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Linda L. Barnes - Needles.jpg
This monumental work weaves together erudite scholarship and enticing travelogue. Needles, Herbs, Gods, and Ghosts uncovers an entirely neglected story of how the West encountered China's religion, medicine, and healing practices. It challenges the reader to see how ...
Christina Riggs - The Beautiful Burial in Roman Egypt; Art.jpg
This important new study looks at the intersection of Greek and Egyptian art forms in the funerary sphere of Roman Egypt. A discussion of artistic change, cultural identity, and religious belief foregrounds the detailed analysis of more than 150 objects and tombs, many of ...
Felipe Fernandez-Armesto - 1492; The Year the World Began (2009).jpg
The world would end in 1492—so the prophets, soothsayers, and stargazers said. They were right. Their world did end. Ours began. In this extraordinary, sweeping history, Felipe FernÁndez-Armesto traces key elements of the modern world back to that single, fateful ...
S.A. Paipetis - Science and Technology in Homeric Epics (2008).jpg
In the Homeric Epics, important references to specific autonomous systems and mechanisms of very advanced technology, such as automata and artificial intelligence, as well as to almost modern methods of design and production are included. Even if those features of ...
Vivian Shen - The Origins of Leftwing Cinema in China.jpg
This book takes a cultural studies approach to analyze and account for the ways in which related to film, literature, cultural production, ideology, social change and modernity were in raised in the leftwing film movement of the 1930s.
Joya Chatterji - Bengal Divided; Hindu Communalism and Partition.jpg
Whereas previous studies of the end of British rule in India have concentrated on the negotiations of the transfer of power at the all-India level or have considered the emergence of separatist politics amongst India's Muslim minorities, this study provides a ...
Sumit Guha - Environment and Ethnicity in India.jpg
Drawing on a rich collection of sources, Sumit Guha demonstrates how the ideology of indigenous cultures, developed in recent years out of the notion of a pure and untouched ethnicity, is in fact rooted in nineteenth-century racial and colonial anthropology. Challenging ...
Keelung Hong - Looking through Taiwan; American Anthropologists' Collusion with Ethnic Domination (2005).jpg
Anthropologists have long sought to extricate their work from the policies and agendas of those who dominate—and often oppress—their native subjects. Looking through Taiwan is an uncompromising look at a troubling chapter in American anthropology that reveals ...
Alexander Golitzin - Historical Dictionary of the Orthodox Church (1996).jpg
Of the three major branches of Christianity, Orthodoxy is the least known and most misunderstood. The "Historical Dictionary of the Orthodox Church" provides students, researchers, and specialists with a desk encyclopedia of the theology and theologians, saints, ...
Frans Theuws.jpg
The 19 papers presented in this volume by North American and European historians and archaeologists discuss how early medieval political and religious elites constructed "places of power", and how such places, in turn, created powerful people. They also examine how the ...
Lex Heerma van Voss - Petitions in Social History (2002).jpg
This book looks at petitions over the last five centuries to reconstruct the lives and opinions of "humble" petitioners. Since Pharaonic times, governments have allowed their subjects to voice opinions in the form of petitions, which have demanded a favor or the ...
Elizabeth C. Robertson - Space And Spatial Analysis in Archaeology (2005).jpg
Spatial analysis is the archaeology of space and place and is concerned with the creation of a cultural landscape focusing on archaeoastronomy, geoarchaeology and ancient landscapes. Incorporating emerging technology such as GPS positioning and new forms of ...
John A. Wagner - Voices of Shakespeare's England; Contemporary Accounts of Elizabethan Daily Life (2010).jpg
Gr 9 Up–This valuable volume comprises excerpts from and analysis of 51 documents–from letters and diaries to public records and polemics–providing a detailed look into the era. The well-written introduction discusses economic, social, religious, political, ...
Paul Bergne - The Birth of Tajikistan; National Identity and the Origins of the Republic (2007).jpg
A vivid history of the birth of a nation. When the Russian Revolution broke out in October 1917, much of Central Asia was still ruled by autonomous rulers such as the Emir of Bukhara and the Khan of Khiva. By 1920 the khanates had been transformed into People's Republics, and, in ...
Susan Niditch - War in the Hebrew Bible; A Study in the Ethics of Violence (1993).jpg
Texts about war pervade the Hebrew Bible, raising challenging questions in religious and political ethics. The war passages that readers find most disquieting are those in which God demands the total annihilation of the enemy without regard to gender, age, or military ...
Charles Jean Jacques Joseph Ardant Du Picq - Battle Studies. Ancient and Modern Battle (2010).jpg
Ardant du Picq was an obscure French Colonel, that was defeated and killed in battle. The Value of the book lies in the fact that it contains not alone the unmistakable forecast of the defeat itself, but a luminous statement of those fundamental principles, the neglect of ...