Fighting for a Living: A Comparative Study of Military Labour 1500-2000 (Work around the Globe: Historical Comparisons) Author(s): Erik-Jan Zürcher (Editor) Publisher: Routledge Publication Date: December 1, 2025 Edition: 1st Language: English Print length: 688 pages ISBN-10: 104117926X ISBN-13: 9781041179269 Book Description Fighting for a Living investigates the circumstances that have produced starkly different systems of recruiting and employing soldiers in different parts of the globe over ...
European Women’s Letter-writing from the 11th to the 20th Centuries Author(s): Clare Monagle (Author), Carolyn James (Author), David Garrioch (Author), Barbara Caine (Author) Publisher: Routledge Publication Date: July 24, 2023 Edition: 1st Language: English Print length: 296 pages ISBN-10: 9463723382 ISBN-13: 9789463723381 Book Description This book reveals the importance of personal letters in the history of European women between the year 1000 and the advent of the telephone. It explore...
Lives in Transit in Early Modern England (Connected Histories in the Early Modern World) Author(s): Nandini Das (Editor), João Vicente Melo (Contributor), Tom Roberts (Contributor), Haig Z. Smith (Contributor), Emily Stevenson (Contributor) Publisher: Routledge Publication Date: April 19, 2022 Edition: 1st Language: English Print length: 216 pages ISBN-10: 9463725989 ISBN-13: 9789463725989 Book Description What did it mean to be a ‘go-between’ in the early modern world? How were such...
Czech Broadside Ballads as Text, Art, Song in Popular Culture, c.1600–1900 Author(s): Patricia Fumerton (Editor), Pavel Kosek (Editor), Marie Hanzelková (Editor) Publisher: Routledge Publication Date: November 17, 2022 Edition: 1st Language: English Print length: 498 pages ISBN-10: 946372155X ISBN-13: 9789463721554 Book Description This landmark collection makes a major contribution to the burgeoning field of broadside ballad study by investigating the hitherto unexplored treasure-trove of over ...
Kurt Baschwitz: A Pioneer of Communication Studies and Social Psychology Author(s): Jaap van Ginneken (Author) Publisher: Amsterdam University Press Publication Date: December 15, 2017 Edition: 1st Language: English Print length: 360 pages ISBN-10: 9462986045 ISBN-13: 9789462986046 Book Description In this accessible, unique study of a forgotten but noteworthy figure, the author tells the story of the life of Kurt Baschwitz (1886―1968), a scholar who fled from the Nazis. He wrote six books, neve...
Cutting through Complexity: Evaluating Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) Author(s): Amy-Jane Gielen (Author) Publisher: Routledge Publication Date: March 3, 2020 Edition: 1st Language: English Print length: 230 pages ISBN-10: 9085551226 ISBN-13: 9789085551225 Book Description Programmes and interventions to counter violent extremism (CVE) have become widespread across Europe. CVE is a relatively new and very complex phenomenon. The term itself has become a – contested – catch phrase...
The Wise Merchant Author(s): Barlaeus (Author), Anna-Luna Post (Editor), Corinna Vermeulen (Editor) Publisher: Routledge Publication Date: April 24, 2019 Edition: 1st Language: English Print length: 134 pages ISBN-10: 9462988005 ISBN-13: 9789462988002 Book Description On 9 January 1632, at the inauguration of the Amsterdam Illustrious School – the predecessor of the city’s university – Caspar Barlaeus delivered a speech that has continued to arouse the curiosity of researchers ...
Flavian Responses to Nero’s Rome Author(s): Mark Heerink (Editor), Esther Meijer (Editor) Publisher: Routledge Publication Date: September 29, 2022 Edition: 1st Language: English Print length: 358 pages ISBN-10: 9463723757 ISBN-13: 9789463723756 Book Description In this interdisciplinary volume, a team of classicists, historians, and archaeologists examines how the memory of the infamous emperor Nero was negotiated in different contexts and by different people during the ensuing Flavian ag...
New Publication Cultures in the Humanities: Exploring the Paradigm Shift Author(s): Péter Dávidházi (Editor) Publisher: Routledge Publication Date: August 22, 2014 Edition: 1st Language: English Print length: 212 pages ISBN-10: 9089645640 ISBN-13: 9789089645647 Book Description The changes we have seen in recent years in the scholarly publishing world – including the growth of digital publishing and changes to the role and strategies of publishers and libraries alike – represent the ...
No Bicycle, No Bus, No Job: The Making of Workers’ Mobility in the Netherlands, 1920-1990 (Studies in History, Technology and Society) Author(s): Patrick Bek (Author) Publisher: Routledge Publication Date: May 5, 2022 Edition: 1st Language: English Print length: 212 pages ISBN-10: 9463723188 ISBN-13: 9789463723183 Book Description For working people, the cost of getting to work, in terms of time and expense, is a crucial aspect of daily life. In the twentieth century, people’s opportunity to tra...
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