\nThe History of Akbar by Abu\'l-Fazl is one of the most important works of Indo-Persian history. The eighth and final…

Surdas, regarded as the epitome of artistry in Old Hindi religious poetry from the end of the sixteenth century to the…

\nLargely forgotten today, the Second Mexican Empire was a transformative nineteenth-century moment. Raymond Jonas explores…

Lorenzo Valla (1406-1457) was the leading philologist of the first half of the fifteenth century, as well as a philosopher,…

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The most popular work of the Italian humanist Polydore Vergil (1470-1555), On Discovery (De inventoribus rerum, 1499), was…

A Socratic dialogue set in the court of King Mattias Corvinus of Hungary (ca. 1490), Republics and Kingdoms Compared depicts…

Kelly portrays a complex system of government openly regulated by networks of personal influence and the payment of money.…

In 1898 the American Regular Army was a small frontier constabulary engaged in skirmishes with Indians and protesting…

Emphasizing the psychological aspect of warfare, Ephraim Kam observes surprise attack through the eyes of its victims. He…

The nineteenth century was the heyday of furious contention between American political parties, and Joel Silbey has…

Maximos the Confessor is one of the most challenging and original Christian thinkers of all time. The Ambigua is his…

Anonymous Old English Lives of Saints includes narratives from the eleventh and twelfth centuries about locally venerated…

Old English Lives of Saints, a series composed in the 990s by the Benedictine monk Aelfric, portrays an array of…

In the Miscellanies, the great Italian Renaissance scholar-poet Angelo Poliziano penned two sets of mini-essays focused on…

The History of Akbar, Volume 6 by Abu\'l-Fazl details the twenty-third to twenty-eighth years of Akbar\'s reign, including…

Maximos the Confessor is one of the most challenging and original Christian thinkers of all time. The Ambigua is his…

\nElizabeth Ingleson explores the roots of bilateral trade between the United States and China. Telling the story of the…

\nTheft of a Tree, by the sixteenth-century poet Nandi Timmana, recounts how Krishna stole the parijata, a wish-granting…

Unrest in China, from the dramatic events of 1989 to more recent stirrings, offers a rare opportunity to consider how…

Employing a "poetics of culture" to capture the complex atmospherics of 1930s Paris, the authors have produced something…

The link between homeownership and political involvement, Fischel argues, explains several puzzles, such as why displacement…

Drawing on more than a hundred interviews with Vatican officials, this book affords a firsthand look at the people, the…

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How and why did the promise of oil fail Galicia and the Austrian Empire, which at the beginning of the 20th century ranked…

In this account of black-white contacts from the Pharaohs to the Caesars, Snowden shows that the ancients did not…

The Cold War and the Color Line is the first comprehensive examination of how the Cold War intersected with the final…

In a remarkably fresh and historically grounded reinterpretation of the American Constitution, William Nelson argues that…

Angelo Poliziano (1454-1494) was one of the great scholar-poets of the Renaissance and a leading figure in the Florence…

\nIn US foreign policy, conflict has replaced diplomacy. At home, wars on crime, drugs, immigration, and terrorism dissolve…

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Presents the text of the Pentateuch, the first five books of the Bible, beginning with the creation of the world and the…

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Volume V of a projected six-volume Vulgate Bible presents the twelve minor prophetical books of the Old Testament, as well…

\nPoems from the Guru Granth Sahib offers spiritual lyrics from the Sikhs\' sacred book of ethics, philosophy, and theology.…

Dialogues, Volume 2 by Giovanni Gioviano Pontano contains both a perceptive treatment of poetic rhythm, the first full…

Chronicles the internal politics and events and focuses on the external affairs of Venice, and the conflicts with other…

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Ancient Greek thought is the essential wellspring from which the intellectual, ethical, and political civilization of the…

The most significant conquest of the 20th century may have been the triumph of American consumer society over Europe's…

On the Autonomy of the Democratic State challenges the assumption that elected and appointed public officials are…

Most of Barnard's career was spent in executive practice. A Mount Hermon and Harvard education, cut off short of the…

The authors offer a balanced, authoritative account of the history of the Palestinian people from their modern origins to…

During the last centuries of the Roman Empire, the prevailing ideal of feminine virtue was radically transformed: the pure…

As the driving force behind the Allied effort in World War I, France willingly shouldered the heaviest burden. In this…

A historian of early Christianity considers various theoretical critiques to examine the problems and opportunities posed by…

Geoffrey of Monmouth\'s History of the Kings of Britain-the earliest book to detail the legendary foundation of Britain and…

\nThe legends collected in Saints at the Limits, despite sometimes being viewed with suspicion by the Church, fascinated…

Why do citizens of states with strict surveillance care so little about their digital privacy? Why do Brazilians eschew…

Leonardo Bruni (1370-1444), the leading civic humanist of the Italian Renaissance, served as apostolic secretary to four…

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Before the Communists came to power, China lay broken. Today it is a global force, but its leaders are haunted by the past.…

From hidden connections in big data to bots spreading fake news, journalism is increasingly computer-generated. Nicholas…