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This book is a study of the interplay of vernacular and global languages of politics during Africa''s decolonization.

This is the first book on the theory, practice and cultural context of musical riddles during the Renaissance.

This book traces the rich history of Chinese medical historiography and the emergence of the medical tradition archive.

This book sheds new light on those who inherit Spinoza''s thought and its consequences materially rather than metaphysically.

This book offers the first study of the Scottish Enlightenment reception and interpretation of the French Revolution.

The sixth and final volume in an acclaimed series situating Edward Gibbon in a series of contexts in eighteenth-century European history.

A study of political possibilities in the era of modern imperialism, from the perspective of the sovereign state of Hyderabad.

This book is a study of the interplay of vernacular and global languages of politics during Africa''s decolonization.

This book shows how liberal education taught Tudor and Stuart monarchs to wield pens like swords and transformed political culture in early modern Britain.

Explores German engagement with the Italian Renaissance in the decades from German unification to the Weimar republic.

The first full examination of the ''protectionist turn'' of French liberalism in the early stages of nineteenth-century globalisation.

A unique reconstruction of the paleobiology of fossil non-human primates and their key role in inferring evolutionary processes on earth.

This book provides a systematic examination of the relations between the key elements of Spinoza''s philosophy and the Stoics.

This book analyses the developments in critical reasoning that transformed the conception of tradition, authority, knowledge and power in the late Republic.

The first full-length historical study of the intellectual origins and institutional context of the nineteenth-century German thinker Hermann Lotze.

This book examines the surprising uses, and abuses, of the classical world in contemporary popular media.

An introduction to and analytical reconstruction of Thomas Paine''s political philosophy and his account of human rights.

Explores how Vanity Fair transformed from its Puritan origins as an emblem of sin into a modern celebration of hedonism.

This volume explores how nine different religious and secular traditions deal with pluralism, dissent, and the challenges these issues pose.

A major new study of Jeremy Bentham''s engagement with contemporary French culture, from the Enlightenment through to the post-Revolutionary era.

Lisa Pon examines the cultural biography of the city of Forlì''s miraculous woodcut, the Madonna of the Fire.

This volume argues that ''inter-faith'' is a problematic term for Christian theology and advocates a Hegelian approach to religious diversity.

This book surveys royal marriage cases to explore how popes dealt with the marriage problems of kings, especially dissolutions and dispensations.

This richly illustrated and groundbreaking book treats magic as a classical tradition with foundations that were distinctly philosophical.

An original interpretation of the early Enlightenment and the politics of religion in later Stuart England and its global empire.

This is the first book on the theory, practice and cultural context of musical riddles during the Renaissance.

An original interpretation of the early Enlightenment and the politics of religion in later Stuart England and its global empire.

This richly illustrated and groundbreaking book treats magic as a classical tradition with foundations that were distinctly philosophical.

This book surveys royal marriage cases to explore how popes dealt with the marriage problems of kings, especially dissolutions and dispensations.

This book shows how liberal education taught Tudor and Stuart monarchs to wield pens like swords and transformed political culture in early modern Britain.

Explores German engagement with the Italian Renaissance in the decades from German unification to the Weimar republic.

The first full examination of the ''protectionist turn'' of French liberalism in the early stages of nineteenth-century globalisation.

This book offers the first cultural history of translation in Japan during the Tokugawa period, 1600–1868.

This book offers the first cultural history of translation in Japan during the Tokugawa period, 1600–1868.

The first full-length historical study of the intellectual origins and institutional context of the nineteenth-century German thinker Hermann Lotze.

This book examines the surprising uses, and abuses, of the classical world in contemporary popular media.

This book analyses the developments in critical reasoning that transformed the conception of tradition, authority, knowledge and power in the late Republic.

This book provides a systematic examination of the relations between the key elements of Spinoza''s philosophy and the Stoics.

A unique reconstruction of the paleobiology of fossil non-human primates and their key role in inferring evolutionary processes on earth.

An elegant and forceful argument that represents the claim to equality as central to the meaning of being human.

A comparative intellectual history of the political thought of Hannah Arendt and Leo Strauss, two influential and controversial German-Jewish-American political philosophers.

This book offers a new interpretation of the foundations of Hugo Grotius'' highly influential doctrine of natural law and natural rights.

This volume examines the use of the textual resources of the past to shape cultural memory in early medieval Europe.

This book examines how modern Western history has been shaped by the rise and fall of the great European empires.

An elegant and forceful argument that represents the claim to equality as central to the meaning of being human.

A comparative intellectual history of the political thought of Hannah Arendt and Leo Strauss, two influential and controversial German-Jewish-American political philosophers.

This book offers a new interpretation of the foundations of Hugo Grotius'' highly influential doctrine of natural law and natural rights.

This volume examines the use of the textual resources of the past to shape cultural memory in early medieval Europe.

This book examines how modern Western history has been shaped by the rise and fall of the great European empires.

This book investigates the emergence and development of a distinct concept of self-awareness in pre-modern Islamic philosophy.