This book is the first to offer a detailed exploration of the role of music in US... Læs mere
The Dutch Scientific Council for Government Policy (WRR) to examined what form development aid should take in the era of globalization. This book is based on the WRR report of over 500 interviews in 2010.
A pioneering study of Asian cultures that officially escaped from French colonisation but nonetheless were steeped in French civilisation in the colonial era and had heavily French-influenced, largely francophone literatures.
This book studies a phenomenon which is most interesting in itself, but also helps to understand religious and social life in the period in which they were swiftly... Læs mere
This book explores one artist's transformation of alchemy and its materials into a reputation for virtuosity-and what his work can teach us about the experimental early modern world.
This book takes a close look at films that deal with ghosts. Making a crucial distinction between atmospheric films and conventional horror, Michael Walker argues that they are most productively seen as ghost melodramas.
This is the first ethnography on the Meto people of Timor-Leste's Oecussi district and provides an original and engaging description of life as a UN staffer and anthropologist.
This book interrogates how people engage with their violent past, both within their families and as members of a national community, when living in an extremely complicated society with a short history of independence and a desire to belong to Europe.
Did ordinary Italians have a ‘Renaissance’? This book presents the first in-depth exploration of how artisans and small local traders experienced the material and cultural Renaissance.
This thoroughly revised edition brings Cybriwsky's account of events and their ramifications fully up to date, offering the clearest picture we've had yet of what has happened - and what is likely still to come - in Ukraine.
This first history of Cologne available in English challenges received notions of late Roman ethnic identities, a Dark Age collapse of urban life, devastating Viking and Magyar incursions, and the origins of medieval urban government.
This volume approaches three key concepts in Roman history - gender, memory and identity - and demonstrates the significance of their interaction in all social levels and during all periods of Imperial Rome