Images of Change focuses on the visual propaganda employed by Catholic popes in Rome during the time of Tridentine Reform. In 1563, at the Council of Trent, the Catholic Church decided to reform its own use of imagery, in response to Protestant criticism. This volume examines how different sixteenth-century popes de...

Decolonizing 1968 explores how activists in 1968 transformed university campuses across Europe and North Africa into sites of contestation where students, administrators, and state officials collided over definitions of modernity and nationhood after empire. Burleigh Hendrickson details protesters' versions of event...

This volume presents the first extensive census of the surviving copies of the treatise Historia Naturalis Brasiliae in libraries worldwide and examines the book from a variety of interdisciplinary viewpoints. The chapters in this volume are written by scholars from different fields of knowledge, including anthropol...

This is a free and short ebook which covers different range of targeting, and covert operations. Historical information from the past and current period of various forms of operations which were conducted by the shadow government, certain compartments of intelligence agencies and secret organizations.

This is a reflective history book about the standards, scholarship and conduct of American soldiers during the First World War. The author, Frederick P. Keppel, was the third assistant secretary of war. The book looks particularly at soldiers' use of intoxicants including alcohol, their sexual conduct and other issu...

This book reviews the development and performance of the global film industry during the COVID-19 pandemic and examines new trends in film production, distribution and consumption through a global lens. The COVID-19 pandemic has had a substantial impact on the global film industry since the beginning of 2020. There ...

The Routledge Handbook of Chinese Medicine is an extensive, interdisciplinary guide to the nature of traditional medicine and healing in the Chinese cultural region, and its plural epistemologies. Established experts and the next generation of scholars interpret the ways in which Chinese medicine has been understood...

Winner of the 2023 Arline Custer Memorial Award presented by the Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference As America's first professional female architect, Louise Blanchard Bethune broke barriers in a male-dominated profession that was emerging as a vital force in a rapidly growing nation during the Gilded Age. Yet...

What happens when religious sites, objects and practices become cultural heritage? What are ーreligious or secularーsources of expertise and authority that validate and regulate heritage sites, objects and practices? As cultural heritage becomes an increasingly popular and influential frame, these questions arise in...

Fanny Kelly's 'The Narrative of My Captivity Among the Sioux Indians' is a compelling and harrowing account of her experiences as a captive of the Sioux tribe in the mid-19th century. Written in a straightforward and descriptive style, the book provides vivid details of the hardships and dangers faced by Kelly durin...

Jews and Science examines the complicated relationship between Jewish identities and the evolving meanings of science throughout the history of Western academic culture. Jews have been not only the agents for study of things Jewish, but also the subject of examination by “scientists” across a range of disciplines, f...

Ecclesiastical History of England is a five-volume work on the history of Christianity and the church in England, covering a period from the opening of the Long Parliament to the death of Oliver Cromwell. Table of Contents: Volume 1 - The Church of the Civil Wars Volume 2 - The Church of the Commonwealth Volume 3 - ...

In this masterful history, Eli Zaretsky reveals the power of Freudian thought to illuminate the great political conflicts of the twentieth century. Developing an original concept of "political Freudianism," he shows how twentieth-century radicals, activists, and intellectuals used psychoanalytic ideas to probe consu...

公視年度時代生活劇《茶金》的靈感原型！ 一本充滿恩怨情仇的茶商家族回憶錄， 一部記錄真人實事的臺灣地方發展史！ 從日治時期到1980年代，一個跌宕起伏的客家望族故事， 主人翁姜阿新縱横商場，經營茶業、林業、糖廠、運輸、食品事業， 反映了臺灣經濟起飛前後的政經、文化、人性現象……， 家族親友間的聚散離合更印證世間的悲歡紛擾皆平常...

Nanetti outlines a methodology for deploying artificial intelligence and machine learning to enhance historical research. Historical events are the treasure of human experiences, the heritage that societies have used to remain resilient and express their identities. Nanetti has created and developed an interdiscipli...

Get your fill of the freshest recipes with this free e-book sampler - a sneak peak of 5 recipes from Mob Kitchen's newest addition Fresh Mob. FRESH MOB highlights healthy yet satisfyingly nourishing recipes - invigorating textures and zingy flavours to put you in the mood for everyday food. Feed your friends, feed a...