"Game Studies is a rapidly growing area of contemporary scholarship, yet volumes in the area have tended to focus on more general issues. With Playing with the Past, game studies is taken to the next level by offering a specific and detailed analysis of one area of digital game …
Introduction: medievalism and early-modernism in adaptations of the English past / Marina Gerzic and Aidan Norrie -- Wonder Eoman and the nine ladies worthy: the male gaze and what it takes to be a "worthy woman" / Simone Celine Marshall -- The king, the sword, and the stone: th…
Seit der Wiedervereinigung ringen im öffentlichen Diskurs unterschiedliche Geschichten und Deutungen der DDR-Vergangenheit um Anerkennung. Dagegen verbindet sich mit der geschichtspolitischen Forderung nach Aufarbeitung der Wunsch nach einem klaren DDR-Bild, das einer Verdrängun…
"Cultural history is increasingly informed by the history of material culture--the ways in which individuals or entire societies create and relate to objects both mundane and extraordinary--rather than on textual evidence alone. Books such as The Hare with Amber Eyes and A Histo…
"In 'Ideas on Language in Early Latin Christianity', Tim Denecker investigates, in a comprehensive and systematic way, the views held on the history, diversity and properties of language(s) by Christian Latin authors from Tertullian (b. c.160) to Isidore of Seville (d. 636). Thi…
This book seeks to debunk eleven popular and prevalent myths about Caribbean history. Using archaeological evidence, it corrects many previous misconceptions promulgated by history books and oral tradition as they specifically relate to the pre-Colonial and European-contact peri…
"In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, as German Jews struggled for legal emancipation and social acceptance, they also embarked on a program of cultural renewal, two key dimensions of which were distancing themselves from their fellow Ashkenazim in Poland and giving a spe…
"This study argues that in Japanese popular cinema the 'tragic hero' narrative is an archetypal plot-structure upon which male genres, such as the war-retro and yakuza films, are based. It is both an interpretative structure through which explanations of the war and defeat have …
The author draws on the historical wisdom of Sun-Tzu, Thucydides, Hobbes, Machiavelli, and other great thinkers to provide advice for modern-day world leaders confronted with the complex challenges of modern life.
