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Beauty: The Body as Artefact traces the history of physical beauty in Western art and thought from antiquity to the eighteenth century. Bringing together foundational texts and newly translated work……続きを見る

Warum so viele ostdeutsche Schriftsteller aus dem kollektiven Gedächtnis verschwunden sind Als die DDR unterging, kam es fast über Nacht zur Demontage der gesamten ostdeutschen Literatur. Millionen ……続きを見る

"Wir sind alle einfach nur Menschen, die sich Liebe wünschen. Ich habe immer gehofft, mit Wings etwas von dieser Liebe zurückzugeben, und ich war immer sehr stolz darauf, wenn uns das gelang." Paul ……続きを見る

How an ancient land became a great democracy. Longlisted for Best Non Fiction in the Indie Book Awards 2026 'Tony Abbott should be congratulated ... This history of Australia is vivid, readable, pro……続きを見る

Originally published in 1978, From Ritual to Record was one of the first books to recognize the importance of sports as a lens on the fundamental structure of societies. In this reissue, Guttmann em……続きを見る

Durante los últimos años, los estudios de alteridad se han aproximado a la creación de la imagen literaria de los moriscos. ¿Cómo eran los conversos del islam? ¿Qué características físicas tenían? G……続きを見る

How should a historian with personal experience of their topics write about them? Exploring the author’s own experiences with Munchausen Syndrome and Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy (MSbP), this book a……続きを見る

The story of the heroic resilience of the Ukrainians against the military forces of a country with more than three times its population. On 24 February 2022, the President of Russia, Vladimir Putin,……続きを見る

The US-led war in Iraq from 2003 to 2011 was one of the most controversial wars in recent history. The invasion of Iraq was justified by claims that the regime of Saddam Hussein had links with terro……続きを見る

**A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK • From New Yorker staff writer and author of The Longing for Less Kyle Chayka comes a timely history and investigation of a world ruled by algorithms, which determine the s……続きを見る

A LANDMARK WORK OF POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY. A GLOBAL BESTSELLER. STILL AS RELEVANT TODAY. With the fall of Berlin Wall in 1989 the threat of the Cold War which had dominated the second half of the twen……続きを見る

Wat zijn de meest kardinale gebeurtenissen van de eerste twee decennia van de 21e eeuw? Ongetwijfeld de opkomst van China en de dominantie van het neoliberale discours, dat de kredietcrisis ten gevo……続きを見る

“One of the purest tellings of a combat Marine’s experience in warfighting I have ever read. This story strikes every emotion.” ー PAUL LONGGREAR, Colonel ret. Army Special Forces, With the Marines ……続きを見る

The Routledge Handbook of Nostalgia serves as a guide to the complex and often contradictory concept of nostalgia, as well as the field of “nostalgia studies” more broadly. Nostalgia is an area of i……続きを見る

This authoritative collection from The Cambridge Modern History series presents a comprehensive exploration of modern historical development. Edited by renowned historian J. B. Bury, these volumes o……続きを見る

This volume reflects the latest historiographical discussion about the decline, transformation, heritagisation, and re-invention of industrial cities in Europe during the late 20th century. It argue……続きを見る

The Routledge Handbook of Economic Expectations in Historical Perspective offers a one-stop reference that distills and summarizes the recent scholarship on economic expectations. Investigating the ……続きを見る

A history of how corporate innovation has shaped society, from ancient Rome to Silicon Valley From legacy manufacturers to emerging tech giants, corporations wield significant power over our lives, ……続きを見る

**THE MILLION COPY BESTSELLER** Sapiens showed us where we came from. In our increasingly uncertain times, Homo Deus shows us where we're going. 'Spellbinding' Guardian The world-renowned historian ……続きを見る

What is the role of the humanities at the start of 21st century? In the last few decades, the various disciplines of the humanities (history, linguistics, literary studies, art history, media studie……続きを見る

Visions of Electric Media is an historical examination into the early history of television, as it was understood during the Victorian and Machine ages. How did the television that we use today deve……続きを見る

In the late Middle Ages and early modern times, able-bodied men between sixteen and sixty years of age were called upon all over Europe to participate in raids, sieges and battles, for the defense o……続きを見る

How did gender shape the expanding Jesuit enterprise in the early modern world? What did it take to become a missionary man? And how did missionary masculinity align itself with the European colonia……続きを見る

Spain has been a fruitful locus for the European imagination for centuries, and it has been most often perceived in black-and-white oppositions -- either as a tyrannical and fanatical force in the e……続きを見る

In a modern global historical context, scholars have often regarded piracy as an essentially European concept which was inappropriately applied by the expanding European powers to the rest of the wo……続きを見る

Since the overthrow of President Mursi in mid-2013, Egypt has witnessed an authoritarian rollback and shrinking spaces for civil society. Nationalist discourses have villified popular protest and ch……続きを見る

This multidisciplinary book analyses the contradictory coexistence of consumerism and environmentalism in contemporary Japan. It focuses on the dilemma that the diffusion of the concepts of sustaina……続きを見る

Uncertainty and instability affected Geneva and the Duchy of Savoy since the mid-fifteenth century. French and Swiss expansionism had turned Savoy into part of a long geopolitical fault line, runnin……続きを見る

This book reveals the importance of personal letters in the history of European women between the year 1000 and the advent of the telephone. It explores the changing ways that women used corresponde……続きを見る

Despite the recent rise in studies that approach fascism as a transnational phenomenon, the links between fascism and internationalist intellectual currents have only received scant attention. This ……続きを見る