the idea of Africa and its evolution in Renaissance thought……続きを見る

The Labour Church was an organisation fundamental to the British socialist movement during the formative years of the Independent Labour Party (ILP) and Labour Party between 1891 and 1914. It was fo……続きを見る

This first comprehensive account of the utilitarians' historical thought intellectually resituates their conceptions of philosophy and politics, at a time when the past acquired new significances as……続きを見る

Analysing the issues of language that faced international forces carrying out peace operations in Bosnia-Herzegovina in the 1990s, this book examines how differences of language were an integral par……続きを見る

The object of this book is to present a popular narrative of the Asiatic Zoölogical Expedition of the American Museum of Natural History to China in 1916-17. Details of a purely scientific nature ha……続きを見る

This book offers a timely, and fresh historical perspective on the politics of independent Ireland. Interwar Ireland’s politics have been caricatured as an anomaly, with the distinction between Fian……続きを見る

In his hugely influential book Discipline and Punish, Foucault used the example of Jeremy Bentham's Panopticon prison as a means of representing the transition from the early modern monarchy to the ……続きを見る

ANDRE VLTCHEK is one of this world’s greatest contemporary thinkers. A true internationalist, he does not belong to any single culture; he belongs to the entire world, a world battered by Western im……続きを見る

Imagine walking into an art gallery and looking at a painting. What does it mean? What is it trying to say? This book will help you answer these questions. From paintings by Botticelli to Van Gogh, ……続きを見る

「讓戰爭講述歷史，讓歷史解說世界」ーー戰爭是伴隨著人類社會的誕生而產生的，人類社會發展的歷史，也是一部戰爭發展史。 戰爭不應只帶給那些親身經歷過戰爭的人無法癒合的創傷，更多的是對於人類歷史的反思…… 每……続きを見る

Marksist İlkçağ tarihçisi Ste. Croix, bu anıtsal kitapta, Antik Yunan-Roma dünyasının Arkaik Çağ'dan Arap fetihlerine kadar olan yaklaşık 1000 yıllık tarihini sınıf mücadelelerine odaklanarak inceli……続きを見る

Nine ebooks from the bestselling historian Antonia Fraser, shedding light on some of the most fascinating and controversial people and events of European history. MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS Mary, Queen of……続きを見る

HarperCollins is proud to present our range of timeless literary classics. Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert are expecting a young orphan boy to help them with farmwork at Green Gables. But when a skinny……続きを見る

Whistleblowing, Communication and Consequences offers the first in-depth analysis of the most publicized, and morally complex, case of whistleblowing in recent European history: the Norwegian nation……続きを見る

For centuries, oligarchs were viewed as empowered by wealth, an idea muddled by elite theory early in the twentieth century. The common thread for oligarchs across history is that wealth defines the……続きを見る

This volume provides the first comprehensive English translation, with a substantial introduction and notes, of the writings of Caffaro of Genoa, as well as related texts and documents on Genoa and ……続きを見る

This book offers a comprehensive overview of the early modern military history of Portugal and its possessions in Africa, the Americas, and Asia from the perspective of the military revolution histo……続きを見る

澳門媽閣，地處澳門半島東南隅。明代始立廟祀媽祖，今名曰媽祖閣，俗稱媽祖廟。此一山一廟，融為媽祖景觀，是澳門的旅遊勝景之一。本書旨在介紹澳門媽閣的二十四首石刻詩及若干石刻題詞、匾聯、題記和碑刻所譜成的……続きを見る

This book provides the first recent philosophical account of how ruins acquire aesthetic value. It draws on a variety of sources to explore modern ruins, the ruin tradition, and the phenomenon of “r……続きを見る

This important study examines the cultural turn for women in the Middle East and North Africa, analyzing the ways they have adjusted to and at times defended, socially conservative redefinitions of ……続きを見る

This is the gripping story of how one man's half-century of service and devotion helped build and develop the Hastings & Prince Edward Regiment; and how that regiment played a vital role in Canada's……続きを見る

This work offers a new portrayal of Queen Maria Carolina of Naples as a woman of power with weaknesses and ambitions, and analyzes the Queen's actions, from her political choices to her alliance and……続きを見る

Twenty years on from her critically acclaimed book, Northern Protestants: An Unsettled People, Susan McKay talks again to the people she ‘uneasily’ called ‘her own’, those from a Protestant backgrou……続きを見る

南宋農村貧富差距大，社會動盪不安， 為何沒有發生大規模的變亂？ 原因在於南宋政府協調富家負起經濟責任， 維持農村的經濟安定， 而貧家則受到了協助與保障。 南宋承襲北宋，在經濟上有人口増加、土地兼併和商業……続きを見る

In Baseball: The Golden Age, Harold Seymour and Dorothy Seymour Mills explore the glorious era when the game truly captured the American imagination, with such legendary figures as Babe Ruth and Ty ……続きを見る

The creation of the Library of Alexandria is widely regarded as one of the great achievements in the history of humankind - a giant endeavour to amass all known literature and scholarly texts in one……続きを見る

Thanks in large part to an exploitation film producer and distributor named K. Gordon Murray, a unique collection of horror films from Mexico began to appear on American late-night television and dr……続きを見る

There are few pieces of pottery more recognisable than those designed by Clarice Cliff. For many the epitome of Art Deco, characterised by bold colour and lines, geometric shapes, and stylised repre……続きを見る

Num século profundamente contraditório, marcado por grandes conquistas científicas e tecnológicas, mas também por guerras mundiais e civis, golpes de Estado, genocídios, migrações em massa, crises h……続きを見る

This authoritative and thought-provoking history takes a fresh view of what was a period of unprecedented and rapid change. Assuming no prior knowledge of the subject, Hugh Cunningham provides a cle……続きを見る