History

Explores a central paradox in Plotinus'' work: Plotinus writes about the One, which he tells us is ineffable.

Explores how refugees were used as agents of nation-building in India, leading to gendered and caste-ridden policies of rehabilitation.

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Machiavelli believes republicans must be prepared to defend strict limits on elite power even when elites are ''good''.

Provides a rich examination of how Turkish immigrants and their children created spaces of belonging in West German society.

Draws on recently declassified and unpublished sources to provide an original and in-depth analysis of Russian and Soviet Iranian studies.

First dedicated account of the ways in which Shakespeare''s texts were read in the two centuries after they were produced.

Moral Contagion highlights the central roles that race and international diplomacy played in the development of American citizenship.

Radical international legal history of the expansionary project of statehood and its role in generating profound distributional inequalities

Explores how the British Empire responded to the environmental challenges of the world''s largest tidal delta.

This timely account of politicized homophobia contests portrayals of the African continent as hopelessly homophobic, highlighting how elites deploy it.

Reinterpretation of the Danube frontier in Late Antiquity, drawing on literary, archaeological, and numismatic sources.

Studies the interrelation of sight, touch, and the imagination in ancient and medieval Greek theories of perception and cognition.

This book reorients the study of sacrifice, examining the locus of ritual action - the altars of Republican Rome and Latium.

Using newly-uncovered archival evidence, Jeff Eden sheds unprecedented light on the lives of slaves ensnared by the Central Asian slave trade.

The economic, political and historical story of the Nile in ancient times is unearthed through its landscape.

Maps an apartheid-era Zulu Radio station as it grew to become one of the largest stations in Africa, countering censorship and propaganda.

Drawing on case studies from Islamic history, Haider challenges assumptions about the nature of the sources shaping understandings of the early Muslim world.

Examines Nietzsche''s thinking on the virtues using a combination of close reading and digital analysis.

Presents the first full-length, systematic study of the reception of Cicero''s speeches in the Roman educational system.

This unique study spotlights the role of masculinity in Iranian history, linking masculinity to social and political developments.

Rethinks the tea plantation economy of colonial east India by highlighting its human and non-human networks and practices.

An exploration of the theology of divine providence that is both critical and constructive in its outcomes.

A subtle yet wide-ranging study confirming the importance of rhetoric in physicians'' rise to medical dominance and prestige.

At last a history that explains how indigenous dispossession and survival underlay and shaped the birth of Australian democracy.

An exploration of how petty theft in the nineteenth-century German countryside contributed to the modern-day legal system and property laws.

Drawing on extensive interviews, Hartshorn explains how labor became a revolutionary topic prior to the Arab Uprisings of 2010–2011.

Reveals the importance of Gellius'' Noctes Atticae for the history of reading, thought, and intellectual culture in the Graeco-Roman world.

A longitudinal history of Islamic child custody law, challenging Euro-American exceptionalism to reveal developments that considered the best interests of the child.

Challenges contemporary understandings of ''globalization'' by focusing on the role of non-state prehistoric societies and their vast realms of connectivity.

The book traces nearly two thousand years of architectural transformations to St Paul''s Basilica, one of Rome''s principal churches.

Few treatments of Catholic Social Teaching are as comprehensive as this, and none is nearly so devoted to a critical scholarly presentation and analysis of the whole corpus.

A vision of contemporary China from the inside, Xu''s essays offer a liberal reaction to the complexity of China''s rise.

The notion of ''representative democracy'' seems unquestionably familiar today, but how did the Victorians understand democracy, parliamentary representation, and diversity?

Examines the experiences of couples in controversial unions and the legal and cultural backlash against contested marital arrangements in twentieth-century America.

Explores the development of a ''European security culture'' from the Congress of Vienna to the First World War.

The reuse of architectural and sculptural materials (spoliation) was common centuries earlier than previously realized, during the Roman empire.

Offers a thorough examination of Afro-Barbadian migration to Liberia during the mid- to late nineteenth century.

This book contains expansive, multifaceted narrative of British women''s literary and textual production from the Reformation to the Restoration.

This business history elucidates the international history of the interwar period by putting the armaments sector front and center.

Shows that modernism was concocted out of surprising sources, and that one of them was Toryism during 1900–1920.

The book explores the power of representation in the Carolingian period, arguing that people used images to assert the value of artworks.

The first comprehensive study of the European book in the historical period known as the ''long twelfth century'' (1075–1225).

Important intervention in Middle English studies that challenges widely accepted narratives on the identities of Chaucer''s scribes.

Examines Iran''s Armenian community, shedding light on Muslim-Christian relations in Iran since the 1979 revolution.

Systematically explores the changing size and structure of the population of classical Athens and the implications for economic history.

Explores how foreign policy was used to promote American nationalism by creating external threats in the early republic.

Provides the first global analysis of the relationship between trade and civilisation from the beginning of civilisation until the modern era.

Elucidates the Scriptural moral tradition by subjecting ethically challenging biblical texts to moral philosophical analysis.

A path-breaking study of national, imperial and indigenous interests at stake in a controversial German expedition to British India.