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Employs the sectarian battles which divided African Christians in late antiquity to explore the nature of violence in religious conflicts.

This book discusses the conceptual and temporal frames through which modern Western historiography has linked itself to classical antiquity.

Focuses on Spinoza''s theories regarding human freedom, how it is obtained, and also an interpretation of his ethics.

Craig Yirush provides a long-term explanation of the distinctive ideas of the American Revolution.

Excavates institutions through which the common people of ancient, medieval and Renaissance republics constrained the power of wealthy citizens and public magistrates.

A major history and interpretation of Russian philosophy from 1830 to 1930.

This book discusses the conceptual and temporal frames through which modern Western historiography has linked itself to classical antiquity.

Focuses on Spinoza''s theories regarding human freedom, how it is obtained, and also an interpretation of his ethics.

Craig Yirush provides a long-term explanation of the distinctive ideas of the American Revolution.

Excavates institutions through which the common people of ancient, medieval and Renaissance republics constrained the power of wealthy citizens and public magistrates.

This book looks at the types of new research organizations that drive scientific innovation and how ground-breaking science transforms research fields and their organization.

This book is a study of overlooked themes in Iran's contemporary political and intellectual history.

This book examines the ways in which studies of science intertwined with Cold War politics, in both familiar and less familiar "e;battlefields"e; of the Cold War.

Through a collection of critical essays, this work explores twelve keywords central in Latin American and Caribbean Studies: indigenismo, Americanism, colonialism, criollismo, race, transculturation, modernity, nation, gender, sexuality, testimonio, and popular culture.

In studies of psychology's role in modernism, Carl Jung is usually relegated to a cameo appearance, if he appears at all.

More-than-Human Sociology is a call for a bolder, more creative sociology.

This book explores the religious concerns of Enlightenment thinkers from Thomas Hobbes to Thomas Jefferson.

The essays in this volume seek to examine the uses to which concepts of genius have been put in different cultures and times.

In this book, the author provides a comprehensive overview of the intense and sustained work on the relationship between collective memory and history, retracing the royal roads pioneering scholars have traveled in their research and writing on this topic: notably, the politics of commemoration (purposes and practices of public remembrance); the changing uses of memory worked by new technologies of communication (from the threshold of literacy to the digital age); the immobilizing effects of trauma upon memory (with particular attention to the remembered legacy of the Holocaust).

This bracing volume collects work on Italian writers and filmmakers that engage with nonhuman animal subjectivity.

Uniting twelve original studies by scholars of early modern history, literature, and the arts, this collection is the first that foregrounds the dialectical quality of early modern Orientalism by taking a broad interdisciplinary perspective.

This book provides a short introduction to the emergence and development of sociology in Ireland until the present day.

This book studies the circulation of social knowledge by focusing on the reception of Niklas Luhmann's systems theory in Hispanic America.

This book presents a map of the application of memory studies concepts to the study of translation.

Although marginal as a political force, anarchist ideas developed in Britain into a political tradition.

This book explores the socio-political implications of human heredity from the second half of the nineteenth century to the present postgenomic moment.

This book explores sociological debates in relation to culture, taste and value.

Battered and bruised by injuries (often self-inflicted) sustained in the first half of the twentieth century since 1950 sociology in Australia has fought its way back into the academic mainstream.

This book offers an innovative approach to the character of the intellectual life of Catholics in Scotland.

This book examines the encounters between leading 'analytic' and 'continental' philosophers: Frege and Husserl, Carnap and Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Bataille and Ayer, the Royaumont colloquium, and Derrida with Searle.

Halfway between history and philosophy, this book deals with the historical forms that have permitted the understanding of human suffering from the Renaissance to the present.

This collection shifts the focus from collective memory to individual memory, by incorporating new performative approaches to identity, place and becoming.

Transcendental History defends the claim that historicality is the very condition for human knowledge.

Information has a rich but under explored history.

The eighteenth-century Enlightenment was one of the most exciting and significant currents of European culture.

Siberia has no history of independent political existence, no claim to a separate ethnic identity, and no clear borders.

Fascinated by the idea of Western civilization as being a sequence of numerous misinterpretations and misrepresentations, these nineteen essays cover a broad range of topics with the unifying theme being the crossroads where politics and the imagination meet.

The history of American universities is punctuated by shifts in the terms on which the mission of higher education is defined and debated.

Drawing on cultural anthropology and cultural studies, this book sheds new light on the everyday politics of heritage and memory by illuminating local, everyday engagements with Germanness through heritage fetishism, claims to hometown belonging, and the performative appropriation of cultural property.

Just how bad is television?

Confronting the issue of the unacceptable as a social category, this collection of international essays provides distinctive perspectives on the theme of what is deemed socially acceptable.

An interrogation of the often-unexamined assumption that silence is oppressive, to consider the multiple possibilities silence enables.

Though it is clearly an exceptionally important part of popular culture, witchcraft has generated a variety of often contradictory interpretations, starting from widely differing premises about the nature of witchcraft, its social role and the importance of higher theology as well as more popular beliefs.

Though it is clearly an exceptionally important part of popular culture, witchcraft has generated a variety of often contradictory interpretations, starting from widely differing premises about the nature of witchcraft, its social role and the importance of higher theology as well as more popular beliefs.

This book approaches witchcraft and demonology through literary records.

This book approaches witchcraft and demonology through literary records.

This comprehensive annotated bibliography, first published in 1990, guides the user helpfully through where to find information on various elements on alchemy when researching.

This comprehensive annotated bibliography, first published in 1990, guides the user helpfully through where to find information on various elements on alchemy when researching.

This comprehensive book outlines the life and works of an important revolutionary intellectual of the 16th Century.

This comprehensive book outlines the life and works of an important revolutionary intellectual of the 16th Century.