The Story of Southeast Asia by: Eric Thompson (Editor) Publisher: National University of Singapore Press Publication Date: 2024-04-24 Language: English Print Length: 368 pages ISBN-10: 9813252340 ISBN-13: 9789813252349 Book Description A complete narrative history of Southeast Asia. The oldest figurative cave paintings in the world are found on the island of Sulawesi in Indonesia. Hand stencils and animals painted some 45,000 years ago attest to a long history of human creativity. The Story of S...
The Palgrave Handbook of the Catholic Church in East Asia by: Cindy Yik-yi Chu (Editor), Beatrice Leung (Editor) Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Publication Date: 2025-02-04 Language: English Print Length: 1350 pages ISBN-10: 9819706580 ISBN-13: 9789819706587 Book Description This Handbook analyses explores the Catholic Church in East Asia following a chronological framework to trace events to the 21st century. This Handbook considers the horizontal strata of society through space, examining key i...
Unremitting: The Marine “Bastard” Battalion and the Savage Battle that Marked the True Start of America’s War in Iraq by: Gregg Zoroya (Author) Publisher: Grand Central Publishing Publication Date: 2025-07-10 Language: English Print Length: 400 pages ISBN-10: 0306833026 ISBN-13: 9780306833021 Book Description Former USA Today journalist and author of The Chosen Few, Greg Zoroya, reveals the untold story of The Battle of Ramadi, the true start of the war in Iraq that would last seven years, claim...
The Girl from Human Street: Ghosts of Memory in a Jewish Family by: Roger Cohen (Author) Publisher: Alfred a Knopf Inc Publication Date: 2015-01-13 Language: English Print Length: 304 pages ISBN-10: 978031 ISBN-13: 9780307594662 Book Description An intimate and profoundly moving Jewish family historya story of displacement, prejudice, hope, despair, and love.In this luminous memoir, award-winning New York Times columnist Roger Cohen turns a compassionate yet discerning eye on the legacy of his ...
Miraculous Crosses and Crucifixes in Late Medieval and Early Modern Norway by: Kaja Merete Haug Hagen (Author) Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Publication Date: 2024-12-23 Language: English Print Length: 505 pages ISBN-10: 3031701321 ISBN-13: 9783031701320 Book Description This book explores the function and symbolism of monumental wooden crosses and crucifixes from medieval and early modern Norway. Multiple sources indicate that these objects were understood to provide healing and protection for ...
Revival Movements as Conflict Agendas of the Popular in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries by: Veronika Albrecht-Birkner (Editor), Stefanie Siedek-Strunk (Editor) Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Publication Date: 2025-02-05 Language: English Print Length: 294 pages ISBN-10: 3031751167 ISBN-13: 9783031751165 Book Description This open access book focuses on the potential for conflict between high and low culture during the transformations of the popular in the field of religion in the nin...
Fault Lines in the Orthodox World: Geopolitics, Theology, and Diplomacy in Light of the War in Ukraine by: Sebastian Rimestad (Editor), Emil Hilton Saggau (Editor) Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Publication Date: 2025-03-07 Language: English Print Length: 338 pages ISBN-10: 3031815041 ISBN-13: 9783031815041 Book Description Throughout the past years, the Orthodox world has seen numerous political and theological confrontations. New borders have been shaped by churches and states. This only increa...
Georgian Internally Displaced People: The Formation of a Social Identity by: Hazar Ege Gürsoy Erdenay (Author) Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Publication Date: 2025-03-01 Language: English Print Length: 269 pages ISBN-10: 3031822544 ISBN-13: 9783031822544 Book Description This book explores the construction of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) identity as a social group in Georgia, framed through Tajfel and Turner’s Social Identity Theory. It examines the key factors shaping the identity ...
Ethnic Conflict in Developing Societies: Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana, Fiji, and Suriname by: Ann Marie Bissessar (Author) Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Edition: 1st ed. 2017 Publication Date: 2017-06-29 Language: English Print Length: 130 pages ISBN-10: 3319537083 ISBN-13: 9783319537085 Book Description This book examines the experience of post-colonial territories and their attempts to manage ethnic communities within their countries. The study focuses on Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana, Suriname, ...
Maps and Colours: A Complex Relationship (Mapping the Past, 3) by: Diana Lange (Editor), Benjamin Van Der Linde (Editor) Publisher: Brill Academic Pub Publication Date: 2024-01-31 Language: English Print Length: 229 pages ISBN-10: 9004467351 ISBN-13: 9789004467354 Book Description Colours make the map: they affect the map’s materiality, content, and handling. With a wide range of approaches, 14 case studies from various disciplines deal with the colouring of maps from different geographica...
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