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The Islamic Reform Movement of the Association of Algerian ʿUlamaʾ, 1931–1954: Between Politics and the Religious Sphere

The Islamic Reform Movement of the Association of Algerian...

Author: Shoko Watanabe
ISBN: 9789004741287
Format: Hardback
$266.64

With a focus on the Association of Algerian ʿUlamaʾ founded in 1931, this book reveals the dynamics and resilience...  Read More >>

Decisions on Western Waters: The Twenty-Seven Critical Decisions That Defined the Operations

Decisions on Western Waters: The Twenty-Seven Critical...

Author: Michael D. Becker
ISBN: 9798895270455
Format: Paperback
$65.87

The long-running Decisions Series tackles the Brown Water Navy. At the outset of the Civil War, General Winfield...  Read More >>

Women, Gender, and Sexuality in the Holocaust

Women, Gender, and Sexuality in the Holocaust

Author: Alison Rose
ISBN: 9781032053905
Format: Hardback
$401.06

A comprehensive introduction to the broad and developing field of women, gender, and sexuality in the Holocaust....  Read More >>

Latin Texts on Papyrus and the Study of Classics

Latin Texts on Papyrus and the Study of Classics

Author: Maria Chiara Scappaticcio (Università degli Studi di Napoli 'Federico II')
ISBN: 9781009586597
Format: Hardback
$310.50

This volume gathers 25 chapters focused on Latin texts on papyrus, exploring them from multi- and cross-disciplinary...  Read More >>

A Hundred Flowers: How Literature Shaped Maoism

A Hundred Flowers: How Literature Shaped Maoism

Author: Dayton Lekner (Ca' Foscari University of Venice)
ISBN: 9781009600538
Format: Hardback
$245.81

Drawing on archival, published, and literary sources, Dayton Lekner tells the story of the Hundred Flowers campaign...  Read More >>

The Cambridge Companion to Matthew Paris

The Cambridge Companion to Matthew Paris

Author: James G. Clark (University of Exeter)
ISBN: 9781108473491
Format: Hardback
$232.88

The book offers students and general readers a new, interdisciplinary and cutting-edge account of Matthew Paris'...  Read More >>

Fanny Hensel and Felix Mendelssohn in Context

Fanny Hensel and Felix Mendelssohn in Context

Author: Thomas Schmidt (University of Manchester) ,  Benedict Taylor (University of Edinburgh)
ISBN: 9781009172752
Format: Hardback
$245.81

An authoritative overview of the personal, professional, cultural, political and religious contexts in which Hensel...  Read More >>

The Cambridge Companion to Counter-Reformation Sanctity

The Cambridge Companion to Counter-Reformation Sanctity...

Author: Jan Machielsen (Cardiff University) ,  Emily Michelson (University of St. Andrews, Scotland)
ISBN: 9781009199605
Format: Hardback
$245.81

Offering a fresh perspective on early modern Catholicism, this book explores how Counter-Reformation sanctity reshaped...  Read More >>

Why Nations Still Fight

Why Nations Still Fight

Author: Richard Ned Lebow (Dartmouth College, New Hampshire)
ISBN: 9781009701051
Format: Hardback
$258.75

Drawing on an original data set of interventions and wars from 1945 to the current day, as well as numerous short...  Read More >>

Gothic Poland and British Fiction, c. 1790–1830

Gothic Poland and British Fiction, c. 1790–1830

Author: Jakub Lipski (Kazimierz Wielki University)
ISBN: 9781009548212
Format: Hardback
$142.31

This Element shows how Poland became a gothic setting in British fiction between the 1790s and the 1830s as a result...  Read More >>

Race Class: Reading Mexican American Literature in the Era of Neoliberalism, 1981-1984

Race Class: Reading Mexican American Literature in the...

Author: José Antonio Arellano (United States Air Force Academy)
ISBN: 9781009532938
Format: Hardback
$142.31

Race Class identifies two competing aesthetics, the 'recognitional' and the 'redistributive,' that developed in...  Read More >>

Empire, Extraction and Power in the Festivals of Britain of 1951 and 2022

Empire, Extraction and Power in the Festivals of Britain...

Author: Caoimhe Mader McGuinness (Kingston University London)
ISBN: 9781009461252
Format: Hardback
$142.31

This Element compares the 1951 Festival of Britain with the 2022 Unboxed Festival to explore both continuities and...  Read More >>

Modernism and the New Spain: Britain, Cosmopolitan Europe, and Literary History

Modernism and the New Spain: Britain, Cosmopolitan Europe,...

Author: Gayle Rogers ,  Svetlana Smolenskaya
ISBN: 9798887199825
Format: Hardback
$60.00

В своей книге Гейл Роджерс реконструирует межкультурные связи двух ключевых модернистских движений — британского...  Read More >>

Anunnaki Gods in Elam, Guardians of the Eastern Gate

Anunnaki Gods in Elam, Guardians of the Eastern Gate...

Author: Riddick Dawson
ISBN: 9798233861338
Format: Paperback
$68.61

In the shifting landscapes between Mesopotamia and Persia lay one of the world's most enduring frontier civilizations...  Read More >>

They Did Not Make It Back: Perry County's Civil War Dead

They Did Not Make It Back: Perry County's Civil War...

Author: Terry Bender
ISBN: 9798888193662
Format: Paperback
$65.87

Perry County's Civil War Dead While leaders of governments call for war, the common man fights it. In 1861, Perry...  Read More >>

Anunnaki Gods in Elam, Guardians of the Eastern Gate

Anunnaki Gods in Elam, Guardians of the Eastern Gate...

Author: Riddick Dawson
ISBN: 9798233291890
Format: Paperback
$102.93

In the shifting landscapes between Mesopotamia and Persia lay one of the world's most enduring frontier civilizations...  Read More >>

Lee Kuan Yew: The Philosopher-King of Singapore

Lee Kuan Yew: The Philosopher-King of Singapore

Author: Lucas Almanza
ISBN: 9798232761318
Format: Paperback
$39.57

Lee Kuan Yew: The Philosopher-King of Singapore By Lucas Almanza Lee Kuan Yew is often described as a brilliant...  Read More >>

Groundhog Lore and Legend: A Complete Guide

Groundhog Lore and Legend: A Complete Guide

Author: Matthew Petchinsky
ISBN: 9798295530005
Format: Paperback
$31.65

Groundhog Lore and Legend: A Complete Guide explores how a single, familiar animal became a powerful storytelling...  Read More >>

Imsety: El Secreto de la Alta Magia Egipcia

Imsety: El Secreto de la Alta Magia Egipcia

Author: Cristina Lobo ,  Manuel Rodsua
ISBN: 9798233946141
Format: Paperback
$60.69

¿Cómo es posible que el dios más omnipresente en las tumbas egipcias sea el gran ausente en sus mitos? En el vasto...  Read More >>

Heh: El Millón Infinito

Heh: El Millón Infinito

Author: Cristina Lobo ,  Manuel Rodsua
ISBN: 9798224059874
Format: Paperback
$60.69

¿Puede una idea sobrevivir al colapso de civilizaciones y reescribir nuestra comprensión del tiempo? Antes de que...  Read More >>

The Saga of Canary Islander Descendants in La Revolución from San Antonio de Béxar to La Bahía

The Saga of Canary Islander Descendants in La Revolución...

Author: Alicia Cabrera Calderon de Rivera
ISBN: 9781971228563
Format: Paperback
$39.57

La Revolución! is a meticulously researched and deeply personal historical narrative that brings to light the overlooked...  Read More >>

Griechische Antike für alle

Griechische Antike für alle

Author: Ellen Braunger
ISBN: 9783903579750
Format: Paperback
$68.61

Ellen Braunger macht mit ""Griechische Antike für alle"" antike Geschichte, Weisheit, Schönheit und Philosophie...  Read More >>

Masters of War: Napoleon Bonaparte

Masters of War: Napoleon Bonaparte

Author: J F Atkinson
ISBN: 9798233423970
Format: Paperback
$105.57

Masters of War: Napoleon Bonaparte The definitive single-volume military biography of history's greatest general...  Read More >>

Queen of Corvids

Queen of Corvids

Author: Jess McFarlane
ISBN: 9781763761667
Format: Paperback
$68.61

All the men she had killed, all the bodies that had fallen to build the path to where she was now. The gods had...  Read More >>

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