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Quintus Curtius wrote a history of Alexander the Great. The first two of ten books have not survived and material is missing…

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Libanius, one of the last great publicists and teachers of Greek paganism, has much to tell us about the tumultuous world of…

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Dio Chrysostom (AD ca. 40'-ca. 120) was a rhetorician hostile to philosophers, whose Discourses reflect political or moral…

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A collection of 28 essays, five previously unpublished, grouped into nine categories: Philosophy, Natural Selection,…

Whiskerology traces how hair became a significant marker of identity and belonging in nineteenth-century America. Viewed…

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In the bone rooms of the Smithsonian Institution and other museums in the late nineteenth century, a scientific revolution…

Randy Barnett and Evan Bernick return to the primary sources on the origin, drafting and adoption of the Fourteenth…

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The fall of France in 1940 panicked US leaders, leading to their fateful decision to recognize the pro-Nazi Vichy…

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Leonard Schapiro, one the world's most distinguished historians of the Russian past, has written the definitive biography of…

'Collected here in some 500 pages, is perhaps the most comprehensive and provocative statement of an aesthetic position…

In more ways than we may sometimes care to acknowledge, the human being is just another primate - it is certainly only very…

What India's founders derived from Western political traditions as they struggled to free their country from colonial rule…

China was the most advanced country in the world when Huizong ascended the throne in 1100 CE. In his eventful…

Knowledge of wild chimpanzees has expanded dramatically. This volume, edited by Martin Muller, Richard Wrangham, and David…

In a lively narrative that spans more than two centuries, Meredith Martin tells the story of a royal and aristocratic…

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A major work by one of the more innovative thinkers of our time, Politics of Nature does nothing less than establish the…

Presents the author's analysis of politics, sexuality and the law from the perspective of women. Using the debate over…

The Painter''s Fire follows a remarkable cohort of transatlantic artists who risked their lives and reputations to promote…

Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium, Volume 42 includes lectures by Helen Fulton and Gregory Darwin, as well as…

Wacker gives an in-depth account of the practices of American pentecostal churches. He examines aspects of pentecostal…

Seeking for philosophy the same spirit and assurance conveyed by artists like Fred Astaire, Cavell presents essays exploring…

American slaves drew on memories of African musical traditions to construct instruments from carved-out gourds covered with…

Andrea Navagero (1483'-1529), among the principal poets of Venice, pioneered the Renaissance pastoral epigram genre.…

The Menologion of Basil II, one of the most famous manuscripts surviving from Byzantium, contains short narratives to be…

John Samuel Harpham shows that the development of slavery in the English Atlantic world was underpinned by a tradition of…

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While the birth of global economic governance is conventionally dated to the end of World War II, Jamie Martin shows how its…

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