History

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.

The first book-length analysis of how the Bolsheviks responded to antisemitism during the Russian Revolution.

This history of astronomy in Egypt reveals how modern science came to play an authoritative role in Islamic religious practice.

Tsui reveals the peculiarities of the Guomindang''s revolutionary enterprise, resituating Nationalist China in the moment of global radical right ascendancy.

Explores citizenship, rights and belonging in post-Independence South Asia, examining the long-term impact of the 1947 Partition.

Examines the economic motivations and complications that drove ethnic cleansing in the post-World War II Sudetenland.

An important new analysis of Native Hawaiian efforts to construct relationships with other Oceanic peoples as missionaries, diplomats, and tourists.

This book traces the evolution of the Indo-European verbal system from the early proto-language to the period of the first Greek texts.

Redefines the role assigned education in the history of monasticism, by re-situating monasticism in the history of education.

This book discusses the nature of masculinity in eighteenth-century literature and culture through the figure of the military man.

Re-assesses the phenomenon of Greek ''local history-writing'' and its role in creating political and cultural identity in a changing world.

Examines President Lyndon Baines Johnson and his response to the year that he characterized as a ''year of a continuous nightmare''.

Reform of the script was central to the humanist agenda - this book suggests a new explanation of its international success.

Cutting-edge scholarship on post-war Arab intellectual history that challenges conventional thinking about authoritarianism, religion and revolution in the modern Middle East.

Playful, popular visions of ruined cities demonstrate antiquity''s starring role in nineteenth-century culture, developing new models for understanding classical reception.

The first collection of essays on Aristotle''s philosophy of human nature, covering the metaphysical, biological and ethical works.

Re-examines Aristophanes'' engagement with Greek religion by studying his dramatization of traditional stories of religious experiences.

Charts the Ottoman Empire''s unique path to creating a realm of social life in which public opinion could be formed.

This book examines the role of the law in the constitution and contestation of state power in Zimbabwean history.

This book examines the poorly understood transformations in rural landscapes and societies that formed the backbone of ancient empires.

Explores gender and identity in fourth-century Cappadocia, where bishops used a rhetoric of contest to align with classical Greek masculinity.

Reinterprets Liberia''s economic history during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries to investigate the challenges and opportunities of sovereignty during the age of empires.

Shows that Homer was a philosophic thinker who played a crucial role in the thought of Plato, Machiavelli, and Nietzsche.

This book investigates the nature of South Asia''s own form of modernity – early modernity – before the emergence of European colonialism.

Showcases a powerful new approach to uncertainty in ancient history, using techniques from the social and natural sciences.

Introduces a little-known text and shows how Classical culture and Bible heroes helped Christians conceptualize Jewish history in late antiquity.

Analyses contentious politics in Tripoli, Lebanon''s Sunni city, and the relations between Islamist and sectarian groups in governing the city.

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Demonstrates the importance of music in ancient Roman political culture and social relations.

Offers an innovative reappraisal of the impact of Late Ottoman Turkish scholars on modern Islamic thought.

A new understanding of the transformative effect of vernacular writing on customary law in medieval France.

Maps Egypt''s political, economic and cultural connections throughout the Mediterranean and beyond between 500 and 1000 CE.

The inspiring story of 162 US paratroopers, dropped hopelessly off target, and the French villagers who assisted and supported them.

Evacuee Cinema is a new history of partition and South Asian cinema narrated through the careers of émigré film personnel.

Explores foreign seamen''s employment in the British Royal Navy of the French Wars, and deconstructs the meanings of ''foreignness'' itself.

The first book to show how Cicero invented the idea of ''the will of the people'' and its ramifications today.

Takes one of the world''s longest continuously occupied urban neighborhoods and explores the trace of early development on the future space.

This volume offers the most important essays of the leading liberal theorist Gerald Gaus.

Reveals how nationalism shapes global business strategy with a focus on the historical example of German firms in India.

Examines how narratives of the 1919 Central European revolutions promoted a violent counterrevolutionary culture in interwar Germany and Hungary.

The book shows how the kings of the Western Zhou period used ritual to create and hold onto their power.

Demonstrates the vibrancy of an Early Modern Muslim society through a study of the natural sciences in seventeenth-century Morocco.

The first comprehensive, comparative account of nineteenth-century America''s efforts to resettle African Americans outside the United States.