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Entertaining, instructive, licentious and sometimes abhorrent, Tanukhi's wonderful collection of anecdotes presents a rich and colourful mosaic of life and belief in the tenth-century Middle East.

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This work captures the day-to-day experience of people in the Middle Ages; the houses and settlements in which they lived, the food they ate, their getting and spending, and their social relationships. The picture that emerges is one of great variety, of constant change and of enterprise.

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A case-based exploration of norms of evidential reasoning embodied in archaeological practice.

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This collection provides an interdisciplinary examination of Chinas rapid social, economic, political, and cultural transformation. It situates current legitimacy and constitutional debates in the context of the countrys ideology and traditions and the wider global community.

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In 1937 the Colt Archaeological Expedition, excavating the ancient site of modern Auja Hafir in the Negeb, uncovered two storerooms containing the hoard of Greek papyrus documents of the 6th and 7th centuries. These non-literary papyri contain military, church, and family records, as well as an Arab archive on the caravan industry. Originally publ

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This work is the first volume of two that will be the full report of major excavations carried out by Dumbarton Oaks and the Istanbul Archaeological Museum at Sarachane in the heart of ancient Constantinople. This volume includes discussion of excavation and stratigraphy; catalogs of sculpture, revetment, mosaic, small finds and other materials: an

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Matilda Joslyn Gage was a woman's rights' activist during the 19th century, committed to the woman suffrage movement and civil rights.

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This book uncovers that exhibitions uniquely reveal the changing landscape of Irishness over two centuries by analysing the politics of display. It demonstrates how questions of Irishness intersected with broader ideas of citizenship, race and ethnic construction in Ireland, the United Kingdom and the United States.

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Examines various ways in which the Empire was displayed in Britain between the eighteenth and early twentieth centuries, looking at music, satirical prints, exploration, battles and even nascent nationalism. -- .

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Examines various ways in which the Empire was displayed in Britain between the eighteenth and early twentieth centuries, looking at music, satirical prints, exploration, battles and even nascent nationalism. -- .

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When Hitler marched into Austria in March 1938, the country's Jewish population numbered nearly 200,000.

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Explores the cultural and political significance of ostracism in democratic Athens. This book argues that ostracism was primarily a symbolic institution whose meaning for the Athenians was determined both by past experiences of exile and by its role as a context for the ongoing negotiation of democratic values.

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Explores the Rommel legend through the influential variables of battle, including logistics difficulties, weapons technology, and his relations with Hitler.

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This book explores a particular 1918-20 moment in the British Empires history, between the First World Wars armistices of 1918, and the peace treaties of 1919 and 1920. It documents and conceptualises this 1918-20 moment and its characteristics as a crucial three-year period of transformation for and within the Empire.

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Through travels that range from Geneva to Pyongyang, this book takes readers on an odyssey through one of the most extraordinary forgotten tragedies of the Cold War the return of over 90,000 people, most of them ethnic Koreans, from Japan to North Korea from 1959 onward.

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The battle of Khe Sanh was won by the US, and the Vietnam War was lost at the same time. This work describes the experiences of the soldiers and marines who were expendable in the political chaos of Vietnam in 1968. It also ponders the question of how to win an unpopular war on foreign soil, linking battlefield events to political reality.

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Experiences of Japanese American Women during and after World War II examines the experiences of Japanese American women who were in internment camps during World War II and after. Precious Yamaguchi follows these women after they were released and shows how they tried to rebuild their lives after losing everything.

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Experiences of Japanese American Women during and after World War II examines the experiences of Japanese American women who were in internment camps during World War II and after. Precious Yamaguchi follows these women after they were released and shows how they tried to rebuild their lives after losing everything.