All Frenchmen know you have to become civilised between eighteen and twenty-three and that civilisation comes upon you by contact with an older woman, by revolution, by army discipline, by any escape or any subjection, and then you are civilised and...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 15-Apr-2025, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9780691238425)
A haunting image of an unnamed Native child and a recovered story of the American WestIn 1868, celebrated Civil War photographer Alexander Gardner traveled to Fort Laramie to document the federal governments treaty negotiations with the Lakota and o...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 15-Apr-2025, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9780691238425)
A haunting image of an unnamed Native child and a recovered story of the American WestIn 1868, celebrated Civil War photographer Alexander Gardner traveled to Fort Laramie to document the federal governments treaty negotiations with the Lakota and o...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 31-Mar-2025, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: Edinburgh University Press, ISBN-13: 9781399537766)
This is the first systematic exploration of the diversity of utopian thought and practice in the modern Middle East and North Africa. Beyond intellectual debates, utopianism has infused the many ideologies that have shaped contentious politics and go...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 31-Mar-2025, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: Edinburgh University Press, ISBN-13: 9781399538725)
Toward the end of the nineteenth century much of Irans architectural heritage gave way to urban development. Among the casualties were the seventeenth-century Safavid palaces of Isfahan. Local dealers salvaged a series of astonishingly beautiful pi...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 31-Mar-2025, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: Edinburgh University Press, ISBN-13: 9781399538718)
Toward the end of the nineteenth century much of Irans architectural heritage gave way to urban development. Among the casualties were the seventeenth-century Safavid palaces of Isfahan. Local dealers salvaged a series of astonishingly beautiful pi...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 31-Mar-2025, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: Edinburgh University Press, ISBN-13: 9781399544269)
This collection of original chapters in honour of the distinguished historian Ervand Abrahamian addresses hitherto understudied topics in Iranian political, social, and cultural history from the early twentieth century to the present. The sixteen cha...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 31-Mar-2025, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: Edinburgh University Press, ISBN-13: 9781399537759)
This is the first systematic exploration of the diversity of utopian thought and practice in the modern Middle East and North Africa. Beyond intellectual debates, utopianism has infused the many ideologies that have shaped contentious politics and go...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 31-Mar-2025, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: Edinburgh University Press, ISBN-13: 9781399544276)
This collection of original chapters in honour of the distinguished historian Ervand Abrahamian addresses hitherto understudied topics in Iranian political, social, and cultural history from the early twentieth century to the present. The sixteen cha...Lasīt vairāk
Fabrizio Baldassarri, Dario Brancato, Iolanda Ventura, Luca Ciancio, Maria M. Carrion, Violeta Ruiz Espigares, Anna Lillie1 Svensson
(Izdošanas datums: 11-Mar-2025, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: Amsterdam University Press, ISBN-13: 9789048555963)
This volume aims to uncover the diverse approach to plants in the Renaissance and seventeenth century that paved the way for a definition of botany as a fully-fledged discipline. Its scope expands beyond the natural historical interest in collections...Lasīt vairāk
The never-before-told story of the epic battle of wills between Andrew Mellon and Winston Churchill, as they debated the repayment of the enormous sums loaned by America to Great Britain during World War I.Andrew Mellon, one of the most accomplished...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 04-Mar-2025, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: Open Road Media, ISBN-13: 9798337200286)
The author of The Way of the Gladiator turns from the arenas of ancient Rome to the center of debauchery and impiety in eighteenth-century England. “Stranger, refuse, if you can, what we have to offer.” These words, engraved in Latin, wel...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 28-Feb-2025, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: Edinburgh University Press, ISBN-13: 9781399533188)
This book explores serious criminality in Scotland between 1660 and c.1700. Through in-depth analysis of the records of the Justiciary Court, Scotlands central criminal jurisdiction, it reconstructs the meaning of crime as understood by seventeent...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 28-Feb-2025, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: Edinburgh University Press, ISBN-13: 9781399533195)
This book explores serious criminality in Scotland between 1660 and c.1700. Through in-depth analysis of the records of the Justiciary Court, Scotlands central criminal jurisdiction, it reconstructs the meaning of crime as understood by seventeent...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 28-Feb-2025, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: Edinburgh University Press, ISBN-13: 9781474489621)
Irans nationalisation of oil in 1951 was a key catalyst for the rise of resource nationalism as an animating force of global decolonisation, expelling the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (AIOC, now known as BP) after nearly fifty years of domination in so...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 26-Feb-2025, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: Taylor & Francis, ISBN-13: 9781040317617)
The book probes the lesser-known history of the Great Wars in the India-Myanmar borderland from the perspective of the indigenous people of the area. It critically studies how the indigenous hill people saw the Wars as an opportunity to defend their...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 26-Feb-2025, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: Taylor & Francis, ISBN-13: 9781040317556)
The book probes the lesser-known history of the Great Wars in the India-Myanmar borderland from the perspective of the indigenous people of the area. It critically studies how the indigenous hill people saw the Wars as an opportunity to defend their...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 25-Feb-2025, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9780691252575)
A provocative new theory of ;the economy, its history, and its politics that better unites history and economics What is the economy, really? Is it a ;market sector, a ;general equilibrium, or the ;gross domestic product? Economics today has...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 25-Feb-2025, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9780691252575)
A provocative new theory of ;the economy, its history, and its politics that better unites history and economics What is the economy, really? Is it a ;market sector, a ;general equilibrium, or the ;gross domestic product? Economics today has...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 25-Feb-2025, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: Taylor & Francis, ISBN-13: 9781040318980)
This book presents a multidimensional approach to understanding the effects of COVID-19 on the lifeworld of the marginalised communities in India. The essays in the volume pursue two interrelated concerns: First, they examine the governance aspect, h...Lasīt vairāk
