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China's rise in historical perspective

Ed. Brantly Womack. "China and the United States are bound to have issues and confrontation. We will also have synergies, collaboration, and cooperation. In China's Rise, Brantly Womack has compiled the most useful set of perspectives in the last decade on how to think ...

On the aesthetics of Beowulf and other old english poems

Ed. John M. Hill. What makes one Anglo-Saxon poem better than another? Why does Beowulf still have the power to move us after so many centuries? What might have been aesthetically pleasing to Old English readers and writers of poetry?While there is an apparent ...

Medieval medicine

a reader

Ed. Faith Wallis. Medical knowledge and practice changed profoundly during the medieval period. In this collection of over 100 primary sources, many translated for the first time, Faith Wallis reveals the dynamic world of medicine in the Middle Ages that has been largely unavailable to ...

Latin American politics

an introduction

Highlighting eleven different topics in separate chapters, the thematic approach of Latin American Politics offers students the conceptual tools they need to analyze the political systems of all twenty Latin American nations. Such a structure makes the book self-consciously comparative, allowing students to become stronger ...

The viking age

a reader

Eds. Angus A. Somerville, R. Andrew McDonald. The diversity of the Viking world is illuminated in more than 100 readings contained in this primary source reader. The Norse translations, many of them new, are straightforward and easily accessible for students. The introductions contextualize the readings ...

European foreign and security policy

States, power, institutions, and american hegemony

The European Union's (EU) Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) stipulates that all member states must unanimously ratify policy proposals through their representatives on the EU Council. Intergovernmentalism, or the need for equal agreement from all member nations, is used by many political scientists ...

Thinking historically

educating students for the Twenty-First Century

Two simple but profound questions have preoccupied scholars since the establishment of history education over a century ago: what is historical thinking, and how do educators go about teaching it? In Thinking Historically, Stephane Levesque examines these questions, focusing on what it means to think ...

Subject stages

marriage, theatre, and the Law in Early Modern Spain

In early modern Spain, the strict definition of marriage as the union of a man and a woman of Catholic faith for the sole purpose of procreation became a key strategy in the production of Spain's version of empire, the Universal Catholic Monarchy. Maria ...

Ovid in the Age of Cervantes

The Roman poet Ovid, author of the famous Metamorphoses, is widely considered one of the canonical poets of Latin antiquity. Vastly popular in Europe during the Renaissance and Early Modern periods, Ovid's writings influenced the literature, art, and culture in Spain's Golden Age ...

Braudel revisited

the Mediterranean World, 1600-1800

Eds. Gabriel Piterberg, Teofilo F. Ruiz, Geoffrey Symcox. Fernand Braudel (1912- 1985), was a leading French historian and author of, among other books, the groundbreaking The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II (1949). One of the founders of the Annales ...

Engaging Heidegger

One of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century, Martin Heidegger was primarily concerned with the 'question of Being.' However, recent scholarship has tended to marginalize the importance of the name of Being in his thought. Through a focused reading of Heidegger's texts ...

The making of Nwe World slavery

from the Baroque to the Modern, 1492-1800

Robin Blackburn traces European doctrines of race and slavery from medieval times to the early modern epoch. "The Making of New World Slavery" argues that independent commerce, geared to burgeoning consumer markets, was the driving force behind the rise of plantation slavery. The baroque state ...

The coming of the book

the impact of printing, 1450-1800

The emergence of the book was an event of world historical importance, and heralded the dawning of modernity. In this much praised history of that momentous process, Lucien Febvre and Henri-Jean Martin mesh together economic and technological history, sociology and anthropology, with the study of ...

A calculus of power

grand strategy in the Twenty-First Century

Introduced by Tariq Ali. In this wide-ranging and incisive collection, Peter Gowan traces the contours of the world order that emerged after the end of the Cold War and assesses its prospects in the light of the global economic downturn. Arguing that the present inter-state ...

Patriotas y demócratas

el discurso nacionalista español después de Franco

¿Nación pluricultural, nación de naciones, patria única e indivisible o Estado plurinacional? En la España del siglo XXI coexisten diferentes discursos acerca de cuál es la nación española y, asimismo, de cuál debe ser su relación con las diversas naciones sin Estado, nacionalidades históricas o ...

Political communication and social theory

"Political Communication and Social Theory" presents an advanced and challenging text for students and scholars of political communication and mass media in democracies. It draws together work from across political communication, media sociology and political sociology, and includes a mix of theoretical debate and current ...

Ancient Greece

social and historical documents from archaic times to the death of Alexander The Great

The field of Byzantine jewellery (4th-15th centuries) is a rapidly expanding one and a large amount of important research has been conducted within the last ten years, both by scholars on the continent and in America. The intention of the conference, and subsequently the volume ...

Contemporary Art and the cosmopolitan imagination

"Contemporary Art and the Cosmopolitan Imagination" explores the role of art in conceiving and reconfiguring the political, ethical and social landscape of our time. Understanding art as a vital form of articulation, Meskimmon argues that artworks do more than simply reflect and represent the processes ...

Psychology of music

from sound to significance

Why are some disturbances of air molecules heard as 'noise' while others are perceived as music? What happens at the level of the sound wave, the ear, and the brain when we perform or listen to music? How do musical abilities emerge and develop, and ...

Equipos innovadores

herramientas para gestionar la diversidad creativa

Desde hace ya cierto tiempo se viene debatiendo sobre la importancia de equilibrar los diferentes aspectos relacionados con la diversidad para fomentar, a traves de ella, la cristalizacion de entornos capaces de albergar un crisol de pensamientos heterogeneos que impulsen la creatividad y la innovacion ...