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• Author(s): Dan Hicks | William Whyte • Publisher: Bloomsbury • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic • Subject: HistoryHow have objects have been created, used, interpreted and set loose in the world over the last 2500 years? Over this time, t...

• Author(s): Kristin Johnston Largen • Publisher: Fortress Press • Publisher Imprint: Fortress Press • BISAC: Buddhism - GeneralIt is a truism in the study of religion that to understand one's owntradition truly one must inhabit another's deeply....

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCA Cultural History of Peace presents an authoritative survey from ancient times to the present. The set of six volumes covers a span of 2500 years, tracing how ...

• Author(s): Paul Williams • Publisher: Bloomsbury • Publisher Imprint: T.& T. Cla • Subject: Religion and Philosophy • BISAC: Christian Living - InspirationalThe story of one man's unexpected pilgrimage from Buddhism to Catholicism.There are...

• Author(s): Captivating History • Publisher: Captivating History • Publisher Imprint: Captivating History • BISAC: Asia - China2 manuscritos completos en 1 libro Antigua China: Una guía fascinante sobre la historia antigua de China y la civiliz...

• Author(s): Maziar Mozaffari Falarti • Publisher: Lexington Books • Publisher Imprint: Lexington Books • BISAC: Asia - Southeast AsiaThe Kedah Sultanate is the oldest unbroken independent kingship lines in the "Malay world" with 1,000 years of h...

• Author(s): Gait, Edward Albert • Publisher: MixIG • Publisher Imprint: MixIG • Subject: History • BISAC: GeneralThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know i...

• Author(s): Anne Montenach • Publisher: Bloomsbury • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic • Subject: History • BISAC: Social HistoryHow has our relationship with 'work' changed for different cultures over the centuries? What effect has it had ...

• Author(s): Tor Egil Førland • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: HistoriographyThis book explores the issues of explanation and narration in historiography, arguing that history is not just interpretation, a...

• Author(s): Arcangeli Alessandro • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • Subject: History • BISAC: Social HistoryAbout the Book The Routledge Companion to Cultural History in the Western World is a comprehensive examin...

• Author(s): Yitzhak Hen | Yitzhak Hen | Matthew Innes • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Europe - MedievalThis volume investigates the ways in which people in the early Middle Ages us...

• Author(s): Captivating History • Publisher: Captivating History • Publisher Imprint: Captivating History • BISAC: Expeditions & DiscoveriesIf you want to discover the captivating history of India, then keep reading...Three captivating manus...

• Author(s): Arthur Weigall • Publisher: Tradd Street Press • Publisher Imprint: Tradd Street Press • BISAC: Ancient - Egypt"Tutankhamen: And Other Essays" is a captivating collection of writings by the renowned Egyptologist Arthur Weigall. Writt...

• Author(s): William Cooke Taylor • Publisher: Palala Press • Publisher Imprint: Palala Press • BISAC: GeneralThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. ...

• Author(s): Beverley Southgate • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Modern - GeneralHistory: What and Why? is a highly accessible introductory survey of historians' views about the nature and purpose of their subject. I...

• Author(s): Fuxu Shen • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Asia - ChinaThis book provides a comprehensive examination of the architectural evolution of China from antiquity to the early modern, modern, and conte...

• Author(s): Elizabeth Ellis • Publisher: ACLS History E-Book Project • Publisher Imprint: ACLS History E-Book Project • BISAC: Asia - China

• Author(s): Astrid Hovden • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Asia - GeneralThis book examines the art of governing a Himalayan frontier community through local institutions and customary law in the context of extensive socio-...

• Author(s): Hampden C. Dubose • Publisher: Redgrove Press • Publisher Imprint: Redgrove Press • BISAC: GeneralOriginally published in 1887, this early work by American missionary Hampden Coit DuBose is both expensive and hard to find in its firs...

• Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • Subject: History • BISAC: GeneralThe Routledge Handbook of East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 500-1300 is the first of its kind to provide a point of reference f...

• Author(s): Jean Bottero | Antonia Nevill • Publisher: Edinburgh UP • Publisher Imprint: Edinburgh • Subject: History • BISAC: Ancient - GeneralAbout the Book The civilization of Ancient Mesopotamia flourished between 3300 BC and 2000 BC in the ...

• Author(s): Solomon Caesar Malan • Publisher: Palala Press • Publisher Imprint: Palala Press • BISAC: GeneralThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. ...

• Author(s): III Burke Edmund | David Prochaska • Publisher: University of Nebraska Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Nebraska Press • BISAC: EssaysOrientalism, as explored by Edward Said in 1978, was a far more complex phenomenon than man...

• Author(s): Thomas Simcox Lea • Publisher: Legare Street Press • Publisher Imprint: Legare Street Press • BISAC: GeneralLea's groundbreaking collection of essays challenges readers to rethink their assumptions about reality and the nature of con...

• Author(s): Tianyu Feng • Publisher: Macmillan • Publisher Imprint: Palgr Mac • Subject: History • BISAC: Social HistoryFrom the Back CoverThis book interprets the typical Chinese concepts of fengjian (feudalism) and jingji (economy) by reviewin...

• Author(s): James L. Huffman • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Asia - JapanA valuable companion reference Concentrating on the period following Admiral Perry's visit in the 1850's, the encyclopedia examines the histo...

• Author(s): C. Melvin Aikens • Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Archaeopress Publishing • BISAC: Asia - JapanArchaeology and History of Toraijin: Human, technological, and cultural flow from the Korean Peninsula to the Jap...

• Author(s): Tina O. Nico • Publisher: Independently Published • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published • BISAC: Asia - South - GeneralDiscover the breathtaking story behind one of the world's most extraordinary cultural celebrations.What hap...

• Author(s): Gabrielle M. Spiegel • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: HistoriographyThis essential collection of key articles offers a re-evaluation of the practice of history in light of current debates. Critical think...

• Author(s): Burhan Bin Usman • Publisher: Burhan Bin Usman • Publisher Imprint: Burhan Bin Usman • BISAC: CivilizationHarut and Marut: A Study of Quranic Narrative, History, and Tradition explores one of the most intriguing and widely discussed ...

• Author(s): Antoinette Burton • Publisher: Bloomsbury • Publisher Imprint: bloomsbury • Subject: History • BISAC: ReferenceA Cultural History of Western Empires presents historians, and scholars and students of related fields, with the first com...

• Author(s): Eyre Chatterton • Publisher: Obscure Press • Publisher Imprint: Obscure Press • BISAC: Asia - ChinaOriginally published in 1916. This little book briefly tells the story of Gondwana, the modern Central Provinces of India. The author ...

• Author(s): Stefan Berger | Jeffrey K. Olick • Publisher: Bloomsbury • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic • Subject: HistoryHow has understanding of memory evolved over the past 2,500 years? How has our collective memory been influenced and ...