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Concepts of Urban-Environmental History
The history of cities and of the environment are inseparably intertwined. This volume presents concepts and key issues from this field of research.
Size Matters – Understanding Monumentality Across Ancient Civilizations
Does size matter in the perception of monuments? How can one quantify the monumental? This volume considers these questions in an interdisciplinary approach.
Finding, Inheriting or Borrowing?
The Construction and Transfer of Knowledge in Antiquity and the Middle Ages
This volume offers a multidisciplinary approach to the question of the construction and transfer of knowledge about man and nature in Antiquity and the Middle Ages.
Judith Mengler
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Kristina Müller-Bongard
(eds.)
Doing Cultural History
Insights, Innovations, Impulses
Doing Cultural History sheds light on the inspirational power of the concepts of Cultural History to young academics.
Jacob Moleschott – A Transnational Biography
Science, Politics, and Popularization in Nineteenth-Century Europe
This biography of Jacob Moleschott enlightens the entanglement of science, politics, and popularization in 19th-century Europe.
Congoism
Congo Discourses in the United States from 1800 to the Present
Congoism radically deconstructs the many dismissive discourses on today's Democratic Republic of the Congo in the works of U.S. intellectuals.
American Missionaries in the Ottoman Empire
A Conceptual Metaphor Analysis of Missionary Narrative, 1820-1898
Hami Inan Gümüs ascertains and analyzes the conceptual metaphor networks in American missionary texts from the Ottoman mission (1820-1898).
Jörg Rogge
(ed.)
Killing and Being Killed: Bodies in Battle
Perspectives on Fighters in the Middle Ages
Fighting and warfare is hardly imaginable without the use of the "resource" body. The body techniques of fighters and their perception take centre stage in this book.
Harco Willems
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Jan-Michael Dahms
(eds.)
The Nile: Natural and Cultural Landscape in Egypt
Ancient Egypt as we know it with all its wonders like pyramids and temples wouldn't have existed without the Nile. The first recent attempt to explain the importance of this natural phenomenon for the culture of pharaonic Egypt.
Histories for the Many
The Victorian Family Magazine and Popular Representations of the Past. The "Leisure Hour", 1852-1870
How did illustrated family magazines contribute to Victorian historical culture? An approach to the serialisation of history in text and image.