History and Archaeology

Explores the spaces and events of the interwar Round Table Conference which drafted the blueprint for colonial India''s constitutional future.

This book interrogates post-Roman art, arguing for aesthetic variety as a cross-cultural concept in early medieval Europe and the Mediterranean.

Ethnography of Shias living along frontiers of Kashmir, negotiating belonging to India by calibrating transnational religious-cultural ideas with nationalist ideologies.

Situating Birsa Munda as the canon, the book demonstrates how political parties and civil societies mobilise and reproduce his memory.

Bringing a longue durée perspective to the issue, this book traces different theories of doctrinal development from antiquity to the present day.

Explores both Zambian dress practices from the late-colonial period until the present and African contributions to globally circulating fashions.

A literary and historical analysis of Urdu travel writing during the nineteenth century.

This highly original work redefines the place of war and empire-building in the making of early modern Venice.

This book investigates in detail how illustrated manuscripts of vernacular texts provided education to children and adolescents in Renaissance Florence.

A pioneering study of the aesthetic function of grotesque imagery in Roman love elegy.

The first study exploring the lives of female slaves of the Ottoman imperial court, drawing from hitherto unexplored primary sources

Recent tools and findings from the cognitive sciences illuminate religious thought and behaviour in ancient Israel and the Bible.

Examines key technological innovations, knowledge transfer, connectivity and social meaning in the ancient and Medieval Sahara.

The first comprehensive survey of monasteries and monasticism in the Near East during the ''Crusader'' period.

Offers a new interpretation of Johann Gottfried Herder''s political thought, situating his ideas in pan-European Enlightenment debates.

Showcases new approaches that reveal the remarkable transformation of Roman and Italian societies during the Middle Republican period.

A history of colonial legacies in United Nations peacekeeping operations in the aftermath of the Second World War.

Argues that the ephemeral appears in enduring forms through the body and inscribed texts in Greek poetry.

A new narrative history of the east Roman field armies based on all the available sources.

The Indo-European dispersal inalterably shaped the Eurasian linguistic landscape.

Traces Fackenheim''s early concern with revelation and how it shifted to his later focus on the Holocaust (post-1967).

This interdisciplinary volume re-evaluates the interconnectedness of the Merovingian world with its Mediterranean surroundings.

This cultural history of the Japanese home front during the Asia-Pacific War challenges ideas of the period as one of deprivation and repression.

Offers an unprecedentedly rich portrait of the vibrant intellectual and intercultural exchanges sparked by the Crusades in thirteenth-century Acre.

Noakes'' revelatory analysis of Victorian scientists'' fascination with psychic phenomena connects science, the occult and religion in intriguing new ways.

Reveals how early modern religious conceptions of covenant and community were deployed for surprisingly radical political ends.

Reveals a religiously diverse pre-industrial society in the Middle East, broadening studies of global Christianity and challenging Islamic history''s exceptionalism.

Offers a radical re-appraisal of rhetoric''s relation to literature, with fresh insights into rhetorical sources and their reception in Roman poetry.

The first major study of the relationship between liturgy and historiography in early medieval Rus.

This volume reveals music''s role in Victorian liberalism and its relationship with literature, locating the Victorian salon within intellectual and cultural history.

Shah uncovers the complex interaction between constitutional law, religion and politics in three key plural societies in Asia.

This innovative book reconceptualises Roman poetry and its reception through the lens of fictional biography (''biofiction'').

A pioneering study of Greek religion and cults at a key colonial frontier, with major consequences for antiquity at large.

An analysis of Balkan Islam and the formation of one of the largest Muslim communities in the early-modern Ottoman Balkans.

This book argues that the introduction of popular sovereignty as the basis for government in France facilitated a dramatic transformation in international law in the eighteenth century.

The first in-depth study of the history of copyright protecting the visual arts.

King Arthur and the Battle for Britannia is the last in a series of three books.

Discusses how prehistoric humans responded to the environmental and climatic changes within the Nile Basin during the past million years.

A fresh response to the problem of illegal immigration in the United States through the context of Christian theology.

Explores the evolving human rights of Roma in Eastern Europe''s recent history, and the complex politics of Roma rights today.

First comprehensive treatment of the ontology of epistemic normative notions including reasons, justification, and rationality, reflecting important current debates.