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Lutheran Theology and Contract Law in Early Modern Germany (ca. 1520-1720)

It is clear that the Lutheran Reformation greatly contributed to changes in theological and legal ideas - but what was the extent of its ...

On the Social History of Persecution

This multi-disciplinary volume is one of the few collections about social change covering various cases of mass violence and genocide. In...

The Sacred Books Of The East - Vol. XVII

The Sacred Books Of The East - Vol. XVII is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1882. Hansebooks is editor of t...

Life Course, Work, and Labour in Global History

This multidisciplinary volume offers unique perspectives, across the globe and throughout the centuries, on the complexity of the nexus b...

Foreign Bodies - Pandemics, Vaccines and the Health of Nations

A new and vibrant cultural history, investigating the tangled and complex history of pandemics and vaccines, by bestselling author and hi...

Gender and Protest - On the Historical and Contemporary Interrelation of Two Social Phenomena

For centuries women and other "gendered minorities" had to protest to gain equality. Their demands were often matched by counter-protest ...

Sino-Japanese Reflections - Literary and Cultural Interactions between China and Japan in Early Modernity

Sino-Japanese Reflections offers ten richly detailed case studies that examine various forms of cultural and literary interaction between...

Sino-British Negotiations and the Search for a Post-War Settlement, 1942¿1949 - Treaties, Hong Kong, and Tibet

The book is a systematic study of the China-Britain relationship during the 1942¿1949 period with a particular focus on the two countries...

The Politics of Historical Memory and Commemoration in Africa

Essays in Memory of Jan-Georg Deutsch The volume observes some of the principles that drove Prof. Jan-Georg Deutsch's research: highlight...

Banished - Traveling the Roads of Exile in Nineteenth-Century Europe

This book aims to study the departure and reception of refugees in 19th-century Europe, from the Congress of Vienna to the 1870-1880s. Th...

China and Ashkenazic Jewry: Transcultural Encounters

In the past thirty years, the Sino-Jewish encounter in modern China has increasingly garnered scholarly and popular attention. This volum...

COROT

COROT By Sidney Allnutt A short introduction to the art and life of Jean Baptiste Camille Corot (1796-1875), the French 19th century mast...

Dual Wield - The Interplay of Poetry and Video Games

In recent years, poetry and video games have begun talking to ¿ and taking from ¿ one another in earnest. Poets, ever in pursuit of meani...

Vol. 17: Castro Marim: Where Sin Became Salt in Portugal's Algarve, 1450-1836

Castro Marim, in SE Portugal, was a site of internal exile for several thousand minor sinners and convicts from the 1400s until the 1830s...

Populism and Social Cohesion in Southern Africa: Insights from Scholars and Practitioners

Comparativ. Zeitschrift für Globalgeschichte und vergleichende Gesellschaftsforschung rückt Themen einer innovativen Weltgeschichte in de...

Österreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaften 34/2/2023 - Work Semantics / Semantiken der Arbeit

In welchem Verhältnis steht die Sprache zum Sozialen? Wie erfassen Historiker*innen die sozialen Dimensionen hinter den semantischen Ausd...

Women in Historical and Archaeological Video Games

This volume focuses on the depiction of women in video games set in historical periods or archaeological contexts, explores the tension b...

(Not) In the Game - History, Paratexts, and Games

How do games represent history, and how do we make sense of the history of games? The industry regularly uses history to sell products, w...

Timelines of World History

A stunning visual celebration of the world's key historical events, key moments, defining eras and outstanding people who have helped sha...

Children and Youth at Risk in Times of Transition - International and Interdisciplinary Perspectives

Children and youth belong to one of the most vulnerable groups in societies. This was the case even before the current humanitarian crise...

The Christian Mystery - Early Christianity and the Ancient Mystery Cults in the Work of Franz Cumont and in the History of Scholarship

This volume examines the way the Belgian historian of religions Franz Cumont (1868-1947) and his contemporaries conceived of early Christ...

Chronologics - Periodisation in a Global Context

Many contemporary periodisation schemes have their roots in Europe, reflecting particular national religious or historiographical traditi...

Dramatic Wardrobes - The Dynamics of Clothing in Mystical Visions and Religious Plays

Drawing together well-known and less familiar works from English and German writers, and focusing on references to clothing, Dutton and K...

London, J: PEOPLE OF THE ABYSS

Busy Tenants - Peasant Land Markets in Central Europe (15th to 16th Century)

Pre-modern commercialisation and a long-term decrease in transaction costs are not only mirrored in the expansion of goods markets but no...

Hansische Geschichtsblätter - Hanseatic History Review

Die Hansischen Geschichtsblätter sind die wissenschaftliche Zeitschrift des Hansischen Geschichtsvereins. Die Zeitschrift erscheint seit ...

Greek and Roman Mythology

Greek and Roman Mythology is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1897. Hansebooks is editor of the literature o...

Digital History - Konzepte, Methoden und Kritiken Digitaler Geschichtswissenschaft

Die historische Forschung und Lehre haben sich in den letzten Jahrzehnten tiefgreifend verändert durch die Digitalisierung von Quellen, M...

On Shibboleths

On Shibboleths is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1892. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different...

Roads not Taken - Or: Things Could Have Turned Out Differently

"It could have turned out differently" - from this perspective, the volume looks at fourteen caesuras in German history between 1848 and ...

Scandinavia since 1500

An updated edition of the definitive history of Scandinavia over the past five centuries Despite certain distinctions and differences, th...

History, Politics and Theory in the Great Divergence Debate - A Comparative Analysis of the California School, World Systems Analysis and Marxism

World history suffers from a paucity of clearly articulated, convincing explanations. While the rise of postmodernism and challenges to E...

Die Krupps im Orient - Eine Luxusreise im Jahre 1926

voraussichtlicher Auslieferungstermin: 28. Juni 2021 . Als Alfred Krupp 1871 darüber nachdachte, was mit all dem geschehen sollte, was si...

Between the Great Show of the Party-State and Religious Counter-Cultures. Zwischen partei-staatlicher Selbstinszenierung und kirchlichen Gegenwelten - Public Spheres in Soviet-Type Societies. Sphären von Öffentlichkeit in Gesellschaften sowjetischen Typs

Der Band versammelt Beiträge zu vielfältigen Erscheinungsformen von Öffentlichkeit in Gesellschaften sowjetischen Typs. Die Tragfähigkeit...

Mussolini in Myth and Memory - The First Totalitarian Dictator

Mussolini in myth and memory. Paul Corner looks at the brutal reality of the Italian dictator's fascist regime and confronts the nostalgi...

Disorder - Hard Times in the 21st Century

Disorder: Hard Times in the 21st Century explains the historical origins of the political shocks of the past decade: why politics has bee...

Germany - Memories of a Nation

From the Director of the British Museum and author of A History of the World in 100 Objects, this is a view of GERMANY like no other. For...

The British Army - A New Short History

The story of the British Army, from the first standing army in the seventeenth century, via the imperial army of the nineteenth century, ...

Imperial Island - A History of Empire in Modern Britain

Imperial Island shows how empire and its ever-present aftermath have divided and defined Britain over the last seventy years. 'Masterful ...

A Short History of the World in 50 Books

Discover the power of the book through fifty of the most influential texts ever written - from around the world and throughout time. Book...

Between Empires - Beyond Borders

This volume - directly connected to the exhibition entitled as Between Empires, Beyond Borders: The War and Armistice Years through the E...

Armorials in medieval manuscripts - Collections of coats of arms as means of communication and historical sources in France and the Holy Roman Empire (13th-early 16th centuries)

Armorials in medieval manuscripts have awed people for ages. Yet they have remained poorly understood. Who made and used these colorful c...

A Short History of Europe: From Charlemagne to the Treaty of Lisbon

What is Europe? First, of course, it is a continent of countless disparate peoples, races, and nations, and governed by different ideas, ...

Heiresses - The Lives of the Million Dollar Babies

Heiresses is a glorious book, endlessly entertaining and about much more than its stated subject. Thompson is a fabulous writer' Caroline...

The Middle Kingdoms - A New History of Central Europe

'Fascinating, masterful ... gems scattered throughout the book' Peter Frankopan, Spectator 'Quirkily original but also scholarly and auth...

Beatrice's Last Smile - A New History of the Middle Ages

Beatrice's Last Smile is a sweeping narrative history of the medieval west from the beginning of the third century to the beginning of th...

Victory in Europe - From D-Day to the Destruction of the Third Reich, 1944-1945

A graphic account of the storming of Hitler's 'Fortress Europe' during the final eleven months of the Second World War.

Revolutionary Biographies in the 19th and 20th Centuries - Imperial - Inter/national - Decolonial

The volume contains selected contributions to the conference "Revolutionary Biographies in the 19th and 20th Century. Imperial - Inter/na...

The History of Siemens Healthineers - Our History

In the mid-nineteenth century, when Germany was on the brink of becoming a modern industrial society, the pioneering age of medical techn...

St. John of Damascene on Holy Images, Followed by Three Sermons on the Assumption

This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowle...

Zoomland - Exploring Scale in Digital History and Humanities

Despite a variety of theoretical and practical undertakings, there is no coherent understanding of the concept of scale in digital histor...

Time - A Multidisciplinary Introduction

Time permeates language, society, and individual lives, but time eludes definition. From grand scales of geologic time to the exasperatio...

A History Of Greece, From Its Conquest By The Romans To The Present Time, B.C. 146 To A.D. 1864 (Volume Iv)

This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowle...

Albania's 90s - Photographs and Narratives. Fotografi dhe Tregime

The 1990s were an extremely turbulent time in Albanian history. The collapse of the dictatorship and the end of decades of isolation mark...

English Surnames. An Essay On Family Nomenclature, Historical, Etymological, And Humorous; With Several Illustrative Appendices - In Two Volumes - Vol. II

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. ...

The passing of the great race; or, The racial basis of European history

This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowle...

The British Garrison Berlin 1945-1994 - A Pictorial Historiography of the British Occupation

The book is a pictorial historiography of the British occupation of Berlin from 1945-1994 with insights and detailed information on the m...

War Matters - Constructing Images of the Other (1930s to 1950s)

This volume addresses questions concerning the interrelations of three important variables: war, images and the Other. The explicit stere...

Österreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaften 34/3/2023 - Motions of Knowledge - Knowledge in Motion / Bewegungen des Wissens - Wissen in Bewegung

Dieses Themenheft diskutiert die Möglichkeiten und Grenzen des Konzepts der "Wissenszirkulation" in der Geschichtswissenschaft. Die Wisse...

Lenin Lives?

A lively, accessible and wide-ranging account of one of the most influential figures of the twentieth century. Through a brief but stimul...