History

This engaging account introduces readers to a remarkable range of transportation firsts and other related developments that occurred within the Lea Valley region of London. From the Thames Ironworks, which gave birth to the HMS Warrior the world's first ironclad battle cruiser, to the Great Eastern Railway ...

Since 1945 Europe has experienced many periods of turmoil and conflict and as many moments of peace and integration: from the devastation felt in the aftermath of World War II to the recovery in the 1950s and 1960s; to the new challenges in the 1970s and 1980s when neoliberal policies led to fundamental social and economic changes...

Common sense suggests that rituals drain economic wealth & that rational actions are antithetical to rituals. These 6 studies offer a different vision. Comparative, historical, & contemporary, the studies stretch from Macedonia to Kyrgyzstan, each one illuminating the changes in an area as it emerged from socialism & (re-)entered market society.

Ivan Klima, 'a writer of enormous power and originality' (The New York Times Book Review), has penned an intimate autobiography that explores his life under Nazi and Communist regimes.

This book documents changes in the foreign exchange rate regime and policy in Japan since the end of the Second World War from a historical perspective.

Published by Berghahn Books in association with the Royal Anthropological Institute Anthropology seeks to understand human social behaviour and how societies are formed. As a method of inquiry it embraces an enormous range of topics, and as a discipline it covers a multitude of fields and themes, as shown in this selection of original writings.

Sculpture.

This book explores the historical relationship between China and Japan, and how this has exacerbated their dispute over the Senkaku/ Diaoyu Islands in the East China Sea. There are three paradoxes in the bilateral relationship - complex interdependence does not preclude the possibility of open conflict; ...

Released to mark the one hundredth anniversary of the Suffragette Derby, this is British social history at its best.

"Uses contemporary social theory and interdisciplinary methodologies to tell the social history of the Iroquois people of Ohio during the build-up to removal"--Provided by publisher.

The repression of desire uncovered in the production of scatological comedy.

This volume includes contributions from international scholars on topics such as: "The Duke of Buckingham Masque", "The Gower Manuscripts of Poems by Thomas Carew" and "A Newly Discovered Songbook in Poland with works by Henry Lawes and His Contemporaries".

"Examines the relationship between rock art, shamanism, and the origins of human existence"--Provided by publisher.

Part of the "Chicago History of American Civilization" series, which provides a nuanced and vibrant portrait of the United States from its inception through the twentieth century.

A lively, authoritative and revealing portrait of the Queen's life and work through the eyes of those who've known her and worked with her over the last 50 years. Queen Elizabeth is the most experienced figure in British public life. The most famous woman in the world, she is also the most private. The ...