Wilford provides the first comprehensive account of the clandestine relationship between the CIA and its front…

China's efforts to modernize yielded a kleptocracy characterized by corruption, wealth inequality, and social tensions.…

The sixteenth-century monk Filofei proclaimed Moscow the Third Rome. By the 1930s, intellectuals and artists all over the…

Looking at U.S. farming over the past century, Gardner searches out explanations for both the remarkable progress and the…

Atlantic Crossings is the first major account of the vibrant international network that early American reformers,…

In a newly enlarged edition of this book, David Courtwright offers an original interpretation of the dramatic change in the…

After the Holocaust, the empty, silent spaces of bombed-out synagogues, cemeteries, and Jewish districts were all that was…

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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…

Drawing on a wide range of films from the 1920s to the 1990s-from Keaton's Our Hospitality to Casablanca to Terminator 2,…

Sisters in Arms is the first definitive history of Catholic nuns in the Western world. Unfolding century by century, this…

In the Maoist years the North China Plain was re-engineered to use every drop of water for irrigation and hydroelectricity.…

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

Darius III ruled over the Persian Empire and was the most powerful king of his time, yet he remains obscure. In the first…

The British Empire governed more than half the world's Muslims. John Slight traces the empire's complex interactions with…

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The first of three volumes surveying the historical, spatial, and human dimensions of inter-Asian connections, Asia Inside…

A unique document in the history of the Kennedy years, these letters offer a firsthand look at the working relationship…

Gordon explores the main venues of constitutional practice in ancient Athens, Republican Rome, Renaissance Venice, the Dutch…

After World War II, the major powers faced social upheaval at home and anticolonial wars around the globe. Alarmed by…

Christian Raffensperger tracks the dynastic marriages of the Volodimerovici, the ruling family of Rus´. Using a modern…

In the first comprehensive biography of Halleck, Marszalek recreates the life of a man of enormous achievement who bungled…

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Global Interdependence provides a new account of world history from the end of WWII to the present, an era when…

From the Sino-Japanese War to the Communist Revolution, a cache of letters from one of China's prominent families, the Lius…

The First Amendment merely preserved the political status quo in matters of religion, says Steven D. Smith. America's…

Since the beginning of modern warfare, one of the favorite crusades of the international peacemakers has been toward…

In the 1880s Europeans grabbed vast swaths of the African continent, using documents, not guns, as their weapon of choice.…

John Fine offers a major reassessment of the history of Greece from prehistoric times to the rise of Alexander. Throughout…

The late fifth-century Epic Histories form the earliest historical work written in Armenian. Since no scholarly translation…

Produkt Power and Culture - Iriye, Akira zakoupíte na Bookshop.cz od nakladatele Harvard University Press.…

Sundquist presents a major reevaluation of the formative years of American literature, 1830-1930, that shows how white and…

From Augustus to Constantine, the Roman Empire in the Near East expanded step by step, southward to the Red Sea and eastward…

Assembled in honor of Eduard F. Sekler, this collection is a fitting tribute to a man who has been instrumental in restoring…

This is the first comprehensive study of Poulain, a dropout from theology studies at the Sorbonne who embraced the…

Gumbrecht evokes the year 1926 through explorations of such things as bars, boxing, movie palaces, hunger artists,…

Here is the fullest available narrative history of the reigns of Diocletian and Constantine, and a new assessment of the…

This narrative history surveying one thousand years of Jewish life integrates the Jewish experience into the context of the…

In this ingenious book Thomas McCraw unfolds the history of four powerful men: Charles Francis Adams, Louis D. Brandeis,…

Bickerman presents an account of the Jewish people from the conquest of Palestine by Alexander in 332 BCE to the revolt of…

In the tenth century Shi?a scholars assembled accounts of twelve imams' lives, portraying them as miracle workers who were…

Italian sermons tell a story of the Reformation that credits preachers with using the pulpit, pen, and printing press to…

Augustine of Hippo, a central figure in the history of Western thought, is also the author of a theory of reading that has…

There has never been any doubt that the Adams family was America's first family in our politics and memory. This…

What legitimate form can history take when faced by the severe challenges issued in recent years by literary, rhetorical,…

Produkt Qumran and the History of the Biblical Text zakoupíte na Bookshop.cz od nakladatele Harvard University Press.…

Metamorphoses of the City is a sweeping interpretation of Europe's ambition to generate ever better forms of collective…

"Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny" was Haeckel's answer to 19th-century biology's most vexing question: what is the…

Anders Engberg-Pedersen shows how the Napoleonic Wars inspired a new discourse on knowledge in the West. Soldiers returning…

A History of the Jewish People presents a total vision of Jewish experiences and achievements-religious, political, social,…

Part autobiography, part history of the extraordinary transformation of biology in his time, Bonner's book is truly a life…