History

This book brings together new research that represents current scholarship on the nexus between authority and written sources from Anglo-Saxon England.

This study of the 1955 Bandung Conference is central to the history of international law and the post-colonial world order.

Uses a comparative analysis of case law in leading common law nations to demonstrate how religious discrimination is culturally determined.

This anthology translates and discusses texts authored by women of ancient Mesopotamia.

Collected essays by Cambridge sociologist Keith Hopkins - one of the most radical, innovative and influential Roman historians of his generation.

Examines the struggle against rinderpest - a devastating cattle disease - and explores the history of international development.

Examines the changing meanings Americans invested in their country''s intensifying relationship with Israel from the 1950s to the 1980s.

Renowned scholars explore and discuss Nietzsche''s desire to challenge the very conception of philosophy, and his methods of doing so.

The fortlet, a previously overlooked military installation type, reveals how Rome built, secured, and lost its Empire.

This comprehensive study of musical notation from early medieval Europe provides a crucial new foundational model for understanding later Western notations.

Offers a re-appraisal of the sources and philosophical significance of Peripatetic ethics as interpreted and appropriated by Antiochus of Ascalon.

A comprehensive global study of the political ideology of Christian Democracy, from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day.

A new account of a vital period in the history of ethics, focusing on the content of morality.

Analyzes the labor experience of Israeli Palestinian women, arguing that state policies and widespread discrimination hinder their labor force participation and success.

Explores the meanings of the term ''author'' for seventeenth-century German musicians, examining how compositions were made and used.

This is a novel, transnational exploration of the major Chinese intellectual debates on radicalism in history, culture, and politics after 1989.

Drawing on archival sources and eyewitness accounts, this book explores Soviet Russians'' experience of Nazi rule in German-occupied northwest Russia.

The angels feature prominently in Augustine''s works.

Reveals a distinct trajectory of Islamic history that developed among Muslim merchant communities across the medieval Indian Ocean.

This extraordinary selection of objects from the European, Byzantine and Islamic worlds illuminates the rich cultures of medieval history.

This book traces how early Americans imagined what a ''nation'' meant during the first fifty years of the country''s existence.

A detailed overview of the Eastern African stone tools that make up the world''s longest archaeological record.

A pioneering, methodologically sophisticated set of studies describing and analysing key aspects of ancient Greek and Chinese civilisations.

The first book that compares the Confederate South and Southern Italy in two contemporaneous civil wars during 1861–1865.

The first exploration of how Mussolini employed population settlement inside the nation and across the empire to strengthen Italian sovereignty.

Through a comparative study of Morocco and Tunisia, Feuer proposes a compelling theory accounting for complexities in religion-state relations across the Arab world.

Demonstrates how ancient Roman mural paintings stood at the intersection of contemporary social, ethical, and aesthetic concerns.

A panoramic study of our Urban Planet that takes readers on a six-continent, six-millennia tour of the world''s cities.

Chronicles the critical role the sciences have played in American foreign relations since World War II.

Using extensive research, this book argues that successful African leaders consolidate their rule by developing strategic rural coalitions.

How a distinctive approach to social policy led democracy to flourish in the Federal Republic of Germany despite its past.

The first holistic study of Roman literature and literary culture under Nerva, Trajan and Hadrian (AD 96–138).

Interrelated histories of colonial medicine, market and family reveal how Western homeopathy was translated and made vernacular in colonial India.

Mining new sources, Klein tells the dramatic story of Italy''s Jews, from emancipation to Fascism, the Holocaust, and postwar myth-making.

Explores how classical ideals of generosity influenced the writing and practice of gift giving in medieval Europe.

Focuses on enslaved families and their social networks in the city of Puebla de los Ángeles in seventeenth-century colonial Mexico.

A major illustrated collection offering a fresh interdisciplinary reading of Chinese women''s periodicals and history in the long twentieth century.

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A wide-ranging analysis of grass-roots activism, migration, legal, political and religious changes as basis for social transformation.

Examines the emergence of anti-imperialist internationalism during the interwar years from the perspective of India''s first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru.

Explores the resilience of the Dutch Republic in the face of preindustrial climate change during the Little Ice Age.

Explores the social interactions and pathways that enabled Christianity to travel across Asia and to India.

The experiences of men who fought at sea reveal the relationship between discipline, leadership, and the strength of the fleet.

This volume looks at the effects of interaction and the nature of identity construction in a frontier or contact zone through the analysis of material culture, especially in mortuary settings.

Redefines musical analysis for a period that marks the beginnings of composition as we know it now.

A unique account of everyday life under the Third Reich and one man''s opposition to the Nazi regime.

A unique look at how cinema shaped the cosmopolitan society in Tehran through cultural exchanges between Iran and the world.

Explores the complex relationship between art and religious belief in this important genre of painting.

This book examines the widespread use of postapocalyptic fantasies in American literary texts in the early nineteenth century.