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Otto dibelius
The contributions to this volume, written by historians and theologians, provide a compendium of the life and work of Otto Dibelius (1880-1967). In doing so, they do not neglect to deal with the dark sides of this outstanding figure, such as anti-Semitism, and in many areas they present a serious...
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Studies in babylonian feudalism of the kassite period
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Formative lifeways in central tlaxcala, volume 1
First of 3 vols reporting on excavations at Formative-period sites in the state of Tlaxcala, Mexico. Excavations at Amomoloc, Tetel, and Las Mesitas and La Laguna are reported. Ceramics are described in detail. An innovative approach to the classification of figurines is presented, and a Formativ...
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The theology of hathor of dendera
The Ptolemaic period witnessed an enormous increase in the number of hieroglyphic signs and iconographic elements. This volume examines these techniques from their smallest details to their broadest thematic connections, foregrounding individual techniques to determine the words and phrases singl...
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The petra papyri i-v (boxed set)
The Petra Papyri Series, Greek language papyrus texts from the sixth century A.D. that were discovered in carbonized condition in Petra in 1992-93. This scholarly publication meticulously documents, translates and interprets the information recovered from approximately 140 papyrus scrolls found d...
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Der eintritt der juden in die akademischen berufe
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Dynamics of social change and perceptions of threat
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Produktive unproduktivitat
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The septuagint version of isaiah and cognate studies
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Ebla in the period of the amorite dynasties
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Witwen, recht und gerechtigkeit
Through a new reading of little-noticed sources, Michael Sommer develops an addendum to previous sociohistorical works on widows in early Christianity.
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Two nations: british and german jews in comparative perspective
International scholars and specialists in Jewish, German, British and European history offer this first comparative approach to the study of German and British Jewish history from the late 18th century to the 1930s. The volume's comparative dimension goes beyond a parallel exploration of the Jewi...
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Religion and education in the ancient greek world
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John stone's chronicle
It is the purpose of this small book to offer to the reader selections from Stone's modest compilation of the internal life of his own monastic community-obituaries of monks, the celebration of the liturgy, even the weather-set against the wider events of the tumultuous fifteenth century in England.
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Kompetenzen
In German constitutional law, democratic institutions are seen not in political but rather in administrative terms - as an ensemble of 'organs' with different 'competences'. Christian Neumeier traces how German liberal lawyers developed this new theory of public law in the second half of the 19th...
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Wissenschaft des judentums im deutschen sprachbereich
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The inscription of queen katimala at semna
This is the first complete translation and commentary on the important tableau and inscription of Queen Katimala at Semna. The inscription is not illegible, as has often been stated, but is a well-composed Lower Nubian example of a politico-religious manifesto applying many of the conventions of ...
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Die responsen als spiegel der judischen geschichte
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Akhenaten and tutankhamun
Explores Egypt's 18th dynasty during the Amarna Period (1353-1322 BCE), looking at royal power, social contracts, and Akhenaten's radical changes. Richly illustrated, it offers fresh insights and discusses architecture, art, empire, and the enduring legacy of Akhenaten. The epilogue highlights ho...
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Journal of the canadian society for coptic studies volume 11
Published annually by Lockwood Press. The Canadian Society for Coptic Studies is a Toronto-based nonprofit organization whose purpose is to bring together individuals interested in Coptic studies and to promote the dissemination of scholarly information on Coptic Studies.
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Conscience in philo and paul
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Bethsaida: a city by the north shore of the sea of galilee
Experts in the field continue to investigate the site of Bethsaida, and have retrieved information on some of the most critical topics from 10th century BCE to 4th century CE. In this volume, thirteen articles shed light on the history of the region, and look at the remains dating from the time o...
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The photographs of the american palestine exploration society
This volume includes over 150 never previously published photographs of archaeological sites in the Middle East (Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, and Israel) taken in 1875 by photographer Tancrede Dumas for the American Palestine Exploration Society.
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Ubersetzung des talmud yerushalmi
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Journal of the american research center in egypt, volume 59
The Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt (JARCE) was established in 1962 to foster research into the history, languages, social systems and archaeology of the Egyptian people; it welcomes articles on all periods and aspects of Egyptian civilization, in English, French or German.
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An investigation into early desert pastoralism
Case study of excavations at an early (ca. 2800 B.C.) pastoral site in the Negev, providing detailed analyses and a synthetic overview of a seasonal encampment from this early period in the evolution of desert pastoral societies. The first detailed analysis of this culture and includes materials ...
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Briefliches zitieren bei paulus und cicero
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The ancient egyptian books of the earth
This material illustrated discrete episodes from the nocturnal voyage of the sun god, which functioned as a model for the resurrection of the deceased king. The present study collects and analyses all currently known Book of the Earth material, including discussions of iconography, grammar, ortho...
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Die magie der anspielung
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"räume" im antiken christentum
Christian Hornung examines "spaces" in ancient Christianity. He analyzes literary descriptions of the ecclesiastical building complex (including the church, bishop's house, and annexes) as well as synods, monasticism and the so-called public space and interprets "spaces" as forms of ecclesiastica...
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The abu bakr cemetery at giza
Reflects the work of the joint expedition of Cairo University and Brown University to record and publish the tombs uncovered on behalf of Cairo University by Prof. Abdel-Moneim Abu Bakr from 1949 through 1953, but never published.
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Women's work in post-war italy
This book investigates women's work in Italy between 1945 and 1965 using films, original oral history interviews, and archival sources. It focuses on three sectors: agriculture (rice weeders), fashion (seamstresses), and religious work (nuns) and compares women’s own words with their representati...
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Nuclear gaia
The book analyses new media archives on nuclear violence toward humans and the environment in the context of the ongoing project to transform Earth into Nuclear Gaia as a consequence of a confluence of political, military, economic, and scientific decisions made back in the 1940s, related to the ...
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Defending the realm?
Britain is often revered for its extensive experience of waging ‘small wars’. Its long imperial history is littered with high profile counter-insurgency campaigns, thus marking it out as the world’s most seasoned practitioner of this type of warfare. This is the first book to detail the tactical ...
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Slum city africa
Slum City Africa: “A Very Bad Place With Good Teachings” uses a combination of personal experience and stories passed down to Warren Elofson’s co-author Jonah Weyessa to textualize the realities of living in Nairobi’s poverty-stricken region, Kibera, one of the world’s dirtiest and most dangerous...
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Communication and colonialism in eastern india
This volume offers a detailed analysis of colonial policies in respect to communication in India – via roads, ferries, steamships and railways – and reveals how communication became an integral part of colonial governance in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
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The old world, the new world, and the creation of the modern world, 1400–1650
This book provides a unique look at the early years of European discovery and colonization, analyzing the impact of this period on the historical development of both the New and Old Worlds.
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Transnational coupling in the age of nation making during the 19th and 20th centuries
This work examines and compares courtship and marriage patterns that occurred between France and the United States during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Departing from state-centered studies of marriage law, it draws on the methodologies of transnational history, cultural history, and th...
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The ahmadis and the politics of religious exclusion in pakistan
This path-breaking work traces the history of the political exclusion of the Ahmadiyya religious minority in Pakistan, drawing on revealing new sources and connecting its discussion to larger issues of Islam in postcolonial Muslim nation-states. Winner of the Karachi Literary Festival Peace Prize...
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Travel writing in the nineteenth century
An insightful and illuminating collection of essays on the political and cultural dynamics of travel literature in the nineteenth century.
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Approaching the bible in medieval england
Traces how the Bible came to be known by lay people through different mediums. It brings together intellectual and religious history with art history, music, literature and social history to trace how the Bible was sung and preached, revered and studied in thirteenth- and fourteenth-century England.
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Juke box britain
Presents a highly original and detailed investigation into the nature of American visual, musical and cultural influences on British youth between 1945 and 1960. It looks at the spread of youth culture, juke boxes, coffee and milk bars, dress styles and rock ‘n’ roll and the context of these ‘new...
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Creating the opium war
This book explores British imperial attitudes towards China during their early encounters from 1792 to 1840.
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Royal tourists, colonial subjects and the making of a british world, 1860–1911
Examines the nineteenth-century royal tour from the perspectives of various historical actors – including royals, politicians and indigenous people – in order to demonstrate how a multi-valent British culture was created throughout the empire.
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Colonial caring
The editors have brought together eleven authors for an analysis of colonial and post-colonial nursing that spans nearly a century, and touches on Europe, Australia, the Caribbean and Africa
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Married to the empire
Situates women at the centre of the practices and policies of British imperialism
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News and rumour in jacobean england
Examines how political news was concealed, manipulated and distorted during the tumultuous later years of James I’s reign.
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The cult of the duce
The cult of the Duce is the first book to explore systematically the personality cult of the Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini, looking in detail at its many manifestations in the visual arts, architecture, political spectacle and the media, and analyses its controversial resonances in the postwa...
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Impostures in early modern england
Tobias B. Hug examines a wide range of sources, from judicial archives and other official records to chronicles, newspapers, ballads, pamphlets and autobiographical writings.
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Industrial enlightenment
This book uses a case study to explore the contribution which scientific knowledge made to the growth trajectory of England in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The aim is not to re-tell the story of the Industrial Revolution, but to reconstruct its preliminary stage which is he...
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The face of the city
This pioneering and unprecedented study shows how portraits of civic officials (mayors, aldremen, college and school masters and civic benefactors) articulated civic values in post-Reformation England. It also explores English portraiture, patrons and painters before the full reception of new-cl...
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Race and empire
The story of a short-lived but vehement eugenics movement that emerged among a group of Europeans in Kenya in the 1930s, unleashing a set of writings on racial differences in intelligence more extreme than that emanating from any other British colony in the twentieth century.
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The debate on the norman conquest
The debate on the Norman Conquest is still ongoing. Because of the great interest that has always been shown in the subject of conquest and its aftermath, interpretations have been numerous and conflicting; students bewildered by controversies may find this book a useful guide through the morass ...
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Conserving health in early modern culture
Conserving Health brings together scholarship from across the disciplinary spectrum to illustrate the role of preventive culture in early modern England and Italy, its ubiquity but also how patterns of healthy living differed in different countries.
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Regulating sexuality
Argues that a commonality of purpose existed between the Catholic and Protestant Churches concerning the regulation of female sexuality,
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Carson's army
The first academic study of the Ulster Volunteer Force, a paramilitary organisation, which was formed in 1913 by Ulster Unionists opposed to the Third Home Rule Bill. The Ulster Volunteer Force provided the basis of the 36th (Ulster) Division formed in 1914 and was reactivated in 1920 to counter ...
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States of enmity
This book establishes the crucial significance of the politics of enmity and pacification in the early modern Kingdom of Naples.
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Leisure cultures in urban europe, c.1700–1870
Combines research on a wide variety of leisure activities in the early modern and modern periods, providing an unprecedented transnational perspective to the study of European leisure history.
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At the end of the line
Colonial policing and the imperial endgame is the first comprehensive study of the colonial police and their complex role within Britain’s long and turbulent process of decolonisation, a time characterised by political upheaval and colonial conflict.The Colonial Police Service was created in 1936...
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The victorian soldier in africa
This book re-examines the campaign experience of British soldiers in Africa during the period 1874-1902. It uses using a range of sources, such as letters and diaries, to allow soldiers to 'speak form themselves' about their experience of colonial warfare
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Leeds and its jewish community
The definitive history of the third-largest Jewish community in the UK, which analyses the factors which contributed to its growth and success and explores the disproportionate influence the community had on the modern history of Leeds.
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A history of the greek resistance in the second world war
This book tells the story of the Greek resistance to Axis occupation during the Second World War and in particular the life of armed guerrillas. Rather than provide a conventional military history it will illuminate for the first time the lives, experiences and thoughts of the resistance fighters...
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Rural urbanism
This original and innovative book examines an intensive period in the development of London, when in the opening decades of the nineteenth century a concerted attempt was made to transform the metropolis into a modern European capital
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The political writings of eva gore-booth
A compilation of writings by this important Irish political activist. The volume includes a fascinating array of letters, political pamphlets, newspaper articles and poetry relating to key aspects of Irish and British events of the early twentieth century.
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Picturing the western front
Between 1914 and 1918, military, press and amateur photographers produced thousands of pictures. Classified in archives, collected in personal albums and circulated in illustrated magazines, photographs were supposed to tell the story of the war. This book argues that photographic practices also ...
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Children born of war in the twentieth century
This book explores the life courses of children born of warin different twentieth-century conflicts, from the Second World War to theRwandan Genocide and the LRA conflict. It is based on extensive archivalresearch, as well as oral history and participatory research methods, to addthe voices of th...
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The papal reform of the eleventh century
This fascinating collection of sources, translated for the first time in English and assembled in one accessible volume, show the startling impact of papal reform in the eleventh century and its consequences. An essential collection for students of medieval history.
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Murder and morality in victorian britain
This book explores the life of Madeleine Smith, who in 1857 was tried for poisoning her secret lover. As well as charting the course of this illicit relationship and Madeleine’s subsequent trial, the authors draw on a wide range of sources to pursue themes such as the nature of gender relations a...
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Inventing the modern region
This book explores the process by which the French Basque country acquired a folkloric regional identity in the long nineteenth century. It argues that, despite originating in pre-‘modern’ customs, such stereotypical identity was invented in the long nineteenth century as part of France’s process...
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Race, nation and empire
This book is about the ways in which questions of race and empire have figured in British history writing since the late 18th century.
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Terror and terroir
This book traces the history of post-war France by tracking the Comité Régional d'Action Viticole (CRAV), a militant collective of winegrowers who have used protest and violence to push back against attempts to modernise the French economy and state and the wider impacts of globalisation.
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This england
A celebration of Englishness in the sixteenth century. Appeals equally to students of early modern history and its literary culture, presenting a view of 'Tudor England' and offering a firmer historical background to evaluating the English Renaissance.
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Eleventh-century germany
Three of the most important chronicles of eleventh-century Germany were composed in the south-western duchy of Swabia. The Swabian chronicles are an indispensable resource to the student of the changing loyalties and conflicts of eleventh-century Germany.
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Francophone africa at fifty
Explores the complexities of France's role in Africa over the past century
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The origins of the first world war
A unique collection of hundreds of diplomatic and military documents on the origins of WWI: newly-discovered archival sources as well as documents not previously available in English. It includes a comprehensive scholarly introduction covering the most controversial issues in the debate on the or...
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Piercing the bamboo curtain
A comprehensive study of Lyndon Johnson's China policy based on a range of recently declassified government documents. This book explores the administration's relationship to both the Vietnam War and the Cultural Revolution and offers a new perspective on Johnson's capacity as a foreign policy le...
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Cheated not poisoned?
This book provides the first comprehensive evaluation of Britain’s food laws from the 1860s to 1930s and the first analysis of the Victorian anti-adulteration legislation for 25 years.
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Civvies
Explores the experiences of middle-class men on the English home front during the First World War
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William parsons, 3rd earl of rosse
A revealing account of the family life and achievements of the Third Earl of Rosse, a hereditary peer and resident landlord at Birr Castle, County Offaly, in nineteenth-century Ireland, before, during and after the devastating famine of the 1840s
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The debate on the english reformation
New edition, combines a discussion of successive historical approaches to the English Reformation with a critical review of recent debates in the area
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Sexual politics in revolutionary england
This book explores the sudden emergence of graphic sex-talk in English print culture during the events of the English Revolution (1640–60) and argues for the long-term significance of that development for the political culture of late Stuart England and beyond.
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Imperial citizenship
This is the first book-length study of the ideological foundations of British imperialism in the early twentieth century by focussing on the heretofore understudied concept of imperial citizenship.
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Medicine, mobility and the empire
This book makes a new contribution to histories of medicine and health in the colonial era, with particular focus on Malawi, the British Empire and Southern Africa. It argues that mobility of people, ideas and materials was crucial within the dynamic, intertwined and networked medical culture of ...
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The towns of italy in the later middle ages
The towns of Italy in the later Middle Ages presents over one hundred fascinating documents, carefully selected and coordinated from the richest, most innovative and most documented society of the European Middle Ages.
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A short history of colonialism
Excellent, accessible textbook for courses in general and comparative colonial history. Includes not only overseas empires but also continental colonial expansion (USA, Latin America, South Africa, Australia and Russia). Most recent comprehensive book in the field.
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Proxy war in afghanistan
This book is about proxy war and the politics of state-wrecking in Afghanistan and examines how proxy war undermined the US-led state-building project in Afghanistan.
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Cooking up a revolution
During the late 1980s and early 1990s the city of San Francisco waged a war against the homeless. This book treats the conflict between the city and activists as a unique opportunity to examine the contested nature of homelessness and public space while developing an anarchist alternative to libe...
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At home with the poor
This book opens the doors to the homes of the forgotten poor and traces the goods they owned before, during and after the industrial revolution. Using a vast range of sources, it argues that the poor owned greater numbers and varieties of items with each generation and that poverty did not always...
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The politics of feeling in brexit britain
This book challenges the idea that Brexit was a contest between ‘heads’ and ‘hearts’, and offers a fresh account of political feelings and the stories we tell about them.
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Murky waters
Murky waters explores the ambivalent representations of spas in eighteenth-century medicine and literature. It gives a wide cultural perspective of the numerous spas, springs and wells of Britain, well beyond Bath, and focuses on specific political and cultural tensions while reasserting the cent...
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