Living War, Thinking Peace (1914-1924)
This volume offers first-hand accounts from women facing the horrors of war, explores the lives and thought of several key women activists who challenged inequalities, and examines the work of women who saw the outbreak of the First World War as an opportunity for emancipation.
This volume brings together, for the first time, essays authored by the influential British existential philosopher Colin Wilson on seventeen other philosophers from across the globe, including some of those he met personally to discuss their ideas.
McElwee explores the under-representation of the poor rural worker in paintings of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, showing that depictions of the rural landscape rarely reflected the harsh realities of the life of the labourer.
Timeless Experience
Offering unique insights into a key figure in the development of Gestalt therapy, this volume comprises Laura Perls’s heretofore unpublished writing, including journal entries, letters, poems, translations, short stories, and drafts for lectures and publications.
Mediterranean Heritage in Transit
Given the importance of Mediterranean itineraries in the shaping of the European Union’s cultural heritage, the papers brought together here help shed light on the multifaceted entities that constitute the vibrant socio-semiotic landscape of this region.
Using and Abusing Science
This title explores how, and to what extent, science has been used by politicians to add legitimacy to their discourse over the past three centuries, and provides an illuminating illustration of the relationship between science and the political.
Yea, Alabama! A Peek into the Past of One of the Most Storied Universities in the Nation
Battles relates the narrative of the storied University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, in the United States, bringing to the fore many new facts, new stories, new characters, new revelations, and new photos that offer the fullest picture of the University provided to date.
The Importance of Place
How do we value historic urban landscape in order to intervene within it as designers? This is the central question of this volume, and is tackled by its 16 essays investigating different facets of value as bases of building and design practices on a range of spatial scales.
Julian Among the Books
This book explores the European background of Julian of Norwich’s manuscripts, arguing for ‘Holy Conversations’ where readers participate in her visions. It discusses her Benedictine context, links to other mystics, and preservation by exiled nuns who treasured her text.
Glimpsing Modernity
Glimpsing Modernity captures the metamorphosis of military medicine during the First World War in a series of vignettes. These stories provide new interpretations of known themes and examine less well-known, but truly important medical topics.
Dr Johnson would walk to the ends of the earth to save him, yet others rejoiced at his death. How did a beautiful, privileged youth become infamous for causing a lice infestation? A friend to the Enlightenment’s leading figures, he lived life to the full.
This conference proceedings represents papers given at the Seventh International Conference on Fantasy and Wonder, and demonstrates the continuing importance of the past in the present and, by extension, for the future.
This volume tackles the concept of fear in a range of time periods in cultural and literary history, from the Archaic Period and Greco-Roman Classical Antiquity to the modern and postmodern periods.
Civilization at Risk
The evil of sex trafficking will not stop, but it can be discouraged and lives spared. All of the author’s proceeds for this book go directly to the Justice and Mercy Initiative at Bryan College to fight human trafficking.
Interdisciplinarity in World History
This book argues for interdisciplinarity in history, rejecting its claimed autonomy. The chapters stress that historical research must be open to complex issues, collaborating with other disciplines to answer questions that history cannot tackle on its own.
The Role of Religions in the European Perception of Insular and Mainland Southeast Asia
This collection enhances existing knowledge on travel, travel experiences and travel writing by Europeans in mainland and insular Southeast Asia from the 16th to the 21st centuries, and demonstrates how these travellers perceived religion in Southeast Asia.
Using extensive unpublished archival material, Bosco principally examines the first eighteen months of the Federal Union, during which time it was able to raise itself to the attention of the general public, and the political class, as the heir of the League of Nations.
The Case for Bethsaida after Twenty Years of Digging
McNamer builds on proof that Bethsaida dates back further than Roman times, as has been assumed for years, given its huge significance in the New Testament. She investigates the idea that the town now has to be taken into account in the search for the historical Jesus.
The Jews and the Nation-States of Southeastern Europe from the 19th Century to the Great Depression
This volume approaches the position of Jews in Southeastern Europe during the second half of the 19th century from the point of view of contemporary western Judaism, perhaps more sensitive to the sufferings of “our poor brothers in the East”.
Macedonia
These books cover the entire period of Macedonia’s written history, from the Temenid kingdom to the insecure, new Macedonian Republic, adopting a wide view of Macedonia as a geographical entity that extends outwards from the Macedonian Republic into all its neighbours.
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