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St. Kilda And The St. Kildians is a book written by Robert Connell in 1887. The book provides a detailed account of the island of St. Kilda, located in the North Atlantic Ocean, and its inhabitants, known as the St. Kildians. The author describes the...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...

La Memoria que el Ministro de Justicia, Instrucci������n P������blica y Beneficencia presenta al Congreso Extraordinario reunido en 1858 (1858) es un libro publicado por el Ministerio de Justicia del Per������. En esta obra, el Ministro de Justicia...

Die Altesten Lehnb�����cher der Magdeburgischen Erzbisch������fe ist ein historisches Buch von Gustav Hertel, das im Jahr 1883 ver������ffentlicht wurde. Das Werk behandelt die �����ltesten Lehnb�����cher der Erzbisch������fe von Magdeburg, die aus dem...

meus Cornelis van de Sande Bakhuyzen is een historisch boek dat zich richt op de oprichting en ontwikkeling van het kultuurstelsel in Nederlands-Indi����� tijdens de 19e eeuw. Het kultuurstelsel was een economisch systeem dat door de Nederlandse regering...

The Ballad In Literature is a book written by Thomas Finlayson Henderson and was first published in 1912. The book is a comprehensive study of the ballad form in literature, tracing its origins and development through various cultures and periods...

Sea Dogs And Men At Arms: A Canadian Book Of Songs (1918) is a collection of poems and songs by Jesse Edgar Middleton. The book features a variety of themes, including patriotism, love, and adventure. Many of the poems are inspired by Canada's maritime...

Russian And Turk: From A Geographical, Ethnological, And Historical Point Of View is a book written by Robert Gordon Latham in 1878. The book provides a comprehensive study of the Russian and Turkic peoples from various perspectives. It covers their...

Histoire Des Litt�����ratures Slaves (1881) est un livre �����crit par Aleksandr Nikolaevitch Pypine. Il s'agit d'une analyse compl�����te de l'histoire de la litt�����rature slave, depuis ses d�����buts jusqu'������ l'�����poque contemporaine. L'auteur...

Das Buch ""Die Neuentdeckten Vogel Neuhollands V2 (1845)"" von Heinrich Gottlieb Ludwig Reichenbach ist ein Werk �����ber die Vogelwelt Australiens. Es ist der zweite Band einer Serie, die sich mit den Vogelarten Neuhollands besch�����ftigt. Der Autor...

Histoire Naturelle Des Dipt�����res Des Environs De Paris V2 Partie 2 (1863) est un livre �����crit par Robineau-Desvoidy, Andr����� Jean Baptiste. Ce livre est une continuation de la premi�����re partie de l'histoire naturelle des dipt�����res de la...

Histoire Des Inquisitions V1: Religieuses D'Italie, D'Espagne Et De Portugal (1809) est un livre �����crit par Joseph Lavallee. Il s'agit d'une histoire compl�����te des inquisitions religieuses en Italie, en Espagne et au Portugal. Le livre explore...

""Etude Compl�����te sur Alaise (1860)"" est un livre �����crit par Edouard Clerc. Il s'agit d'une �����tude exhaustive sur la ville d'Alaise, situ�����e dans le d�����partement du Doubs en France. L'auteur y d�����crit l'histoire, la g�����ographie, la...

Die Sammlung Rarer Chroniken zur Erleuterung der Teutschen Geschichte von Kaspar Abel aus dem Jahr 1741 ist ein historisches Werk, das eine Zusammenstellung von seltenen Chroniken und Dokumenten zur Geschichte Deutschlands bietet. Es enth�����lt eine...

This handbook addresses issues around urban growth in early India. It provides theoretical and empirical insights from the perspective of the different regions of the subcontinent using various sources. The book chapters discuss how early urban...

Dieses Buch behandelt die globale Geschichte von Technologie, Kriegsführung und Staatenbildung vom Steinzeitalter bis zum Informationszeitalter. Unter Verwendung einer Kombination von Top-Down- und Bottom-Up-Methoden untersucht es sowohl...

This collection of interviews explores how the Chinese Dream is fueling the aspirations of individuals in China today and presents 40 representative cases that showcase the journeys that ordinary people undertake in pursuit of their dreams as well as...

Memory studies is a nascent and multidisciplinary research field, drawing from an impressive array of qualitative investigative methods deployed to do memory research. The authors in this collection offer an explicit engagement with the 'doing' of memory...

This educational handbook displays grassroots experiences of peace, reconciliation, and healing in the Great Lakes region of Africa, in which Burundian, Congolese, and Rwandan authors share their understandings and practices of Memory Work. They...

This book reflects on discourses about the Brazilian dictatorship (1964-1985) on social media. It examines entanglements between technological and mnemonic practices regarding this historical period. Following Olick and Robbins' (1998) Historical...

Dieses Handbuch fasst die Diskussion zur Geschichts- und Politikdidaktik systematisch zusammen. Die Beiträge sind aus dem Blickwinkel der jeweiligen Didaktik als eigenständiger Wissenschaftsdisziplin verfasst, benennen die entsprechenden Kontroversen und...

This book explores the historial role of the Balkan Wars. In Eastern Europe, the two Balkan Wars of 1912/13 had greater importance than the First World War for the construction of nations and states. This volume shows how these "short" wars profoundly...

This volume spans the fourteenth to nineteenth centuries, across Europe and its empires, and brings together historians, art historians, literary scholars and anthropologists to rethink medieval and early modern ritual. The study of rituals, when it is...

This book uses Viktor Frankl's Existential Psychology (logotherapy) to explore the ways some professors use unusually personal scholarship to discover meaning in personal adversity. A psychiatrist imprisoned for three years in Nazi concentration camps,...

This collection of essays by Indonesian and foreign contributors offers new and highly original analyses of the mass violence in Indonesia which began in 1965 and its aftermath. Fifty years on from one the largest genocides of the twentieth century, they...

Where nostalgia was once dismissed a wistful dream of a never-never land, the academic focus has shifted to how pieces of the past are assembled as the elements in alternative political thinking as well as in artistic expression. The creative use of the...

This volume presents the intellectual autobiographies of fourteen leading scholars in the fields of history, literature, film and cultural studies who have dedicated a considerable part of their career to researching the history and memories of France...

Cultural factors shape the symbolic environment in which contentious politics take place. Among these factors, collective memories are particularly relevant: they can help collective action by providing symbolic material from the past, but at the same...

This volume offers a multidisciplinary approach to shaping and imposition of "formulas for betrayal" as a result of changing memory politics in post-war Europe. The contributors, who specialize in history, sociology, anthropology, memory studies, media...

This book provides a comprehensive survey of Edmund Burke's historical thought, a neglected area of both Burke scholarship and historiography. Ranging from Burke's general conception of history to his accounts of English, European, American, Irish and...

This book provides a pathway for the New Coastal History. Our littorals are all too often the setting for climate change and the political, refugee and migration crises that blight our age. Yet historians have continued, in large part, to ignore the...

This open access book defines the cinematic Gothic as an aesthetics of memory and exile. Guided by three intersecting concepts - memory, travelling, and touch - it suggests that the cross-border movements of exiles, émigrés, and professional travellers...

"Francie Cate's Popular Memory and Franco's 'Disappeared' is an obra magistral, an opus magnum, a masterwork. It is an in-depth and broad study in which further research on memory, imposed forgetting, counter-memory, and the dynamics of cultural memory...

This book is the first to explore memory, misremembering, forgetting, and anniversaries in the history of psychiatry and mental health. It challenges simplistic representations of the callous nature of mental health care in the past, while at the same...

This book discusses the relationship between law and memory and explores the ways in which memory can be thought of as contributing to legal socialization and legal meaning-making. Against a backdrop of critical legal pluralism which...

This Palgrave Handbook examines the ways in which researchers and practitioners theorise, analyse, produce and make use of testimony. It explores the full range of testimony in the public sphere, including perpetrator testimony, testimony presented...

This book explores one of the most notorious aspects of the German system of oppression in wartime Poland: the only purpose-built camp for children under the age of 16 years in German-occupied Europe. The camp at Przemysłowa street, or the...

This book about receptions of Simon Magus uncovers further facets of one who was held to be the evil archetype of heretics. Ephraim Nissan and Alberto Ferreiro explore how Simon Magus has been represented in text, visual art, and music. Special attention...

This book explores the experiences of 'Indo-Mozambicans,' citizens and residents of Mozambique who can trace their origins to the Indian subcontinent, a region affected by competing colonialisms during the twentieth century. Drawing from ethnographic...

This book discusses a number of ways in which the dialogue about Europe's past and future could be rendered more inclusive, such as the promotion of critical and sentimental education and the creation of virtual and actual social spaces in which citizens...

This book is about the entanglement of heritage and resistance in different situations of conflicts, and the opportunities this entanglement may provide for social justice. This entanglement is investigated in the different contributions through...

Sources and Methods in Indigenous Studies is a synthesis of changes and innovations in methodologies in indigenous studies, focusing on sources over a broad chronological and geographical range. Written by a group of highly respected Indigenous Studies...

How and why did Europe rise to world pre-eminence? Providing an overview of this central historical conundrum of modern times, Historians Debate the Rise of the West enables students to grasp major scholars' evaluations of the biggest picture of all: how...

In recent decades, widespread rejection of positivism's notorious hostility toward the philosophical tradition has led to renewed debate about the real relationship of philosophy to its history. How History Matters to Philosophy takes a fresh look at...

This book summarizes the systematic research on the Neolithic cultures of Taiwan, based on the latest archaeological discoveries, and focusing on the maritime interactions between mainland southeast China, Taiwan, and southeast Asia during (5600-1800 BP)...