General and world history

This book examines one of the key issues shaping global considerations of human rights today: the idea of the family as a protected category.

Building the Atlantic Empires explores the relationship between state recruitment of unfree labor and capitalist and imperial development.

The study of the Syriac magical traditions has largely been marginalised within Syriac studies, with the earliest treatments displaying a disparaging attitude towards both the culture and its magical practices.

First published in 1973, The Secret and Sublime is a warmly sympathetic account of Taoism, a colourful religion and way of life.