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Ancient Textiles: Production, Crafts and Society
edited by Carole Gillis and Marie-Louise B Nosch
An understanding of textiles and the role they played in the past is important for anyone interested in past societies. Textiles served - and in fact still do - as both functional and symbolic items. The evidence for ancient textiles in Europe is split quite definitely along a north-south divide, with an abundance of actual examples in the north, but precious little in the south, where indirect evidence comes from such things as vase painting and ...
Hardback. Price US$70.00

Fire, Water, Heaven and Earth: Ritual Practice and Cosmology in Ancient Scandinavia - An Indo-European Perspective
by Anders Kaliff
Archaeological excavations of prehistoric Scandinavian graves and ritual sites often reveal seemingly enigmatic and contradictory features. Interpretation from a comparative Indo-European perspective allows a partly new approach to material which at first sight seems fragmentary and anonymous. The interpretations in this book proceed from cosmological beliefs occurring in various Indo-European traditions. The author discusses mortuary practices ...
Paperback. Price US$36.00

Europapolitik "am Abgrund": Die Krise des äleeren Stuhls 1965-66
by Philip Bajon
English summary: Brussels, July 1st 1965, shortly before dawn. In a hall, catastrophe burst over the meeting of the ministers concerning the financing of European agricultural policy. In protest, the French government withdrew their representative from Brussels. But it quickly became clear, that the problems concerned more than just wheat, milk and sugar. It was the beginning of the greatest constitutional crises in the history of the ...
Paperback. Price US$80.00

Frankreich und Heinrich Brüning: Ein deutscher Kanzler in der französischen Wahrnehmung
by Franziska Brüning
English summary: The role of the Imperial Chancellor Heinrich Brüning is controversial: Did he contribute to the demise of the Weimar Republic or seek to save it? Again and again historians have busied themselves with the question of Brünings field of action and predicament. For that reason it appears that the German-French connections, which stand at the center of the political problem, has been investigated under the principle ...
Hardback. Price US$102.00

Gesellschaft in der europäischen Integration seit den 1950er Jahren: Migration - Konsum - Sozialpolitik - Repräsentationen
edited by Arnd Bauerkämper and Hartmut Kaelble
English summary: Neither the general public nor the academic community have concerned themselves with the specific social consequences of the integration of Europe until now. They have become however an urgent, current, and historical problem, because the social-political responsibilities of the European Union have developed, which the integration of Europe has increasingly politicized and the support of the citizens has also been ...
Paperback. Price US$54.00

Livonia est omnis divisa in partes tres: Studien zum mental mapping der livländischen Chronistik in der Frühen Neuzeit (1558-1721)
by Denis Hormuth
English summary: The historical region of Livonia, approximately the area of the modern states of Estonia and Latvia, experienced numerous changes of lordship in the early modern period, in which the land was divided among different foreign powers but which were always reunited also. Such changes in lordship always had an influence on the self-understanding of the affected peoples. On what did the self-understand of the Livonians depend: ...
Paperback. Price US$66.00

Permanente Charaktere nachhaltiger Architektur und Städtebau: Visionen einer postfossilen Gesellschaft
edited by Christiano Lepratti, Günter Pfeifer and Guendalina Salimei
German description: Wir benötigen Energie in sämtlichen Lebensbereichen - Haushalte verbrauchen riesige Mengen von Wasser und Strom, in unseren Städten ist ein Leben ohne Auto noch immer undenkbar. Doch die kritische Lage unseres Planeten zwingt Architekten und Stadtplaner, neue Wege zu gehen und gesellschaftlich Stellung zu beziehen. Ist unser Leben in hochtechnisierten Haushalten, in autogerechten Städten und ...
Paperback. Not yet published - advance orders taken. Price US$36.00

The Tripolye Culture giant-settlements in Ukraine: Formation, Development and Decline
edited by Francesco Menotti and Aleksey G. Korvin-Piotrovskiy
The crucial role that the Ukrainian 'branch' of the Tripolye culture played in shaping the historical formation of the Ukraine, and indeed that of Europe, is still not fully understood or appreciated. Although we are mostly aware of its finely-crafted and decorated pottery, along with the highly-discussed house architecture and huge settlements (known as 'giant-settlements'), we often fail to connect the various dots in order to understand the ...
Paperback. Publisher's Price US$80.00, Our Price US$64.00

Die Zukunft Europas / Il futuro dell'Europa: Junge Europäer aus Deutschland und Italien im Gespräch mit Giorgio Napolitano und Christian Wulff / I giovani d'Italia e di Germania incontrano Christian Wulff e Giorgio Napolitano
edited by Gregor Vogt-Spira, Anke Fischer and Luigi Galimberti-Faussone
English summary: This volume gives the word of a generation, which has developed with the praxis of European unification of the last two decades and goes beyond the scope of the running European discourse. It is from a particular occasion: in July of 2001, the German and Italian heads of state held a lively and unconventional discussion with 29 young citizens from both lands in the Villa Vigoni on Lake Como concerning the future of Europe. ...
Paperback. Not yet published - advance orders taken. Price US$36.00

Living and Researching Cross-Border cooperation (Volume 3): The European Dimension: Contributions from the research programme on cross-border cooperation of the University Strasbourg and the Euro-Institut
edited by Birte Wassenberg and Joachim Beck
What is the European dimension of cross-border cooperation? University researchers, cross-border practitioners, regional political leaders and civil servants from European organisations provide a multifaceted overview of the subject. Examples of cooperation and Euroregions as well as the legal tools developed by the European Union (EU) and by the Council of Europe help to illustrate the role played by each European organisation in supporting ...
Paperback. Price US$74.00