Cairo has one of the highest concentrations of Islamic architectural treasures in the world. This introduction to the subject begins with an analysis of the Cairo's urban growth from the Islamic conquest in 641 through to the Ottoman Period and the reign of Muhammad Ali at the beginning of the 19th century. From that point, the reader is given a guided tour of the evolution of Cairo's Islamic architecture and an overview of its main styles through the investigation of monuments spanning 1200 years. Includes a descriptive catalogue of the major monuments from the early Islamic period through the Fatimid, Ayyubid, Bahri Mamluk, Circassian Mamluk and Ottoman periods.

This study examines North Germany during the transformative era of the French Revolution, Napoleonic occupation, and Wars of Liberation; it reveals international exploitation, military occupation, economic destruction of the city-state Hamburg as well as the republic s liberation and post-Napoleonic autonomy. Examining shifts within local culture and the role of public opinion on civic morality, this book underscores the relationship between the civic ethics, public language, and collective memory in the construction of political identity and concludes that the transformation in values at the local level ultimately provides the crucial direction in the process of modern nation-building. Throughout the 1800s, the public commemoration and memory of occupation and liberation, rather than the actual Napoleonic experience, shaped the development of German nationalism.

This book is a social history of musical life in Berlin; it investigates the tangled relationship between music and politics in 20th-century Germany, emphasizing the division of Berlin's musical community between east and west in the early Cold War era.

This volume offers a detailed account of Leipzig s social and political history from 1750-1840 and then argues persuasively that the city played a catalytic role in the introduction of a Saxon constitutional monarchy after 1830.

This book offers an original approach to the study of the Scottish diaspora in Europe. It highlights the activities of a group of emigrants and exiles who served the twin-headed Habsburg dynasty during the first half of the seventeenth century.

This work presents research on the military, social, and cultural history of World War I. It explores the stresses of waging a war, whose "totalizing logic" issued formidable challenges to communities, and accounted for the pervasion of the conflict into the private sphere.

This volume deals with the entanglement of Scotland in the Thirty Years War (1618-1648), discussing the diplomatic and military aspects of the conflict that were interwoven with the fate of the Scottish princess, Elizabeth of Bohemia, the famous Winter Queen.

The study based on interdisciplinary research by theologians and legal historians investigating the legal, philosophical and theological aspects of the Lutheran Reformation in the church and society, and the impact of the Reformation on law in the Nordic countries.

This book examines the nature and extent of changes in communal structures and self-definition among Jews and Christians in Germany during the century before the Reformation. It argues that Christian community was restructured along civic and religious lines resulting in the development of a local sacred society that integrated material and spiritual well being into a moral and legal society, stressing the common good and internal peace, while Jewish community, given a variety of factors, came to be defined through regional communal structures and moral and legal discourse that allowed for broader geographical communal identity. Bell draws from a variety of German, Latin, and Hebrew sources and takes into consideration several methods and viewpoints of studying history.

This study consists of eight essays critical of the currently dominant guns and germs theories in the historiography of European colonial conquest causes. Other methods of conquest, notably communication control, were as vital as firepower and disease importation, and motives were often more important than methods.

The volume deals with aspects of education in the urban society of northern Germany in the late Middle Ages. It examines the school system, university studies, the employment of the graduates and the social status they attained.

This volume explores the attempt by the dynasty of the high-medieval Crown of Aragon to 'rationalize' its court in support of its expansionist program. It also examines the quotidian operations and social milieu of the various bureaus of the court.

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A Publication of new research on different aspects of warfare in the age of the Dutch Revolt. An important survey of the state of affairs by Dutch historians, all experts in their field.

A study of the production and use of iron and steel in early China, and simultaneously a methodological study of the reconciliation of archaeological and written sources in Chinese cultural history. Includes chapters on the technology of iron production based on studies of artifact microstructures.

LOOKING LOVELY AND PURE, PEEKING OUT FROM BEHIND THE CLOUDS AND FOREVER DOING GOOD DEEDS, ANGELS HAVE FOREVER BEEN A FAVORITE SUBJECT OF ARTISTS. THIS SELECTION OF SCULPTURES, CERAMICS, FRESCOES, PAINTINGS, DRAWINGS, AND ILLUSTRATIONS, BY THE GREATEST MASTERS FROM ANTIQUITY THROUGH THE RENAISSANCE, EXPLORES THE MANY WAYS ANGELS HAVE BEEN DEPICTED THROUGHOUT HISTORY.

This valuable volume provides a practical technique for building a logical (non-physical) model of a commercial data processing system. It is extensively illustrated to provide graphic explanations of how systems fit together.