Homelands and Diasporas
This collection of essays on Jewish-related subjects celebrates Emanuela Trevisan Semi’s career and research, and is authored by a number of former students, friends and colleagues on the occasion of her retirement.
Communities on a Frontier in Conflict
Were the Jesuit missions in South America a socialist utopia or an independent republic? This study reveals the historical reality, analyzing the creation of mission communities on a frontier contested by Spain and Portugal and the demographic consequences of military conflict.
Saving Sinners, even Moslems
This book investigates the Reformed Church’s Mission to Arabia (1889-1973). It explores cultural encounters between missionaries and Muslims, and a unique theology that presented the evangelization of Muslims as critical for Christ’s Second Coming.
The importance of overcoming the urgent issues concerning the sustainability of our planet cannot be overstated. The contributions gathered here highlight these pivotal global issues and their potential long-term resolutions from a number of interrelated perspectives.
When Hitler ordered a secret program to kill the handicapped, brave citizens spoke out. They claimed the disabled were not “ballast people” but humans who deserved to live. This is the story of those who risked arrest, imprisonment, and execution to protest the immoral killing.
During WWI, Jews in the Tsarist Empire experienced a unique tragedy. Targeted by violence, persecutions, and expulsions, they were branded traitors. The Great War became a chilling anticipation of the tragedy that would befall Eastern European Jewry.
The British Attempt to Prevent the Second World War
Neville focuses on some new issues associated with British appeasement policy in the 1930s. He looks at how the artificial split between international history and military history has led to the over-simplification of the factors involved in formulating the appeasement policy.
One Century of Vain Missionary Work among Muslims in China
After centuries of failure in China, 20th-century Christian missionaries shifted their focus to the Muslim population. Believing a shared tradition of One God would make them more amenable, the valiant, century-long effort also ended in frustration against unexpected resistance.
Forensic science pioneer Ralph Turner’s work was the basis for drunk driving laws. He founded the field’s leading professional organization and was one of the first persons to question the Warren Commission Report on the assassination of President Kennedy.
Sir Jerome Horsey’s (d. 1626) animated account of his experiences in Russia and other countries is a travel-book, an adventure story and an autobiography of a controversial and significant figure. It is here given with a full introduction and extensive explanatory notes.
New Journeys in Iberian Studies
The research collected here consists of 18 chapters which explore a number of key areas of investigation in contemporary Iberian studies. There is a strong emphasis on trans-national and trans-regional approaches to the subject area, reflecting current discourse and scholarship.
Black Soldiers in a White Man’s War
Pollock investigates the story of 600 Black men from across North America and the Caribbean, who, in 1917, went to war in a labour unit. Based on service records of the 600 volunteers and 35 courts-martial in the unit, he probes the lives of these soldiers between 1917 and 1918.
Societies Emerging from Conflict
This collection of essays, written by scholars with ties to Bangladesh, Bulgaria, Canada, Ghana, Indonesia, Iraq, and the USA, argues that a new post-atrocity framework is taking root, suggesting promising alternatives to retributive criminal proceedings.
Studies of Potter tend to see him through the lens of his relationship with his most famous daughter, Beatrice (Webb). In this book, Potter is the subject of study in his own right. The work denotes how he was a new type of businessman: an international corporate capitalist.
Democrats into Nazis
How did middle-class Germans support extreme nationalism? This study of a Bavarian town after WWI shows how devastating crises discredited democracy and handed the initiative to the radical Right, as inhabitants came to see events as part of a broader “European Civil War.”
The term “Intermarium” has a long historical tradition and was commonly used to define the area between the Baltic and Black Seas. Its connotations, historical usage, aspects, and its potential, are discussed here from geopolitical, economic and cultural perspectives.
This collection provides an historical, plural and original analysis of the Russian Revolution to mark its first centenary. It focuses on both regional aspects and major events and phenomena, including the importance of World War I and the birth of the Communist International.
Dialogues on the Delta
This interdisciplinary collection examines Stockton, California. Once ground zero for the housing crisis and the first major American city to declare bankruptcy, it cannot be framed by misfortune alone. Discover a vibrant community with a rich, diverse, and vital history.
A Scholiast’s Quill
The Latin American poet, essayist, and literary theorist Alfonso Reyes (1889-1959) wrote about every important topic and intellectual current that defined his beleaguered times. The original readings of his work contained here reassess his legacy from a 21st century perspective.
This book features 24 papers on ancient Greek science and technology, covering mathematics, physics, and engineering. Topics range from Plato’s mathematical concepts and Aristotle’s Physics to the Trojan Horse reconstruction and telecommunications in ancient Greece.
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