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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...

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...

In the first three decades of the 20th century, the importance of Jewish artists from Central and Eastern Europe grew in the international artistic community. Liberated from the dictates of orthodo...

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

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 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...

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

As a case study of the religious history of colonial Sri Lanka in the 19th and early 20th centuries, this book by Jiang Wei explores the prehistory, development, and decline of the 'Independent Cat...

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-...

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...

By providing a detailed study of a case little known outside of East Asia, will expand the framework of Western-centered heritage research by introducing novel Asian perspectives.

Guy Tourlamain received his DPhil. from Oxford University in 2007. He also spent time as a visiting student at the University of Gießen, University of Hamburg and Humboldt University in Berlin as w...

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

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 ...

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...