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The Tsar's Happy Occasion: Ritual and Dynasty in the Weddings of Russia's Rulers, 1495–1745 (NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies)
The Tsar's Happy Occasion shows how the vast, ornate affairs that were royal weddings in early modern Russia were choreographed to broadcast powerful images of monarchy and dynasty. Processions and speeches emphasized dynastic continuity and legitimacy. Fertility rites blended Christian and pre-Chri... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2021 -
Invasion Biology: Hypotheses and Evidence (CABI Invasives Series)
by James Griesemer • Gordon A. Fox • Julie L. Lockwood • Sabrina Amador-Vargas • Tim M. Blackburn • Raul Rennó Braga • Phillip Cassey • Simon Debille • Martin Enders • Felix Erhard • Alejandro G. Farji-Brener • Pablo García-Díaz • Lorena Gómez Aparicio • Christopher J. Lortie • Caroline Müller • Regina Nordheimer • Petr Pysek • Samuel M. Scheiner • Julian Starzer • Olena Torchyk • Jean Ricardo VituleInvasion biology has many hypotheses, but it is largely unknown whether they are backed up by empirical evidence. This book fills that gap by (a) further developing a tool for assessing research hypotheses and (b) applying it to a number of invasion hypotheses, using the hierarchy-of-hypotheses (HoH... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2018 -
Teaching the Arab-Israeli Conflict
by Cary Nelson • Peter C. Herman • Alan Dowty • P. R. Kumaraswamy • Joel S. Migdal • Liora R. Halperin • Philip Metres • Caitlin Carenen • Jacob Lassner • Shiri Goren • Rachel S. Harris • Ranen Omer-Sherman • Amy Weiss • Mira Sucharov • Umut Uzer • Janice W. Fernheimer • Martin Shichtman • Ashley Passmore • Donna R. Divine • Adia Mendelson-Maoz • Marcela Sulak • Ellen W. Kaplan • Beverly Bailis • Marilyn R. Tayler • Randall G. Rogan • Oren Kroll-Zeldin • Russell A. Berman • Shayna Weiss • Olga Gershenson • Holli Levitsky • Terri Susan Fine • Husam Mohamad • Menna Abukhadra • Rachel Feldhay Brenner • Jeffrey Bloodworth • Ari Ariel • Mya Guarnieri Jaradat • Susan Jacobowitz • Rolin G. Mainuddin • Randy DeshazoThe Arab-Israeli conflict has become a touchstone of international politics and a flash point on college campuses. And yet, how do faculty teach such a contentious topic in class? Taught not only in international relations, peace and conflict resolution, politics and history, and Israel and Middle ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2019