The European maritime expansion of the fifteenth century reshaped global politics, economies, and perceptions of space. Central to this transformation was the mastery of long-distance sea routes and the development of ruttersーtechnical documents recording navigational data and geographic observations. Despite their...

This book reveals the importance of personal letters in the history of European women between the year 1000 and the advent of the telephone. It explores the changing ways that women used correspondence for self-expression and political mobilization over this period, enabling them to navigate the myriad gendered rest...

This is the first book to survey the entire career of Joris Ivens, a prolific documentary filmmaker who worked on every continent over the course of seven decades. More than a biography of a leftist committed to changing the world through film, The Conscience of Cinema is also a microcosmic history of the documentar...

Andrew Fowler is a well known writer of railway history, with a regular feature in Railway Herald Magazine. The Deltic class 55 Locomotives were some of the most successful, first generation diesels introduced to British Railways, being constructed from 1960-1962 and numbering twenty two, in the production class. Th...

It is impossible to understand how the medieval church functioned and, in turn, influenced the lay world within its care without understanding "canon law". This book examines its development from its beginnings to the end of the Middle Ages, updating its findings in light of recent scholarly trends. This second edit...

Een wervelende en persoonlijke geschiedenis over Amerika en Europa in turbulente tijden, vol dilemma's over democratie, economie en oorlog. In Europa kent bijna niemand hem. Toch hoort Harry Hopkins bij de handvol mensen die bepalend waren voor het lot van ons continent en ons land. Hopkins was een voormalige welzij...

This book explores how the demise of the traditional language of melancholy lies at the root of contemporary difficulties in engaging with darker aspects of human affective experience. Melancholy – or melancholia – was a concept transmitted for millennia through a living tradition involving philosophers, physicians,...

Cultivating motivation is crucial to a language learner's success – and therefore crucial for the language teacher and researcher to understand. The third edition of Teaching and Researching Motivation reflects the dramatic changes in the field of motivation research. With an increased emphasis on dynamic perspectiv...

戰爭結束了，考驗才正要開始。 國籍身分轉換的時刻，臺灣人心中有著怎樣的徬徨與想望？ 結合真人實事與文學感性，貼近大時代下的動盪心靈， 以情感與力度兼具的文字，留住紛亂時局裡的堅毅身影。 尋回常民二戰經驗、還原失落生命記憶的里程碑之作 一九四五年八月十五日，昭和天皇宣讀《終戰詔書》的錄音，從帝國平民百姓家中的收音機流瀉而出...

'A characteristically radical re-reading of history that places the social and political experiments of pirates at the heart of the European Enlightenment. A brilliant companion volume to the best-selling Dawn of Everything' Amitav Ghosh The Enlightenment did not begin in Europe. Its true origins lie thousands of mi...

Der Nahe Osten heißt so, weil er Europa geographisch besonders nahe ist, aber auch historisch und kulturell. Jakob Krais erzählt die Geschichte der Region zwischen Marokko und dem Irak von der Zeit um 1800, als immer mehr Gebiete unter europäische Kontrolle fielen, bis zur Gegenwart. Er beschreibt frühe Reformbewegu...

獨特視角 × 跨國史觀 × 國族認同 ──《歷史學家寫給所有人的中國史》姊妹作── 跳脫日本本位史觀，從亞洲脈絡重新認識日本的入門經典 ▍為何說日本史始於中國？ ▍為何明治維新背後，其實有東亞的影子？ ▍為何今日的日本，仍在尋找自己的位置？ 我們所熟知的「日本史」，真的是歷史的全貌嗎？ 「日本」從什麼時候開始是「日本」？天皇制度如何建...

The 'Soixantequinze', France's legendary 75mm Modele 1897, was the first modern field gun, pioneering several critical innovations in field artillery designs, including a fast action breech and a soft recoil system. Although some of these features had been incorporated into earlier guns, the 75mm M1897 integrated th...

**'Compelling and important' - Rana Mitter, The Observer 'Few books qualify as essential reading but Ghost Nation is one of them' - Clive Hamilton, bestselling co-author of The Hidden Hand The gripping story of Taiwan's rich past and precarious present from one of the country's top foreign correspondents.** With all...

#1 New York Times Bestseller • New York Times Readers’ Pick: Top 100 Books of the 21**st** Century • The Summer Reading Pick for President Barack Obama and Bill Gates Official U.S. edition with full color illustrations throughout. From renowned historian Yuval Noah Harari comes a groundbreaking narrative of humanity...

Nationalism today depends on the perception of victimhood. The historical memory of past suffering endows nationalist movements with political legitimacy and a sense of moral superiority. Koreans recall Japanese colonial atrocities, while Japan commemorates the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Israel sanct...