\nSamantha Kelly tells the story of Ethiopian Orthodox pilgrims in sixteenth-century Rome. The only African community in…

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Kristallnacht revealed to the world the intent and extent of Nazi Judeophobia. However, it was seen essentially as the work…

\nJulia Rombough explores the regulation of sound in women’s residential institutions in early modern Florence. Silence was…

In his last book, Ronald Dworkin addresses timeless questions: What is religion and what is God's place in it? What are…

David Drake chronicles the lives of ordinary Parisians during WWII, drawing on diaries and reminiscences of people who…

Shepherd enters the debate over the wartime behavior of the Wehrmacht with a detailed study of the motivation and conduct of…

Tracing Samuel Johnson's rocky climb from anonymity to fame, in the course of which he came to stand for both the greatness…

In 1834 Harvard dropout Richard Henry Dana Jr. became a common seaman, and soon his Two Years Before the Mast became a…

Through the history of one city Michael Frisch provides a persuasive and graceful account of the shifting context of urban…

This biography of statesman Edmund Burke (1730-1797), covering three decades, is the first to attend to the complexity of…

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A longstanding tradition holds that universities in early modern Italy suffered from cultural sclerosis and long-term…

Text and Interpretation examines the main characteristics of the legal thought of Imam JaÊ¿far al-Ṣādiq, preeminent…

Gregory Afinogenov explores centuries of Russian spying and scholarship on the Far East. He argues that the approaches the…

\nIn Dreaming and Self-Cultivation in China, 300 BCE-800 CE, Robert Ford Campany examines how dreaming was addressed in…

Today\'s electric power companies compete to provide cleaner electricity. That\'s a good thing, but progress has come with…

\nThough celebrated at the peak of his career, Australian architect John Andrews\' fame waned over time. His body of work…

\nIn Lineages Embedded in Temple Networks, Richard Wang explores the key role played by elite Daoists in social and cultural…

From Alexanderplatz, the bustling Berlin square, to Moabit, site of the city's most feared prison, this book illuminates the…

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Oliver Goldsmith arrived in England a penniless Irishman and toiled for years in the anonymity of Grub Street. Norma Clarke…

The most ubiquitous feature of Harlem life between the world wars was the game of "numbers." Thousands of wagers were placed…

A century after the Great War, the experiences of civilians and soldiers in the Middle East during those years have faded…

Christopher Pastore traces how Narragansett Bay's ecology shaped the contours of European habitation, trade, and resource…

A pioneering organ transplant surgeon narrates in gripping detail the revolutions that have transformed modern surgery, and…

This collective biography of four jazz musicians from Brooklyn, Ghana, and South Africa demonstrates how modern Africa…

In the run-up to the Iraq invasion, a number of Americans thought the idea was crazy. Now everyone, except a few die-hards,…

Cataglyphis ants can set out across vast expanses of desert terrain in search of prey, and then find the shortest way home.…

\nPulitzer Prize-winner Bert Hoelldobler and behavioral ecologist Christina Kwapich reveal a universe of behavioral…

\nWang Hui asks what it means for China to be modern and for modernity to be Chinese. Is there a rupture between tradition…

Daniel J. C. Kronauer brings to life the research surrounding army ants, nature\'s preeminent social hunters. Without…

\nVice President John Adams faces a turbulent world of rebellion in this volume of the Papers of John Adams, which…

\nThe Image of the Black in Latin American and Caribbean Art is the first comprehensive survey of the visual representation…

\nOffers commentary and an illustrated history of the representations of people of African descent ranging from the ancient…

Nearly everything we treasure in the world\'s most beautiful cities was built over a century ago. Yet the ideas and…

After Vietnam the army promised its all-volunteer force a safety net long reserved for career soldiers: medical and dental…

In Germany the end of World War II calls forth images of obliterated cities, hungry refugees, and ghostly monuments to Nazi…

Graham proposes an explicit if minimalist approach by the federal government that would pull together and reform our de…

In this innovative study of the rise of the conservation ethic in northern New England, Richard Judd shows that the movement…

Bailey tells the story of the all-volunteer force from the 1960s through the Iraq War. Based on archival research and…

In this sweeping history of U.S. policy toward Latin America, Schoultz shows that the U.S. has always perceived Latin…

The intellectual history of race, one of the most pernicious and enduring ideas in American history, has remained segregated…

The father of Indian independence, Gandhi was also a political theorist who challenged mainstream ideas. Sovereignty, he…

\nOffers commentary and an illustrated history of the representations of people of African descent ranging from the ancient…

\nThis landmark work is a thoroughgoing survey of one of the largest and most diverse groups of animals on the planet.…

From 1716 to 1845 Scottish banks were among the most dynamic and resilient in Europe, effectively absorbing economic shocks…

Scotland and England produced well-known intellectuals during the Enlightenment, but Ireland's contribution to this…

Society's wealthiest members claim an ever-expanding share of income and property-a true counterrevolution, says Pierre…

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The 700-year history of the novel in English defies straightforward telling. Encompassing a range of genres, it is…