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In what began as a simple genealogical search for the origins of the extra "t" in his surname, Steve Suitts pieces together a crazy quilt of revelations and documents for a family story no relative ……続きを見る

Integration politics in the Netherlands has changed dramatically between 1990 and 2005. Whereas ethnic and religious differences were hitherto pacified through accommodation, a new and increasingly ……続きを見る

This booklet introduces the classic text by Kōtoku Shūsui that launched Japan's first anarchist movement in late Meiji era Japan. In 1907, Kōtoku, one of Japan's foremost socialists of the time, lai……続きを見る

Ontdek het meeslepende verhaal van een vergeten tragedie dat je op het puntje van je stoel houdt! In "De schipbreuk van de 'Berlin' 21 Februari 1907" neemt Jean-Louis Pisuisse je mee op een adembene……続きを見る

This book was the culmination of over 10 years of dedicated effort. Especially, it presents a comprehensive translation of Matsuo Basho's linked verse (renku), encompassing 576 poems across 16 volum……続きを見る

Selected among Foreign Affairs's "Best of Books 2024" China is unique in modern world history. No other rising power has experienced China's turbulent history in its relations with neighbors and Wes……続きを見る

Although much is known about the political stance of the military at large during the Civil War, the political party affiliations of individual soldiers have received little attention. Drawing on ar……続きを見る

In Millenarian Dreams and Racial Nightmares, John H. Matsui argues that the political ideology and racial views of American Protestants during the Civil War mirrored their religious optimism or pess……続きを見る

In a sweeping reinterpretation of the history of disfranchisement, Steve Suitts illuminates how a century of political conflicts in Alabama came to shape both some of America’s best achievements in ……続きを見る

Beethoven’s seventy-two settings of traditional Irish airs constitute his most prolific output in any genre. The arrangements were commissioned in the early nineteenth century by the Scottish editor……続きを見る

During his first inaugural address, Abraham Lincoln expressed hope that the "better angels of our nature" would prevail as war loomed. He was wrong. The better angels did not, but for many Americans……続きを見る


 → Grand entretien avec Umberto Eco : « La France a subi un choc qu’elle n’a pas digéré » Umberto Eco évoque son amour de la littérature française et sa fascination pour le Moyen Âge qui, d’après l……続きを見る

Entre Renaissance et Révolution, la vie de Jésus n’a cessé d’être réécrite par les théologiens européens. Ses contours chronologiques, sa signification ont été interprétés à la lueur de leurs engage……続きを見る

On connaît le George Orwell de 1984 et de La Ferme des animaux, on connaît moins le George Orwell reporter qui vécut l’impérialisme britannique en Birmanie, s’engagea dans la guerre d’Espagne en 193……続きを見る

“A fascinating and beautifully written love letter to water. I was enchanted by this book." ーRebecca Skloot, bestselling author of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks We swim in freezing Arctic wa……続きを見る

An original history of music in the lives of American soldiers. Since the Civil War, music has coursed through the United States military. Soldiers have sung while marching, listened to phonographs ……続きを見る

This book focuses on injustices that have taken place to deaf people and the sign language community in Finland from 1900. For decades, memories and stories about past injustices have been passed do……続きを見る

There has been much discussion about the origin of marketing and marketing thought, and whether it was truly American in origin. Nevertheless, it is true that US marketing management thought was ver……続きを見る

Where Mountainy Men have Sown gives a first-hand account of the fight for freedom in West Cork from 1916–21. It chronicles the social and military aspects of the War of Independence and describes th……続きを見る

Notre-Dame de Paris, le Mont Saint-Michel, Carcassonne, etc. : Viollet-le-Duc, le grand restaurateur du XIX e. Souvent décrié pour ses restaurations perçues comme arbitraires, Viollet-le-Duc apparai……続きを見る

Seeks to introduce an "affective turn" to the study of China's political modernization process. Affective Betrayal uses "affect" as an analytical category to explicate the fragility and fragmentatio……続きを見る

CHOW MING, the husband of Ah Sue was an Americanized Chinese, so when Christmas day came, he gave a big dinner, to which he invited both his American and Chinese friends, and also one friend who was……続きを見る

A skilled observer and noted scholar of Chinese culture, TsuenHsuin Tsien has contributed profoundly to the West's understanding of the East and vice versa. Having spent six decades as a professor a……続きを見る

"Her life was a bridge from the nineteenth century to the twentieth, from the time-hallowed beauty and rigidity of a samurai household to the disorienting, forward-looking freedoms of the West." ーJ……続きを見る

Si le religieux n’est pas censé aujourd’hui interférer avec le politique, dans l’Europe moderne, la religion - le christianisme - était structurante et commandait à tout et tous. Trois principes ont……続きを見る

Le christianisme aura bientôt deux mille ans. Matrice de la civilisation européenne, religion présente sur tous les continents, il a façonné au fil des siècles l'organisation sociale, le calendrier ……続きを見る

South-west Donegal, Ireland, June 1856. From the time that the blight first came on the potatoes in 1845, armed and masked men dubbed Molly Maguires had been raiding the houses of people deemed to b……続きを見る

A Daughter of the Samurai tells the true story of a samurai's daughter, brought up in the strict traditions of feudal Japan, who was sent to America to meet her future husband. An engrossing, haunti……続きを見る

Just as a growing interest in millennialism at the turn of this century has rejuvenated religious debate and questions concerning the fate of the world, so did Mormonism develop from millennial enth……続きを見る

Do our lives have meaning? Should we create more people? Is death bad? Should we commit suicide? Would it be better to be immortal? Should we be optimistic or pessimistic? Since Life, Death, and Mea……続きを見る