This book is open access and available on www.bloomsburycollections.com.Providing a new understanding of the meanings and motivations behind the wearing of beards, moustaches and whiskers, and their a
This comprehensive guide to sprayed concrete lined tunnels – from materials to design and management of construction – has a new section on sustainability and environmental impact, with more on perman
Based on the assumption that reality, reference and representation work together, this introductory textbook explains and illustrates the various ways in which historians write the past as histor
Based on the assumption that reality, reference and representation work together, this introductory textbook explains and illustrates the various ways in which historians write the past as histor
This brand new bilingual play by young playwright Alun Saunders is a coming of age story about two brothers raised apart, in different families speaking different languages. With animated surtitles in
Carwyn James treated rugby football as if it was an art form and aesthetics part of the coaching manual. This son of a miner, from Cefneithin in the Gwendraeth Valley, was a cultivated literary schola
The second half of the eighteenth century brought changes in attitudes towards shaping the body. New expectations of polite conduct, deportment and demeanor were projected onto the body, with emphasis
Physick and the Family offers new insights into the early modern sickness experience, through a study of the medical history of Wales. This first ever monograph of early modern Welsh medicine utilises
In a provocative analysis of European and American historical thinking and practice since the early 18th century, A History of History confronts several basic assumptions about the nature of history.
In a provocative analysis of European and American historical thinking and practice since the early 18th century, A History of History confronts several basic assumptions about the nature of history.
Physick and the Family offers new insights into the early modern sickness experience, through a study of the medical history of Wales. This first-ever monograph of early modern Welsh medicine utilizes
An eye-opening look at the winners and losers in the high-stakes story of Arctic transformation, from nations to natives to animals to the very landscape itselfThe Arctic--like the canary in the coal
Deploying a range of key concepts such as scepticism, aesthetics, ethics, standpoint, irony, authorship and a new understanding of truth, The Future of History examines history as a form of knowledge,
`The first stop for anyone thinking about history's current state'-Keith Jenkins, Emeritus Professor of Historical Theory, University of Chichester, UKThis is daring and will, or at least should impa
It's the 1920s. Airships, prohibition, Al Capone, talkies, gramophones, the Empire State building: the world across the pond is bursting with excitement and the future wide open for two small boys at
