This work propounds a description and an analysis of the phenomena that occur during forest fires. By providing technical explanations about all the phenomena, one by one, it enables firemen and everyone else, to understand, to act, to be prepared and to protect themselves again…
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This volume investigates the question of why for centuries the Germans have unhesitatingly regarded the ancient Germanic tribes as their direct ancestors - and commonly even do so today. Although advances in academic research have shown that we are dealing here with an artificia…
Explores significant business dealings between artists and patrons in a historical tour through the Renaissance that posits that the period's fabulous advances in culture were tied to the creation of wealth.
The Routledge companion to spatial history
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"Explores the full range of ways in which GIS can be used to study the past, considering key questions such as what types of new knowledge can be developed solely as a consequence of using GIS and how effective GIS can be for different types of research"--Provided by the publish…
The domestication of the horse in the fourth millennium BC altered the course of mankind's future. Formerly a source only of meat, horses now became the prime mode of fast transport as well as a versatile weapon of war. Carolyn Willekes traces the early history of the horse thro…
Historians not only have knowledge of history, but by writing about it and engaging with other historians from the past and present, they make history themselves. This companion offers young historians clear guidelines for the different phases of historical research; how do you …
The Non-Aligned Movement had an important impact on the history of decolonization, South-South cooperation, the Global Cold War and the North-South conflict. During the 20th century nearly all Asian, African and Latin American countries joined the movement to make their voice he…
The Dream of the North: a Cultural History to 1920
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Northern Europe and North America have dominated the world stage for more than two centuries. Using a wide range of sources, this book provides the first coherent account from a multi-national perspective of the ideas and perceptions that, from the Renaissance onwards, fuelled t…
Utterly compelling! Barbara Ann Kipfer has elevated the list to high art and bestselling pleasure. A foremost expert of classification, in The Order of Things, she does for life what her previous books do for happiness and wisdom?organize it in a way that is brilliantly conceive…
Introduction to Public History: Interpreting the Past, Engaging Audiences is a brief foundational textbook for public history. It is organized around the questions and ethical dilemmas that drive public history in a variety of settings, from local community-based projects to int…
In The Atlantic World and the Manila Galleons. Circulation, Market, and Consumption of Asian Goods in the Spanish Empire, 1565-1650, Jose L. Gasch-Tomas offers an account of the trade of Chinese silk and porcelain, and Japanese pieces of furniture, between colonial Spanish Ameri…
As the new medium of the 17th century, the newspaper helped shape the core structural conditions for modernity: an accelerated pace of circulation, new information pathways, networking, and the reproduction of knowledge. These changes confronted the academic world with a major c…