World Archaeology
The archaeology of cultures and civilizations from the Americas, to Asia, Australasia and the Pacific.
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Faith in Democracy: The Political Power of Religion during the Military Dictatorship in Brazil [Paperback]
Massimo Sciarretta (Author)
£24.99ISBN: 9788869773754
Published by : Mimesis International
Series: History
The current work historically reconstructs the role played by the Brazilian Catholic Church during the military dictatorship that governed the country from 1964 to 1985. If in Latin America the denial of identity and rights has for centuries gone... .... Learn More -
Street Matters: A Critical History of Twentieth-Century Urban Policy in Brazil [Hardback]
Fernando Lara (Author); Ana Paula Koury (Author)
£33.00ISBN: 9780822947134
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Pitt Latin American Series
Street Matters links urban policy and planning with street protests in Brazil. It begins with the 2013 demonstrations that ostensibly began over public transportation fare increases but quickly grew to address larger questions of inequali... .... Learn More -
The Entrepreneurship of GF Securities in China's Capital Markets [Paperback]
Yunxian CHEN (Author); Qingquan MA (Author); Xiaohua TONG (Translator); Yanan SHAO (Translator)
£55.00ISBN: 9781626430815
Published by : Bridge 21 Publications
This book describes the entrepreneurial of a Chinese securities firm from the early 1990s, and reviews the 30-year history of China’s capital markets with a panoramic and coherent view of the birth and development of a securities institution. It h... .... Learn More -
Yonaoshi: Visions of a Better World [Paperback]
Christopher Craig (Editor); Enrico Fongaro (Editor); Luca Milasi (Editor); James Tink (Editor)
£14.99ISBN: 9788869774034
Published by : Mimesis International
Series: Hasekura League Studies
Yonaoshi (世直し、
face="MS PGothic">よなおし, world renewal/repair/remaking) is a Japanese term that first appeared in the context of peasant uprisings in the mid-nineteenthth c... .... Learn More -
Revolutionary Times: A Comparative View of the Long 1960s in Japan and Italy [Paperback]
Christopher Craig (Editor); Marco Del Bene (Editor); Enrico Fongaro (Editor)
£9.99ISBN: 9788869773952
Published by : Mimesis International
Series: Hasekura League Studies
The ‘long 1960s’, beginning in the mid-1950s and continuing into the mid-1970s, was an epoch defined by social and political upheaval and an international scope that challenged established orders across the globe. The period demonstrated its full ... .... Learn More -
Current Research in Nubian Archaeology: Oxford Edition [Hardback]
Samantha Tipper (Editor); Siobhan Shinn (Editor); Loretta Kilroe (Author)
£78.00ISBN: 9781463243937
Published by : Gorgias Press
Series: Regenerating Practices in Archaeology and Heritage
Volume: 4
Sudan, now split into the Republic of Sudan and the Republic of South Sudan, boasts a rich cultural heritage that has in recent years become the increasing focus of an international community of archaeologists, anthropologists and historians. This... .... Learn More -
The Pyramid Fields of Ancient Egypt: A Satellite Atlas [Hardback]
Miroslav Barta (Editor); Vladimír Brůna (Editor)
£142.00ISBN: 9788076710535
Published by : Czech Institute of Egyptology
This volume offers a valuable resource by compiling and interpreting high-resolution satellite images of all Old and Middle Kingdom pyramid sites in Egypt. The sites included in this Atlas represent to a large degree the principal sites of the thi... .... Learn More -
Archaeologies of Cosmoscapes in the Americas [Paperback]
J. Grant Stauffer (Editor); Bretton T. Giles (Editor); Shawn P. Lambert (Editor)
£38.00Click here for ebook buying options
ISBN: 9781789258448
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: American Landscapes
Volume: 5
This volume examines how pre-Columbian societies in the Americas envisioned their cosmos and iteratively modelled it through the creation of particular objects and places. It emphasises that American societies did this to materialize overarching m... .... Learn More -
Embodying Modernity: Global Fitness Culture and Building the Brazilian Body [Hardback]
Daniel Silva (Author)
£39.50ISBN: 9780822947110
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Pitt Illuminations
Since the late 20th-century, mainstream popular culture in Brazil has developed an intimate relationship with fitness culture
face=Calibri>– a vast, fluid, and pervasive network of images and commodities, bodies of knowledge,... .... Learn More -
Community of Peace: Performing Geographies of Ecological Dignity in Colombia [Hardback]
Christopher Courtheyn (Author)
£40.50ISBN: 9780822947141
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Pitt Latin American Series
Achieving peace is often thought about in terms of military operations or state negotiations. Yet, it also happens at the grassroots level where communities envision and create peace on their own. The San José de Apartadó Peace Community of small-... .... Learn More
