Using a range of archaeological and historical case studies from around the world, the authors in this volume discuss the various arguments surrounding the concept of 'agency', or individual free will.
"In this book, Stephan Feuchtwang and his contributors offer a set of historical, anthropological and scale-mediated studies from China - a country that includes a subcontinental variety of cultures and landscapes. In the 20th century it experienced collapse in civil war and was…
To make a place is to create a location where its creators can feel they belong. Processes of place-making are still very much ongoing today. Geographers, sociologists, political scientists and philosophers of advanced capitalism have said that place is a localisation of the glo…
"The First Punic War (264-241 BC) was the longest continuous war in ancient history, and arguably one of the most important. Fought between Carthage and Rome, it marks the point at which Rome ceased to be an essentially Italian power and became one of the great powers of the Med…
