• Rok vydání 2022

\nIn 1831 enslaved Jamaicans revolted. What began as a peaceful movement soon became a bloodbath as British troops…

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Charles Walker examines the largest rebellion in the history of Spain's American empire, led by Latin America's most iconic…

In 1767, two "princes" of a ruling family in Old Calabar, on the slave coast of Africa, were captured by English slavers.…

On the night of the 1876 presidential election, a gang of counterfeiters attempted to steal the entombed embalmed body of…

The Mongol takeover in the 1270s changed the course of Chinese history. The Confucian empire - a millennium and a half in…

In 221 bc the First Emperor of Qin unified the lands that would become the heart of a Chinese empire. Though forged by…

In a brisk revisionist history, William Rowe challenges the standard narrative of Qing China as a decadent, inward-looking…

For Latin America, the Cold War was anything but cold. Nor was it the so-called "long peace" afforded the world's…

Weaving elements of early modern European, African, and American history, Atlantic history embraces essentials of Western…

\nThe Sea of Separation, a new free verse translation of Tulsidas’s beloved Ramcaritmanas, presents renowned episodes from…

Branko Milanovic charts 200 years of the fascinating history of the discourse on inequality through portraits of six key…

• Rok vydání 2025

AFinancial TimesBest History Book of the Year.AFinancial TimesSummer Reading Favorite\"[V]ividly evokes cultural life in…

\nThis data-rich sociological study uses everything from census figures to Who’s Who to analyze how, over 125 years, the…

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• Rok vydání 2019

Presents current thinking on some of the theoretical issues and dilemmas in the conception and writing of literary history,…

Nezar AlSayyad narrates the many Cairos that have existed through time, offering a panorama unmatched in temporal and…

Walter Benjamin was perhaps the twentieth century's most elusive intellectual. His writings defy categorization, and his…

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The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution is a classic of American historical literature required reading for…

One of the most momentous stories of the last century is China's rise from a self-satisfied, anti-modern, decaying society…

• Rok vydání 2015

In a work as much about the present as the past, Gregory identifies the unintended consequences of the Reformation for the…

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\nIn this book, 20 religionists and environmentalists examine Buddhism\'s understanding of life\'s web. In noting the…

• Rok vydání 1896

In 1896 a massive Ethiopian army routed an invading Italian force and brought Italy's conquest of Africa to an end. In…

\nIt can seem as though the Cold War division of Europe was inevitable. But Stalin was more open to a settlement on the…

\nIn this collection of dispatches, Stanislav Aseyev attempts to understand the reasons behind the success of Russian…

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Marco Santagata illuminates one of the world's supreme poets from many angles philosopher, father, courtier, political…

Peter Brown explores a revolutionary shift in thinking about the fate of the soul between 250 and 650 CE, showing how…

• Rok vydání 2022

\nPerhaps nothing has ever been so frightening to people of faith as \"the modern.\" Pluralistic and rationalizing,…

\nThe American working class didn\'t disappear with the manufacturing economy. It transformed. Instead of unionized…

The Market has deified itself, according to Harvey Cox\'s brilliant exegesis. And all of the world\'s problems-widening…

This work examines the travel account of a German baroque author who journeyed in search of silk from Northern Germany,…

Tracing the history of the idea of the author beginning with attribution practices of Second Temple and Rabbinic Judaism,…

Not only did the Declaration announce the entry of the United States onto the world stage, it became the model for other…

During four years in session, Vatican Council II held television audiences rapt with its elegant, magnificently…

This book offers an illuminating discussion of recent scholarly debates over the concept of 'Gnosticism' and the nature of…

A reexamination of the most extraordinary of ancient ceremonies, this book explores the magnificence of the Roman…

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Trent, the Catholic Church's attempt to put its house in order after the Reformation, has long been praised and blamed for…

Veron presents the geological history of the Great Barrier Reef, the biology of coral reef ecosystems, and a primer on what…

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\nGuru Nanak founded the Sikh religion, and his vast corpus of hymns forms the core of the Guru Granth Sahib, the Sikhs\'…

\nWhat was it like to travel while Black under Jim Crow? Mia Bay brings this dramatic history to life. With gripping stories…

\nGenerations of Russians have pursued wealth and power in the East, colonizing Pacific regions and spreading political…

• Rok vydání 2022

\nAttilio Teruzzi, Mussolini\'s commander of the Black Shirts, exemplified fascism\'s obsession with male strength. Through…

The Life of Saint Neilos of Rossano is a snapshot of a distinctive moment before the schism between the churches of Rome and…

\nWritings on Body and Soul includes a selection of the theological, historical, and devotional works of Aelred, the…