Scholars have long claimed that the Eastern Roman Empire, a Christian theocracy, bore little resemblance to ancient Rome.…

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In 1675 English America descended into anarchy, as rebellions, massacres, and riots swept the colonies from New York to…

\nNo major economy is more dependent on fossil fuel exports than Russia, yet it is unprepared for the global transition away…

\nMargarita Fajardo tells the story of the cepalinos, Latin American economists and policymakers, and their dependentista…

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Long before the European Union was the ideal of Europe: a continent politically united and thereby at peace. In a pointed…

Reconstructing religious motivation, conviction and behaviour in early modern Europe, this text shows the shifting…

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Nozick develops new views on philosophy's central topics and weaves them into a unified perspective. He ranges widely over…

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Under French rule, majority Muslim Algeria became one of the world's largest wine producers. Owen White explores the impact…

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In 1960, when Japan revised the postwar treaty that allows a U.S. military presence in Japan, the popular backlash changed…

Does temperament in childhood shape adult personality? Four psychologists followed thousands of people as they grew up,…

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How did Hong Kong, long an affluent and depoliticized hub of global capitalism, become the center of popular anticolonial…

\nNational security once was not limited to physical defense. FDR equated national security with safety from foreign attack…

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The Op-Ed Novel follows a clutch of globally renowned Spanish novelists who swept into the political sphere via the pages of…

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Drawing on a range of hard evidence, Neil Van Leeuwen shows that the psychological mechanisms underlying religious belief…

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From Booker T. Washington to a neighbor who speaks up at a city council meeting, many of the people who represent us were…

\nZongyuan Zoe Liu provides the first in-depth examination of sovereign funds in China. Under President Xi, the state has…

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In Experimentalist Constitutions, the first book that systematically compares subnational experimentalism in different…

\nThe New Biology argues that mechanical reductionism, though helpful in answering many biological questions, cannot on its…

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Nazmul Sultan explores Indian contributions to democratic theory, as anticolonial thinkers developed principles of…

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Leonard Bernstein's Norton Lectures on the future course of music drew cheers from his Harvard audiences and television…

\nIn the age of tenure-denial lawsuits and free speech battles, colleges and universities face more intense legal pressures…

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

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In a new retelling of the romantic rationalist adventure of ideas that is Hegel's classic The Phenomenology of Spirit,…

Timbuktu is famous as a center of learning from Islam's Golden Age. Yet it was one among many scholarly centers to exist in…

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Vietnam focuses on how the country's governance shapes its politics, economy, social development, and international…

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Almost every town in France has a street named for Louis Pasteur-but did he alone stop people from spitting, persuade them…

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The Mongol Empire in Global History and Art History includes essays on topics from historical chronicles to contemporary…

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Neeti Nair explores the trend toward legal protection for the religious "sentiments" of majorities in India, Pakistan, and…

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Who invented God? When, why, and where? Thomas R mer seeks to answer these enigmatic questions about the deity of the great…

Jianglin Li provides the first clear historical account of the Chinese crackdown in Lhasa in 1959. Sifting facts from the…

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Are the "culture wars" over? When did they begin? What is their relationship to gender struggle and the dynamics of class?…

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To understand the way children develop, Bronfenbrenner believes that it is necessary to observe their behavior in natural…

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Between 1350 and 1750 the world reached a tipping point of global connectedness. In this volume of the acclaimed series A…

\nIn the 1960s biologists and social scientists engaged in a public debate about human nature. The question-whether humans…

\nThe Letters of Emily Dickinson collects, redates, and recontextualizes all of the poet’s extant letters, including dozens…

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From the History of the World series, Making Civilizations traces the origins of large-scale organized human societies. Led…

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In By Flesh and Toil, MĂ©lanie Lamotte explores the rise of the French Empire across both the Atlantic and Indian Oceans.…

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Katie Ebner-Landy shows that early modern Europeans, inspired by the ancient philosopher Theophrastus, embraced the…

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Histories of remote islands around Japan are usually told through the prism of territorial disputes. In contrast, Takahiro…

\nIn a career spanning seven decades, Liu Kuo-sung has reinvented the millennium-old tradition of ink painting. The Liu…

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At a time when tech giants have amassed vast market power, Jonathan Baker shows how laws and regulations can be updated to…

Economists investigate the workings of markets and tend to set ethical questions aside. Theologians often dismiss economics,…

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Populism suddenly is everywhere, and everywhere misunderstood. Nadia Urbinati argues that populism should be regarded as…

The eastern Roman Empire was the largest state in western Eurasia in the sixth century. A century later, it was a fraction…

\nUtpaladeva on the Power of Action provides the first critical edition, annotated translation, and study of the first three…

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David Kennedy and Martti Koskenniemi, two leading critics of law's role in global life, join together to explore the origins…

For most of human history, states and regions were connected by long-distance commerce and war, yet they developed…