This edited collection examines the historical role of business actors in climate and environmental governance since the 1970s. Through a compilation of recent, evidence-based historical research, this book unveils the origins of contemporary challenges in regulating environmental pollution. With original case studi...

Focusing on England, the German-speaking territories and the Italian peninsula, this book examines how Saint George’s image crossed boundaries and was disseminated. Alison Barker attempts to "dissolve" the boundary of the Alps through examination of images of Saint George, the "travelling" saint. She argues that Geo...

The combat history of the F-105 Thunderchief units during the Vietnam War, detailing the strengths and weaknesses of the aircraft, and the difficulties it faced during many months of dangerous combat. Facing the most formidably concentrated air defences in history, pilots of the F-105D flew against North Vietnamese ...

Sigmund Freud was a catalyst who signaled a seat change in how humanity came to understand the world and how it relates to the human mind. And if you have ever had a "Freudian slip," you know full well that the concepts and theories of Mr. Freud are well ensconced in the modern lexicon. But as much as many of us are...

This collection addresses two interrelated questions: How are the lived experiences of contention remembered in the form of auto/biography? How is life writing, as an act of cultural remembrance, used in activism? Building on cutting-edge scholarship on the socio-political potential of narrating lived experience, th...

This is Martha Beckwith's monumental study of Hawaiian mythology. She gives all available variants of each myth or legend, including versions from other Pacific islands including Tahiti, Tonga, Samoa and others. This is primarily a critical edition of the key Hawaiian myths, and Beckwith largely does not attempt to ...

À l’heure où il est fréquent d’entendre que la démocratie est en crise, il est essentiel de revenir en profondeur sur ce qui fut son événement fondateur. Souvent présentée comme un bloc, en quelque sorte « une et indivisible », la Révolution est en réalité plurielle. Est-ce de cette pluralité qu’elle a tiré sa force...

Les Celtes ont toujours été perçus comme marchant entre le monde des vivants et un monde animé par la magie, la passion et le fantastique. Pour ceux qui souhaitent s'aventurer dans ce terrier du lapin, les passionnés d'histoire nous emmènent dans une promenade à travers l'histoire des nations celtiques, en commençan...

On 20 January 1766 the Dutch slave ship, the Meermin, set off from Madagascar with 140 Malagasy to be sold to the Cape Colony as slaves. Three weeks into the voyage, on 18 February, the Malagasy revolted, taking command of the ship. With a final stand taking place just off the coast of Struisbaai in the Cape Colony,...

**透析從古至今「上有政策，下有對策」的生存智慧 一部與國家打交道的中國日常政治史 ★哈佛大學費正清研究中心主任 宋怡明教授 潛心力作★ ★美國《選擇》2018年度傑出學術著作獎★ ★中研院史語所李仁淵助研究員審訂＋導讀★** 「本書敏銳而有力地融合微觀與宏觀歷史，在時間長河中探索人們如何在表面的順從下進行抵抗。」 ーーセン姆斯・斯科特...

This open access book seeks answers to a series of questions about the little studied subject of prologues or theatrical presentations in American movie theaters from the late 1910s to the mid-1920s. How did prologues emerge out of prior practices? Who were the exhibitors most involved? What characteristics would co...

Merriam Press World War 2 In Review Series 2023 eBook Edition Covers the Consolidated PB4Y-1 Liberator and the PB4Y-2 Privateer, World War II patrol bombers of the U.S. Navy derived from the Consolidated B-24 Liberator. The Navy had been using unmodified B-24s as the PB4Y-1 Liberator, and the type was considered ver...

本书对秦汉至魏晋南北朝时期中国官僚政治制度的发展历程，对官僚政治在夏商周时代的萌发，秦汉时代的蓬勃发展，魏晋南北朝时期的混乱衰弊进行了追源溯流，且脉络清晰的叙述。

Just like the song about the day the music died, we will have a definite date when democracy ended. Buckle up it's going to be a bumpy ride when the dictator wannabe gets sworn into office. His 'shock and awe' tactics will change America. There may be another great migration, but this time, people will leave the cou...

This book offers the first comprehensive analysis of the origin and development of the concept of physical continuity in ancient thought before Aristotle, combining a thorough study of Presocratic philosophy with Aristotle’s perspective. The concept of continuity plays a fundamental role in Aristotle's philosophy, p...

The People We Watch explores the politics of contemporary media production from the point of view of the ordinary people it represents. Based upon a series of in-depth interviews and the author’s own professional experience of working in the television industry, this book examines how documentary contributors feel a...