Featuring over 450 archival photographs and line drawings, Chinese Dress traces the evolution of Chinese clothing from court and formal costumes to the fashions of modern China. A comprehensive and sumptuously illustrated book, Chinese Dress is the essential reference for costume historians, fashion designers and co...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Merriam Press World War 2 In Review. The following articles on the German Heinkel He 111 bomber of World War II are in this issue: (1) German Heinkel He 111 Medium Bomber (2) Flying the Heinkel He 111. Perhaps the best-recognized German bomber due to the distinctive, extensively glazed “greenhouse” nose of later ver...

This book presents an innovative African philosophical response to coloniality and the attendant epistemicide of Africa’s knowledge systems, drawing on Igbo thinking. This book argues that theorizing modernity requires a critical conversation between African and Western scholarship, in order to unpack its links with...

Embark on an awe-inspiring journey through the mystical realms of Ancient Egypt with "Pyramids of the Pharaohs".This wonderful book encourages you to go into a realm where time stands still and behold the grandeur of Egypt's breathtaking pyramids, enticing temples, and enigmatic tombs. What sets this book distinct i...

民族的界限竟是如此模糊、飄忽，超乎想像的善變！ 中央吞噬地方，還是地方反噬中央？ 帝國擴張帶來的也許並非壯大國家的福音，而是對自身定義的挑戰。 日本知名學者小熊英二，透過「檢證近代日本對沖繩、愛努、台灣、朝鮮為主的『政策論述』」，試圖探詢「『日本人』的界限如何被設定」，質問曖昧難釐清的民族與國家界限，直探文化最核心、地...

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 aims to provide an overview of state-of-the-art approaches to 3D documentation from a practical perspective and formulate the most important areas for future developments. Bringing together a wide range of case studies, examples of best practice approaches, workflows, and first attempts to esta...

Merriam Press World War 2 In Review series 2023 eBook Edition This issue presents four articles on these French tanks that saw service prior to and during World War II: (1) Char B1 heavy tank manufactured before World War II (2) Char D1 was a pre-World War II French infantry tank (3) Char D2 was an upgraded version ...

1949年遺留的戰爭，原來從未結束？ 探詢美中角力、區域衝突的第一線， 思索台灣最熟悉的陌生人，經歷巨幅震盪的邊界。 「如果台灣不要我們，我們又不想當中國人怎麼辦？」 探索海與海之間複雜、糾纏的歷史，直面島嶼現況。 上一次台澎與金馬被劃為同一國國土的時候，或許是出於戰亂中的偶然與意外；但自21世紀的20年始，這一由台澎金馬組成的...

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...