From humble beginnings, Bartolomeo Scala (1430-1497) trained in the law and rose to prominence as a leading citizen of…

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

\nLaw and policy treat corruption as something far less than it truly is. Using India\'s long history as a case study,…

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

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

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Andrzej Franaszek's award-winning biography of Czeslaw Milosz the great Polish poet and winner of the Nobel Prize in…

The Anabasis by Xenophon (c. 430 c. 354 BCE) is an eyewitness account of Greek mercenaries' challenging 'March Up-Country'…

The instructional treatises of Menander Rhetor and the Ars Rhetorica, deriving from the schools of rhetoric that flourished…

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

Laonikos was one of the Greek historians of the fall of Constantinople in 1453, and the first Greek writer to treat Islam as…

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

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Many Allied POWs in the Pacific theater of World War II suffered terribly. But abuse wasn't a matter of Japanese policy, as…

Maura Dykstra shows how information overload resulting from the administrative revolution of China's eighteenth-century Qing…

The Discovery of Ottoman Greece unearths forgotten research by the early modern philhellenist and Lutheran reformer Martin…

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Leonardo Bruni was famous in his day as a translator, orator, and historian, and was one of the best-selling authors of the…

\nThe History of Akbar by Abu\'l-Fazl is one of the most important works of Indo-Persian history. The eighth and final…

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

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

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

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

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

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

\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…

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

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

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Statistical graphing was born in the seventeenth century as a scientific tool, but it quickly escaped all disciplinary…

\nIn 1675 English America descended into anarchy, as rebellions, massacres, and riots swept the colonies from New York to…

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

\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…

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

The history of the book has overwhelmingly focused on Europe. But during the Middle Ages, a crucial period of its…

Jianglin Li provides the first clear historical account of the Chinese crackdown in Lhasa in 1959. Sifting facts from the…

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

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Between 1350 and 1750 the world reached a tipping point of global connectedness. In this volume of the acclaimed series A…

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

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

\nIn Dreaming and Self-Cultivation in China, 300 BCE-800 CE, Robert Ford Campany examines how dreaming was addressed in…

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

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

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

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…

Text and Interpretation examines the main characteristics of the legal thought of Imam JaÊ¿far al-Ṣādiq, preeminent…

Though blacks were not often seen on the streets of seventeenth-century London, they were already capturing the British…

Details the early modern history of the Orochen, an ethnic group that has for centuries inhabited areas along the…