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

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In 1490/92 the Florentine Platonist Marsilio Ficino made new translations of two treatises he believed were the work of…

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Angelo Poliziano (1454-1494) was one of the great scholar-poets of the Renaissance and a leading figure in the Florence…

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"Animal Fables of the Courtly Mediterranean" je pokladnice starověkých a středověkých zvířecích bajek z Středomoří,…

Museum lovers know that energy and mystery run through every exhibition. Steven Lubar explains work behind the…

\nDuring Guatemala’s decades-long civil war, tens of thousands of children, many of them Indigenous Maya, were coerced or…

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

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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…

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

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

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Dvora 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,…

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Recasting the birth of fascism, nationalism, and the fall of empire after World War I, Dominique Kirchner Reill recounts how…

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…

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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…

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

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…

Fifty years later, the murky circumstances and tragic symbolism of Patrice Lumumba's assassination trouble many people…

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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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Yakov Feygin argues that Soviet decline owes much to internal tensions over economic reform. Focused on socioeconomic…

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

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

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Grounded in the legacies of two pioneering scholars of oral literature, Milman Parry and Albert Lord, Singers and Tales in…

We often think of the Balkans as a region beset by turmoil and backwardness, but from late antiquity to the present it has…

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

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

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

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

\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…

In the 1880s Europeans grabbed vast swaths of the African continent, using documents, not guns, as their weapon of choice.…

\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…

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

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The sixth edition of Chinese History: A New Manual, revised and expanded to two volumes, includes the latest developments in…

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

\nMoney did not become obsolete under Communism. The ruble remained a key feature of Soviet life. After World War II, money…

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

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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…

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

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

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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…