AYA - History 11

Capitalist private property in land and buildings – real estate – is the ground of modern cities, materially, politically, and economically. It is foundational to their development and core to much ……続きを見る

Louisa May Alcott was an American novelist best known as author of the novel Little Women. In the mid-1860s, Alcott wrote passionate, fiery novels and sensational stories. She also produced wholesom……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

La vida y obra del expresidente colombiano, y general liberal de las cruentas guerras civiles del siglo XIX en el país, reúne como la diversa riqueza cultural y diferencias etnográficas de los conna……続きを見る

A unique and entertaining collection of biographies of the many first-generation immigrant Americans who made major contributions that were crucial for building America, its military, judicial and f……続きを見る

This book critically examines the cultural desire for anglicisation of the Indian middle class in the context of postcolonial India. It looks at the history of anglicised self-fashioning as one of t……続きを見る

In San Isidro, Lima, the only Jewish school in Peru stands on a street widely known as “Los Manzanos” (“The Apple Trees”) but whose name changes to “Maimonides” (the Jewish sage) depending on which ……続きを見る

Cuando el imperio español en América -ese que había nacido al amparo del ''descubrimiento'' de un continente- se hizo pedazos, en la penosa gestión de una herencia colonial de tres siglos se dieron ……続きを見る

This book engages with pivotal examples of extraterritoriality-from Antiquity and into the twenty first century-in order to broaden the original judicial and geographical definition and thereby incl……続きを見る

While the disability rights movement of recent decades has a rich and well-documented history, it is a history mostly focused on the Global North. Disability in Africa presents an interdisciplinary ……続きを見る

Exploring issues of disability culture, activism, and policy across the African continent, this volume argues for the recognition of African disability studies as an important and emerging interdisc……続きを見る

By delving into the complex, cross-generational exchanges that characterize any political project as rampant as empire, this thought-provoking study focuses on children and their ambivalent, intimat……続きを見る

A signboard from the most advanced civilization in the ancient world. The lost notebooks of a mathematical genius. A line on a map that divided a country into two. Read about these and 97 other amaz……続きを見る

El maíz es más antiguo que las primeras civilizaciones de Mesoamérica y su capacidad para resistir, coexistir y adaptarse a la llegada de otras plantas y formas de producción fue creación de todos l……続きを見る

In this first book-length study of Mumbai’s taxi industry and of the livelihoods that surround it, Tarini Bedi draws from the lives and voices of chillia taxi drivers who have sustained a hereditary……続きを見る

Rahul Sankrityayan (1893–1963) was a polymath and polyglot. A pioneering explorer-traveller, he is known not only for his travelogues but also for contributions to history, philosophy, memoir-writin……続きを見る

What does it mean to be marginalized? Is it a passive condition that the disadvantaged simply have to endure? Or is it a manufactured label, reproduced and by its nature transitory? In the wake of t……続きを見る

The New Zealand Resettlement Storybook is an introductory narrative to encourage relationship building between resettled people and New Zealand society. The stories in this book recall the lived exp……続きを見る

La vida y obra del expresidente colombiano, y general liberal de las cruentas guerras civiles del siglo XIX en el país, reúne como la diversa riqueza cultural y diferencias etnográficas de los conna……続きを見る

Tomando como hilo conductor la historia del Casino de Madrid desde su fundación hasta el advenimiento de la Guerra Civil, esta brillante monografía analiza el papel desempeñado por el ocio en la con……続きを見る

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¿Fue realmente descubierta América el año 1492? Este libro pretende responder, en parte, esta inquietante interrogante, argumentando que a partir de aquel año crucial se inauguró un proceso lento y ……続きを見る

La presente edición está en castellano antiguo, aunque algunas grafías han sido actualizadas. 続きを見る

Entre Mesoamérica y Aridoamérica, territorios que van desde pequeños países de Centroamérica, hasta vastas extensiones de Estados Unidos, pasando por prácticamente todo nuestro país, han existido de……続きを見る

Este libro se encuentra compilada una serie de fuentes de enorme valor para el conocimiento y estudio del papel central que jugaron las organizaciones sindicales en la rearticulación de la vida polí……続きを見る

Los Relatos de María de Zayas fueron publicados en dos colecciones, las dos partes de su obra en prosa, que son los 10 publicados en 1637 como Novelas ejemplares y amorosas y los otros 10, publicado……続きを見る

Góngora no publicó su obra en vida, aunque lo intentó en 1623. Sus versos se conocieron dispersos en Manuscritos o impresos en hojas sueltas. Solo aparecieron en un libro el año en que murió, en una……続きを見る

This volume presents state-of-the-art creative scholarship in political science and area studies with an emphasis on Russia. The contributors, all well-known in their specialties, share the convicti……続きを見る

Louisa May Alcott was an American novelist best known as author of the novel Little Women. In the mid-1860s, Alcott wrote passionate, fiery novels and sensational stories. She also produced wholesom……続きを見る

Charles Freeman was a self-willed, passionate boy, who hesitated not to break any rule of the institution at which he was receiving his education, provided, in doing so, he felt quite sure of not be……続きを見る