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"This excellent book fills a longstanding void in literature on the politics of memory in Eastern Europe. Professor Marples has produced an innovative and courageous study of how postcommunist Ukra...

While words can mean different things to different people in different contexts, specialists excel in using terms and expressions, which non-specialists ~ quite often ~ find challenging to understa...

Essays on Archaeology in the Eastern Mediterranean and Beyond in Honor of Thomas E. Levy

Frontmatter -- Foreword -- Contents -- Introduction: Astrologers' Theory of History -- Astrology as a Naturalistic Theology of History -- Celestial influence - the major premiss of astrology -- Lut...

This is a monograph about the medieval Jewish community of the Mediterranean port city of Alexandria. Through deep analyses of contemporary historical sources, mostly documents from the Cairo Geniz...

African Estate Records and Colonial Gaps in a Post-colonial National Archive

The Donation of Constantine is the most outrageous and powerful forgery in world history. The question of its precise time of origin alone kept generations of researchers occupied. But, what exactl...

The origins of the anonymous Late Latin Story of Apollonius, King of Tyre (Historia Apollonii regis Tyri), are disputed, with the narrative commonly being seen as a Christianised folktale of a sub-...

What do we mean by Jewish space? How does it come into being, what qualities does it possess, and how does one experience it? Does this specific space play a role in Jewish-Christian encounters? Ho...

Der Band nimmt die Reise- und Sammlungsbeschreibungen von Philipp Hainhofer (1578-1647) zum Anlass, um verschiedene Aspekte der deutschen Gartenkunst zu beleuchten. Der behandelte Zeitraum setzt mi...

This book draws on recent deconstructions around the idea of 'femininity' as a social, racial and class construct and explores the diversity of spaces that may be defined as educational that range ...

This book provides a view of literary life under the Nazis, highlighting the ambiguities, rivalries and conflicts that determined the cultural climate of that period and beyond. Focusing on a group...

Digging the Others' Past

How do games represent history, and how do we make sense of the history of games? The industry regularly uses history to sell products, while processes of creation and of promotion leave behind mar...

Political Strategies from Parties and Grassroots Organisations (1867-2020)