\nPoems from the Guru Granth Sahib offers spiritual lyrics from the Sikhs\' sacred book of ethics, philosophy, and theology.…

The Old English History of the World, produced around the year 900, is an anonymous translation and adaptation of Paulus…

Giovanni Pontano (1426--1503), whose academic name was Gioviano, was the most important Latin poet of the fifteenth century…

Dialogues, Volume 2 by Giovanni Gioviano Pontano contains both a perceptive treatment of poetic rhythm, the first full…

Bembo (1470-1547), a Venetian nobleman, later a cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church, was the most celebrated Latin stylist…

Across the twentieth century, Asians imagined universalist ideals centered on the idea of Asia itself, rivaling European…

\nThe legends collected in Saints at the Limits, despite sometimes being viewed with suspicion by the Church, fascinated…

Leonardo Bruni (1370-1444), the leading civic humanist of the Italian Renaissance, served as apostolic secretary to four…

From the vantage point of the United States or Western Europe, the 1970s was a time of troubles: economic 'stagflation,'…

In the Miscellanies, the great Italian Renaissance scholar-poet Angelo Poliziano penned two sets of mini-essays focused on…

The History of Akbar, Volume 6 by Abu\'l-Fazl details the twenty-third to twenty-eighth years of Akbar\'s reign, including…

Geoffrey of Monmouth\'s History of the Kings of Britain-the earliest book to detail the legendary foundation of Britain and…

\nDvora Hacohen offers the authoritative biography of Henrietta Szold, the founder of Hadassah. A global humanitarian, Szold…

\nEstablished to calm intracolonial tensions, the Mason-Dixon Line first marked a region of breakneck development and Native…

\nDuring the Aegean Bronze Age, the spread of woolen textiles triggered an increased demand for color. In The Purpled World,…

Fredrik Albritton Jonsson and Carl Wennerlind chart ideas about economic scarcity across centuries of European intellectual…

The post-WWI crisis of statelessness induced creative legal thinking, as officials and jurists debated cosmopolitan…

Give and Take offers a new history of government in Tokugawa Japan (1600-1868), one that focuses on ordinary subjects:…

Marcy Norton tells a new history of the European colonization of the Americas, one that places wildlife and livestock at the…

This is a history of China for the 900-year time span of the late imperial period. F.W. Mote highlights the personal…

First of the widely celebrated and sumptuously illustrated series, this book reveals in intimate detail what life was really…

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

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

David Wootton guides us through four centuries of Western thought to show how new ideas about politics, ethics, and…

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

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

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

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

\nFor nearly two decades, including after its independence, Algeria was named as a part of the European Economic Community.…

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

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…

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

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In 1960, when Japan revised the postwar treaty that allows a U.S. military presence in Japan, the popular backlash changed…

\nDiego Javier Luis tells the story of transpacific Asian movement to and through the Spanish Americas. On arrival in…

Timbuktu is famous as a center of learning from Islam's Golden Age. Yet it was one among many scholarly centers to exist in…

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 R mer 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…

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From the History of the World series, Making Civilizations traces the origins of large-scale organized human societies. Led…

\nThe Letters of Emily Dickinson collects, redates, and recontextualizes all of the poet’s extant letters, including dozens…

Describes and analyzes the dynastic marriages of the descendants of Volodimer, the first ruler of Kyivan Rus', across…

The eastern Roman Empire was the largest state in western Eurasia in the sixth century. A century later, it was a fraction…

\nDavid Kennedy and Martti Koskenniemi, two leading critics of law\'s role in global life, join together to explore the…