The electricity sector is facing its toughest test: eliminate carbon emissions while meeting much larger demands for power…

Wolfram Siemann tells a new story of Clemens von Metternich, the Austrian at the center of nineteenth-century European…

Taylor shows that the modern turn inward is not disastrous but is in fact the result of our long efforts to define and reach…

Nobel Laureate Edmund Phelps argues that the high level of innovation in the West was not a result of scientific discoveries…

John Mack explores the relationship between Lawrence's inner life and his historically significant actions. Interviews,…

A representation of Irish poetic achievement in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, from poets such as Austin Clarke…

\nThe History of Akbar by Abu\'l-Fazl is one of the most important works of Indo-Persian history. Volume 7 includes accounts…

\nCompiled and translated in large part by St. Jerome, the Vulgate Bible influenced Western literature, art, music,…

The Byzantine Sinbad collects The Book of Syntipas the Philosopher, originally a Persian story, and the sixty-two tales of…

\nHomilies collects seven sermons delivered by Sophronios during his short tenure as patriarch of Jerusalem, which coincided…

The roots of modern Western legal institutions and concepts go back nine centuries to the papal revolution, when the Western…

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In a society where trust is in short supply and democracy weak, the Mafia sells protection, a guarantee of safe conduct for…

This work is Benjamin's effort to represent and to critique the bourgeois experience of 19th century history. In it, he…

\nGuru to the World tells the story of Swami Vivekananda, the nineteenth-century Hindu ascetic who introduced the West to…

\nDo democratic citizens have equal right to rule? Is it enough that they have equal standing before the law, or must there…

\nThe US government has long sought investment opportunities for US companies in developing countries. But the results have…

Juliane Noth shows how art and discussions about the future of ink painting were linked to the reshaping of the country,…

\nLaura J. Martin examines ecological restoration\'s long history. Since the early 1900s, restorationists have confronted…

\nThe Greek war for independence (1821-1830) goes missing from the narrative of the Age of Revolutions, yet the overthrow of…

Explores two successive transformations of the Western legal tradition under the impact of the 16th Century German…

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\nTravis Zadeh revives the work of the thirteenth-century Persian scholar Qazwini, whose Wonders and Rarities was for…

\nJennifer Allen details a German utopian movement that arose against capitalist triumphalism at the end of the Cold War.…

\nAvant-Garde Post– follows seven Russophone poets as they reinvigorate leftist art in the wake of state socialism.…

The California Gold Rush is thought to exemplify the Wild West, yet miners were expert organizers. Driven by property…

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

\nIn 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…

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

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…

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

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

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

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

\nIn 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…

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

The aesthetic origins and directions of music are explored, touching upon concepts and visualizations from such fields as…

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

Communist and capitalist states alike were scarred by the economic shocks of the 1970s. Why did only communist governments…

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

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

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Who invented God? When, why, and where? Thomas Römer 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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\nIn the 1960s biologists and social scientists engaged in a public debate about human nature. The question-whether humans…