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A new account of the intellectual debates that created the German notion of the ''modern state'' under the Thirty Years War.

Against the twentieth-century ''Hobbesian anarchy'', Before Anarchy reconsiders the originality and reception of Hobbes''s interpersonal and international state of nature.

The first collaborative volume to explore popular sovereignty, a pivotal concept in the history of political thought.

Harrington draws on neglected sources in early twentieth-century German social thought to address core questions in current social science.

This book is the first detailed analysis and interpretation of Kant''s ethics as anti-realist and idealist.

This book examines racial and ethnic politics outside of the traditional context and questions the models used to understand mobility and government responsiveness.

This book on Roman construction explains why and how Roman builders employed a set of unusual vaulting techniques.

This book on Roman construction explains why and how Roman builders employed a set of unusual vaulting techniques.

This book provides the first political theory of post-Communist Europe, discussing liberty, rights, transitional justice, property, privatization, and rule of law.

This book traces Heidegger''s influence on a variety of political movements to fundamental ambiguities in his understanding of everydayness and nihilism.

This book examines the political thought of Rabbi Meir of Rothenburg, the most important thirteenth century German Rabbi.

This book traces the genealogy and historical memory of the twelfth-century ruler Prithviraj Chauhan, remembered as the ''last Hindu Emperor of India''.

A major study of how Chinese school textbooks shaped social, cultural, and political trends in the late imperial and Republican period.

This book argues that Nietzsche is a meritocratic thinker, not, as many have argued, an aristocrat or a democrat.

This book is the first to demonstrate the extent of Pliny''s contribution to Italian Renaissance architecture.

This book offers a model to bridge the differences between political theorists and social scientists, focusing on deliberative practices.

An original interpretation of the connection between idealism, history and nationalism in Fichte''s general philosophical, educational and moral project.

This study shows that modernity has its origins in the advancement of knowledge, and not in the Scientific Revolution.

This work explores Hume''s Socratic turn to moral and political philosophy as a response to the crisis of radical questioning.

A groundbreaking, revisionist account of the importance of the history of philosophy to intellectual change - scientific, philosophical and religious - in seventeenth-century England.

This innovative revisiting of South Asian intellectual history critically examines Nirad C.

A provocative new history of counterinsurgency with major implications for the history and theory of war, politics, and social science.

This book provides a critical, up-to-date and original overview of the contemporary metaphysical debate on the problem of universals.

This book approaches the topic of argumentation from the perspective of audiences, rather than the perspective of arguers or arguments.

An ambitious analysis of the Roman literary obsession with retreat and closed spaces, in the context of expanding empire.

A collection of new essays examining the impact of Neo-Kantianism on a range of philosophical topics and fields of study.

A new investigation of the meaning that Italian Renaissance humanism had for an essential but neglected group: the humanists themselves.

This book investigates the literary representation of music in the Georgian novel against its musical, aesthetic and cultural background.

This book traces the spread of a global anti-imperialism from the vantage point of Paris between the two World Wars.

Examines the literary output of four influential American Indian intellectuals who challenged conceptions of identity at the turn of the twentieth century.

This book investigates the intellectual currents among Ottoman and North African scholars of the early modern period.

Each chapter of this volume provides a window into the vibrant world of Middle and Late Byzantium, offering new insights into the complexities of Byzantine ecclesiastical spaces.

An introduction to and analytical reconstruction of Thomas Paine''s political philosophy and his account of human rights.

Explores how Vanity Fair transformed from its Puritan origins as an emblem of sin into a modern celebration of hedonism.

This volume explores how nine different religious and secular traditions deal with pluralism, dissent, and the challenges these issues pose.

A major new study of Jeremy Bentham''s engagement with contemporary French culture, from the Enlightenment through to the post-Revolutionary era.

Lisa Pon examines the cultural biography of the city of Forlì''s miraculous woodcut, the Madonna of the Fire.

This volume argues that ''inter-faith'' is a problematic term for Christian theology and advocates a Hegelian approach to religious diversity.

This book traces the rich history of Chinese medical historiography and the emergence of the medical tradition archive.

This book sheds new light on those who inherit Spinoza''s thought and its consequences materially rather than metaphysically.

This book offers the first study of the Scottish Enlightenment reception and interpretation of the French Revolution.

The sixth and final volume in an acclaimed series situating Edward Gibbon in a series of contexts in eighteenth-century European history.

A study of political possibilities in the era of modern imperialism, from the perspective of the sovereign state of Hyderabad.

This book is a study of the interplay of vernacular and global languages of politics during Africa''s decolonization.

This is the first book on the theory, practice and cultural context of musical riddles during the Renaissance.

This book shows how liberal education taught Tudor and Stuart monarchs to wield pens like swords and transformed political culture in early modern Britain.

Explores German engagement with the Italian Renaissance in the decades from German unification to the Weimar republic.

The first full examination of the ''protectionist turn'' of French liberalism in the early stages of nineteenth-century globalisation.

This book provides a systematic examination of the relations between the key elements of Spinoza''s philosophy and the Stoics.

This book analyses the developments in critical reasoning that transformed the conception of tradition, authority, knowledge and power in the late Republic.