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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 GB £35.00

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 GB £18.00

Old Worlds, New Worlds: European Cultural Encounters, c. 1000 - c. 1750
edited by L. Bailey, L. Diggelmann, and K.M. Phillips
Pre-modern European history is replete with moments of encounter. At the end of arduous sea and land journeys, and en route, Europeans met people who challenged their assumptions and certainties about the world. Some sought riches, others allies; some looked for Christian converts and some aimed for conquest. Others experienced the forced cultural encounter of exile. Many travelled only in imagination, forming ideas which have become foundational ...
Hardback. Price GB £53.00

Constructing Nations, Reconstructing Myth: Essays in Honour of T.A. Shippey
edited by A. Wawn, G. Johnson and J. Walter
This collection of essays examines the 'Grimmian Revolution', the paradigm shift in the humanities that came with the publication of Jacob Grimm's Deutsche Grammatik. In doing so, they honour T.A. Shippey, who has been a leading figure in reconsidering the contributions of the Old Philology and its impact on the humanities, particularly the rediscovery of the ancient languages and literatures of Northern Europe; the role this has played in ...
Hardback. Price GB £60.00

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. Not yet published - advance orders taken. Publisher's Price GB £40.00, Our Price GB £30.00

Property Rights, Land Markets and Economic Growth in the European Countryside (13th-14th Centuries)
edited by Gérard Béaur, Phillipp R. Schofield, Jean-Michel Chevet, and Maria-Teresa Perez-Picazo
By exploring the fundamental issues of property rights and markets in land, this book will offer important insights into long-term economic change in Europe. The essays gathered here provide a major consideration of the institutional constraints which can be employed by historians and other commentators in order to explain both the slowness or even absence of growth in certain areas of the European economy between the thirteenth and nineteenth ...
Paperback. Price GB £62.00

Contexts of Property in Europe: The Social Embeddedness of Property Rights in Land in Historical Perspective
edited by Rosa Congost and Rui Santos
The essays in this book tap the analytical potential of social contexts in which property rights are embedded - social relations, power and agency, political institutions, culture - to understand how landed resources are appropriated in actual historical societies. This exploratory approach seeks both to take advantage of the existing theory of property rights, as it is applied by the institutionalist outlook on economic history, and to go beyond ...
Paperback. Price GB £56.00

Re-Contextualising East Central European History: Nation, Culture and Minority Groups
edited by Robert Pyrah and Marius Turda
Twenty years after the fall of Communism, scholarship on East-Central Europe has adopted mainstream western methodologies, but remains preoccupied with a narrow range of themes. Nationalism, identity, fin- de-siècle art and culture, and revisionist historiography dominate the field to the detriment of other subjects. Using a variety of lenses - literary, political, linguistic, medical - the authors address a conspectus of original themes, ...
Hardback. Price GB £45.00

Rethinking the World Trade Order: Towards a Better Legal Understanding of the Role of Regionalism in the Multilateral Trade Regime
by Mohammad F.A. Nsour
Regional Trade Agreements (RTAs) have proliferated at an unprecedented pace since the creation of the World Trade Organization (WTO). Although the WTO legally recognizes countries' entitlement to form RTAs, neither the WTO nor parties to RTAs have an unequivocal understanding of the relationship between the WTO and RTAs. In other words, the legal controversies, the result of uncertainty regarding the application of the WTO/GATT laws, risk ...
Paperback. Price GB £58.00

Rural Economy and Society in North-Western Europe, 500-2000: Social Relations - Property and Power
by Bas J.P. van Bavel and Richard W.Hoyle
The organization of society formed a crucial element in the remarkable development of the countryside in the North Sea area in the last 1500 years. Vital questions are: Who owned the land? Who gained the profits from its exploitation? How was the use of rural resources controlled and changed? These questions have no simple answers, because the land has been subjected to competing claims, varying from region to region. In early times, peasants ...
Hardback. Price GB £64.00