In this volume, fifteen researchers offer new insights both into events of The Stockholm Bloodbath (1520) and also, most significantly, into their background and aftermath, which stretch far beyond Stockholm and the year 1520.
This book offers thirteen case studies from premodern and contemporary Europe that demonstrate the process through which political corporations-bodies politic-were and continue to be constructed and challenged.
Contemporary Practices of Citizenship in Asia and the West: Care of the Self examines urban communities and societies in Asia... Læs mere
A historical analysis of manners of representation of Byzantine emperors and patriarchs in the Short History of Nikephoros of Constantinople in the context of late 8th century Byzantine iconodule ecclesiology.
This book studies the value system of the French Catholic community the Filles de la Charité, or the Daughters of Charity, in the first half of the seventeenth century.
Breaking new ground in the study of post-socialist memory culture, this book explains why former GDR cadres replicate GDR memory culture against their stigmatized status in unified Germany.
This book considers the growing awareness in the wake of World War I that culture could play an effective political role in international relations.
This collection of essays showcases extraordinary objects held by Australian collections, revealing a wide range of contemporary art and historical research.
This book examines the Kashmir dispute from a borderland perspective, adopting the novel approach of understanding the conflict from both sides of the Line of Control (LoC). The aim is to investigate the political space the border has created.
This path-breaking collection offers an integrative model for understanding health and healing in Europe and the Mediterranean from 1250 to 1550.
This book examines actual processes of experiencing the imagined community, exploring its emotive force in a number of case studies.
René Grotenhuis analyses policies intended to bring stability to fragile states and shows how they ignore the question of what gives people a sense of belonging to a nation-state.