A historiografia brasileira, de forma geral, tem negligenciado a real abrangência das documentações propostas e analisadas por Afonso de Taunay. Neste livro, Karina Anhezini preenche essa significativa lacuna: recupera aquela documentação, localiza e critica os usos dados das informações e nos oferece uma obra abran...

A modern classic: Don Watson’s history of Australia for children of the twenty-first century History told so well it gives us a better idea of who we are – and what we might become. The Story of Australia weaves together the many strands of our nation’s past – ancient and indigenous, colonial and contemporary – to c...

維吉尼亞‧霍爾 一位現代間諜史上被低估的傳奇人物 改寫並顛覆人們對「戰爭」的定義 她是謎樣般低調的終極情報員，超前時代的女性！ 蓋世太保眼中最難對付的間諜，神秘的「跛腿女士」( ""the limping lady"" ) 一位看似無足輕重的女人，卻扭轉了二戰的歷史潮流 §ーーーー§ 比好萊塢電影更刺激的真實人生！ 二〇二〇年十月．繁中版傳奇上市．英...

〓 Unlock the timeless wisdom of Seneca in "Letters from a Stoic," a collection of profound insights and practical advice that transcends the ages. 〓 This classic work offers a deep dive into the Stoic philosophy, providing readers with a guide to living a balanced, meaningful, and fulfilling life. 〓✨ 〓♂️ From m...

Why are some things cute, and others not? What happens to our brains when we see something cute? And how did cuteness go global, from Hello Kitty to Disney characters? Cuteness is an area where culture and biology get tangled up. Seeing a cute animal triggers some of the most powerful psychological instincts we have...

Source de multiples passions, de conflits géopolitiques et d'enjeux économiques... Voici l'histoire méconnue de la route la plus importante du monde. Aujourd'hui, le canal de Suez est indispensable. Il suffit de s'intéresser aux conséquences de l'échouage du porte-conteneurs qui en a bloqué la navigation en mars 202...

A bold reassessment of what caused the Late Bronze Age collapse In 1177 B.C., marauding groups known only as the "Sea Peoples" invaded Egypt. The pharaoh's army and navy managed to defeat them, but the victory so weakened Egypt that it soon slid into decline, as did most of the surrounding civilizations. After centu...

Mining finance houses were substantial public corporations with access to money markets in the City of London, the world’s leading capital market for mining. These institutions became dominant at the inception of colonial rule and, in varying forms, remained so throughout the twentieth century. Drawing on a rich cor...

This open access book addresses a question fundamental to the histories of empire and Africa: at the point of the colonial encounter, how was knowledge made? How did different communities, with little or no prior contact, construct meaning about one another? Amidst huge changes in the politics and economics of a con...

Weaving a critique of major power intervention into political history, this book provides a comprehensive overview of Cambodia from 1953 to the present. Since gaining its independence in 1953, Cambodia has been treated as a pawn by more powerful countries. China, Vietnam, the United Nations, and especially the Unite...

Despite the progress made by psychoanalysis since Freud’s discovery of the sexual nature of the unconscious, analysts have tended to explore psychical causality independently of the role of the biological factors at play in sexuality. What Can We Know About Sex? explains how Lacan’s work allows us to make new links ...

Das Handbuch bietet eine anhand von 6 Paradigmen entfaltete Darstellung deutschsprachig-jüdischer Literatur seit der Aufklärung. Ausgangspunkt ist die These, dass jüdisches Denken und deutschsprachig-jüdische Literatur nicht primär assimilatorisch an literarischen und wissenschaftlichen Entwicklungen im deutschsprac...

Contemporary Queer Modernism offers a fresh, interdisciplinary approach to the study of the intersections of queer studies and modernist studies. The theoretical expansiveness and mutual overlapping of these still-growing fields is both introduced and complicated in the pages of this volume. Presenting a wide range ...

The essential resource on military and political strategy and the making of the modern world The New Makers of Modern Strategy is the next generation of the definitive work on strategy and the key figures who have shaped the theory and practice of war and statecraft throughout the centuries. Featuring entirely new e...

This short book follows the history of city design and development from the late Neolithic through to the early Iron Age. It is the first book in a series that charts the history of how our ancestors built their urban environments.

This book records the years of Morley Nkosi’s exile from Apartheid South Africa, most of which he spent as an academic in the United States. It is also the story of his life until that forced departure, chronicling the trials, joys, and hopes of a young man born and raised in colonial and Apartheid South Africa. In ...