AYA - History 8

A basic feature of the modern US administrative state taken for granted by legal scholars but neglected by political scientists and historians is its strong judiciality. Formal, or court-like, adjud……続きを見る

Hasidism, a Jewish religious movement that originated in Poland in the eighteenth century, today counts over 700,000 adherents, primarily in the U.S., Israel, and the UK. Popular and scholarly inter……続きを見る

Twelve scholars representing a variety of academic fields contribute to this study of slavery in the French Caribbean colonies, which ranges historically from the 1770s to Haiti's declaration of ind……続きを見る

This is the first book in English to provide a comprehensive examination of the hospital movement that arose and prospered in northern Italy between the twelfth and fifteenth centuries. Throughout t……続きを見る

Jump Up! Caribbean Carnival Music in New York City is the first comprehensive history of Trinidadian calypso and steelband music in the diaspora. Carnival, transplanted from Trinidad to Harlem in th……続きを見る

Since the early 1990s, about two thousand Idumean Aramaic ostraca have found their way into museums, libraries, and private collections. Four major publications covering some of these texts have app……続きを見る

This book presents an innovative approach to gender, nationalism, and the relations between them, and analyses the broader social base of Hindu nationalist organisation to understand the growth of '……続きを見る

“Oh, Allah, You are my only trust in every calamity. You are my only hope in every hardship. You are the only promise in anxiety and distress, in which hearts become weak and (human) action becomes ……続きを見る

Uma das obras-primas da poesia épica indiana, a composição mais popular da Índia e a obra hindu mais lida em todo o mundo! A Bhagavad Gītā é um verdadeiro tratado de yoga, tão valioso quanto os Yoga……続きを見る

"Hospital Sketches" is a fictionalised account of Louisa May Alcott's experiences nursing during the Civil War and presented in a collection of letters. The book garnered Alcott's first critical rec……続きを見る

Turkey is a land torn between East and West, and between its glorious past and a dangerous, unpredictable future. After the violence of an attempted military coup against President Erdogan in 2016, ……続きを見る

Did you know that Kolkata has the country’s largest library? The city gave India its first printing press. The first foreign-recognised educational institution was also in Kolkata. The first lift (a……続きを見る

In this ground-breaking account of the political economy and cultural meaning of blood in contemporary India, Jacob Copeman and Dwaipayan Banerjee examine how the giving and receiving of blood has s……続きを見る

In this far-ranging and erudite exploration of the South Asian past, Sumit Guha discusses the shaping of social and historical memory in world-historical context. He presents memory as the result of……続きを見る

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Bombay was beset by crises such as famine and plague. Yet, rather than halting the flow of capital, these crises served to secure it. In colonia……続きを見る

This book is a critical attempt to cast a biopolitical gaze at the process of subjectification of Russia, Ukraine, Georgia, and Estonia in terms of multiple and overlapping regimes of belonging, per……続きを見る

The book tells the unique story of WEIZAC, an early computer built by a “new nation” in the early 1950s. It was created in Israel, even though the feasibility of this project was actually close to n……続きを見る

Ontluisterend portret van het huidige Rusland gezien vanuit een handvol opmerkelijke mensen 'Regelmatig vraag ik me af hoe je in een dictatuur of autoritaire staat een fatsoenlijk mens kunt blijven.……続きを見る

A Booklist "Top 10 History Book of 2022" The first true people's history of modern India, told through a seven-year, 9,000-mile journey along its many contested borders Sharing borders with six coun……続きを見る

East of East: The Making of Greater El Monte, is an edited collection of thirty-one essays that trace the experience of a California community over three centuries, from eighteenth-century Spanish c……続きを見る

Indian Travel Writing in the Age of Empire studies a variety of travel narratives by Indian kings, evangelists, statesmen, scholars, merchants, leisure travellers and reformers. It identifies the ke……続きを見る

The Islamic Revolution in 1979 transformed Iranian society and reshaped the political landscape of the Middle East. Four decades later, Darioush Bayandor draws upon heretofore untapped archival evid……続きを見る

Americans of the 1960s would have trouble navigating the grocery aisles and restaurant menus of today. Once-exotic ingredientsーlike mangoes, hot sauces, kale, kimchi, and coconut milkーhave become ……続きを見る

In Parenting Empires, Ana Y. Ramos-Zayas focuses on the parenting practices of Latin American urban elites to analyze how everyday experiences of whiteness, privilege, and inequality reinforce natio……続きを見る

Una interessante e dettagliata ricostruzione del processo a Gesù, mettendo a confronto non soltanto le testimonianze dei Vangeli Canonici ma anche le testimonianze dei Vangeli Apocrifi e Gnostici. O……続きを見る

Aaron McDuffie Moore (1863–1923) was born in rural Columbus County in eastern North Carolina at the close of the Civil War. Defying the odds stacked against an African American of this era, he pursu……続きを見る

In 'Hospital Sketches' by Louisa May Alcott, the reader is taken on a poignant journey through the author's personal experiences as a Civil War nurse. Through a series of vivid and emotionally charg……続きを見る

En el reino de los indios, en tiemposantiguos existía el rey del Cuzco, lnka T’ito Manko Qhapaq, descendiente del linaje del lnka Pachakuteq que, como distintivo de ser hijo del Sol, llevaba tres ca……続きを見る

A la caída del imperio romano (siglo V), la ciencia, la técnica y las artes sufrieron una notable regresión en todos los ámbitos y la cultura que quedó incólume se refugió unas veces en los castillo……続きを見る

This book investigates ‘capitalism and freedom’ーthe guiding forces of many political systemsーin African philosophy. It builds on classical and neoliberal capitalism rooted in private property and ……続きを見る