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This major volume aims to re-colour the European world of dress, c.1300-1800. New dyes created one of the most important visual experiences of the period, yet their story has been side-lined by a focus on visual experiences shaped by the high arts.
Sites of International Memory examines how global cultural memory is shaped through sites, practices, and gestures commemorating wars, genocides, and resistance movements. Highlighting UNESCO's role, it explores how shared histories are remembered, forgotten, and used to define humanity beyond borders.
This book explores the Manila capital market’s role in financing 250 years of Pacific trade (1571–1815) between Asia and Spanish America. Using new archival sources, it examines unique institutional structures, challenges normative market models, and links Manila's trade to the global silver economy.
The book explores how Poland's socialist regime, led by Edward Gierek in the 1970s, engaged with the West, played a key role in East-West cooperation, and ultimately faced failure. It sheds light on global influences, the active role of socialist elites, and its lasting impact on Poland's political and economic future, making it essential for students of European history, cold war studies, socialism, and international relations.
This book examines Napoleonic state-building in the Kingdom of Italy through identification procedures, revealing a clash between fluid, traditional identity practices and fixed, state-imposed identities. It highlights the roles of local actors and the coexistence of competing "cultures of identification."
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