Showing results under subject: 'history'

Shrines and Pilgrimage in the Modern World

Author:Margry Peter Jan
Publisher:Amsterdam University Press
Abstract: The modern pilgrimage - to sites ranging from Elvis's Graceland to the Vietnam veterans' annual Rid…

Materialized Identities in Early Modern Culture, 1450-1750

Author:Burghartz Susanna, Burkart Lucas, Göttler Christine, Rublack Ulinka
Publisher:Amsterdam University Press
Abstract: "This collection embraces the increasing interest in the material world of the Renaissance and the …

Everyday Crime, Criminal Justice and Gender in Early Modern Bologna

Author:Muurling Sanne
Publisher:Brill
Abstract: Female protagonists are commonly overlooked in the history of crime; especially in early modern Ita…

Augustus Hopkins Strong and the Struggle to Reconcile Christian Theology with Modern Thought

Author:Aloisi John
Publisher:University of Rochester Press
Abstract: In the wake of the publication of DarwinsOrigin of Species in 1859, Christianity, or at least many …

Separatism and Regionalism in Modern Europe

Author:Kostov Chris
Publisher:Logos Verlag Berlin
Abstract: The end of the Cold War opened a Pandora's box of regionalism and separatism across Europe, and tod…

Religious Discourse in Modern Japan

Author:Isomae Jun'ich
Publisher:Brill
Abstract: Religious Discourse in Modern Japan explores the transportation of the Western concept of “religion…

Lives in Transit in Early Modern England

Author:Das Nandini
Publisher:Amsterdam University Press
Abstract: What did it mean in practice to be a ‘go-between’ in the early modern world? How were such figures …

Creating the Modern Army

Author:Woolley William J
Publisher:University Press of Kansas
Abstract: The modern US Army as we know it was largely created in the years between the two world wars. Prior…

Authorizing Early Modern European Women

Author:Fitzmaurice James, Miller Naomi, Steen Sara Jayne
Publisher:Amsterdam University Press
Abstract: The essays in this volume analyze strategies adopted by contemporary novelists, playwrights, screen…

Architecture and Modern Literature

Author:Spurr David A
Publisher:University of Michigan Press
Abstract: Architecture and Modern Literature explores the representation and interpretation of architectural …
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