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...

炎熱夏天，古代女人可以穿著清涼嗎？ 明朝人竟有「男穿女裝」的叛逆潮流？ 明代衣飾和配件如何彰顯日常儀式感？ 古人婚喪嫁娶的衣著有什麼特殊規矩？ 一窺古人著裝奧祕，重溫明代衣飾風雅！ 以十二章三十個場景代入式寫法，五百多幅精美手繪圖及古畫介紹明代女性夏季著裝、男性著裝禮儀、不同身分的人正式拜訪時應穿的禮衣、出席宴會時的裝束...

Em O assassinato de uma nação: como os Estados Unidos e a OTAN destruíram a Iugoslávia, Michael Parenti descortina o programa imperialista por trás do ataque dos Estados Unidos e da OTAN ao país dos Bálcãs. Os bons contra os maus; civilização versus barbárie; cruzada humanitária para interromper um genocídio; bombar...

日治記憶對於台灣後殖民具有什麼意義？何以在日本統治結束超過半世紀之後，二十一世紀卻有許多不同族群的台灣小說家重返日治記憶，深入探索日治時期台灣人的精神面貌？不僅文學界如此，美術界與電影界也高度青睞日治記憶，例如謝里法的《紫色大稻埕》、紀錄片《緑的海平線》、劇情片《KANO》、《不一樣的月光》等。日治記憶儼然成為當代台灣...

This Element analyses the autobiographies of historians from a global perspective and looks at all eras, from antiquity to the present day. It includes twenty autobiographies: Caesar's and Lucian of Samosata's memories in antiquity; an autobiography of a medieval king such as Peter IV of Aragon; Vico's, Gibbon's and...

Die Phönizier bildeten eine der Hochkulturen des Vorderen Orients und waren ein wirkungsmächtiger Faktor der Geschichte des antiken Mittelmeerraums. Der Band bietet einen anschaulichen Überblick über ihre Religion, ihr Wirtschaftsleben und insbesondere ihre weitreichenden Handelsbeziehungen sowie ihre politische Ges...

In this powerful memoir, Charles Dew, one of America’s most respected historians of the South--and particularly its history of slavery--turns the focus on his own life, which began not in the halls of enlightenment but in a society unequivocally committed to segregation. Dew re-creates the midcentury American South ...

In an era marked by atrocities perpetrated on a grand scale, the tragedy of the so-called comfort womenーmostly Korean women forced into prostitution by the Japanese armyーendures as one of the darkest events of World War II. These women have usually been labeled victims of a war crime, a simplistic view that makes ...

This volume introduces a new concept that boldly breaks through the traditional dichotomy of high and low culture while offering a fresh approach to both: unpopular culture. From the works of David Foster Wallace and Ernest Hemingway to fanfiction and The Simpsons, from natural disasters to 9/11 and beyond, the essa...

In state formation research, princely houses have been a blind spot. The development of states has been discussed from many perspectives, like interstate competition, internal social conflicts, fiscal-military developments, etc., but at the centre of most European states, there was a princely house. These ruling hou...

Fighting for a Living investigates the circumstances that have produced starkly different systems of recruiting and employing soldiers in different parts of the globe over the last 500 years. It does so on the basis of a wide range of case studies taken from Europe, Africa, America, the Middle East and Asia. The nov...

After Germany invaded the Soviet Union in 1941, the Soviet secret police, the NKVD, executed a staggering number of political prisoners in Western Ukraine-somewhere between 10,000 and 40,000-in the space of eight days, in one of the greatest atrocities perpetrated by the Soviet state. Yet the Great West Ukrainian Pr...

#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...

Far from the image of an apolitical, “clean” Wehrmacht that persists in popular memory, German soldiers regularly cooperated with organizations like the SS in the abuse and murder of countless individuals during the Second World War. This in-depth study demonstrates that a key factor in the criminalization of the We...

This volume presents a comparative analysis of three key citiesーHong Kong, Singapore, and Taipeiーduring the Cold War. Strategically positioned within international trade networks, these cities also served as critical nodes for both regional conflicts and cooperation. The comparison primarily focuses on their urban...

Established in 1935, the International Institute of Social History (IISH) is one of the world’s leading research institutes focused on social history and holds one of the richest collections in the field. This volume brings together thirty-five essays in honor of the IISH’s longtime director Jaap Kloosterman, who bu...