Trousson, Raymond / Vercruysse, Jeroom (dir.), Dictionnaire general de Voltaire. (Champion classiques, references et dictionnaires 18) 1272 p. 2020:10 (Champion, FR) <670-9>
ISBN 978-2-38096-016-7 paper ¥7,064.- (税込) EUR 38.00

Simon, Zoltan Boldizsar / Deile, Lars (eds.), Historical Understanding: Past, Present and Future. 256 pp. 2022:2 (Bloomsbury Academic, UK) <667-2357>
ISBN 978-1-350-16861-9 hard ¥22,528.- (税込) GB￡ 80.00 *
ISBN 978-1-350-16879-4 paper ¥7,036.- (税込) GB￡ 24.99 *

The first decades of the new century shake old certainties. In a whirlwind of profound changes, do we have more history or less? Does history overwhelm us in all domains of life or is historical understanding in yet another crisis? The answers do not come easily. The recent demise of humanities education, the technological alterations of our social lifeworlds and the human condition, the anthropogenic changes in the Earth system, the growing sense of memory, trauma and historical injustice as alternative approaches to the past, seem to entail contradictions and complexities that do not fit very well with our existing notions of historical understanding. Historical thought as we know it is facing manifold challenges, and we struggle to grasp a larger picture that could encompass them. Boasting a range of contributions from leading scholars, this volume attempts just that. In an innovative collection of short essays, Historical Understanding explores the current shape of historical understanding today, by surveying a variety of historical relations to the past, present, and future in the face of socio-political, ecological and technological upheavals. This book is an invaluable research tool for students and researchers alike, presenting a kaleidoscope-like overview of manifold new ways which we navigate "historically" in coping with present-day challenges, both in wider society and in historiography

Binsfeld, Andrea / Ghetta, Marcello (Hrsg.), Sklaverei und Identitaeten: Von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart. (Sklaverei - Knechtschaft - Zwangsarbeit 21) VIII, 280 S. 2021:9 (Olms, GW) <667-2359>
ISBN 978-3-487-16051-1 paper ¥15,782.- (税込) EUR 68.00 *

Was heisst es, Sklave zu sein? Was bedeutet es, wenn die wichtigsten Bausteine zur Bildung von Identitaet (Beruf, Familie etc.) nicht frei gewaehlt werden koennen? Wie wirkt sich diese negative Charakterisierung auf das Selbstbild und das Selbstverstaendnis von Sklaven aus? Welchen Einfluss nehmen Missachtung und Misshandlung auf Selbstachtung, Selbstschaetzung sowie Selbstvertrauen der Sklaven? Wird Identitaet von Sklaven nicht eher durch gesellschaftliche Abgrenzung als durch Zugehoerigkeit gefoerdert und gilt das fuer alle Epochen und Kulturen? Mit diesen Fragen beschaeftigen sich die zwoelf Beitraege dieses Sammelbandes, die mehrheitlich in einer Ringvorlesung zum Thema ?Sklaverei und Identitaeten“ gehalten wurden. Die Vorlesungen fanden im Rahmen eines von der Universitaet Luxemburg gefoerderten Projektes zum Thema ‘Slavery in the Socio-Economic Context of the Roman Provinces of Germania Inferior and Germania Superior, and the Neighbouring Areas’ statt. Es geht in diesem Band um das Verhaeltnis von Sklaverei und Identitaet zu verschiedenen Zeiten, aus der Perspektive unterschiedlicher Disziplinen sowie in diversen kulturellen Kontexten. Fragen der kollektiven Identitaet, Praktiken der Ausbildung und Zuschreibung von Identitaeten durch Abgrenzung Freier von Sklaven, Prozesse der Identifizierung und Kategorisierung werden ebenso behandelt wie Probleme der sozialen Verortung, die zu unterschiedlichen Gemeinsamkeiten und Zusammengehoerigkeiten fuehren koennen.

Brummell, Paul, Diplomatic Gifts: A History in Fifty Presents. 376 pp. 2022:1 (Hurst, UK) <667-2360>
ISBN 978-1-78738-645-7 hard ¥7,040.- (税込) GB￡ 25.00 *

Gifts have been part of international relations since ancient times. They can serve as tokens of friendship, apology or authority; as taunts, bribes, boasts or tricks. They can also go wrong: Mali's 2013 gift of a camel to French President Francois Hollande was reported to have ended up in a tagine. Exploring fifty diplomatic gifts given through the ages, Brummell explains the great complexity of this political art-an exercise in brand-building for the giver, via an item that must suit the recipient's own interests and character. Byzantine emperors sent fragments of the True Cross to fellow Christian rulers around Europe; Kings Louis XV and XVI of France used Sevres porcelain, while the Ottoman sultans favoured robes of honour. In some cases, recipients have made no secret of the gift they would want. The Amarna Letters, dating to around 1350 BCE, record a communication from Hittite Prince Zita to the Egyptian Pharaoh, offering sixteen men-and hinting rather heavily that he would like some gold in return. From the Trojan Horse to Cleopatra's Needle to the Statue of Liberty, this rich history offers a new take on both the curious detail and the grand spectacle of global politics.

Buisson, Jean-Christophe / Sevillia, Jean (dir.), Le dernier carre: combattants de l'honneur et soldats perdus: de l'Antiquite a nos jours. 383 p. 2021:10 (Perrin, FR) <667-2361>
ISBN 978-2-262-09660-1 paper ¥4,874.- (税込) EUR 21.00

植物の文化史　全6巻
Giesecke, Annette / Mabberley, David (eds.), A Cultural History of Plants. 6 vols. (The Cultural Histories Series) 1744 pp. 2022:2 (Bloomsbury Academic, UK) <667-2363>
ISBN 978-1-4742-7359-6 hard ¥126,720.- (税込) GB￡ 450.00 *

Winner of the 2022 Society of Economic Botany's Daniel F. Austin Award A Cultural History of Plants presents a global exploration of how plants have shaped human culture. Covering the last 12,000 years, it is the definitive history of how we have cultivated, traded, classified, and altered plants and how, in turn, plants have influenced our ideas of luxury and wealth, health and well-being, art and architecture. Chapter titles are identical across each of the volumes. This gives the choice of reading about a specific period in one of the volumes, or following a theme across history by reading the relevant chapter in each of the six. The themes (and chapter titles) are: Plants as Staple Foods; Plants as Luxury Foods; Trade and Exploration; Plant Technology and Science; Plants and Medicine; Plants in Culture; Plants as Natural Ornaments; The Representation of Plants. The six volumes cover: 1 - Antiquity (10,000 BCE to 500 CE); 2 - Post-Classical Era (500 to 1400); 3 - Early Modern Era (1400 to 1650); 4 - the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (1650 to 1800); 5 - the Nineteenth Century(1800 to 1920); 6 - Modern Era (1920 to the present). The page extent for the pack is 1744pp. Each volume opens with Notes on Contributors and an Introduction and concludes with Notes, Bibliography, and an Index. The Cultural Histories Series A Cultural History of Plants is part of The Cultural Histories Series. Titles are available both as printed hardcover sets for libraries needing just one subject or preferring a one-off purchase and tangible reference for their shelves, or as part of a fully-searchable digital library available to institutions by annual subscription or on perpetual access (see www.bloomsburyculturalhistory.com). A Cultural History of Plants is part of The Cultural Histories Series. Titles are available as hardcover sets for libraries needing just one subject or preferring a tangible reference for their shelves or as part of a fully-searchable digital library. The digital product is available to institutions by annual subscription or on perpetual access via www.bloomsburyculturalhistory.com . Individual volumes for academics and researchers interested in specific historical periods are also available in print or digitally via www.bloomsburycollections.com .

入江昭他著　国際史－文化的アプローチ
Iriye, Akira / Goedde, Petra, International History: A Cultural Approach. 336 pp. 2022:2 (Bloomsbury Academic, UK) <667-2364>
ISBN 978-1-78093-806-6 hard ¥22,528.- (税込) GB￡ 80.00 *
ISBN 978-1-78093-728-1 paper ¥7,318.- (税込) GB￡ 25.99 *

International History: A Cultural Approach offers an innovative history of modern international relations that stresses cultural themes. In place of the usual focus on great-power rivalries, diplomatic negotiations, military conflict, and other phenomena in which sovereign nations are the key players, this book focuses on intercultural relations as individuals, races, religions, and non-state actors interact across national boundaries, to provide a fresh perspective on modern international history. Among the themes covered are: - Nationalism and cosmopolitanism - Migration - Cross-cultural encounters - Consumerism and youth cultures - Environmental transformations - Economic and technological globalization Akira Iriye and Petra Goedde's approach offers a deeper understanding of international history, focusing on people and their cultures rather than just state level interactions.

Knoll, Martin / Scharf, Katharina, Europaeische Regionalgeschichte: Eine Einfuehrung. 236 S. 2021:7 (Boehlau / UTB, GW) <667-2365>
ISBN 978-3-8252-5642-5 paper ¥5,570.- (税込) EUR 24.00 *

Das Begriffspaar ?Region“ und ?regional“ ist allgegenwaertig. Was genau eine Region ausmacht, bleibt aber haeufig unklar. Dieses Studienbuch fuehrt in grundlegende Begriffe und Konzepte rund um ?Region“ in der Geschichtswissenschaft ein und skizziert Perspektiven, Methoden und Theorien der Europaeischen Regionalgeschichte. Den Kern dieser Einfuehrung bildet eine Sondierung regionalhistorischer Themen und Zugaenge: Politikgeschichte, Mikrogeschichte, Globale und Transterritoriale Geschichte, Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeschichte, Kulturgeschichte, Umweltgeschichte, Stadtgeschichte, Religions- und Konfessionsgeschichte, Tourismusgeschichte, Migrationsgeschichte, Geschichte von Einzel- und Gruppenbiografien, Geschlechtergeschichte, Regionalgeschichte im schulischen Kontext.

Michel, Boris / Gyuris, Ferenc / Paulus, Katharina (eds.), Recalibrating the Quantitative Revolution in Geography: Travels, Networks, Translations. (Routledge Research in Historical Geography) 240 pp. 2021:12 (Routledge, UK) * paper 2024 <667-2367>
ISBN 978-0-367-64086-6 hard ¥40,832.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00 *
ISBN 978-0-367-64087-3 paper ¥11,260.- (税込) GB￡ 39.99

This book brings together international research on the quantitative revolution in geography. It offers perspectives from a wide range of contexts and national traditions that decenter the Anglo-centric discussions. The mid-20th-century quantitative revolution is frequently regarded as a decisive moment in the history of geography, transforming it into a modern and applied spatial science. This book highlights the different temporalities and spatialities of local geographies laying the ground for a global history of a specific mode of geographical thought. It contributes to the contemporary discussions around the geographies and mobilities of knowledge, notions of worlding, linguistic privilege, decolonizing and internationalizing of geographic knowledge.This book will be of interest to researchers, postgraduates and advance students in geography and those interested in the spatial sciences.

Evans, Tanya, Family History, Historical Consciousness and Citizenship: A New Social History. (New Directions in Social and Cultural History) 232 pp. 2022:1 (Bloomsbury Academic, UK) <667-2142>
ISBN 978-1-350-21206-0 hard ¥25,344.- (税込) GB￡ 90.00 *

Family history is one of the most widely practiced forms of public history around the globe, especially in settler migrant nations like Australia and Canada. It empowers millions of researchers, linking the past to the present in powerful ways, transforming individuals' understandings of themselves and the world. This book examines the practice, meanings and impact of undertaking family history research for individuals and society more broadly. In this ground-breaking new book, Tanya Evans shows how family history fosters inter-generational and cross-cultural, religious and ethnic knowledge, how it shapes historical empathy and consciousness and combats social exclusion, producing active citizens. Evans draws on her extensive research on family history, including survey data, oral history interviews and focus groups undertaken with family historians in Australia, England and Canada collected since 2016. Family History, Historical Consciousness and Citizenship reveals that family historians collect and analyse varied historical sources, including oral testimony, archival documents, pictures and objects of material culture. This book reveals how people are thinking historically outside academia, what historical skills they are using to produce historical knowledge, what knowledge is being produced and what impact that can have on them, their communities and scholars. The result is a necessary revival of the current perceptions of family history.

Moatti, Claudia / Chevreau, Emmanuelle (dir.), L'experience de la mobilite de l'Antiquite a nos jours, entre precarite et confiance. (Scripta antiqua 148) 390 p. 2021:10 (Ausonius, FR) <667-2097>
ISBN 978-2-35613-425-7 paper ¥5,802.- (税込) EUR 25.00

人類の歴史における気候変動　第2版
Lieberman, Benjamin / Gordon, Elizabeth, Climate Change in Human History: Prehistory to the Present. 2nd ed. 336 pp. 2022:1 (Bloomsbury Academic, UK) <667-1812>
ISBN 978-1-350-17034-6 hard ¥19,712.- (税込) GB￡ 70.00 *
ISBN 978-1-350-17033-9 paper ¥6,473.- (税込) GB￡ 22.99 *

Climate Change and Human History provides a concise introduction to the relationship between human beings and climate change throughout history. Starting hundreds of thousands of years ago and going up to the present day, this book illustrates how natural climate variability affected early human societies and how human activity is now leading to drastic changes to our climate. Taking a chronological approach the authors explain how climate change created opportunities and challenges for human societies in each major time period, covering themes such as phases of climate and history, climate shocks, the rise and fall of civilizations, industrialization, accelerating climate change and our future outlook. This 2nd edition includes a new chapter on the explosion of social movements, protest groups and key individuals since 2017 and the implications this has had on the history of climate change, an improved introduction to the Anthropocene and extra content on the basic dynamics of the climate system alongside updated historiography. With more case studies, images and individuals throughout the text, the second edition also includes a glossary of terms and further reading to aid students in understanding this interdisciplinary subject. An ideal companion for all students of environmental history, Climate Change and Human History clearly demonstrates the critical role of climate in shaping human history and of the experience of humans in both adapting to and shaping climate change.