The church-builders of the Middle Ages treated the architecture of ancient Rome like a quarry full of prefabricated building materials. This resulted…

Danish Medieval Castles is the first comprehensive overview in English of the castles and fortifications that are known from medieval Denmark. The…

"Elephants are not picked from trees" are the words of Swedish taxidermist and conservator David Sjölander, spoken while he was in Angola looking for…

Who were and who are the European Other(s), and how have their socio-cultural circumstances been aesthetically expressed and discussed in works of lit…

In presenting 25 industrial sites of national significance in the context of changing techno-economic paradigms, this book considers the developme…

Seven Minutes in the Warsaw Ghetto is a short stop-motion puppet film that has won awards at international film festivals in a number of countries and…

Historical political biography is a popular genre, capable of reaching a wide audience. It is also a genre closely associated with the modern nation-s…

When Yugoslavia was invaded by Nazi Germany and its allies in April 1941, what followed was as much a Yugoslav civil war as a war of occupation and li…

Just like national identities, European identity may be viewed as an imagined community, constituted by different levels of inclusion and exclusion al…

For centuries the practice of undertaking fieldwork and expeditions has been adopted as an essential part of research by scientists and scholars from…

In this third volume deriving from the excavations of the Viking town of Kaupang of 2000-2003, a range of artefacts is presented along with a disc…

In spite of the steadily expanding concept of art in the Western world, art made in twentieth-century totalitarian regimes - notably Nazi Germany, fas…