History

Positively re-assesses the relationship between body and soul in Plato''s later dialogues, focusing on the harmony between them.

A study of colonialism and indigenous health in Hawaiʻi, highlighting cultural change over time.

Presents a landmark study combining key specialists around the region with well-established international scholars, from a wide range of disciplines.

This book traces the formation of the Sudanese state following the Second World War through a developmentalist ideology.

Offers an accessible yet cutting-edge tour of the many conceptual interconnections between physics and computer science.

A fresh descriptive and normative perspective on law and religion supported by comparative case studies of Greater China.

Weinstein argues that Plato''s ''fighting spirit'' in the Republic plays an essential role in rational agency.

The first book to explore the development and importance of writing in ancient Cypriot society over 1,500 years.

Focusing on opera and modernism in postwar Venice, Boyd-Bennett challenges assumptions about music in the twentieth century.

Reveals the shaping influence of money and ritual on Greek tragedy, the New Testament, Indian philosophy, and Wagner.

A rounded portrait of the Royal College of Music, investigating its educational and cultural impact on music and musical life.

Explores in detail an important section of the population of the Roman world which has too often been neglected.

Challenges current accounts of the French ars nova, a musical art that was both criticised and heralded for its modernity.

Explores the transnational movements of people, plants, agricultural sciences, and techniques from Russia''s steppes to North America''s Great Plains.

Demonstrates the theological power of Pindar''s victory songs by interpreting them within their contemporary religious landscapes.

An innovative, scholarly introduction to the distinctive and enigmatic Christian liturgy of early medieval Iberia.

Examines Nazi legal theory, the normative ideas driving the Führer state and the legal subtext to the regime''s escalating atrocities.

Discusses state and religion relations in Israel by applying a general theory regarding the role of religion in liberal countries.

Reframes gender variance and transition in positive, non-oppositional terms, informed by Christian constructive theologies of creation and personhood.

An ambitious account of Indigenous-settler relationships and struggles over Indigenous rights in British white settler colonies from the 1770s to 1830s.

In examining the key merchant group in late imperial China this book provides a framework for understanding China''s path to modernity.

Investigates papal government in the later-twelfth century, focusing on the decrees issued at papal councils, and their reception.

Traces the development of Kant''s views on free will from earlier writings through the three Critiques and beyond.

Explains how recent scientific advances have revolutionised our understanding of prehistoric diet, economy and society.

Analyses the rhetoric of dissidents, outsiders and truth-tellers to challenge preconceptions about free speech and political criticism in the early Middle Ages.

Examines the complex relationship between Roman Catholicism and the global Irish diaspora in the nineteenth century for the first time.

The British Army''s devastating effectiveness against colonial rebellion is exposed in this military history of Britain''s pacification of the Arab revolt in Palestine.

Sheds light on the motivations that lay behind the adoption of pottery, the challenges that had to be overcome.

The first systematic global study of how Christians respond to persecution, presenting new research by leading scholars of global Christianity.

Groundbreaking study of the poet Simonides, approaching his work through intertextual readings of the fragments and his ancient reception.

This book traces changing perceptions of Egypt''s monastic landscape through an analysis of archaeological and documentary evidence from late antiquity.

This exploration of the statistical evidence on Germany''s post-war reconstruction sheds new light on the foundations of German economic power.

The end of empire in Britain itself is illuminated through explorations of its impact on key domestic institutions.

Through the eyes of northern Nigerian Qur''anic students, this book explores what it truly means to be young, poor, and Muslim.

Presents a coherent model for understanding historical examples in Ancient Rome and their rhetorical, moral and historiographical functions.

Explores the hidden history of unbelief in the early modern era through the lens of Momus, the Greek god of criticism and mockery.

A compelling history of the impact of automobiles on the streets of Rio de Janeiro.

Argues that immigration politics is a central - but overlooked - matter of contestation in the democratic thought of classical Athens.

The first full treatment of Jewish childhood in the Roman world.

Recreates the harsh mountain warfare during the Wehrmacht''s and Red Army''s clash on the highest battlefield of World War Two.

Challenges preconceptions of convict transportation from Britain and Ireland, penal colonies and religion.

This study shows some of the ways in which medieval Scandinavians received and re-interpreted pre-Christian religion.

A transnational history of how Indigenous peoples mobilised en masse to support the war effort on the battlefields and the home fronts.

The legacies service in the First World War had on women''s lives and the privileges it afforded some of them.

Highlights the severity of the Civil War''s psychological aftereffects for veterans of the Union army.

The lives of ordinary German soldiers offer new insights into the occupation of France, the history of Nazism and the Second World War.

Challenges the persistent orthodoxies of the Tokyo tribunal and provides a new framework for evaluating the trial, revealing its importance to international jurisprudence.

North and South Vietnamese youths had very different experiences growing up during the Vietnamese War.

The relationship between landscape and identity is explored to reveal how Englishness encompasses the urban and rural, and the north and south.

The first substantial study of Victoria''s Requiem, among the most prominent Renaissance musical works, encompassing its genesis, style, and impact.