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Considering a wide array of sources, this book reveals the tenacity with which Alfonso II (1162-1196) and his son Peter II (1196-1213) of the Crown of Aragon forged a tighter Mediterranean regional network and augmented their regional success.
This book examines the social and cultural consequences of a war normally looked at for its role in the story of Italian unification - the convergence of... Læs mere
An insightful look into the origins of modern Italian media culture by examining a sensational crime and trial that took place in Rome in the late... Læs mere
Through his writings, the leading East India Company servant, Sir John Malcolm helped to shape the historical thought of British empire-building in... Læs mere
This book provides a significant history of Italy's brutal occupation of Libya. Using the lens of the life of the iconic resistance fighter Mohamed Fekini, it tells the story of Libya under Ottoman and Italian rule from the point of view of the colonized.
Weimar Culture Revisited is the first book to offer an accessible cross-section of new cultural history approaches to the Weimar Republic. This collection uses an... Læs mere
This comprehensive study ranges from Irving's Knickerbockers, Emerson's Transcendentalists, and Garrison's abolitionists to the popular serial fiction writers for Robert Bonner's New York Ledger to unearth surprising convergences between such seemingly disparate circles.
This book examines fictional representations of India in novels, plays and poetry produced between the years 1772 to 1823 as historical source material. It uses... Læs mere
Frontier dramas were among the most popular and successful of early-twentieth-century Broadway... Læs mere
The first academic study of this subject is an entertaining look at the search for Sasquatch which considers not just the nature of monsters... Læs mere
A fresh perspective on the history of Russian liberalism through the life and work of Alexander Kunitsyn, a teacher and philosopher of natural law, whose academic and journalistic writings contributed to the dissemination of Western liberal thought among the Russian public.
Twenty years after its fall, the wall that divided Berlin and Germany presents a conceptual paradox: on one hand, Germans have sought to erase it completely; on the other, it haunts the imagination in complex and often surprising ways