E-book A History of Modern Indonesia since c.1200

The spread of Islam is one of the most significant processes of Indonesian history, but also one of the most obscure. Muslim traders had apparently been present in some parts of Indonesia for several centuries before Islam became established within the local communities. When, why and how the conversion of Indonesians began has been debated by several scholars, but no definite conclusions have…

E-book A History of the World from the 20th to the 21st Century

During the first half of the twentieth century Europe suffered a cataclysmic change. The lives of millions were destroyed, millions more lives blighted. What led to such a chain of catastrophes? The fratricidal Great War marks the turning point in the history of Europe. There is no single cause that explains it all, but a multiplicity that need to be untangled. Paradoxically industrial progress…

E-Book Risible: Laughter without Reason and the Reproduction of Sound

Risible explores the forgotten history of laughter, from ancient Greece to the sitcom stages of Hollywood. Delia Casadei approaches laughter not as a phenomenon that can be accounted for by studies of humor and theories of comedy but rather as a technique of the human body, knowable by its repetitive, clipped, and proliferating sound and its enduring links to the capacity for language and repro…

E-Book Remapping Travel Narratives (1000–1700): To the East and Back Again

With a specific focus on travel narratives, this collection looks at how Islamic and eastern cultural threads were weaved, through travel and trading networks, into Western European/Christian visual culture and discourse and, ultimately, into the artistic explosion which has been labeled the “Renaissance.” Scholars from across humanities disciplines examine Islamic, Jewish, Spanish, Italian…

E-Book Icelandic Folklore and the Cultural Memory of Religious Change

This book attempts to understand the origins and development of religious belief in Iceland and greater Scandinavia through the lenses of five carefully selected Icelandic folktales collected in Iceland during the nineteenth century. Each of these five stories has a story of its own: a historical and cultural context, a literary legacy, influences from beliefs of all kinds (orthodox and heterod…

E-Book Medieval Women, Material Culture, and Power: Matilda Plantagenet and h…

This book argues that the impressive range of belongings that can be connected to Duchess Matilda Plantagenet allows us to perceive elite women’s performance of power, even when they are largely absent from the official documentary record.

E-book The Fall of Berlin

A million and a half Jews fought in the armed forces of the Allies during the Second World War. They served in the armies, navies, and air forces of their native lands. Many who were forced to flee the Nazis then joined the war effort in the countries that had given them refuge. Between 490,000 and 520,000 Jewish soldiers fought in the Red Army.1Most of them were nat…

E-book Ancient Greence : From Prehistoric to Hellenistic Times

“Most things in the history of Greece have become a subject of dispute” is how Pausanias, the second-century a.d. author of a famous guide to sites throughout Greece, summed up the challenge and the fascination of thinking about the significance of ancient Greek history (Guide to Greece 4.2.3). The subject was disputed then because Pausanias, a Greek, lived and wrote under the Roman Empire,…

E-Book Memory of the World: Documentary Heritage in Asia and the Pacific

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ISBN/ISSN

9789887723103

Deskripsi Fisik

160 halaman, illus.

Judul Seri

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No. Panggil

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E-Book Memory of the World: Documentary Heritage Treasures of Africa

THIS book introduces the documentary heritage inscriptions from Africa on the Memory of the World International Register up to 2023. Its publication was made possible thanks to the collective expertise and efforts of the members of the Africa Regional Committee for Memory of the World (ARCMoW), the custodians of the Memory of the World inscriptions across Africa, the national Memory of the Worl…