This volume takes a fresh look at ekphrasis as a textual practice closely connected to our embodied imagination and its verbal dimension; it offers ...

This book investigates civil society regionalization in Southern Africa. The point of departure is the study of 'new regionalism', which refers to the ...

When originally published in 1982 this was the first biography of Maximilian I to appear in English for half a century. It assesses a man who was Holy ...

Pan'gye surok (or "Pan'gye's Random Jottings" ) was written by the Korean scholar and social critic Yu Hyŏngwŏn(1622-1673), who proposed to ...

A team of international leading experts provide a much needed re-examination of the theoretical claims and the empirical foundation of developmental ...

This book examines the origins of ancient Greek science using the vehicles of blood, blood vessels, and the heart. Careful attention to biomedical writers ...

Examining new research, this excellent volume presents a series of case-studies exemplifying the new newspaper history. Using cross-cultural comparisons ...

Martha Malamud provides the only scholarly English translation of De Reditu Suo with significant notes and commentary that explore historical, literary ...

In the last decade, there has been a turn to history in international humanitarian law and its accompanying fields. To examine this historization and ...

The streets of Roman cities have received surprisingly little attention until recently. Traditionally the main interest archaeologists and classicists ...