Offers a comprehensive and insightful account of the history of the Netherlands and its neutrality in the First World War, taking into account domestic and international implications.
A collection of essays by the acclaimed film scholar Thomas Elsaesser, written between 1968 and 2005, tracks the crisis of contemporary European cinema, faced by the Hollywood giant on the one hand, and the collapsing national cinema industries on the other.
The essays in this volume explore crucial intellectual and cultural exchanges between Asia and Europe in the first half of the twentieth century.
Explores the rise of Asian cities, dealing with history, geography, culture, architecture, urbanism, and other topics, and attempts to formulate a new understanding of what makes Asian cities such global leaders.
As this book demonstrates, early medieval 'Romanness' encompassed a sense of belonging to an ethnic group, which allowed Romans in Iberia and Gaul to adopt Gothic or Frankish identities in a more nuanced manner than has been previously acknowledged in the literature.
This book shows how the Dutch East India Company mobilised land and labour, why they turned to force cultivation, and what effects the brutal system they installed had on the economy and society.
This book assembles a collection of field research, data, theoretical analyses, and cross-country comparisons to show the significance of the Gezi protests both within Turkey and throughout the world.
Rossella Catanese brings in avant-garde artists and their manifestos to show how painters and other artists turned to cinema as a model for overcoming the inherently static nature of painting in order to rethink it for a new era.
By employing websites of nongovernmental organizations, search engine queries identifying cultural philosophies about aging, and more, the contributors to this volume define the agenda for aging issues throughout Europe.
This timely volume examines how migration trajectories in Asia are experienced and how they acquire new meanings.
A critical overview of the policies of NATO governments and major human rights organizations during the Yugoslav conflict.
A unique reference book for linguists and anyone who wants to know more about the syntactic properties of the Dutch language.