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Richard Abel - Encyclopedia of Early Cinema (2005).jpg
Covering the 1890s to the mid-1910s, this work focuses on the period during which filmmaking progressed from the early flickering moving images that lasted only a matter of seconds to multiple-reel, feature films running more than an hour. By offering an international ...

Mercedes Garcia-Arenal - Messianism and Puritanical Reform (2006).jpg
This is a book about revolutionary movements of a messianic and millenarian character, led by a "mahdi", in Islamic terms, a charismatic messianic leader. It also addresses the question of mediation between God and men and the political repercussions of this question in ...

Rosemary Hill - God's Architect.jpg
Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin (1812–1852) was one of Britain’s greatest architects, and his short career one of the most dramatic in architectural history. Born in 1812, the son of a French draftsman, at 15 Pugin was working for King George IV at Windsor Castle. By the ...

Jiří Macháček - The Rise of Medieval Towns and States in East Central Europe. Early Medieval Centres as Social and Economic Systems (2010).jpg
This book is a contribution to the understanding the transformations that took place across Europe during the second half of the first millennium. The goal is to draw conclusions on the basis of the archaeological evidence from important centres.

Philip Major - Literatures of Exile in the English Revolution and its Aftermath.jpg
Original and thought-provoking, this collection sheds new light on an important yet understudied feature of seventeenth-century England's political and cultural landscape: exile. Through an essentially literary lens, exile is examined both as physical departure ...

Peter Spufford - Money and its Use in Medieval Europe (1988).jpg
The many changing roles played by money in Europe throughout the Middle Ages are traced through war and trade and other political, economic, and ecclesiastical activities, regardless of national or international barriers.

Kerren M. Reiger - The Disenchantment of the Home.jpg
This book is a revised and shortened version of my Ph.D. thesis, 'The disenchantment of the home, the rationalization of domestic life in Victoria, 1880-1940', La Trobe University, 1982. The research took place over several years during which I carried considerable ...

M. Sukru Hanioglu - A Brief History of the Late Ottoman Empire (2008).jpg
At the turn of the nineteenth century, the Ottoman Empire straddled three continents and encompassed extraordinary ethnic and cultural diversity among the estimated thirty million people living within its borders. It was perhaps the most cosmopolitan state in the ...

Waltraud Q. Morales - A Brief History of Bolivia (2003).jpg
Recent decades have witnessed major reform within Bolivia: an impressive democratic and economic resurgence, a more modern electoral system, and technological and communications expansion. Political slogans celebrate a "Bolivia, la Nueva" (The New Bolivia), but the ...

D. H. Figueredo - A Brief History of the Caribbean (2008).jpg
"A Brief History of the Caribbean" is an overview of the historical events that have taken place and shaped the islands of the Caribbean Sea - beginning with an account of the indigenous populations before the arrival of Christopher Columbus in 1492 and ending with the major ...

Lynn V. Foster - A Brief History of Central America (2008).jpg
"A Brief History of Central America, Second Edition" explores the history of the Central American isthmus from the pre-Columbian cultures to the contemporary nations that make up the region today: Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and ...

Teresa A. Meade - A Brief History of Brazil (2004).jpg
This work offers a concise yet comprehensive account of the rich and varied history of Brazil, placing the political, economic and cultural events of today into broad historical context. The book opens with an overview of pre-colonial Brazil and goes on to examine the ...

Juditj E. Walsh - A Brief History Of India (2006).jpg
A Brief History of India is a detailed, chronological narrative of the events, people, and social and cultural movements of India, from the prehistoric Indus Valley Civilization to the rich cultural and political landscape of today. While most people are familiar with ...

Louis Komjathy - Cultivating Perfection.jpg
This important work focuses on early Quanzhen (Complete Perfection) Daoism, a twelfth-century Daoist religious movement and subsequent monastic order. Emphasis in this first study to approach Quanzhen from a comparative religious studies perspective is placed on the ...

Making of Scotland - Gordon Barclay - Farmers.jpg
Designed throughout with colourful and detailed illustrations, Farmers, Temples and Tombs outlines in a clear and understandable way the Neolithic and Early Bronze Age in Scotland. It contains in-depth features on important Neolithic sites, and emphasises that what ...

David Jeffreys - Views of Ancient Egypt Since Napolean Bonaparte.jpg
The discipline of Egyptology has been criticised for being too insular,with little awareness of the development of archaeologies elsewhere. It has remained theoretically underdeveloped. For example the role of Ancient Egypt within Africa has rarely been considered ...

Paul Kerr - The Crimean War (1998).jpg
Combining oral and visual history, this description of the Crimean War is compiled with the use of photographs and extracts from a considerable number of eye-witness accounts in the form of letters and diaries of military and civilian personnel on all sides of the ...

Reina Lewis - Rethinking Orientalism.jpg
During the nineteenth century, the figure of the passive, oppressed, yet highly sexualized female of the Muslim harem became the pivotal figure of Western orientalism. Despite recent challenges to orientalist thinking, however, an enduring mystique continues to ...

Peter Stich - The Middle Ages Between the Eastern Alps and the Northern Adriatic.jpg
Following contemporary approaches and current trends in historiography, the book in 18 papersdeals with the history of Slovene and neighbouring territories in the Middle Ages, and Slovene historiography related to the period. It makes the medieval history of this part ...