History

The first comprehensive introduction in English to books, readers and reading in Byzantium and the wider medieval world surrounding it.

The first in-depth exploration of Borges'' classicism and a major contribution to the field of global classics and Borges studies.

This lively and erudite cultural history examines how Scottish identity was experienced and represented in novel ways.

This book compares secularity in societies not shaped by Western Christianity, particularly in Asia, the Middle East, and North Africa.

Contests over Berlin''s streets in the interwar period reveal the fragility of consumer capitalism, urban order, and liberal democracy.

An engaging, innovative history of Brazil''s black and indigenous people that redefines our understanding of slavery, citizenship, and national identity.

This book situates protection at the centre of the global history of empires, thus advancing a new perspective on world history.

The first global history of African linguistics as an emerging autonomous academic discipline, covering Africa, the Americas, Asia, Australia, and Europe.

Sen argues that the decline of caste-based politics in twentieth-century Bengal was as much the result of coercion as consent.

This is study of the lived experience of monastic reform within the troubled and violent landscape of twelfth-century Germany.

Looks at the situation of Kurds in Turkey through the lens of multiculturalism, giving us a fresh and new comparative perspective.

Unearths the forgotten history of a catastrophic flood, examining its profound impact upon the environment and society of modern China.

Examines Israel and its policing of minorities through the perceptions and experiences of four distinct minority groups.

Examines the influence of Islam, as a religion, a practice, and a tradition, on Egypt''s visual and literary modernity.

Examines and compares East Asian and European perspectives of Global Constitutionalism.

Examines the creation of ''sporting plantations'' in the South Carolina lowcountry during the first four decades of the twentieth century.

Significant study of colonial Caribbean literatures in the context of the high rates of disease and death in the region.

Investigates the representation of the Carthaginian enemy and the revisionist history of the Punic Wars in Virgil''s Aeneid.

Reconsiders Secretary of Defense Robert S.

This book applies and explores Catholic social thought, focusing on the relevance of the encyclical Laudato Si'' in an era of climate crises.

Examines how thirteenth-century clergymen used pastoral care - preaching, sacraments and confession - to increase their parishioners'' religious knowledge, devotion and expectations.

A major re-assessment of the Frankish historian Flodoard of Rheims, one of the tenth century''s most intriguing but neglected narrators.

While dominant narratives emphasize war''s destructive effects, this book demonstrates how war can open up unexpected opportunities for women''s political mobilization.

A social and political history of Mexico''s first political system after the Revolution that demonstrates the critical influence of regional socialist parties.

This book explores the history and halakhah of conversion in context of the visions, beliefs and prejudices that may have shaped them.

Explores Cicero, Apuleius, Calcidius, and Augustine as interpreters of Plato''s Timaeus in the context of the Roman philosophical tradition.

Evaluates the successes and failures of the 1996 South African Constitution following the twentieth anniversary of its enactment.

Global Gifts considers the role that the circulation of material culture played in the establishment of early modern global diplomacy.

Tells the tragic story of Puerto Ricans who sought the post-Civil War regime of citizenship, rights, and statehood but instead received racist imperial governance.

Using a series of case-studies from across European philosophical traditions, this book traces the influence of Neoplatonism over the centuries.

Provides a spirited defence of anti-realism in philosophy of science.

Reveals how babies shaped modern American life, including the rise of the medical authority, consumerism, social welfare, and popular psychology.

Highlights competing masculine values in slave communities and reveals how masculinity shaped resistance, accommodation, and survival.

Focusing on Greece and Babylonia, this book provides a new, cross-cultural approach to the intellectual history of the Hellenistic world.

Brings the voices of Roman slaves in early comedy to the history of theater and the history of slavery.

Captive Anzacs explores the experiences of the 198 Australians who became prisoners of the Ottomans during the First World War.

A multifaceted study of Turkey''s diplomatic, economic, social and cultural relations with the Middle East in the interwar period.

Argues that laywomen''s interactions with gendered theology, Catholic rituals, and church institutions significantly shaped colonial Mexico''s religious culture.

This book analyzes how African literary texts have engaged with pressing ecological problems in Africa.

Reshapes the discourse surrounding the nature of British global power in this crucial period of transformation in international politics.

The violence of war and sacrifice were not the antithesis of civilization at Shang Anyang, but rather its foundation.

This innovative collection re-evaluates the function and significance of the written word in early medieval Europe.

A comprehensive overview of the efforts of state and non-state actors in the former Soviet Union to redress the past.

An in-depth study examining the agency and influence of indigenous Temne-speakers in the making of the Sierra Leone Colony.

Martin Luther was the subject of a religious controversy that never really came to an end.

Explores imagination and human rationality in a crucial period of philosophy, from hermeneutics and transcendental logic to ethics and aesthetics.

Becoming Arab explores how a long history of inter-Asian interaction fared in the face of nineteenth-century racial categorisation and control.

Demonstrates that the pre-Islamic Sahara was a more connected region than previously thought, with trade an essential linking element.

The first comprehensive study of the Brienne dynasty, a fascinating example of the international aristocracy in the central Middle Ages.

Re-evaluates the political integration and Christianization of Saxony following its violent conquest (772–804) by Charlemagne.