Historie og arkeologi

I Våpen, pest og stål snur Jared Diamond fullstendig om på vante forestillinger om hvorfor europeere og asiater har dominert verden. De fleste kan enes om at de eurasiske sivilisasjonene har hatt en overlegen teknologi (våpen), motstandskraft mot sy…

Ted Striphas argues that, although the production and propagation of books have undoubtedly entered a new phase, printed works are still very much a part of our everyday lives. With examples from trade journals, news media, films, advertisements, an…

Ted Striphas argues that, although the production and propagation of books have undoubtedly entered a new phase, printed works are still very much a part of our everyday lives. With examples from trade journals, news media, films, advertisements, an…

"The Routledge Companion to Historical Studies" provides a much-needed critical introduction to the major historians and philosophers together with the central issues, ideas, and theories, which have prompted the rethinking of history that has gathe…

Kjennskap til USAs historiske og kulturelle bakgrunn er blitt en forutsetning å kunne forstå dagens verden. I denne boken trekkes de lange linjene fra koloniseringen og stormaktens tilblivelse til Obama, krigen mot terror og den økonomiske krisen, h…

In The Social Contract Rousseau (1712-1778) argues for the preservation of individual freedom in political society. An individual can only be free under the law, he says, by voluntarily embracing that law as his own. Hence, being free in society req…

Bandet dekkjer tida etter unionsoppløysinga i 1905. I denne perioden har Noreg hatt ein sterk velstandsvekst. Ein viktig tråd i framstillinga er å vise korleis dette har gått til, ikkje minst korleis internasjonale tilhøve har lagt rammer og føringa…

Kva for innsikt om fortida er det historikarane søkjer? Og korleis går dei fram for å nå denne innsikta og skape meiningsfulle framstillingar av det fortidige? I denne boka syner forfattarane mangfaldet i kunnskapen om fortida og arbeidsmåtane som k…

Reporting from the heartland of Yugoslavia in the 1970s, Washington Post correspondent Dusko Doder described "a landscape of Gothic spires, Islamic mosques, and Byzantine domes." A quarter century later, this landscape lay in ruins. In addition to c…

Reporting from the heartland of Yugoslavia in the 1970s, "Washington Post" correspondent Dusko Doder described "a landscape of Gothic spires, Islamic mosques, and Byzantine domes." A quarter of a century later, this landscape lay in ruins. In additi…

It's the early 1990s and three young people are looking to change their lives, and perhaps also the world. Attracted to the ambitious global peacekeeping work of the UN, Andrew, Ken and Heidi's paths cross in Cambodia, from where their fates are to…

Pliny's "Natural History" (A.D. 77-79) served as an indispensable guide to and exemplar of the ideals of art for Renaissance artists, patrons, and theorists. Bearing the imprimatur of antiquity, the "Natural History" gave permission to do art on a g…

This, the first book in a series which offers annotated translations of medieval texts for the use of history students, is based on a course on "Charles the Bald and Alfred". The series offers students access to primary sources and, in some cases, t…

This volume details the various UN peace keeping operations around the globe from 1948-94, which have seen UN forces deployed in almost every corner of the world - Africa (Namibia and Somalia), South America (El Salvador), the Middle East (Cyprus, S…

Lars von Trier was the wunderkind of European cinema in the 1990s, a guiding light of the Dogme 95 movement, and a filmmaker who, more than any of his peers, divided critics and spectators. In keeping with Dogme principles, "The Idiots" (1998) was s…

From the author of The Last Tsar, the first full-scale life of Stalin to have what no previous biography has entirely gotten hold of: the facts. Granted privileged access to Russia's secret archives, Edvard Radzinsky paints a picture of the Sovi…

Wilde's witty and buoyant comedy of manners, filled with some of literature's most famous epigrams, reprinted from an authoritative British edition.

Why are some countries rich and others poor? In 1500, the income differences were small, but they have grown dramatically since Columbus reached America. Since then, the interplay between geography, globalization, technological change, and economic…

The towns of Italy in the later middle ages presents over one hundred fascinating documents, carefully selected and coordinated from the richest, most innovative and most documented society of the European Middle Ages. No other English language sour…

Micheline Ishay recounts the dramatic struggle for human rights across the ages in a book that brilliantly synthesizes historical and intellectual developments from the Mesopotamian Codes of Hammurabi to today's era of globalization. As she chronicl…

"Jøder ere fremdeles udelukkede fra Adgang til Riget". I 1851 ble den såkalte jødeparagrafen i Grunnloven endret slik at jøder fikk adgang til Norge. Vel tretti år senere innvandret noen få jødiske familier til Trondheim. Jødene hadde sin kulturelle…

Denne antologien tar for seg små og store temaer i forholdet mellom Norge og Sverige. Her stilles blant annet spørsmålet om hvordan to land som samarbeider så godt, allikevel kan rote det til i de store prosjektene. Hvorfor lykkes Fredrik Skavlan, m…

Classic World War II unit history of the 5th SS Panzer Regiment, part of the 5th SS Panzer Division VikingA"

Here is a new Loeb Classical Library edition of Homer's stirring heroic account of the Trojan war and its passions. The eloquent and dramatic epic poem captures the terrible anger of Achilles, "the best of the Achaeans," over a grave insult to his…

From the author of "D-Day" and "Band of Brothers" comes the story of the ordinary soldiers in Northwest Europe from the day after D-Day until the end of the bittersweet days of the war. Ambrose draws on hundreds of interviews and oral histories from…

Paul Hazard was one of the master historians of the twentieth century, and "The Crisis of the European Mind" is by common consent his masterwork, an ambitious study in intellectual history whose breadth of learning and authority is widely acknowledg…

"Guercino's Paintings and His Patrons' Politics in Early Modern Italy" examines how the seventeenth-century Italian painter Giovanni Francesco Barbieri (better known as II Guercino) instilled the political ideas of his patrons into his paintings. As…

Nordens historia En europeisk region under 1200 år Nordens historia från vikingatid till den senaste EU-utvidgningen är en historia om både integration och splittring. I olika omgångar har Norden knutits närmare andra europeiska regioner, från krist…

"Norsk byhistorie" er en samlet oversikt over byutviklingen og urbaniseringsprosessen i Norge. Hva har kjennetegnet den norske byen gjennom historien? Hvorfor utviklet noen tettsteder seg til byer og andre ikke? Og hvordan har vi definert byen - før…

Selected by "The New York Times Book Review" as a Notable Book of the Year The author of "The New York Times" bestseller "The Stuff of Thought" offers a controversial history of violence. Faced with the ceaseless stream of news about war, crime, an…

We?ve all asked, ?What is the world coming to But we seldom ask, ?How bad was the world in the past In this startling new book, the bestselling cognitive scientist Steven Pinker shows that the world of the past was much worse. In fact, we may be liv…

We?ve all asked, ?What is the world coming to But we seldom ask, ?How bad was the world in the past In this startling new book, the bestselling cognitive scientist Steven Pinker shows that the world of the past was much worse. In fact, we may be liv…

We?ve all asked, ?What is the world coming to But we seldom ask, ?How bad was the world in the past In this startling new book, the bestselling cognitive scientist Steven Pinker shows that the world of the past was much worse. In fact, we may be liv…

We?ve all asked, ?What is the world coming to But we seldom ask, ?How bad was the world in the past In this startling new book, the bestselling cognitive scientist Steven Pinker shows that the world of the past was much worse. In fact, we may be liv…

Boka ser på ulike museale fenomener ut i fra ulike faglige ståsteder. Det er en bok om museer og om museologi, som kan bidra til en større bevissthet rundt museets samfunnsrolle og museenes plass i vitenskap og kulturliv. Har register.

Bandet dekkjer perioden frå reformasjonen i 1536 til 1814, med Noreg som del av den dansk-norske staten. I den politiske historia blir det lagt vekt på den nordiske maktkampen og utviklinga av eineveldet, med vegen fram til norsk sjølvstende i 1814…

Bokens tittel refererer til tidenes mest omfattende ernæringsstudie. Interessen for kosthold er større enn noen gang. Det diskuteres mat og helse i alle medier og det er enormt mye informasjon som vi skal forholde oss til. Men vet vi egentlig hva vi…

Det er en sammenheng mellom et godt miljø og et godt liv: Den dyrkingsjorden som går med til å frembringe en gjennomsnittlig kjøttkilo, kunne alternativt vært brukt til å dyrke 120 flasker vin. Å drikke vin er med andre ord god miljøpolitikk.Det lil…

I denne boka setter Randi Rønning Balsvik søkelyset på det 20. århundrets historie, i et perspektiv som drar inn store deler av verden. Relasjoner og samhandling er nøkkelbegreper. Det skal handle om hvordan kontinenter, stater, folkeslag og kulturk…

What does history really consists of? Centuries of people quietly going about their daily business – sleeping, eating, having sex, endeavouring to get comfortable. And where did all these normal activities take place? At home. This was the tho…

At the mention of Vienna, many visitors think of Sachertorte, romantic open carriage trips and an evening in one of local wine taverns. But the old imperial city has much more to offer: this book presents a comprehensive, richly illustrated view of…

Adam Smith (1723-90) is celebrated all over the world as the author of "The Wealth of Nations" and the founder of modern economics. A few of his ideas--that of the "invisible hand" of the market and that "It is not from the benevolence of the butche…

Volume III investigates what Braudel terms "world-economies" - the economic dominance of a particular city at different periods of history, from Venice to Amsterdam, London, New York.

Avslöjande och tankeväckande om svensk nazism under 40-talet. Påsken 1943 kallar det svenska nazistpartiet, SSS, till ett riksmöte i Uppsala. Mötet avslutas med en manifestation vid Uppsala högar, en symbolladdad och betydelsefull plats. Här sluter…

I denne boken følger vi Nilen, verdens lengste elv, fra utløpet ved Middelhavet til kildene i hjertet av Afrika. Dette er den fascinerende historien om elvens store økonomiske, politiske og mytiske betydning. Breddfull av fortellinger om sentrale pe…

Fremstillingen viser hvordan kirken, byen og staten i løpet av høymiddelalderen ble de grunnleggende samfunnsinstitusjonene. Forfatteren tegner de lange linjene og viser oss de store trekkene i samfunnsutviklingen, hvordan befolkningsvekst, økonomis…

In this fully revised new edition, Kirsten Schulze brings us to a new understanding of the causes, course and consequences of the Arab-Israeli Conflict. Schulze analyses the dynamics of the violence and explores the numerous attempts at resolving th…

Boken beskriver og analyserer den norske skolen som en nasjonsbyggende institusjon fra dens opprinnelse i 1739 og fram til de første årene i det nye årtusenet. Utviklingen følges fra pietismens europeiske skole og dens konsentrasjon om Pontoppidans…

A "New York Times" Notable Book for 2011 Sometime around 1750, English entrepreneurs unleashed the astounding energies of steam and coal, and the world was forever changed. The emergence of factories, railroads, and gunboats propelled the West's ris…

Sometime around 1750, English entrepreneurs unleashed the astounding energies of steam and coal, and the world was forever changed. The emergence of factories, railroads, and gunboats propelled the West's rise to power in the nineteenth century, and…

Sometime around 1750, English entrepreneurs unleashed the astounding energies of steam and coal, and the world was forever changed. The emergence of factories, railroads, and gunboats propelled the West's rise to power in the nineteenth century, and…

Half a millennium of European warfare brilliantly retold by masterly historian Brendan Simms. At the heart of Europe's history lies a puzzle. In most of the world humankind has created enormous political frameworks, whether ancient (such as China) o…

MIDDELALDEREN tok slutt en gang mellom 1300 og 1600. Avviklingen av det gamle og dannelsen av det nye samfunn er emnet for denne boka, som søker å belyse demografiske, sosiale, økonomiske, politiske, kirkelige og intellektuelle sider ved denne prose…