The Falklands War, which erupted in 1982, was a conflict between the United Kingdom and the Republic of Argentina over sovereignty of the Falklands, a group of largely uninhabited islands in the South Atlantic. The islands had under two thousand inhabitants and little particular strategic or commercial importance wh...

The American Civil War was a long and bloody conflict whose effects are still felt today in the United States. The descendants of the men who fought in the war continue to pay the fallen their respects and remember the events of the war, the various battles, and the personalities of the many leaders involved. One of...

'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...

"[The] definitive history of the U.S. Navy SEALs and their forefathers" (Master Chief Bill Bruhmuller (USN, Ret.), founding member of SEAL Team two). Written with the unprecedented cooperation of the Naval Special Warfare community, this vivid and definitive history of the U.S. Navy SEALs reveals the inside story be...

This book explores the intricate connections between the body and narrative across the early modern world. It examines how bodily aspects shaped the creation of stories and vice versa. The writing, telling, or interpreting of a story is inherently tied to corporeal acts and is, to varying degrees, shaped by them. Li...

〓 "Justice is the end of government. It is the end of civil society." 〓 The Federalist Papers is one of the most influential works of political thought ever writtenーa collection of 85 essays composed by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay to defend and explain the principles of the United States Const...

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...

《南薫殿歷代帝后圖像》歷朝皆藏於宮中，所繪歷代帝后朝服像，無論立像、坐像、半身像，在形貌、服飾的配件，或龍椅、地毯等紋飾等，描繪真實，筆法工整精細，設色富麗，具有極高的藝術造詣，更是研究歷史與服飾史珍貴的圖像資料。

《明清社会史论》是何炳棣先生探索明明五百多年间中国社会组成及阶层流动的历史巨著。何炳棣先生大量运用明清两代近百种科举史料，以计量法统计附有三代履历的明清进士登科录及会试、乡试同年齿录等关键性科举史料，分析进士及举贡约四万个案例，并运用社会分层化和社会流动理论，解释明清科举制度与中国社会身份意识的紧密联系。何炳棣先生...

The Renaissance is one of the most studied and celebrated eras of history. Spanning the end of the Middle Ages to the beginning of modernity, it has come to symbolise the transformative rebirth of knowledge, art, culture and political thought in Europe. And for the last two hundred years, historians have struggled t...

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...

Thanks to modern technology, we are now living in an age of multiplatform fictional worlds, as television, film, the Internet, graphic novels, toys and more facilitate the creation of diverse yet compact imaginary universes, which are often recognisable as brands and exhibit well-defined identities. This volume, sit...

We've all had the experience of watching a film and feeling like we've been in a trance. This book takes that experience seriously, explaining cinema as a cultural technique of trance, one that unconsciously transforms our perceptions. Ute Holl moves from anthropological and experimental cinema through nineteenth-ce...

Through fifteen essays that work from a rich array of primary sources, this collection makes the novel claim that early modern European women, like men, had a youth. European culture recognised that, between childhood and full adulthood, early modern women experienced distinctive physiological, social, and psycholog...

Taking up the challenges of the datafication of culture, as well as of the scholarship of cultural inquiry itself, this collection contributes to the critical debate about data and algorithms. How can we understand the quality and significance of current socio-technical transformations that result from datafication ...