Credo che queste due storie abbiano la loro ragione di esistere perché il punto di vista più diffuso sulla seconda guerra mondiale continua a essere quello - o quelli - ufficiale. Nonostante in tutto il mondo siano alla portata di chiunque canali culturali, storici, di informazione in tutte le lingue e di ogni tende...

當西歐的民族主義浪潮席捲而至，被消失的恐懼迫使他們拔竿而起， 但即便都是被壓迫的弱小族群，為何彼此之間的衝突卻難以止歇？ 1780年，哈布斯堡帝國君主約瑟夫二世發布飭令、決心建立以徳語為主的現代化帝國，他始終沒有料想到這個毫無民族意識的政策，卻意外點燃民族主義的戰場，破碎了帝國疆土、撕裂了團結意識，多元民族便在殘敗的帝國...

This book sheds new light on the fascinating – at times dark and at times hopeful – reception of classical Yoga philosophies in Germany during the nineteenth century. When debates over God, religion, and morality were at a boiling point in Europe, Sanskrit translations of classical Indian thought became available fo...

Mind Museums offers a fresh perspective on the heritage of mental health, bringing museums into sharp focus. Drawing on interdisciplinary approaches from architecture, museum and exhibition design, and heritage and museum studies, it examines former psychiatric asylums that have been converted into museums. The book...

The book is about some students from a University who go to uncover a tomb and what they discover would change the worlds history forever.

A bold, restorative vision of Mozart's works, and Western art music generally, as manifestations of an idealism rooted in the sociable nature of humans. For over a generation now, many leading performers, critics, and scholars of Mozart's music have taken a rejection of transcendence as axiomatic. This essentially m...

Discovered in the attic in which she spent the last years of her life, Anne Frank’s remarkable diary has become a world classicーa powerful reminder of the horrors of war and an eloquent testament to the human spirit. In 1942, with the Nazis occupying Holland, a thirteen-year-old Jewish girl and her family fled thei...

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This book is a collection of essays in Indonesian history and archaeology dealing with different and multiple trajectories, along four broad themes. The first part of the book covers competing or evolving representations of events, customs or traditions, and historical personae in Indonesian official and popular exp...

This book explores the literary culture of Britain's radical press from 1880 to 1910, a time that saw a flourishing of radical political activity as well as the emergence of a mass print industry. While Enlightenment radicals and their heirs had seen free print as an agent of revolutionary transformation, socialist,...

A revelatory exploration of how today’s right-wing authoritarianism emerged not in opposition to neoliberalism, but from within it Bracingly original... Hayek’s Bastards demonstrates how a history of ideas can be riveting. Slobodian grounds intellectual abstractions in the lives of the people who espoused them... Hi...

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...

The Écrits was Jacques Lacan’s single most important text, a landmark in psychoanalysis which epitomized his aim of returning to Freud via structural linguistics, philosophy and literature. Reading Lacan’s Écrits is the first extensive set of commentaries on the complete edition of Lacan’s Écrits to be published in ...

Die weltweite Bedrohung durch religiös motivierten Terrorismus und Gewalt scheint größer zu sein als je zuvor. Kann es sein, dass das radikale Antlitz des Islamismus nicht so sehr die Eigenheit einer bestimmten Religion ist, sondern auf eine Gemeinsamkeit aller monotheistischen Varianten verweist? Der Ägyptologe und...

了解臺灣的歷史，必須「從頭講起」，從頭了解起，我們的視野拉長、拉廣了，然後當我們回頭看這個島嶼的歷史，才能更真切地感受到它的獨特，進而珍惜它的多樣性。 　　歷史需要的不是記誦，而是思考和理解。記誦的歷史，考完就忘記了，自己思考和理解過的歷史，成為你對過去的認識，也會幫助你了解現在、面對未來。 ーー作者 周婉窈 　　歷史...

The second edition of a comprehensive account of all the major aspects of the Japanese economy, substantially updated and expanded. This textbook offers a comprehensive, rigorous but accessible account of all the major aspects of the Japanese economy, grounding its approach in mainstream economics. The second editio...