Europe's relationship with culture, even at the most basic level, dates back to at least 20,000 BCE. The Venus of Willedorf and the cave paintings of Altamira and Lascaux are examples of the presence of civilization in Europe thousands of years ago. By 5000 BC, evidence proves that areas of Europe had begun to show ...

Winner, 2025 Outstanding Book Award, International Communication Association Co-Winner, 2025 Best Book Award from the Philosophy, Theory, and Critique Division of the International Communication Association Why is being a victim such a potent identity today? Who claims to be a victim, and why? How have such claims c...

Studies in the Historical Jesus: Anarchy, Miracles, and Madness is a selection of key essays on the historical figure of Jesus published over the last fifteen years by Justin J. Meggitt. Each addresses a central question in the study of Jesus and his context, from the role of myth in the creation of traditions about...

◆中央研究院臺灣史研究所翁佳音副研究員審訂 ◆前臺灣博物館館長陳濟民專文推薦 ◆李乾朗、胡台麗、南方朔、莊永明、陳其南、吳密察、孫大川等三十位重量級學者專家，一致推薦！ 台灣最古老的新聞通訊社，跨越六百萬年的史料首度面市！ 早在六百萬前年台灣島初形成之際，一個神祕的「台灣史新聞通訊社」就已然存在。他們的宗旨是：「任何不可能...

Gabriel Seailles remarked that Lachelier had the happy for tune "of exercising a profound and decisive influence upon all who heard him, yet without acquiring perhaps a single disciple in the narrow sense of the word. He liberated minds. He rid them of 1 ready-made ideas. " This liberating influence was exercised by...

In Revelation the Fair God, Pierre-Louis Ours provides a layman's fresh look at Jesus' epistles as revealed to John on Patmos Island. The first part of the book is a candid assessment of the twenty-first century Church. In the second part, using his extensive international experience, the author leads the reader thr...

This open access book takes the biographical case of German feminist Käthe Schirmacher (1865–1930), a multilingual translator, widely travelled writer of fiction and non-fiction, and a disputatious activist to examine the travel and translation of ideas between the women’s movements that emerged in many countries in...

Truly an example of engineering ingenuity born out of the desperation of war, the legendary 'all-wooden' Mosquito was perhaps the best twin-engined fighter-bomber of its size to see action in World War 2. The first bomber variant to enter service was the B Mk IV, initial examples of which were issued to No 2 Group's...

This Open Access book carefully examines the legal and historical bases of the territory of Japan as a modern State from the Meiji period to 2002. A new preface summarizes key developments in the situation up through 2022. Japan’s current territory is stipulated by the Potsdam Declaration (1945) and the Treaty of Pe...

Poland, the epicentre of the Holocaust, began denying responsibility as soon as the Nazi atrocities ended. The nation's distortion of history continues today - with disturbing consequences. "Holocaust denial has now been replaced by a much more dangerous and insidious foe."ーJan Grabowski Poland is the place where t...

For a relatively short war, the Crimean War holds an important place in history. Finally, a resource that provides a historical overview of the war from a number of different angles including, the causes, the motivations, the course, and the consequences. This volume fully explores the: o Main engagements o Principa...

This open access book investigates how representation of Native Americans and Mexican-origin im/migrants takes place in high school history textbooks. Manually analyzing text and images in United States textbooks from the 1950s to 2022, the book documents stories of White victory and domination over Black, Indigenou...

This open access book offers an entangled history of hygiene by showing how knowledge of purity, health and cleanliness was shaped by evangelical medical missionaries and their encounters with people in West Africa. By tracing the interactions and negotiations of six Basel Mission doctors, who practised on the Gold ...

This Open Access book uses Mary Kaldor’s concept of “New Wars” to explore how ethnic conflict reshaped the social and environmental landscape of the Southern Caucuses following the collapse of the Soviet Union. It relies on remote sensing data and qualitative historical research to explore how armed conflict between...

Featuring photography and colour profiles throughout, a history of the bomber that shaped the Pacific War. The ultimate piston-engined heavy bomber of World War 2, the first production B-29s were delivered to the 58th Very Heavy Bomb Wing in the autumn of 1943. By the spring of 1944 the Superfortress was bombing tar...

The ancient traditions of Japan hold profound lessons that continue to shape its culture today. This comprehensive work delves deeply into the folklore that has informed Japanese spirituality, values, and way of life for centuries. Within these pages, you will encounter a pantheon of kami spirits, shape-shifting fox...