In anthropology as much as in popular imagination, kings are figures of fascination and intrigue, heroes or tyrants in ways presidents and prime ministers can never be. This collection of essays by two of the world's most distinguished anthropologists--David Graeber and Marshall…
"The institution of the Retired Emperor forms the innovative angle from which this study analyzes Classical Chinese political history (4th to 7th centuries A.D.). With the help of the ensuing insights the volume develops into a portal through which to gain understanding of broad…
The institution of the Retired Emperor forms the innovative angle from which this study analyzes Classical Chinese political history (4th-7th centuries AD) and lays bare broader patterns of political and social action of Classical Chinese monarchy. It lays a basis for a framewor…
by Rausch, Alexander, Hilscher, Elisabeth, Karner, Herbert, Kurdiovsky, Richard, Mader-Kratky, Anna, Schmidl, Stefan, Baotic-Rustanbegovic, Andrea, De Feo, Adriana, Goudie, Allison, Gruber Florek, Olivia, Hagen, Timo, Hochradner, Thomas, Ivanovic, Nataša, Konecný, Peter, Krummholz, Martin, Lindmayr-Brandl, Andrea, Pelc, Milan, Perutková, Jana, Polleroß, Friedrich, Repanic-Braun, Mirjana, Seitschek, Franz-Stefan, Šegvic, Filip Šimetin, Veselá, Irene, Yonan, Michel
by Rüdiger, Julia, Representing the Habsburg-Lorraine Dynasty in Music, Visual Media and Architecture, c. 1618-1918, Wien, Hilscher, Elisabeth
Royals on tour explores visits by European monarchs and princes to colonies, and by indigenous royals to Europe in the 1800s and early 1900s with case studies of travel by royals from Britain, France, Portugal, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium, Japan, the Dutch East Indi…
This book is an archaeological and art-historical study of the images and monuments of Roman 'client' kings in the Near East from the Taurus to Edom (modern South East Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Palestine, and Jordan) in the important transitional period between the downfal…
