History

Explores the ways poets address the difficult question of how to remember, and commemorate, those killed in the First World War and beyond.

A thought-provoking book on the archaeology of power, knowledge, social memory, and the emergence of classical tradition in early China.

Drawing on Rwandan genocide survivor testimonies, this book offers a new approach to psychological trauma that considers both the positive and negative consequences.

This book presents a new perspective on the Italian Renaissance court by examining the circulation, collection and exchange of art objects.

Demonstrates how Venetian newsmongers played a crucial yet heretofore unrecognized role in the invention of America.

Offers a collection of essays exploring notions of authority and authorship through ancient Greek and Roman philosophy.

Explores the crucial role played by rhetorical education in turning Cicero into a literary and political symbol after his death.

This book gives a detailed account of how two major Austrian banks profited from their service to the Nazi regime.

With a focus on the political elite, Sadeghi-Boroujerdi analysis the intellectual and political trajectory of post-revolutionary Iranian reformism.

Historically and philosophically informed introduction to the embryological, zoological, and medical views presented in this sophisticated and challenging text.

Argues that North American settler colonialism included episodes of genocide of Indigenous peoples as defined by the United Nations Genocide Convention.

This innovative book reveals children''s experiences and how they became victims and actors during the twentieth century''s biggest conflicts.

Examines Dilthey''s hermeneutics, aesthetics, practical philosophy, and philosophy of history, showing how his work remains relevant for philosophers today.

The 1848 Revolutions in Europe that marked a turning-point in the history of political thought are examined here in a pan-European perspective.

Eastern Eurpoe in the Cold War enjoyed its sexual liberation.

Proposes an original framework for comparative media research, and uses it to provide fascinating insights into television under communist rule.

Discusses the birth pangs of democracy in post-communist Romania, and its difficult transition from a state of non-law to a rule-of-law state.

Examines developments in the heartland of Greece after the reign of Alexander the Great, and rejects the usual pessimistic picture.

The first modern history of the 1975 European referendum, ranging across 1970s Britain to assess why voters said ''Yes to Europe''.

Examines the performative aspects of prayer and how they were represented in literature in early modern England.

Understanding the context of terrorism requires a trek through history, in this case the history of terrorist activity in the United States since the Civil War.

Demonstrates the crucial role that the Constitution played in the coming of the Civil War.

Mapping Ghana''s struggle to transform its economy after independence, this original interpretation highlights the economic difficulties associated with the political legacies of colonialism.

Provides the answer to the enduring puzzle why India lags behind China in offering public goods to its people.

Offers a fresh perspective on recent human rights history by reconstructing debates around dissent and human rights across four countries.

Why are civilian populations targeted in modern wars despite laws and ethical claims insisting on civilian protections?

A compelling and revisionist account of Florence''s economic, literary and social history in the immediate aftermath of the Black Death.

The first systematic study of the financing and management of parish church construction in England in the Middle Ages.

A vivid ethnographic study of cattle traders, truckers, public contractors and NGO actors'' everyday encounters with state bureaucracies in Ngaoundéré, Cameroon.

Zietlow explores the ideological origins of Reconstruction and the constitutional changes in this era through the life of James Mitchell Ashley.

Considers political theologies formulated in Iran and Israel over the course of the twentieth century.

Shows how, in the decades prior to the Great Depression, associations of independent proprietors partnered with federal regulators to create codes of fair competition.

Presents the first comprehensive study of the ''Byzantine Google'' and how it reshaped Byzantine court culture in the tenth century.

The first study in English of Vitruvius'' De architectura to take the work seriously as a literary and cultural product.

This is an innovative study of how British Colonial rule and society in Malayan towns and plantations transformed immigrants into British subjects.

Explores two thousand years of radically changing opinions on the emperor Augustus, and what they reveal about the historical individual.

Provides a valuable transnational history of the African Diaspora through examination of British Afro-Caribbeans in Cuba.

A history of Egypt''s first teacher-training school, exploring 130 years of tension over the place of Islamic ideas and practices within modernized public spheres.

Shows how migration influenced American foreign policy in Cuban-American relations during the Cold War.

This unique window into Muslim identities provides scholars and students with important up-to-date data about real Muslims living in Israel.

This extended treatment of insurgent fragmentation provides an innovative new theory tested through analysis of the Horn of Africa''s civil wars.

Examines the environmental and technological complexity of South Carolina inland rice plantations from 1670 to 1860.

Studies all four branches of the Athenian armed forces to show how they helped make democratic Athens a superpower.

Argues that satisfactory theories of objectivity must include the robust account of experience found in classical pragmatism.

Argues that Roman expansion in Italy was accomplished more by means of negotiation among local elites than through military conquest.

Explores aspects of the private lives and interpersonal ties, between the personal and communal domains of early Sufis.

Explores the dynamic interactions among Latin poets, artists, and audiences in constructing and critiquing imperial power in Augustan Rome.

Soldiers rebel when leaders attempt to build or dismantle ethnic armies, posing a deep challenge to contemporary democratization efforts.

This book focuses on the material practice of ancient literacy through a contextual examination of Roman writing equipment.

By taking a look at colonization and subalternity, this book offers a different view on Classical Greece and its modern legacy.