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World Heritage Patinas - Actions, Alerts and Risks

This book presents studies on the management of the Brazilian world heritage and its international counterparts, relating its preservatio...

Medicine, Magic and Art in Early Modern Norway - Conceptualizing Knowledge

This book addresses magical ideas and practices in early modern Norway. It examines a large corpus of Norwegian manuscripts from 1650-185...

Max Schmeling and the Making of a National Hero in Twentieth-Century Germany

This book presents the first in-depth study of the German boxer Max Schmeling (1905-2005) as a national hero and representative figure in...

Neue Städte - Vom Projekt der Moderne zur Authentisierung

Neue Städte: Materialisierungen ihrer Zeit an einem konkreten Ort. Neue Städte sind Ausdruck einer Utopie: Mit ihnen sollte die Wohnungsn...

Interweaving Histories - Itineraries between Switzerland and India (1900-1950)

By looking at the itineraries of specific individual Indian and Swiss actors going back and forth between India and Switzerland during th...

King Solomon's mines

"Out of the dark we came, into the dark we go. Like a storm-driven bird at night we fly out of the Nowhere; for a moment our wings are se...

Against the Current - The Omaha. Francis La Flesche and His Collection

Francis La Flesche (1857-1932) lived between two worlds: as an Umonhon (Omaha), he fought for their rights, and as a scholar he researche...

Defying Hitler

The Prophet Motive-Israel Today and Tomorrow

Courtly Gifts and Cultural Diplomacy - Art, Material Culture, and British-Russian Relations

"Courtly Gifts and Cultural Diplomacy" explores the history of British-Russian state relations from the perspective of art and material c...

Vol. 15: Asymmetrical Dependencies in the Making of a Global Commodity: Coffee in the Longue Durée

The present-day patterns of coffee production and consumption are rooted in the legacies of colonialism and slavery, but surprisingly the...

American capitalism

Shaping the Profession - Towards a Genealogy of Professional Ethics

The figure of the "professional" looms large in our contemporary society as an ideal for economic activity and socio-political inclusion,...

History and Society during the Mamluk Period (1250-1517) - Studies of the Annemarie Schimmel Institute for Advanced Study III

This volume is a collection of research essays submitted by fellows of the Annemarie Schimmel Kolleg, an Advanced Center of Research in M...

Multitribal Indians In Search of No Man's Land - The American Expansion and the Chickamaugans between Resistance and Migration

During the American westward expansion, Chickamaugans, originally Cherokees, prioritized resistance to the U.S. government and Euro-Ameri...

The coercive state (the decline of democrycy in Britain)

A History of Europe I-II.

The Road to Socialism - Transport Infrastructure in Socialist Bulgaria and Yugoslavia (1945-1989)

The book is the first comprehensive empirical study of transport infrastructure in two socialist countries in the years 1945-1989. In the...

Von Fahrstühlen und Hollywood-Stars - Amerika zwischen Denkfigur und kultureller Praxis in der Weimarer Republik

Die in diesem Band versammelten Beiträge thematisieren aus unterschiedlicher Perspektive den Einfluss amerikanischer Ideen, Lebenshaltung...

Muslim Subjectivity in Soviet Russia - The Memoirs of 'Abd al-Majid al-Qadiri

The world as seen by a Qur'an specialist in late imperial and early Soviet Russia. Our book tells a dramatic story of 'Abd al-Majid al-Qa...

The unfortunates

Daily life of the Aztecs

Madame Fourcade's Secret War: The Daring Young Woman Who Led France's Largest Spy Network Against Hitler

The little-known true story of Marie-Madeleine Fourcade, the woman who headed the largest spy network in occupied France during World War...

More modoque - Festschrift für Miklós Maróth zum siebzigsten Geburtstag

Die Wurzeln der europäischen Kultur und deren Rezeption im Orient und Okzident A kötet Maróth Miklósnak, a hazai és a nemzetközi klass...

Birth of an Exchange 1864-1990

A Tőzsde születik című kiadvány a Budapesti Értéktőzsdének (BÉT), kelet-Közép-Európa egyik legmeghatározóbb értékpapír piacának történet...

In search of man (readings in archaeology)

Being a Human - Adventures in 40,000 Years of Consciousness

Budapest Betrayed

A Prisoner's Story of the Betrayal of the Hungarian Resistance Movement to the Russians

Icebound

One of the greatest stories of survival and adventure in the Arctic that inspired Shakespeare and Jules Verne

Miscellany from english and american history and literature

The Tiszaszőlős treasure

Tutankhamen

Breathing in Manhattan - Carola Speads - The German Jewish Gymnastics Instructor Who Brought Mindfulness to America

In 1938 gymnastics instructor Carola Spitz escaped from Nazi Germany. In New York she turned into Carola Speads, revered teacher of mindf...

The politics of genocide I-II. -The Holocaust of Hungary

Stuart England

Jane's fighting ships of world war II

Teaching Black History to White People

A personally and pedagogically generous book, Teaching Black History to White People outlines how to teach and engage with Black history ...

The last emperor

Adriatic - A Concert of Civilizations at the End of the Modern Age

"In this [book, the author] turns his perceptive eye to the Adriatic Sea, a region that has always been a crossroads in trade, culture, a...

Early Britain

The Political Cult of the Dead in Ukraine - Traditions and Dimensions from the First World War to Today

The Ukrainian Euromaidan in 2013-14 and the ongoing Russian-Ukrainian war in the Eastern part of the country have posed new questions to ...

Difficult Women - A History of Feminism in 11 Fights

Well-behaved women don't make history: difficult women do. 'This is the antidote to saccharine you-go-girl fluff. Effortlessly erudite an...

Tom Clancy's OP-Centre: Line of control

Tom Clancy's net force: Night moves

2018

The eighth volume of the International Yearbook of Futurism Studies is again an open issue and presents in its first section new research...

NATO Handbook - 50th Anniversary Edition

The challenge of europeanization in the region. East Central Europe

Geisha

Published with a new preface, this bestseller offers an intimate glimpse into a unique female community. Liz Dalby, the only non-Japanese...

North American Indian Mythology - Saját képek.

Író/Szerző: Cottie Burland Kiadó: Hamlyn Publishing Kiadás éve: 1973 Oldalszám: 141 Kötés: Fűzött, keménytáblás, védőborítóban Nyelv...

Oswald Spenglers Geschichtsmorphologie heute - Journal of the Oswald Spengler Society 1 / 2018-19

Inhalt: David Engels: Von der Einsamkeit des Spenglerianers. Frol Vladimirov: Ein Rückblick in die Zukunft. Zur soziologischen Relevanz v...

From Victimhood - The Path of Roma Integration to Citizenship

This book is intended as an invitation and a challenge to all concerned with the situation of Roma to discuss crucial issues in order to ...

Encountering the Afo / Eloyi People of Northern Nigeria - The Visual Documents of Elsy Leuzinger and Jolantha Tschudi 1954-1955

In 1954-55, two Swiss women-Elsy Leuzinger, later director of the Museum Rietberg in Zurich, and aviation pioneer Jolantha Tschudi-undert...

Of Fear and Strangers - A History of Xenophobia

Over the last few years, it has been impossible to ignore the steady resurgence of xenophobia. In this fascinating study, George Makari t...

A Short History of the World in 50 Animals

Discover the most impactful and incredible episodes from history, from the prehistoric era to the present day, told through the story of ...

Sewer

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. What can underground pipes tel...

The Black Jacobins - Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution

'James is a titan of twentieth-century politics and culture' Sunday Times 'The Black Jacobins is not only a groundbreaking historical wor...

Parvenue - Bürgerlicher Aufstieg im Spiegel der Objektkultur im 18. Jahrhundert

Eine Leseprobe finden Sie unter "https://verlag.sandstein.de/reader/98-733_Parvenue" Parvenüs des 18. Jahrhunderts sind gesellschaftliche...

Middle Eastern mythology

Rethinking the Andesamazonia Divide - A Cross-Disciplinary Exploration

Rethinking the Andes-Amazonia Divide brings together archaeologists, linguists, geneticists, anthropologists, ethnohistorians and histori...

Europe since 1870