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This is a full-scale edition with commentary of the archaic epic poems by Kreophylos of Samos and by Peisandros of Kamiros. The Greek text (divided between testimonies and fragments) is accompanied...

Cultural Content in the Digital Age

Ever since Jesus walked the hills of Galilee and Paul travelled the roads of Asia Minor and Greece, Christianity has shown a remarkable ability to adapt itself to various social and cultural enviro...

New Diplomatic History has turned into one of the most dynamic and innovative areas of research - especially with regard to early modern history. It has shown that diplomacy was not as homogenous a...

This book explores the localisation of modernity in late colonial India. As a case study, it focuses on the hitherto untold colonial history of Khalsa College, Amritsar, a pioneering and highly inf...

i-iv -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Iconography, symbolism and writing at the dawn of civilization - Old Europe from the seventh to the fourth millennia B.C. -- 2. The organizing prin...

East Central Europe Between the Colonial and the Postcolonial in the Twentieth Century

This book contains unique, firsthand experiences of both the military and civilian actors involved in civil-military interaction processes. It presents lessons learned from a variety of situations,...

This volume investigates the emergence and spread of maritime commerce and interconnectivity across the Indian Ocean World--the world's first "global economy"--from a longue durée perspective. Span...

A Handbook

Identität kann als eine komplexe Schnittstelle zwischen dem Individuum und der Gesellschaft gesehen werden, wobei die Spielräume für die individuellen Identifikationen in jeder historischen Epoche ...

This book investigates the memory of the Holocaust in Sweden and concentrates on early initiatives to document and disseminate information about the genocide during the late 1940s until the early 1...

The concept of resonance collapses the binary between subject and object, perceiver and perceived, evoking a sound or image that is prolonged and augmented by making contact with another surface. T...

This volume presents the intellectual autobiographies of fourteen leading scholars in the fields of history, literature, film and cultural studies who have dedicated a considerable part of their ca...

The book offers a comprehensive model of religious culture of peasants of the Lesser Poland in the early modern times. Its principal research topic is the influence of religion on the life and atti...