Towns between Empires: Good Governance and “Police” in Case Studies from Transylvania, Wallachia, and Moldavia, 1500s-1800s Author(s): Pakucs (Editor), Julia Derzsi (Editor) Publisher: Central European University Press Publication Date: 27 May 2025 Edition: 1st Language: English Print length: 338 pages ISBN-10: 9633869005 ISBN-13: 9789633869000 Book Description Towns between Empires contains contributions regarding urban administration and governance in the historical regions that are now in Rom...
The Borders of Empathy in Children’s Fiction (Children’s Literature and Culture) Author(s): Macarena García-González (Author) Publisher: Routledge Publication Date: 16 Jun. 2025 Edition: 1st Language: English Print length: 174 pages ISBN-10: 1032854456 ISBN-13: 9781032854458 Book Description The Borders of Empathy in Children’s Fiction centres the question of how reading fiction develops our moral imagination and our capacities to think and feel with others. The question is approached with...
Contemporary Approaches to Commemorative Public Art: Monumental Developments (Routledge Research in Art History) Author(s): Brenda Schmahmann (Editor) Publisher: Routledge Publication Date: 11 Jun. 2025 Edition: 1st Language: English Print length: 240 pages ISBN-10: 1041005792 ISBN-13: 9781041005797 Book Description In this collection, a diverse range of international contributors examine commemorative monuments from the late twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The book reveals how those monum...
The Meaning of Israel (Routledge Studies in Modern History) Author(s): Åsmund Borgen Gjerde (Author) Publisher: Routledge Publication Date: July 31, 2025 Edition: 1st Language: English Print length: 242 pages ISBN-10: 1032894334 ISBN-13: 9781032894331 Book Description Why did social democrats in the 1940s and 1950s idealise Zionism and Israel? And why did ‘the New Left’ of the 1960s denounce Israel as an apartheid state and a ‘bridgehead of imperialism’? The Meaning of Israel: Anti-Zionism and P...
Knowledge Exchanges Between Portugal and Europe (Maritime Humanities, 1400-1800) Author(s): Nuno Luís Vila-Santa Braga Campos (Author) Publisher: Routledge Publication Date: June 3, 2024 Edition: 1st Language: English Print length: 376 pages ISBN-10: 9048560470 ISBN-13: 9789048560479 Book Description Following recent historiographical appeals on the need to study knowledge exchanges between European maritime rivals and their impact on overseas expansionist processes, this book makes this study f...
The Routledge Handbook of Economic Expectations in Historical Perspective Author(s): Laetitia Lenel (Editor), Alexander Nützenadel (Editor), Jochen Streb (Editor), Ingo Köhler (Editor) Publisher: Routledge Publication Date: November 18, 2025 Edition: 1st Language: English Print length: 634 pages ISBN-10: 1032458607 ISBN-13: 9781032458601 Book Description The Routledge Handbook of Economic Expectations in Historical Perspective offers a one-stop reference that distills and summarizes the recent s...
Japan and Japonisme: The Self and the Other in Representations of Japanese Culture Author(s): Noriko Murai (Editor) Publisher: Routledge Publication Date: October 24, 2025 Edition: 1st Language: English Print length: 336 pages ISBN-10: 9048564824 ISBN-13: 9789048564828 Book Description Japan and Japonisme: The Self and the Other in Representations of Japanese Culture explores Japan’s engagement with and responses to Japonisme, and presents new perspectives on the history and enduring influence o...
Britain’s Imperial Cornerstone in China: The Chinese Maritime Customs Service, 1854-1949 (Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia) Author(s): Donna Brunero (Author) Publisher: Routledge Publication Date: February 24, 2006 Edition: 1st Language: English Print length: 216 pages ISBN-10: 0415326192 ISBN-13: 9780415326193 Book Description This is an in-depth account of the Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs Service, a uniquely cosmopolitan institution established in the wake of China...
Studies in Jaina History and Culture: Disputes and Dialogues (Routledge Advances in Jaina Studies) Author(s): Peter Flugel (Editor) Publisher: Routledge Publication Date: April 7, 2006 Edition: 1st Language: English Print length: 496 pages ISBN-10: 0415360994 ISBN-13: 9780415360999 Book Description The last ten years have seen interest in Jainism increasing, with this previously little-known Indian religion assuming a significant place in religious studies. Studies in Jaina History and Culture b...
Christianity, Islam and Nationalism in Indonesia (Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series) Author(s): Charles E. Farhadian (Author) Publisher: Routledge Publication Date: August 25, 2005 Edition: 1st Language: English Print length: 238 pages ISBN-10: 0415359619 ISBN-13: 9780415359610 Book Description Although over eighty percent of the country is Muslim, Indonesia is marked by an extraordinary diversity in language, ancestry, culture, religion and ways of life. This book focuses on the Chri...
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