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Describing a central episode in the history of free speech, David Colclough demonstrates that in early seventeenth-century…
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For most of the modern era, Virgil was the most admired poet in the classical curriculum. This study tells the story of how…
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Drawing inspiration from Sidney Coleman's Erice lectures, this volume provides an accessible, detailed introduction to…
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One of the most infamous villains in North America during the Progressive Era was the padrone, a mafia-like immigrant boss…
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Looking at key figures and lesser-known names, this volume is the first to show how the theory of representation was seen as…
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Heaven and the Flesh is an illustrated study of the relationship between sexual desire and spiritual ascension in art and…
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Ranging from early medieval musical bards to pop music in the twenty-first century, this book describes Welsh musical…
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Explores the main concepts of Herder's aesthetics: aesthetic naturalism, where art is natural to and naturally valuable for…
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Why is Bach's music still valuable? Through detailed analysis of the Passions, this 2010 book balances the traditional…
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An Introduction to Museum Archaeology provides a comprehensive survey and synthesis of all aspects of current museum…
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Unlike other early modern thinkers, Leibniz had a lifelong interest in learning from China, developing and promoting a…
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This collection of essays was first published in 2000, and offers philosophical perspectives on two of the central elements…
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Panegyrist of the emperor Honorius and propagandist of Stilicho, the late antique poet Claudian has traditionally been the…
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The years after World War Two have seen a widespread fascination with the free market, going beyond individualism in…
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Prokofiev's last four operas are major works of his career in the Soviet Union, yet the original versions remain unfamiliar…
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Inspired by the example of Chaucer and Gower, John Lydgate articulated the great political questions of his time in his…
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The Lexicon cuts through the daunting profusion of scholarship on Spinoza by supplying compact entries that contextualize…
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The third edition of Professor Zygmund's classic Trigonometric Series, featuring a foreword by Robert Fefferman. Both…
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This book studies the interplay between deforestation, forced labor, and capitalist development in the Amazon through a case…
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The exportation of the nation-state worldwide went hand-in-hand with the diffusion of the western concept of religion. This…
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Grant argues that the Age of Reason really began in the universities that first emerged in the late Middle Ages (1100 to…
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During the 1890s, the Scramble for Africa created the new country of Uganda. This inland territory carved out by British…
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The final work of the celebrated conservative thinker Shirley Robin Letwin, On The History of the Idea of Law collects and…
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When healthcare providers and patients do not speak the same language, medical interpreters are called in to help. In this…
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This volume reflects the growing attention in linguistics and related disciplines commanded by the centrality in language of…
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C. Fred Alford argues that the traumatized are generally capable of representing their experience. Using evidence from the…
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An examination of the influence of nineteenth-century philology on European thought. Haruko Momma considers, among other…
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Leading scholars trace the development of Standard English, revealing a complex history that challenges the usual textbook…
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This timely intervention into the debate about the legacy of the Enlightenment highlights both the plurality and the…
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The successful demands and justifications for at least six critical freedoms - freedoms of speech and press, rights for the…
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Olga Kagan presents a new unified analysis of Russian verbal prefixes which combines a formal semantic approach with…
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Ayhan Aksu-Koç's empirical research on Turkish children's acquisition of the past tense.…
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The most comprehensive edition of the fragments of Dionysius, a key Greek epic poet of the first century CE. It provides an…
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Both 'discourse' and 'knowledge' are fundamental concepts, but they are often treated separately. The first book to adopt a…
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Combining art history, analysis of contemporary documents, and new archaeology of medieval Rome, this study explores the…
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Critiques more recent psychological and anthropological research on emotions. Drawing on research from many academic…
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This is a detailed book-length study of the period of the Cromwellian Protectorate from December 1653 to its demise in May…
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This book, first published in 1998, asks why fundraising nonprofits are mimicking private firms and what consequences this…
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The first ever authoritative overview of the vitally important task of monitoring, reporting and verifying greenhouse gas…
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Why do males sometimes live with a single mate when they are capable of fertilizing more than one female's eggs? Is male…
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Beverley-Smith provides analyses of the disparate aspects of commercial appropriation of personality and traces, in detail,…
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The book offers a comprehensive, authoritative and up-to-date perspective on the development of the Israeli economy since…
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This book demonstrates that the earliest Greek users of the alphabet conceived of themselves as participants in a…
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This stimulating volume on vision extends well beyond the traditional areas of vision research and places the subject in a…
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JĂĽrgen Habermas's work has profoundly influenced a wide range of fields, including philosophy, political theory, sociology,…
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This multi-faceted study looks in detail at the music and thought of Michael Tippett. The book is made distinctive by its…
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A comprehensive reference for neurologists, neurosurgeons and physical therapists, covering the available treatment options…
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Written for any student, researcher or practitioner working in the area, this modern introduction brings this mathematical…
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