CK - Modern 19

Africa’s Slaves Today, first published in 1975, examines the question of the persistence of slavery in modern Africa. It concludes that slavery is by no means dead in certain regions, but that at th……続きを見る

This book examines the American Sixties, and how that period’s socio-political essence was reflected and refracted in certain forms of the period’s music. Its five main chapters bear the names of fa……続きを見る

'History of the Conquest of Mexico' in 4 volumes is one of the best-known works by an American historian William Hickling Prescott. This edition includes: VIEW OF THE AZTEC CIVILIZATION: Ancient Mex……続きを見る

Drawing on new archival documents and interviews, this book demonstrates the evolving role of international politics in Olympic security planning. Olympic security concerns changed forever following……続きを見る

Ugandan Asians in Great Britain (1975) examines the impact of the 1972 immigration of 28,000 Asians expelled from Uganda, looking at the impact on both the immigrants themselves and the British host……続きを見る

Na Alemanha do nacional-socialismo, a ciência da Arqueologia Pré-Histórica alcançou uma posição de altíssima relevância no contexto de legitimação ideológica do regime nazista. Propagava-se uma inte……続きを見る

Die Edition Nachschlagewerk des Reichsgerichts bringt in Band 10 die Rechtsprechungsnachweise des Reichsgerichts zu den grundlegenden zivilprozessualen Institutionen in den §§ 545-1024 ZPO in der Fa……続きを見る

Mit der Erkundung und Eroberung der Neuen Welt beginnt die Geschichte eines europäischen Bewusstseins von Globalisierung. Das Schlüsselthema unserer Zeit hat besonders in der Aufklärung Konjunktur. ……続きを見る

Les travaux réunis ici sont les fruits de deux rencontres entre chercheurs tunisiens et français : la première au Centre d’Etudes et de Recherches Economiques et Sociales de Tunis à Tunis en mai 201……続きを見る

The macroeconomic development of south-eastern Europe has been profoundly affected not only by the region’s major historical events – for example, liberation from the Ottoman Empire, the outbreak of……続きを見る

Die Edition Nachschlagewerk des Reichsgerichts bringt in Band 8 die Rechtsprechungsnachweise des Reichsgerichts zu den grundlegenden zivilprozessualen Institutionen in den §§ 1–270 ZPO von 1898: Ger……続きを見る

This book examines both the obvious and less obvious ways in which Germans struggle with their Nazi past. It embraces only a small part of a complex problem, which is impossible for an individual au……続きを見る

«Analyzing the earliest debates over the memory of Nazi camps, the author makes an important contribution to the study of their origin, reducing the existing asymmetry in our knowledge on the releva……続きを見る

Le présent ouvrage ne prétend pas proposer une histoire de l’édition de musique de 1550 à nos jours. Il consiste en une collection d’études explorant un versant foisonnant de l’histoire de la musiqu……続きを見る

Modernism and pessimism seem to go hand in hand. What are the sources of the historical pessimism we see in the legions of writers and thinkers over the past three centuries who saw modern civilizat……続きを見る

Die Edition Nachschlagewerk des Reichsgerichts bringt in Band 9 die Rechtsprechungsnachweise des Reichsgerichts zu den grundlegenden zivilprozessualen Institutionen in den §§ 271–544 ZPO von 1898 ei……続きを見る

Das Buch erforscht die Beteiligung Brasiliens an den Weltausstellungen des 19. Jahrhunderts, mit denen das tropische Kaiserreich potenzielle Einwanderer und Investoren ködern wollte. Die Inszenierun……続きを見る

Das Buch behandelt die «Arisierung» von Banken in Deutschland während der Zeit des Nationalsozialismus. Anhand der Geschichte des Bankhauses E. J. Meyer werden soziale, ökonomische und rechtliche Ra……続きを見る

The 150th anniversary of Ireland’s Great Famine in the 1990s generated a significant increase in scholarship on the history of the crisis and its social and cultural aftermath. Two decades later, in……続きを見る

The era of the First World War represents one of the most turbulent and divisive periods in twentieth-century Irish history. The war is closely connected to the violent path to Irish independence fr……続きを見る

Examinando ejemplos históricos de prisioneros mantenidos en prisión indefinida durante los conflictos asimétricos y las crisis de seguridad nacional, Hickman desenreda lo presunto de lo aprobado y r……続きを見る

This book is about the role played by architects, engineers and planners in transforming France during the three post-war decades of growing prosperity, a period when modernisation was a central pri……続きを見る

This book is a diplomatic history of Europe and the wider world over a period of 500 years, from the beginning of the sixteenth century to the early twenty-first century – with a crucial aspect. The……続きを見る

Tomdispatch.com has established itself as the go-to blog for contemporary US politics, and the favored website for leading commentators; its powerful, no-holds-barred essays resonate throughout the ……続きを見る

The Colonial World: A History of European Empires, 1780s to the Present provides the most authoritative, in-depth overview on European imperialism available. It synthesizes recent developments in th……続きを見る

Home is where the horror is… Jilted thriller writer Lady Violet Thorn has withdrawn to the Suffolk market town of Montford with two servants and her leading character, the adventuress Ruby Gibson, f……続きを見る

Known the world over as a symbol of the United Kingdom, the Union Jack is an intricate construction based on the crosses of St George, St Andrew and St Patrick. Nick Groom traces its long and fascin……続きを見る

Once called the greatest charlatan of his age, the Marquis was a fascinating Victorian 'renaissance man'. Born to an artistic family, he became a renowned poet and adventurer. A crack shot and excel……続きを見る

The science of geology was constructed in the decades around 1800 from earlier practices that had been significantly different in their cognitive goals. In the studies collected here Martin Rudwick ……続きを見る

This book is a valuable resource for understanding the character, development, and consequences of fascist dictatorships. Approximately 60 million lives were taken during World War II. This book ser……続きを見る