A global history of the acquisition of progressively more potent means of altering ordinary waking consciousness, this book…

Even before the emergence of the civil rights movement, African American religion and progressive politics were assumed to…

Discusses the extent of the problem, traces the history of the disease, and includes information on prevention, treatments,…

From Tin Pan Alley to grand opera, player-pianos to phonograph records, David Suisman's Selling Sounds explores the rise of…

In the wake of the Civil Rights movement, a new, loosely-organized social movement was born in the struggle for cultural…

The fossil fuel revolution is usually a tale of advances in energy production. Christopher Jones tells a tale of advances in…

Jerusalem is more than a tourist site-every square mile is layered with historical significance, religious intensity, and…

• Čeština

Grafton reveals the microdynamics of the scholarly life through a series of essays on institutions and on scholars ranging…

\nOn the centennial of the founding of the Chinese Communist Party, Tony Saich offers the definitive history of the CCP\'s…

The unseeing of the gods was a requirement of Western modernity. Beginning with sixteenth-century debates over Christ's real…

\nWith Congress paralyzed, lawmaking falls to executive agencies and courts that interpret existing statutes. Due to the…

\nRenowned historian Anthony Grafton invites us to see the scholars of early modern Europe as laborers. Bookish but hardly…

\nFrom the Alien Friends Act to the Cold War and the War on Terror, the US has used ideological exclusions and deportations…

\nLong before Greeks dominated the ancient Mediterranean, Phoenicians were the lords of the sea. Setting out from their…

Die erste umfassende Darstellung der Islampolitik des NS-Regimes. Zeigt die Instrumentalisierung des Islam durch die…

Since the 1970s a gulf has opened between the pay of low-paid workers and that of the middle class, resulting in the…

On the one hundredth anniversary of the death of William James, the author assembles essays and writings that reveal the…

In the first complete history of the War of 1812 written from a British perspective, Latimer offers an authoritative account…

Spiller locates a dozen turning points in the history of warfare that altered our understanding of war and its pursuit. We…

• Rok vydání 1983

The town of Dreux-60 miles from Paris-made history in 1983 when Le Pen's National Front earned startling electoral gains in…

This first complete biography of the longtime member and chief judge of the New York Court of Appeals and Justice of the…

"The problem of the [20th] century is the problem of the color-line," W. E. B. Du Bois wrote in 1903. His words have proven…

In this inaugural volume of the Alexis de Tocqueville Lectures, Ceaser traces how certain "foundational" ideas-including…

\nModern Japan is not only responding to threats from North Korea and China but is also reevaluating its dependence on the…

\nImagined Geographies in the Mediterranean, Middle East, and Beyond is a collaborative volume focusing on imagined…

An examination of the changes in the language used by the media in Greece since the fall of the dictatorship, Greek Media…

\nLiner Notes for the Revolution offers a startling new perspective on Black women musicians from Bessie Smith to Beyonce.…

• Rok vydání 2020

Produkt Mussel Cookbook - Hurlburt, Sarah zakoupíte na Bookshop.cz od nakladatele Harvard University Press.…

This book tells the story of how the transition to democracy in South Africa enfranchised blacks politically but without…

Drawing on the thought of canonical figures Martin R. Delany and W. E. B. Du Bois, Shelby provides the first extended…

This book tells the story of the foreign-born, technically skilled investors and entrepreneurs who return home to start new…

Humanitarian, philanthropist, and campaigner for Jewish emancipation on a grand scale, Sir Moses Montefiore (1784-1885) was…

First Amendment defenders greeted the Court's Citizens United ruling with enthusiasm, while electoral reformers recoiled in…

Unearthing the legal history of racial identity, Gross's book examines the paradoxical and often circular relationship of…

A history of German resistance to Hitler in high places, this book offers a glimpse into one of the most intractable…

• Rok vydání 2023

\nJames Hankins challenges the view that the Renaissance was the seedbed of modern republicanism, with Machiavelli as…

Convened at Rouen and directed by Bishop Pierre Cauchon, the trial of Joan of Arc, in 1431, culminated in Joan's public…

Many scientists and scientifically-minded commentators are skeptical that free will exists. In clear, scientifically…