East Asia in Transition
Why is prosperous East Asia experiencing worsening confrontations? Old theories fail to explain the region’s puzzles. This book introduces the fresh concept of “culture wars”—conflicts based on the clash between Westernized cultural values and local cultures—to explain it all.
Eastern Indian Ocean
This pioneering study examines commercial and cultural linkages across the Eastern Indian Ocean, from past to present. It shows how reviving ancient connections can stimulate international trade, promote regional cooperation, and shape the India-South East Asia relationship.
Ecclesia et Violentia
This interdisciplinary anthology explores violence and the medieval Church. It examines attacks against clergy, aggression between them, and the role of violence in discipline, revealing how it was integral to the legal culture and social bonds of medieval Europe.
Echoes from the Greek Bronze Age
This book highlights Hecataeus’s work on Herodotus’ ‘known world’, alongside the thoughts of Anaxagoras and Xenophanes. It also presents Simonides’ art of memory, ‘the Loci’, and its influence years later on the heretic Giordano Bruno.
In Belfast, a city of contrasts and resilience, tales of real experience and imagination are woven together. Stories of love, conflict, prejudice, and hope paint a vivid, honest portrait of the diverse people who call this ever-evolving city home.
This anthology examines artwork and sites in East and Southeast Asia through the lens of eco–art history, exploring the mutual impact of artistic expression and local environments. Case studies range from the Little Ice Age to contemporary responses to climate change.
Economic Analyses of Prehistoric Greece
This collection of essays uses economic theory to investigate Greek archaeology, from the Neolithic to the Early Iron Age. Topics include the urbanization of Crete, Bronze Age shipping, the post-Mycenaean population collapse, the Sea Peoples, and piracy.
Edmund Roberts of New Hampshire
Edmund Roberts negotiated America’s first treaties with Asian powers. Appointed by President Jackson, he secured deals with Siam and Oman. Yet he was also a secret slave trader and illegal merchant who nearly sabotaged his own historic mission through his reckless greed.
Education in St. Maarten from 1954 to 2000
George narrates the development of education in St. Maarten over a period of nearly 50 years, tapping into the experience of the protagonists, giving postcolonial subjects, often bypassed or forgotten by most traditional historians, a voice in the recording of their own history.
Edward Long’s Libel of Africa
This book examines Edward Long’s 1774 History of Jamaica as a catalyst for British racial supremacy. Long vehemently denigrated Africans in a work of race vilification whose unjust ramifications for black people are still felt in Britain today.
Edward Thring’s Theory, Practice and Legacy
Edward Thring’s headmastership at Uppingham School from 1853 to 1887 engendered a balanced physical education within a sane but revolutionary educational framework. Tozer provides a history of Thring’s theory and the course of physical education in Britain since 1800.
This book delves into Einstein’s lesser-known journey to Malaya in 1922 and 1923, with stops in Singapore, Malacca, and Penang. Based on his diary, it unravels the theories he was working on, his insightful interactions with locals, and the tropical wonders that inspired him.
This book pieces together the jigsaw of Einstein’s journey to discovering special relativity. Lacking notes from this critical period, it explores his creative process, Poincaré’s parallel work, and the paradoxes of the revolutionary theory.
Worldwide experts discuss cutting-edge concepts in Emerging Materials. This book offers a platform for researchers and industry leaders to exchange experiences on energy materials, biomaterials, solar energy, batteries, fuel cells, and their technical applications.
Empedocles of Acragas
Empedocles of Acragas is known as a philosopher, healer, excellent orator, miracle-maker, and engineer. Scholars, students and specialists will find in this book an analysis of his revolutionary writings, and confirmation that he was a multi-faceted and important thinker.
This volume explores the relations between multinational empires and the nation. It analyzes the origins of nation-states, the issue of national minorities after the dissolution of empires, and the role of art and culture in forming national identities.
This volume analyzes the relations between multinational empires and the idea of the nation. Topics range from colonialism and the Great Powers to the Great War, decolonization, ethnic conflicts, the dissolution of empires, and the East-West conflict.
Empires and Nations from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Century
Scholars analyze the relationship between multinational empires and the idea of the nation from the 18th to the 20th century. Topics include the birth of nation-states, colonialism, the Great War, the Cold War, and concepts of identity and sovereignty.
Empires, Nations and Private Lives
Bringing together papers presented at a conference devoted to little-known facets of the First World War’s cultural and social history, this collection examines the causes and consequences of the conflict from a perspective extending beyond the traditional focus on Europe.
This volume brings together selected papers on Digital Humanities and cultural heritage. It provides insights into the description, access, and digitization of cultural heritage, and explores written heritage as a source for historiographic and linguistic research.