Philip Gavitt 
Gender, Honor, and Charity in Late Renaissance Florence [EPUB ebook] 

Hanes cymuned Gymraeg benodol yn ystod Rhyfel Cartref America. Canolbwyntia mewn dull storiol ar y dynion yn y fyddin, ond mae’n darlunio’r berthynas rhwng y milwyr Cymraeg hynny a’r gymuned gartref …

A comparison of the cultural and political/institutional dimensions of war”s impact on Greece during the Peloponnesian War, and the United States and the two Koreas, North and South, during the Kore …

States of emotion were vital as a foundation to society in the premodern period, employed as a force of order to structure diplomatic transactions, shape dynastic and familial relationships, and alig …

Conscience and Convenience was quickly recognized for its masterly depiction and interpretation of a major period of reform history. This history begins in a social context in which treatment and reh …

The subject of medicalisation of childbirth in colonial India has so far been identified with three major themes: the attempt to reform or ‘sanitise’ the site of birthing practices, establishing lyin …

Gateway to the Heavenly City presents a penetrating analysis of the attitudes of Latin Christendom towards Jerusalem in the period from the First Crusade to the Muslim capture of the city in 1187. Sy …

It”s July 1943. Frederick Mayer, a German-born Jew is recruited to secret operations unit, the OSS. Along with 4 other German-Jews, he volunteers for behind-enemy-lines operations. All have family m …

On a long stretch of green coast in the South Pacific, hundreds of enormous, impassive stone heads stand guard against the ravages of time, war, and disease that have attempted over the centuries to …

Amalia is a heroin, a mother and a wife: she retraces the events of her family through three generations. She welcomes their inheritance in a hard struggle to survive between a Country”s rural age a …

This volume offers a new translation of the Pseudo-Clementine family narrative here known as The Sorrows of Mattidia. It contains a full introduction which explores the obscured origins of the text, …