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Aysha Hidayatullah presents the first comprehensive analysis of contemporary feminist interpretations of the Quran.…

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Regarded as one of the best general histories of the ancient world, it is written for the general reader and the student…

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It explores how the texts from classical Greece and Rome have survived and gives an account of the reasons why it was…

This work is an original and pioneering exploration of not only the social history of the subcontinent but also of…

Malcolm X at Oxford Union tells one of the great unknown stories from the Civil Rights era, capturing the powerful…

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The first biography of Elizabeth Wiskemann - historian, journalist, intelligence agent - delving into her lives in 1920s…

This is a survey of European history, from the coup d'etat of Napoleon, to the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand at…

\nThis volume introduces a side of Margaret Mead that few people know. Coffman provides a fascinating account of Mead\'s…

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Alcohol-and alcoholism-have long been prominent features in Russian life and culture. But as Mark Schrad vividly shows in…

\nAn Age to Work reveals how the French welfare state produced class and gender-based hierarchies within childhood. It…

Drive critical, engaged, high level learning and skills. Developed with the IB, this Course Book equips learners to analyze…

The first history of the banya, this book offers a sweeping cultural history of an institution that is emblematic of Russian…

Boyd Hilton examines the changes in politics and society in the years 1783-1846, showing how the raffish and rakish style of…

This edition presents a collection of all the known fourteenth- and fifteenth-century Middle English technical recipes for…

The Dutch Golden Age was one of the most spectacularly creative episodes in world history. The age of Grotius, Spinoza,…

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This concise and engaging introduction to the history of early Christianity examines the development of Christianity from…

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In 2012, Paradigms Lost critically examined the key paradigms used in programs aiming to prevent or reduce the stigma…

Governing England explores how England is governed and how the English wish to be governed. England's relationships to…

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The world's first known empires took shape in Mesopotamia between the eastern shores of the Mediterranean Sea and the…

\nRevised for its third edition, Brazil: Five Centuries of Change vividly traces the development of Brazil over the last 500…

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Oxford Studies in Metaethics is the only publication devoted exclusively to original philosophical work in the foundations…

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\nAnalyses key aspects of ancient Greek philosophy in their original context of mystery religion, and magic. The author…

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Modernity and the Victorians lays out in sweeping terms an alternative conception of the political and social dynamics of…

A history of an Oxford College founded in the Renaissance just before the English Reformation, providing a window on the…

This study traces the rise of the cult of St Stephen in Jerusalem in the fifth century, exploring such episodes as the…

\nThis book investigates the role of exemplarity as a rhetorical device in late Elizabethan and Jacobean literature and…

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Produkt When Near Becomes Far - Balberg, Mira (Professor of History and Endowed Chair in Ancient Jewish Civilization,…

Since its publication in 1990, Athenaze: An Introduction to Ancient Greek has helped tens of thousands of students learn…

Mr Howard's book does not pretend to be the complete story of how Roman Catholicism evolved from Pius IX to Frances, but it…

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The Life and Work of James Bradley: The New Foundations of 18th Century Astronomy is the first major work on the life and…

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An exploration of the extraordinary story of Jewish POWs in German captivity during the Second World War - extraordinary…

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Distinguished music theorist and composer David Lewin (1933-2003) applies the conceptual framework he developed in his…

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Detention is among the most controversial and complex powers a state can exercise over an individual, raising the…

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Martin Delrio, author of Disquisitiones magicae (Investigations into Magic, 1599-1600) probably never persecuted or met a…

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The fourth volume of the Oxford History of the Ancient Near East covers the period from the end of the second to the middle…

\nThe text edited and translated in this volume recounts the first century of the history of the Augustinian priory of…

Aimed at researchers in mathematics, philosophy and logic, this book provides the first organic exposition of dynamic…

\nThe book describes how various authors addressed the history of early modern Ireland over four centuries, and explains why…

\nThe Third Reich\'s Elite Schools tells the story of the Napolas, Nazi Germany\'s most prominent training academies for the…

\nThis Handbook is the first authoritative reference work for archaeological network research, featuring current topical…

\nEnlightened Oxford takes a fresh look at the eighteenth-century University of Oxford and its relation to the state,…

\nJane Webster develops a pioneering approach to \'rebuilding\' British slaving vessels, creating a new archaeology of the…

This new history of modern Japan covers its remarkable transformation from a small country on the fringe of international…

Livy's 142-volume history of Rome is one of the high points of ancient historical writing; but three-quarters of that…