"Late medieval and early modern cities are often depicted as cradles of artistic creativity and hotbeds of new material culture. Cities in renaissance Italy and in seventeenth and eighteenth-century n
De Munck (history, U. of Antwerp, Belgium) aims to show that the apprenticeship system used before the advent of modern schooling was a flexible and dynamic system in tune with the demands of an early
"The dominance of economic repertories of value is a relatively new phenomenon, and one which directly correlates to the steady advent of capitalism in early modern Europe. This volume brings together
This book provides a complete overview of imaging of normal and diseased temporal bone. After description of indications for imaging and the cross-sectional imaging anatomy of the area, subsequent cha
In this volume, the theme of early-modern European urban migration is explored through a series of historical contexts. Each chapter demonstrates how the presence of diverse and often temporary groups
This volume critically challenges the current creative city debate from a historical perspective. In the last two decades, urban studies has been engulfed by a creative city narrative in which concept
Apprenticeship or vocational training is a subject of lively debate. Economic historians tend to see apprenticeship as a purely economic phenomenon, as an ‘incomplete contract’ in need of legal and in
What do we mean when we say that cities have altered humanity’s interaction with nature? The more people are living in cities, the more nature is said to be "urbanizing": turned into a resource, mobil
The European demographic shift towards population aging and the decrease in the labor force participation of older workers pose a number of challenges for European welfare states in financing the tran
A history of the historyless, and the marginalization of adivasi voices.A History of Adivasi Women in Post-Independence Eastern India is a path-breaking book that explores the current status of a
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