History

An environmental and cultural history of winter in the colonial Northeast, examining indigenous and settler knowledge of life in the cold.

Interrogates the traditional binary ''slave societies''/''societies with slaves'' as a paradigm for understanding the global practice of slaveholding.

A nuanced range of interdisciplinary perspectives on the role of emotions in moral and political reactions to mass violence.

Offers an innovative study of visual traditions in modern medical history through debates about the causes, impact and spread of AIDS.

Examines Europe''s first significant national policies on social welfare in the late nineteenth century, which had major implications for state-society relations.

Argues that freed slaves exerted a profound influence on the transformation of Roman values under the Principate.

The book brings together cutting-edge scholarship from the United States and Europe to address political and cultural responses to the arms race of the 1980s.

Paying for Hitler''s War is a comparative economic study of twelve Nazi-occupied countries during World War II.

Reviews the complex relationship between Rome''s rich archaeology, changing cultural and ideological agendas, and its urban development.

Examines the first theory of consciousness in Western philosophy, dispelling the dogma that consciousness studies begins with Descartes.

Advances theorization of childhood in contexts of racialized settler-colonial political violence while acknowledging children''s power to interrupt it.

Examines the complex interactions between English and Irish neighbours in the ''four obedient shires'' and how this shaped English identity.

Based on long-term research in northern Chad, this book provides a unique account of mobility, wealth, and aspirations to political autonomy at the heart of the contemporary Sahara.

A History of South Australia investigates the state''s history from before the arrival of the first European explorers to today.

A rich ethnographic account of young West African fisherfolk navigating a precarious social and economic environment shaped by ecological crisis, war, and secrecy.

Through the lens and experiences of civil society, Fortier demonstrates the volatility of democratization following the downfall of Tunisia''s authoritarian regime duringin the 2010–11 uprisings.

This comparative study of post-war European socialism explores the problems of socio-economic and political reconstruction across the Iron Curtain.

Examines the role of values in psychology and urges new directions of impact through interdisciplinary collaboration to face global issues.

Examines the clash between political systems and political action as the Roman Republic disintegrated.

History mattered to the political elite in ancient China.

Offers fresh perspectives on the relationship between secularization, tolerance and democracy through a theoretically informed look at South Asian politics.

Explores the reception of fifteenth-century English manuscripts and two generations of a Tudor family who owned and read them.

Provides an accessible mathematical and philosophical account of Quine''s set theory, New Foundations.

Ground-breaking study revealing the thrill and moral power of the ancient Roman story-world and its ancestral tales of bloody heroism.

Far from being a Judeo-Christian invention, apocalyptic thought had its roots in the ancient Near East and was expressed in its art.

This book presents fresh perspectives on the context and significance of Austin''s philosophies of language, truth, perception, and knowledge.

Examination of literacy and reading habits in nineteenth-century Ireland and implications for an emerging cultural nationalism.

This volume brings together scholars of Mediterranean archaeology, ancient history, and complexity science to advance the study of maritime connectivity.

A study of the chief of the African eunuchs who guarded the sultan''s harem in Istanbul under the Ottoman Empire.

The story of the Dubliners who served in the British military and in republican forces during the First World War and the Irish Revolution.

A wide-ranging study of violence in Latin literature, across the spectrum of texts and genres from Plautus to Prudentius.

An interdisciplinary history of the campaign to secure international protection of indications of geographic origin, including ''Made in …'' slogans.

Argues that Qing China was not just a continental empire, but a maritime power protecting its interests at sea.

Explores the treatment of Byzantium by the historiographies of the polities that have emerged from its remains since the Enlightenment.

The crack cocaine years: from deviant globalization to the ''get money'' culture of late twentieth-century America.

Secret societies in tribal societies turn out to be key to understanding the origins of social inequalities and state religions.

Comprehensive survey of the conductus over a period of more than one hundred years, demonstrating how music and poetry interact.

A century-long struggle to make a borderland population into loyal Germans or Poles drove nationalist activists to radical measures.

Provides an overview of Native American philosophies, practices, and case studies and demonstrates how Traditional Ecological Knowledge provides insights into the sustainability movement.

Develops and defends a new metaphysical and logical theory of arbitrary objects that will reinvigorate the philosophy of mathematics.

Sheds new light on the presence and impact of Continental European literary traditions in post-Napoleonic Britain.

Challenges the divide between political and literary history, in an analysis of a major polemical text from mid-ninth century Europe.

Explores the tremendous discoveries historical archaeologists have made about English life in the Americas during the seventeenth century.

Examines the entrenchment of Salafism in Lebanese society while also highlighting the movement''s transnational links to the Persian Gulf.

A wide-ranging exploration of women''s travel writing between 1714 and 1789, emphasising women''s contribution to processes of cultural change.

A comprehensive new account of China''s entry into the global legal order and its role in helping to reshape it.

Offers a structuralist critique of the relationship between pragmatism and liberalism in American legal thought.

Explores Sino-Japanese relations through encounters that took place between each country''s people living at the margins of empire.

This study of military routines is vital for understanding why soldiers from Western democracies participating in multinational missions vary in their use of force.

This book examines the connections between Bavarian tourism and the turbulent experience of German modernity for Germans and foreign tourists.