• Němčina

From the earliest magical charms and mythical sagas to the brilliance and desolation of 20th-century fiction, poetry, and…

Historians have dismissed the pageantry of the Vienna Congress as window dressing when compared with the serious…

The Yiddish socialist movement shaped Jewish communities across the U.S. well into the 20th century and left a political…

Uncovers the complex roots of Shi'i sectarianism in twentieth-century Lebanon. Uncoupling the beginnings of modern Shi'i…

During World War I, Britain and France imported workers from their colonies to labor behind the front lines. The single…

Roisin Cossar examines how clerics managed efforts to reform their domestic lives in the decades after the Black Death.…

As readers of Russian literature know, the nineteenth century was a time of pervasive financial anxiety. Russians of all…

Beniger traces the origin of the Information Society to major economic and business crises of the 1800s. Inevitably the…

Trade in human lives thrived in North China during the Qing and Republican periods. Families at all social levels…

Produkt Big Business in China - Cochran, Sherman zakoupíte na Bookshop.cz od nakladatele Harvard University Press.…

• Čeština

In 1939 Nazis identified Polish citizens of German origin and granted them legal status as ethnic Germans of the Reich.…

This reinterpretation of a century of American historical writing challenges the notion that the politics of the recent past…

From the late fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries, the imagination came to be recognized in South Indian culture as the…

Writing War examines over two hundred diaries, and many more letters, postcards, and memoirs, written by Chinese, Japanese,…

Rejecting the view of modern Middle Eastern history as an offshoot of global power politics, the authors argue that the main…

Jenifer Van Vleck's Empire of the Air reveals the central role commercial aviation played in the U.S. ascent to global…

Conservationist and photographer Fernández documents the efforts of a team of international scientists as they unravel the…

The United States has a long history of citizens rendering service to their communities. Examples of government-sponsored…

The first comprehensive English-language biography of Emperor Huizong corrects the prevailing view of this ruler as a…

• Rok vydání 1990

Representing ten years of research into the history of the managerial business system, this book concentrates on patterns of…

Age of Entanglement explores the connections that linked German and Indian intellectuals from the nineteenth century through…

• Rok vydání 2007

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Paper Memory tells of one man's mission to preserve for posterity the memory of everyday life in sixteenth-century Germany.…

Hegel's philosophy of history-which most critics view as a theory of inevitable progress toward modern European…

The angry emotions, and the problems they presented, were an ancient Greek preoccupation from Homer to late antiquity.…

In the first half of the fifteenth century, Rome and the papal court were caught between conflicting realities--between the…

• Čeština

Perhaps the greatest scholar of Jewish mysticism in the twentieth century, Scholem (1897-1982) once said of himself, "I have…

The Cultural Revolution began from above, yet it was students and workers at the grassroots who advanced the movement's…

Traces the Perry family of Devon (1615-1753) who created Perry and Lane, the most important London firm trading to the…

The authors explore a lengthy controversy surrounding fishing, hunting, and gathering rights of Chippewa Indians in…

Though blacks were not often seen on the streets of seventeenth-century London, they were already capturing the British…

This is the first extensive study in English or Chinese of China's reception of the celebrated physicist and his theory of…

In seventeenth-century England, intellectuals of various kinds discovered their idealized self-image in the Adam who…

• Čeština

Never before translated into English, this official history of the reign of King T'aejo-founder of Korea's illustrious…

Why did the United States become a global power? Frank Ninkovich shows that a cultural predisposition for thinking in global…

What were the critical characteristics that distinguished the imperial period of the state from its pre-imperial period? In…

Sellars (1912-1989) was, in the opinion of many, the most important American philosopher of the second half of the twentieth…

Rosselli (1899-1937) was one of the most influential of European antifascist intellectuals. Born into a wealthy Jewish…

The letters begin when the 27-year-old poet writes gratefully to the stranger who has expressed appreciation of his first…

Neeti Nair's account of the partition in the Punjab rejects the idea that essential differences between the Hindu and Muslim…

Historians have traditionally turned to free trade and laissez faire to explain the development of political economy during…

This unique account of the life of Charles Follen--German nationalist and revolutionary, Harvard professor, Unitarian…

The first book to trace the history of adolescent medicine, A Doctor of Their Own draws on oral histories of physicians in…

Support of the Ottoman Empire was official British policy for decades after the Crimean War. But reports of alleged…

Since the inception of Dead Sea Scrolls research, a central theory has emerged, which asserts that the scrolls belonged to…

Ladd describes the struggle of German leaders to bring order to their rapidly growing cities during the age of industrial…

• Němčina

Arguably no other 19th-century German composer was as literate or as finely attuned to setting verse as Robert Schumann.…

Insisting on gradual and regular-lawful-change, Darwinian thought nevertheless requires acknowledgment of chance and…