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Minoan kingship and the solar goddess

a near eastern koine

Ancient Minoan culture has been typically viewed as an ancestor of classical Greek civilization, but this book shows that Minoan Crete was on the periphery of a powerfully dynamic cultural interchange with its neighbours. Rather than viewing Crete as the autochthonous ancestor of Greece's ...

Nearest East

american millennialism and mission to the Middle East

Long before oil interests shaped American interaction with the Middle East, the U.S. had a strong influence on the late Ottoman and post- Ottoman region. Covering the period from approximately 1800 to the 1970s, Hans-Lukas Kieser's compelling Nearest East tells the story of ...

The last Vikings

the epic story of the great norse voyagers

Late in the tenth century, the Norse Vikings embarked on a voyage of no return. Leaving Iceland first for Greenland, from there they sailed onwards to North America, setting foot on its shores five hundred years before Columbus' first journeys of discovery. But by about ...

Islam political violence

muslim diaspora and radicalism in the West

Eds. Shahram Akbarzadeh, Fethi Mansouri. How do we engage with the pressing challenges of xenophobia, radicalism and security in the age of the 'war on terror'? The widely felt sense of insecurity in the West is shared by Muslims both within and outside Western societies ...

Hitler's Vienna

a portrait of the tyrant as a young man

Foreword by Hans Mommsen. What turned Adolf Hitler, a relatively normal and apparently unexceptional young man, into the very personification of evil? To answer this question, acclaimed historian Brigitte Hamann has turned to the critical, formative, years that the young Hitler spent in Vienna. For ...

Oblivion or utopia

the prospects for Africa

Foreword by Alan Fowler. This book explains that efforts to reverse Africa's continuing underdevelopment have failed to date because they have not been consciously aimed at enabling Africa to turn its vast natural resources into wealth; here, Malunga proposes a five step strategy enabling ...

Conceptions of happiness

Conceptions of Happiness, Revised Edition presents the thesis that happiness does not mean just one thing but many, and that these many meanings have been studied, described, argued, and practiced throughout the centuries in many climes and places. When asked if one is happy, people ...

Eternal colonialism

Eds. Russell Benjamin, Gregory O. Hall. This book examines "eternal colonialism," a term used to describe the policies that were designed by the Western world and the United States in order to keep most of the world in a permanently subordinate political, economic, social, and ...

Modern Italy

in historical perspective

A sense of failure pervades Italian history: the failure of the Liberal State after Unification to democratize, mobilize and modernize Italian politics, economy and society; the rise of Fascism as a reflection of these shortcomings; the problems of the post-war Republic, tainted by corruption, organized ...

Cultural resources archaeology

an introduction

This textbook introduces archaeology students to the field of cultural resources archaeology.

Books as weapons

propaganda, publishing, and the battle for global markets in the Era of World War II

"John B. Hench's invaluable book helps to fill in another piece in the jigsaw of war. It brilliantly assays the high ambitions governments, publishers, and organizations had for the book as a repository and an arrowhead of civilization and education in World War II---and ...

Toward the visualization of history

the past as image

This book discusses the impact of visuals on the study of history by examining visual culture and the future of print, providing an analysis of photography, film, television, and computer culture. The author shows how the visualization of history can become a driving social and ...

Amenaza sísmica en América Central

Eds. Mª Belén Benito Oterino, Yolanda Torres Fernández. Este es el primer estudio de amenaza sísmica desarrollado para toda la región centro americana en la primera década de 2000, con participación de especialistas de todos los países del área y con información local actualizada de ...

Los enemigos de España

imagen del otro, conflictos bélicos y disputas nacionales (siglos XVI- XX). Actas del IV Coloquio Internacional de Historia Política, 5-6 de junio de 2008

La resolución de los conflictos electorales

un análisis comparado

El presente volumen recoge las ponencias presentadas al seminario internacional sobre el control de los procesos electorales, que se celebró en Madrid, en la sede del Centro de Estudios Políticos y Constitucionales, los días 24 y 25 de abril de 2009.

La giustizia costituzionale nel XXI secolo

il progressivo avvicinamento dei sistemi americano ed europeo-kelseniano

ÍNDICE: Presentazione - Preface Premessa - Introduction Francisco Fernández Segado, La justicia constitucional ante el siglo XXI. La progresiva convergencia de los sistemas americano y europeo- kelseniano

Pueblos y lenguas de Europa, Asia, África y Oceanía

"La idea de nación es la idea de lo uniforme frente a lo variable; lo inerte contra lo dinámico; la osamenta en el mausoleo frente a las cenizas al viento; la bacteria inerte guardada en el congelador de un laboratorio frente al bacilo de la ...

Confianza y gobierno

En vista del justificado temor de que gobernantes inescrupulosos pudieran disolverlas, confiscar sus recursos o someterlas a formas de intervención perjudiciales, fuertes redes de confianza -grupos de parentesco, sectas religiosas clandestinas y diásporas comerciales, entre otras- se aislaron del control político mediante una serie de ...

Xenofobias y xenofilias en clave biográfica

Este libro supone un avance en la comprensión de una realidad en la que todos somos protagonistas: la convivencia entre autóctonos y foráneos. Destinado tanto al gran público como a expertos y agentes sociales diversos, trata de encontrar un equilibrio entre la monografía académica y ...

Droit Européen des Droits de l'Homme

contentieux européen

Hors tout militantisme "pro" ou "anti" droits de l'homme, l'objet de cette étude est le droit positif des droits de l'homme dans le cadre d'une démarche strictement scientifique. À l'occasion de cette nouvelle édition, l'auteur a exclusivement centré sa ...