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Rekommenderad av Leif G W Persson i Veckans Brott Det är som att se rakt ner i 1600-talet genom små titthål Lars Linder, Dagens Nyheter Hur tänkte och kände egentligen människor …

This is the first book in English to examine the fu, one of China’s oldest and culturally central literary forms, from its origins up to the late imperial era. Fu poems are highly …

Little has been written about the economic history of Egypt prior to its incorporation into the European capitalist economy. While historians have mined archives and court …

O primeiro cap tulo aborda a situa o geogr fica da regi o, a natureza dos portos, os objectos trocados, a organiza o do com rcio e o interior. O segundo cap tulo examina a presen …

Faith and Power in Japanese Buddhist Art explores the transformation of Buddhism from the premodern to the contemporary era in Japan and the central role its visual culture has …

Explores the intersection of the world of opera, literature, and partisan politics to show how Italian opera was put to use in the 'culture wars' of the day. This last of a trilogy …

In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Britain had eased its problem of crowded jails and surplus criminals by packing them into ships and sending them off to the American …

David Dobson is the foremost Scottish historian on Scottish emigration to Europe, colonial North America, and the Caribbean. This work traces Scottish soldiers who emigrated to …

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