This book is not a study of anti-corruption policies. Instead, it looks at the politics of anti-c...

Bishop Nikolaj Velimirovic (1881-1956) is arguably one the most controversial figures in contempo...

The role of women in the maritime sector has long been overlooked. Diverting from the image of wo...

Marine painting is a four hundred year old specialism of the traditional Dutch school of painting...

Although it has long been known that the Indonesian War of Independence was far more violent than...

A thorough analysis of the Dutch-Indonesian battle for intelligence.

The study of gender in early Christianity has been one of the catalysts for new historical insigh...

God is and remains a meaningful term, even after 'the death of God,' but its meaning is by no mea...

This book addresses the growing awareness of the historical collections of film and media devices...

Colonial Caribbean Diets and the Creolisation of Food Practices (1780-1890) approaches the topic ...

The key values of the Open Society - freedom, justice, tolerance, democracy, and respect for know...

Do the terms 'pagan' and 'Christian,' 'transition from paganism to Christianity' still hold as ex...

This volume gathers authors who wrote important works in the fields of the history of ideologies,...

Why do tyrants - of all people - often have poetic aspirations? Where do terror and prose meet? T...

The Illuminated Chronicle was composed in 1358 in the international artistic style at the royal c...

The book is about the peace implementation process in Bosnia-Herzegovina viewed, or interpreted r...

Bessarabia-mostly occupied by modern-day republic of Moldova-was the only territory representing ...

Estonia is perhaps the only country in Europe that lacks a comprehensive history of its Jewish mi...

The thirteen papers in this collection address three aspects of higher education, primarily in Eu...

Most practitioners and decision makers look at corporate social responsibility (CSR) as a sociall...

Psy-sciences (psychology, psychiatry, psychoanalysis, pedagogy, criminology, special education, e...

This book is the first attempt to bridge the current divide between studies addressing 'economic ...

This bilingual volume (Latin text with English translation) is the second in the series presentin...

Bright red terra sigillata pots dating to the first three centuries CE can be found throughout th...

From the 1920s on, popular music in Southeast Asia was a mass-audience phenomenon that drew new c...

This third, concluding volume of the series publishes 14 studies and the transcription of a round...

Salafism is one of the most dynamic and rapidly growing Islamic movements and it is impossible to...

This study reveals the hidden story of the secret book distribution program to Eastern Europe fin...

Explores the course of development of German seroanthropology from its origins in World War I unt...

The Meaning of Liberalism provides a new perspective on the continuing debate about how liberalis...

This book compares the various aspects - political, military economic - of Soviet occupation in A...

The attack on the World Trade Center in 2001, followed by similarly dreadful acts of terror, prom...

The humanities include disciplines as diverse as literary theory, linguistics, history, film stud...

In a world where politics is often associated with notions such as moral decay, frustration and d...

This book considers some of the main adaptations of the character of Cleopatra for the Renaissanc...

Rejecting the cliché about 'weak identity and underdeveloped nationalism,' Bekus argues for the c...

Serbia's national movement of the 1980s and 1990s, the author suggests, was not the product of an...

Deals with the period of takeover and of 'high Stalinism' in Eastern Europe (1945-1955). These ye...

The International Labour Office is the moving force behind the adoption of the Labour Force Surve...

This is the first book to document, analyze, and interpret the history of the Warsaw Pact based o...

Only one out of ten early modern Europeans lived in cities. Yet cities were crucial nodes, joinin...

This work is the result of the Forum 2000 conferences initiated by Václav Havel and Elie Wiesel. ...

Exploring theater practices in communist and post-communist Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria, this b...

This book uncovers the neglected history of artistic engagement with the natural environment in t...

This study addresses the relation of people to divine beings in contemporary and historical commu...

This collection is the most comprehensive account of the Fundamental Law and its underlying princ...

Ethnographers helped to perceive, to understand and also to shape imperial as well as Soviet Russ...

Why did the Museum of Modern Art and the Guggenheim in New York, and art collectors and curators ...