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What kind of trouble lies ahead? How can we successfully transition towards a sustainable future? Drawing on a remarkably broad range of insights from complex systems and the functioning of the brai……続きを見る

An elaborately crafted and decorated tomahawk from somewhere along the North American east coast: how did it end up in the royal collections in Stockholm in the late seventeenth century? What does i……続きを見る

Records of Steam Boiler Explosions is a comprehensive historical account that meticulously documents the numerous incidents of steam boiler explosions, primarily during the 19th century, when steam ……続きを見る

Um das Jahr 1880 wurde die Leiche einer jungen Frau aus der Seine in Paris gezogen. Sie zeigte keine Spuren von Gewalt, und auf ihrem Gesicht lag ein seltsames, friedliches Lächeln. Ihre Identität k……続きを見る

China’s past and present have been in a continuous dialogue throughout history, one that is heavily influenced by time and language: the temporal orientation and the linguistic apparatus used to exp……続きを見る

As the territory of Qing China expanded, so evolved the ways in which birds, beasts, fish, trees, and flowers came to be known in the multilingual empire. The Manchu Mirrors and the Knowledge of Pla……続きを見る

Buying and Selling Civil War Memory explores the ways in which Gilded Age manufacturers, advertisers, publishers, and others commercialized Civil War memory. Advertisers used images of the war to se……続きを見る

Lens of War grew out of an invitation to leading historians of the Civil War to select and reflect upon a single photograph. Each could choose any image and interpret it in personal and scholarly te……続きを見る

Warlords are individuals who control small territories within weak states, using a combination of force and patronage. In this book, Kimberly Marten shows why and how warlords undermine state sovere……続きを見る

James Tanner may be the most famous person in nineteenth-century America that no one has heard of. During his service in the Union army, he lost the lower third of both his legs and afterward had to……続きを見る

While children are a relatively unchanging fact of life, childhood is a constantly shifting concept. Throughout the millennia, the age at which a child becomes a youth and a youth becomes an adult h……続きを見る

Reimagining one of the oldest genres of Civil War history, this book engagingly presents the story of the war and its aftermath through the lens of a single regiment, the Sixth Wisconsin. One of the……続きを見る

Les déplacements des Africains concernent massivement...l’Afrique seule. Se préoccuper des migrations internationales, c’est donc porter le regard bien au-delà des conjonctures européennes. Ce numér……続きを見る

In the decades after the Civil War, urbanization, industrialization, and immigration marked the start of the Gilded Age, a period of rapid economic growth but also social upheaval. Reformers respond……続きを見る

A historical exploration of the childhood experiences of those who grew up and came of age in America's colonized communities. The Pilgrims and Puritans did not arrive on the shores of New England a……続きを見る

After the Civil War, white Confederate and Union army veterans reentered--or struggled to reenter--the lives and communities they had left behind. In Sing Not War, James Marten explores how the nine……続きを見る

Children ー white and black, northern and southern ー endured a vast and varied range of experiences during the Civil War. Children celebrated victories and mourned defeats, tightened their belts an……続きを見る

This book explores the rich history of the keyword from its earliest manifestations (long before it appeared anywhere in Google Trends or library cataloging textbooks) in order to illustrate its imp……続きを見る

It is 212 BC and the Emperor Qin has unified China and had the Long Wall built to deter the Xiongnu northern raiders. Now raids have begun again with greater losses than before, including children. ……続きを見る

Multinational Enterprise and Transnational Regions offers an innovative approach to the study of the history of transnational economic regions. The Rhine valley is such a region comprising the citie……続きを見る

Young female voices chattered and laughed as the team emerged from the mess hut, donned their field caps then headed toward the anti-aircraft battery. All carried the khaki gas-mask packs that thump……続きを見る

The essays in this book cover a fast-paced 150 years of Vatican diplomacy, starting from the fall of the Papal States in 1870 to the present day. They trace the transformation of the Vatican from a ……続きを見る

The Civil War hardly scratched the Confederate state of Texas. Thousands of Texans died on battlefields hundreds of miles to the east, of course, but the war did not destroy Texas's farms or plantat……続きを見る

This book discusses the impact of cameralism on the practices of governance, early modern state-building and economy in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe. It argues that the cameralist conc……続きを見る

La relation franco-allemande se trouve au cœur du projet européen. C’est tout d’abord autour de la réconciliation franco-allemande que l’Europe a pu entreprendre son travail d’unification à la suite……続きを見る

“This is the most poignant Vietnam War book I have read and without any selfbravado. It ranks up there with the famous WWI trench books. One could never again glorify war after reading this book.” H……続きを見る

The Renaissance was a time when artists, scholars, scientists, philosophers, and architects, in their hunger for insight and enlightenment, began to look back to the classical civilizations of Greec……続きを見る

? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Wilfried Martens is one of the most distinguished politicians to come from Belgium in the last ffty years. In his long poli- cal career, he has always fought for the implemen……続きを見る

Remakes are pervasive in today’s popular culture, whether they take the form of reboots, “re-imaginings,” or overly familiar sequels. Television remakes have proven popular with producers and networ……続きを見る