This study is an exploration of lived religion and gender across the Reformation, from the 14th-18th centuries. Combining conceptual development with ...

The idea of progress from the Enlightenment to postmodernism is still very much with us. In intellectual discourse, journals, popular magazines, and radio ...

From Solon to Socrates is a magisterial narrative introduction to what is generally regarded as the most important period of Greek history. Stressing the ...

By engaging closely with the work of Richard Francis Burton (1821-90), the iconic nineteenth-century imperial spy, explorer, anthropologist and translator ...

Unique in their broad-based coverage the twelve essays in this book provide a fresh look at some central aspects of Roman culture and society.

This book examines the meat provision system of Rio de Janeiro from the 1850s to the 1930s. It unveils how the strengthening of the municipal abattoir ...

This original and thought-provoking study looks at the context of postmodernist thought in general cultural terms as well as in relation to history. Postmodernism ...

A concise introduction to the process which led to the division of Germany in 1949, and its unification in 1990, this book also explores the economic ...

Narratives provide the storylines of conflict and in doing so become an arena of conflict themselves. When states mount information campaigns against ...

Did Trajan really deserve his reputation as the embodiment of all imperial virtues? Why did Dante, writing in the Middle Ages, place him in the sixth sphere ...