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Networks of faith and profit

monks, merchants, and exchanges between China and Japan, 839-1403 CE

Between 839 and 1403 CE, there was a six-century lapse in diplomatic relations between present-day China and Japan. This hiatus in what is known as the tribute system has led to an assumption that there was little contact between the two countries in this period ...

The Indo-European language family

a phylogenetic perspective

Modern languages like English, Spanish, Russian and Hindi as well as ancient languages like Greek, Latin and Sanskrit all belong to the Indo-European language family, which means that they all descend from a common ancestor. But how, more precisely, are the Indo-European languages related to ...

The Greeks and their histories

myth, history, and society

In this concise but stimulating book on history and Greek culture, Hans-Joachim Gehrke continues to refine his work on 'intentional history', which he defines as a history in the self-understanding of social groups and communities - connected to a corresponding understanding of the other - which is ...

The local horizon of ancient Greek religion

Which dimensions of the religious experience of the ancient Greeks become tangible only if we foreground its local horizons? This book explores the manifold ways in which Greek religious beliefs and practices are encoded in and communicate with various local environments. Its individual chapters explore ...

When democracy died

the Middle East's enduring peace of Lausanne

The Treaty of Lausanne, signed in Switzerland in July 1923, officially settled the conflict between the Ottoman Empire and the Allied forces. Not only did the Treaty establish the borders of the modern Turkish republic, but it also defined boundaries, political systems, and understandings of ...

The Great Plague scare of 1720

disaster and diplomacy in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world

From 1720 to 1722, the French region of Provence and surrounding areas experienced one of the last major epidemics of plague to strike Western Europe. The Plague of Provence was a major disaster that left in its wake as many as 126,000 deaths, as ...

The Bacchic gold tablets and poetic tradition

memory and performance

The Bacchic gold tablets are a remarkable collection of objects from the Ancient Greek world: inscribed with short verse texts and buried in graves of mystery initiates, they express extraordinary hopes for post-mortem salvation. Past approaches to these objects have sought to reconstruct their underlying ...

Pre-Islamic Arabia

societies, politics, cults and identities during late antiquity

This book delves into the political and cultural developments of pre-Islamic Arabia, focusing on the religious attitudes of the inhabitants of the Arabian Peninsula and its northern extension into the Syrian desert. Between the third and the Seventh Century, Arabia was on the edge of ...

Etruria and Anatolia

material connections and artistic exchange

Striking similarities in Etruscan and Anatolian material culture reveal various forms of contact and exchange between these regions on opposite sides of the Mediterranean. This is the first comprehensive investigation of these connections, approaching both cultures as agents of artistic exchange rather than as side ...

Imagining the Roman emperor

perceptions of rulers in the high empire

How was the Roman emperor viewed by his subjects? How strongly did their perception of his role shape his behaviour? Adopting a fresh approach, Panayiotis Christoforou focuses on the emperor from the perspective of his subjects across the Roman Empire. Stress lies on the imagination ...

Making the middle Republic

new approaches to Rome and Italy, c.400-200 BCE

During the fourth and third centuries BCE, Roman expansion into Italy reshaped the peninsula's Archaic societies and prompted new political relationships, new economic practices, and new sociocultural structures. Rural landscapes and urban spaces throughout Latium saw intensified use amidst novel principles of land management ...

Connecting communities in Archaic Greece

exploring economic and political networks through data modelling

This is a new history of Greece in the seventh and sixth centuries BC written for the twenty-first century. It brings together archaeological data from over 100 years of 'Big Dig' excavation in Greece, employing experimental data analysis techniques from the digital humanities to identify ...

The politics of immorality in ancient Rome

The question this book addresses is not how immoral the ancient Romans were, but why the literature they produced is so preoccupied with immorality. The modern image of immoral Rome derives from ancient accounts which are largely critical rather than celebratory. Far from being empty ...

Grita

Saviano rinde homenaje a personas ejemplares que se han enfrentado a la injusticia y la tiranía. ¿Qué tienen en común Hipatia, Giordano Bruno, Émile Zola, Martin Luther King y Anna Politkóvskaya? Que todos ellos, cada uno con sus herramientas, lucharon contra la injusticia. Levantaron la ...

Manual de sabotaje

En 1944, en plena Segunda Guerra Mundial, meses antes del Desembarco de Normandía, la Oficina de Servicios Estratégicos de Estados Unidos preparó este Manual de campo de sabotaje sencillo –según su denominación completa– para informar a los ciudadanos de cómo realizar actos de sabotaje bajo ...

Perdidos entre ideologías

Cómo interpretar la vida política actual

La vida política actual es un terreno confuso de ideologías en pugna. Jason Blakely ofrece una guía perspicaz para salir indemne de un laberinto de ideas que colisionan entre sí, y ponen de manifiesto una modernidad fragmentada. Para ello, parte de la convicción de que ...

Un mundo virtual

Los secretos del Metaverso y la realidad aumentada

Las claves de una tecnología que rompe los límites del espacio y el tiempo.No cabe duda de que la inmersión en la realidad virtual y el Metaverso transformarán los negocios, las relaciones sociales, el ocio, los hogares, las oficinas, las calles y hasta la ...

El día de la batalla

La guerra en Sicilia y en Italia, 1943-1944

La esperada segunda parte de Un ejército al amanecer de Rick Atkinson, premio Pulitzer de Historia 2003.En Un ejército al amanecer –que fue ganador del Premio Pulitzer de Historia 2003- Rick Atkinson proporcionaba una historia dramática y autorizada del triunfo de los aliados en ...

Tipos de contratos del sector público. Paso a paso

Análisis teórico-práctico de los distintos tipos de contratos del sector público según la Ley 9/2017, de 8 de noviembre, de Contratos del Sector Público

En la presente obra se ofrece al lector un análisis práctico de determinados aspectos de la tan compleja Ley 9/2017, de 8 de noviembre, de Contratos del Sector Público. Con carácter introductorio se da respuesta a preguntas tales como ¿cuál es el objeto de ...

Guerra Santa al sur del Sahara

El periodista egipcio-sudanés Fuad Abdelrahim, experto en islamismo político, explica que la yihad ha tenido históricamente diferentes interpretaciones. Entre ellas, cita "el combate a los gobiernos musulmanes que sirven a los enemigos del Islam". Ese sería el caso del Sahel, donde la guerra santa islámica ...