Art & technology in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries

While we now recognize that MS is a common neurological disease, as late as the early twentieth century it was considered a relatively rare condition in Europe and the United State...

This volume presents innovative studies of how the emerging disciplines of archaeology and ancient history shaped the modern Middle East, and how they were in turn shaped by compet...

Abstract This book explores the revival of classical drama at ancient venues as a sociopolitical apparatus of the European nation-states in the nineteenth and twenti...

This chapter explores the use of drugs in the occult milieu of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The focus is fin de siècle occultism. While it examines the signif...

A Cultural History of Memory in the Twentieth Century cannot be written without taking into account the massive impact of the nation state on collective memory formation. This volu...

This article discusses findings from excavations at Kaman–Kalehöyük. Between 1986 and 2009, four main strata were identified in the North Trench: Stratum I, the Ottoman Period, fif...

This chapter describes and contests the common assumptions about nineteenth-century private international law intellectual history. Conventional historical accounts focus on broad ...

Abstract The Short Oxford History of Italy series, in seven volumes, will offer a complete History of Italy from the early middle ages to the present and, in each pe...