Environmental History and the Formation of Modern Iran
James M. Gustafson
Environmental History and the Formation of Modern Iran
James M. Gustafson
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This book is the first to examine the relation between German folklore studies and colonial anthropology in the age of empire. It examines the way scholars compared traditional cultures that were thousands of kilometres apart and the increasing importance of racial theories after the end of the First World War.
The first study of the merchant fleet and maritime workforce in late medieval and Tudor England undertaken on a nationwide scale. It considers how economic situations, climate change, and war impacted the development of shipping and maritime communities.
When Soviet tanks crushed the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, shockwaves rippled across the communist world. Drawing on secret police files from five countries, this groundbreaking transnational history reveals how regimes and ordinary people--in both Eastern Europe and Soviet Russia--responded to this Cold War crisis.
