Every man sees a war in which he fights from two points of view. The one is his own, his view of his personal life in relation to the harsh environment of battle; the other is the outlook of his unit which makes him share closely the corporate experience of this unit and gives that unit an individual entity and character with its own peculiar difficulties and joys, its…
For almost two decades, historians and academics from a wide- range of sub- disciplinary backgrounds have been situating their research within a global context, crossing boundaries both geographically and methodologically, in such large numbers as to necessitate the emergence of a recognisably new field of enquiry: Global History. From comparative to connective histories, the …
On 15 September 1622, the poet, onetime MP, lawyer and cleric JohnDonne delivered a sermon in the grounds of the old cathedral at St Paul’sCross, in which he argued the importance of religion to the govern-mental success of the Virginia Company (VC). Donne demonstrated,in his inimitable style, that structured religious governance would leadto the company successfully establishing control over…
This Eyewitness guide to the Ancient Greek world provides information on the mythical heroes and gods as well as the temples and statues still surviving today.
Presents the life and work of the English playwright William Shakespeare and provides information about the theater of sixteenth-century London.
Here is an original and exciting new look at the fascinating world of ancient people and their ways of life. Detailed real-life photographs of tools, weapons, jewelry, clothing, and even the remains of the people themselves, offer a unique "eyewitness" view of how human life changed during its first four million years. See the tools used by the first farmers, the oldest surviving food, the weap…
From the earliest Near Eastern urban civilizations to modern times, rulers and their retinues have disseminated ideological information with regard to the legitimacy of their status, their obligations, and their rights. The visual expressions of these royal statements were the subject of our research group, under the auspices of the Mandel Scholion In…
In early 2012, when I visited Theodore (Ted) Schwartz at his home in Del Mar, California, he had recently finished digitising audio recordings of interviews he had conducted with Manus people in Papua New Guinea (PNG) from 1953 through 1995; the annotated catalogue went on for many pages.1 Ted gave me an audio tour and we listened to Paliau, his supporters, an…
Much of the thought and the practice of human life is irredeem-ably related to Ionia, to Achaea, to classical Greek civilisation. Certainly one, if not the only one, of the central imaginings of ourselves and our world is Ionian. Our mapping of ourselves in our world also owes a huge debt to the classical. The emergence, materialisation, and extra-territorialisation of Ionian spaces of philosop…
The pottery published in this volume was excavated and recorded between 1997 and 2018. During the first seasons only diagnostic sherds (rims, bases, handles, decorated pottery and unusual fabrics) were recorded, ignoring the non-diagnostic body sherds for the sake of keeping up with the quantity of pottery excavated. This concerns only the pottery from Area B and part of…
The guide that shows you what other travel books only tell you! Truly the guide that shows you what others only tell you, DK's Eyewitness Travel Guide: Great Places to Stay in Europe features detailed street maps, cutaways of important attractions, a handy phrasebook, and advice on the best places to eat, shop and sleep. Wake to the sounds of cocks crowing at the Quinta Nova da Conceicao in Li…
Th e following book on Bob Dylan’s songs does not directly concern Bob Dylan a.k.a Robert Zimmerman, either the actual person or the musical-cultural celebrity. Nor does it claim to make claims about what Bob Dylan intended in or when composing any one of his songs. Instead, I mostly refer to Bob Dylan’s work and certain biographically relevant events in terms of a fi gur…
The prose poem, in Poland, is an entity that is –as Le?mian would have it –“incompletely-incarnated,” supposedly described in dictionaries, at times even ephemerally resurrected in some title but, in general, leading a clandestine exis-tence, turned rather towards the past, brooding over its former lives? In any case, there were never very many of them in …
Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher Lonely Planet Norway is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Visit Oslo; Norway's cultural capital, hike glacier-strewn high country, or simply hope to catch the elusive Northern Lights -all with your trusted travel companion. Get to the heart of Norway a…
Lonely Planet Iceland is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Splash around in the Blue Lagoon's geothermal water, catch a glimpse of the celestial Northern Lights, or take a boat trip among the icebergs; all with your trusted travel companion. Get to the heart of Iceland and begin your journey now!
Take a journey through the back roads of Germany to discover the area's real soul and charm. Twenty-four themed drives, each lasting one to five days, reveal breathtaking views, hidden gems, and authentic local experiences that can only be discovered by road. Each tour is bursting with insider knowledge and loaded with ideas for varied activities, from short walks and longer hikes to days on…
Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher Lonely Planet's Kyoto is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Walk through thousands of vermillion entrance gates to
Lonely Planet Thailand is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Wander through wild orchids in Mae Hong Son, charter a longtail boat on the Andaman Coast or look for tigers and monkeys in national parks; all with your trusted travel companion. Get to the heart of Thailand and begin your journey now!
Astonishingly exotic and utterly compelling, Vietnam is a country of breathtaking natural beauty with a unique heritage, where travel quickly becomes addictive. Eat, drink and shop til you drop in beautiful, ancient Hoi An; kite surf in Mui Ne; or visit the impressive pagodas and royal tombs of Hue; all with your trusted travel companion. Get to the heart of Vietnam and begin your journey no…
Ascend to the realm of the gods, Angkor Wat. Descend into hell at Tuol Sleng Prison. With a history both inspiring and depressing, Cambodia delivers an intoxicating present. Stand under the glimmering spires of the Royal Palace in Phnom Penh, trek the lush rainforest of the Koh Kong Conservation Corridor, or explore the floating village of Kompong Luong; all with your trusted travel companio…
Lonely Planet Borneo is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Dive with sea turtles on the Semporna Archipelago, visit the water village of Kampung Ayer, or hang with the orangutans at Tanjung Puting National Park; all with your trusted travel companion. Get to the heart of Borneo and begin your journey now! Insi…
Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher Lonely Planet Bali & Lombok is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Stand amongst the clouds on Gunung Rinjani, party all-night in Kuta, or experience the Gili Islands' phenomenal diving scene; all with your trusted travel companion. Get to the heart of B…
his text provides an essential reference handbook for students of geography and related social sciences. How did the Greek geographer Eratosthenes make an accurate calculation of the earth's circumstance more than 1,500 years before the first voyage of Columbus to the New World? What are the "green belts" of England that dominate its rural landscape? And what is regarded as the driest contin…
The present study of the Lives of the Poets is designed to show that Johnson’s value judgements about literature lead to ethical literary crit-icism that pertains to human problems affecting our daily life and world crises. In his Dictionary, Johnson defines ethics as “the doctrine of morality; a system of morality.”1 While morality and…
Pack up your bags for a round the world trip! You’ll take in natural wonders far and wide as this spectacular visual encyclopedia leads the exciting exploration of Earth and beyond.?? From the tallest snowy peak of Mount Everest to the deep, dark waters of the Mariana Trench, you’ll see it all in stunning color images that bring the world to life. Feel the heat in the African desert,…
Imagine a world in which there is only one history to watch, read, or listen to. If you find this idea difficult, then you have understood something important about history: that there is never just one version of it on offer. Some people might not like this idea, and try to refute it, but no matter how much they argue, or even work to destroy histories, they will be unsuccessful. We live with …
Large paperback edition with over 450 maps-200,000 words of text - 160 illustrations and diagrams - complete and authoritative
A visit to a town in the north-west of England 200 years ago would have been anassault on the senses. Though some parts of Liverpool, in particular, experiencedwidespread‘improving’measures from the mid-eighteenth century onwards, in themajority of other places (and indeed throughout significant parts of Liverpool too)it was not until the extensive street-widening schemes of the nineteenth …
Early fifteenth-century travellers such as Spanish writer Pero Tafur praised the city of Bruges because of its liveliness and economic activity: ‘Bruges was a large and wealthy city, and one of the greatest markets of the world [...] anyone who has mon-ey, and wished to spend it, will find in this town alone everything which the world produces’.1 Bruges had played an important…
This book examines one of the most significant aspects of popular engagement with the past in twentieth-century Britain. Historical pag-eants began as an Edwardian craze, but persisted as important events in communities and organisations across Britain for much of the next hundred years. Although popular interest in pageantry has undoubtedly declined, re…
Addressing a gathering of delegates and journalists at the annual conference of the University of Nottingham’s Labour Federation on the evening of 6 January 1934, the barrister and MP for Bristol East, Sir Stafford Cripps, publicly bolstered his reputation as an outspoken radical who was committed to a programme of state-led socialism when he criticized what he saw as …
Thermal establishments with mineral-medicinal waters represent a special case among Roman bath buildings, not only because of the adaptation of the space to the use of these waters for health issues, but also because of the infrastructures and engineering they developed, as well as for their function in the landscape. Thermalism in the Roman Provinces is focused on the role of thermal esta…
Der Begriff ‚Transformation‘ stammt vom lateinischen Wort ‚transformare‘ ab und bedeutet, dass etwas umgewandelt, umgeformt oder umgestaltet wird (Brockhaus Enzyklopädie 2006, 311). Dabei kann es sich sowohl um einen Gegenstand in der Natur-, als auch in der Geisteswissenschaft handeln, der sich transformiert bzw. transformiert wird. Die Folgen einer Transformation sind Verän…
This monograph approaches ancient medicine through the study of a single individual who practiced magico-medical healing in ancient Mesopotamia. The healer’s name was Ki?ir-Aššur and he was the grandson of B?ba-šuma-ibni, the patronymic ancestor of a family of exorcists. We know nothing about Ki?ir-Aššur’s birth and death, except that he lived arou…
This book is the companion volume to 2021’s Creative Tourism in Smaller Communities: Place, Culture, and Local Representation, also published by the University of Calgary Press. That book offered a variety of authorial per-spectives on a central question: In what ways are creativity and place-based tourism co-engaged to aid sustainable cultural development in smaller com-…
Issues arising from overtourism in many of the world’s major cities call into question the adage “bigger is better,” as do touristic desires for au-thentic, human-scale immersion in local life, culture, and knowledge. Overtourism accounts for many headlines, and some of these posit an alternate travel experience—for example, Elaine Glusac’s …
This is a book about how the Congo was and continues to be imagined in Kinshasa. I outline the way that coproduced visions of nation, modernity, and stereotypes of culture have taken material form in the postcolonial city. My aim is to trace what remains of past presentations of the Congo in the rich textures of key architectural and artistic sites in Kinsh…
The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt uniquely covers 700,000 years of ancient Egypt, from c. 700,000 BC to AD 311. Following the story from the Egyptians' prehistoric origins to their conquest by the Persians, Greeks, and Romans, this book resurrects a fascinating society replete with remarkable historical information. It investigates such subjects as the changing nature of life and death in the…
This volume breaks new ground in applying Benson’s second per-spective to medical history: ‘to explore the history of nonhuman ani-mals as subjects in their own right and for their own sakes’.5 Humans remain important, of course, for ultimately we can only know about animals from the records that humans have created, and which reflect …
Over de eerste eeuwen van het christendom in het noorden van de Lage Landen valt weinig met zekerheid te zeggen. De schoolboekjes van vroeger wilden de mensen nog wel doen geloven dat met de komst van missionarissen als Willibrord en Bonifatius de verspreiding van het christendom op Nederlandse bodem een beklonken zaak was. Maar historici vermoeden inmiddels dat …
Telling the story of Old Sarum and Salisbury, from the mid-10th century to the start of the 20th, this book brings together the most up-to-date thinking on the archaeological evidence, and, through analysis of the rich documentary record, provides a fresh take on the story of this most illustrious cathedral city in the heart of southern England. Tales of Two Cities tells the story of Old Sar…
Darren Anderton played 30 times for the England men’s national football team and made 299 Premier League appearances for Tottenham Hotspur. To fans of a certain age, he is known by another name: ‘Sicknote’. ‘I had a migraine and was throwing up before a Portsmouth game’, recounted Anderton in 2016, some eight years after his final Football League match…
n March 2013, a group of detainees at Guantánamo Bay Detention Camp, Cuba, went on hunger strike. At the height of their protest, 106 individuals were refusing to eat. For detainees incarcerated for over a decade without charge or trial, food refusal offered a potent way to rebel. Having been stripped of their capacity for political communication and placed …
In 1745, the Shengjing military governor (jiangjun), Daldangga, wrote to the Qian-long emperor (r. 1736–95) to propose building a guard post at the mouth of the Yalu (K. Amnok) River. The suggested place was Mangniushao, a sandbank located where the confluence of two tributaries of the Yalu River, the Caohe and the Aihe, flowed into the mainstream of the Yalu. These tri…
s the minister responsible for the local police, Lanskoi had particular grounds for concern over their poor performance. His, however, was not the only ministry dependent on the police. A contemporary journalist described the local police as, in effect, the eyes, ears, and hands of the state. “Almost everything discussed by ministerial departments,” he noted, “or…
In 2019, Juha Marttila, the President of the Central Union of Agricultural Pro-ducers and Forest Owners (MTK) in Finland, expressed his astonishment in apress interview about the increasing public criticism of intensive meat and dairyproduction:“The cow has kept us alive for some ten thousand years, so how comeit has now been made a criminal?”1He was quite right about the long interrela-tio…
"I come from a country that was created at midnight. When I almost died it was just after midday." When the Taliban took control of the Swat Valley in Pakistan, one girl spoke out. Malala Yousafzai refused to be silenced and fought for her right to an education. On Tuesday, October 9, 2012, when she was fifteen, she almost paid the ultimate price. She was shot in the head at point-blank r…
The Bronze Age in Greece began around 3100 B.C. with the first bronze work-ing for the manufacture of tools and weapons (see map 1). Already in the Neo-lithic, there had been limited use of copper, the essential ingredient of bronze, while stone tools were still essential for some purposes in the Bronze Age. Copper typically was alloyed with tin to produce bronze, but…
E. H. Gombrich’s A Little History of the World, an engaging and lively book written for readers both young and old, vividly brings the full span of human experience on Earth to life, from the stone age to the atomic age. Gombrich’s text paints a colorful picture of wars and conquests; of grand works of art; of the advances and limitations of science; of remarkable people and remarkable even…