Voices from within the Veil
The Veil hangs between Then and Now, between Black and White, between You and Me. Voices from within the Veil explores this 400-year prelude, addressing African Americans’ marginalization and their paths to empowerment through protest and organization.
In Search of the Classical World
An introduction to the ancient Aegean, from the Minoans, Mycenaeans, and Trojans to the Classical Greeks. Explore their history, the wars against Persia, the strife between Athens and Sparta, and how Homeric heroes shaped their literature and drama.
Beyond the Battlefields
Beyond the Battlefields explores the relationship between warfare and society in the Graeco-Roman world. This collection of essays examines the political, social, and artistic affects of war, covering topics from espionage to fantasies of peace in the Iliad.
Not White/Straight/Male/Healthy Enough
This anthology discloses the experiences of members of the academic community who know the struggle for acceptance all too well. It serves to caution newcomers to the academy, to equip teachers to identify and discuss inequity in the classroom, and to provoke change.
Indonesia’s early public health successes gave way to an era of bold plans but unfulfilled aspirations. This book reveals the inner tensions between a biomedical approach to disease eradication and a holistic vision linking public health to nation-building.
This book examines how laissez-faire economics influenced Britain’s relationship with America after the Revolution. Informed by Adam Smith, Lord Shelburne envisioned a new commercial empire based on trade instead of territorial conquest.
Performance and Culture
This book deals with performance in India, especially dance and dance-drama, as a narrative. It discusses the social equations and cultural ideas a performance portrays, often redefining well-known religious traditions in the process of performance.
History Making a Difference
Timely direction and informed debate is given here, about the importance of history, considering why we should care about, teach, research and write history. The compilation offers new approaches that consider the ability and potential for history to ‘make a difference’ today.
Varian Studies Volume One
The Roman emperor misnamed Elagabalus is a mythic monster of depravity or an anarchist saint. This volume explores the historical individual, Varius, behind the legend: a boy-priest made emperor at fourteen and murdered before eighteen. It rescues him from centuries of fantasy.
This book invites you on a fascinating journey across three centuries of Europe, with death as your guide. Experts from varying backgrounds—historians, sociologists, doctors, and more—explore the complex phenomena of death and dying across the continent.
Africa’s Many Divides and Africa’s Future
“If in the past the Sahara divided us, now it unites us,” Kwame Nkrumah declared. Determined to bridge Africa’s many divides, he proposed a pan-African government. This collection of papers contextualizes his vision in an era of globalization.
Originating from a belief in healing waters, spas became exclusive resorts for 18th-19th century elites. Amid fierce competition, these centers of leisure and medicine declined, paving the way for modern thalassotherapy, the latest avatar of this long story.
This volume presents critical interdisciplinary analyses of the many ways science intersects with its publics. From children’s books to news media and science fiction, it follows science through popular culture, taking science studies out of the lab and into society.
In the 16th century, aristocrats became practitioners of science. Hungarian Count Boldizsár Batthyány, a formidable warrior, was also a devotee of natural philosophy, creating an intellectual hub for alchemy, medicine, and botany to make the Muses speak among arms.
Dr Johnson would walk to the ends of the earth to save him, yet others rejoiced at his death. How did a beautiful, privileged youth become infamous for causing a lice infestation? A friend to the Enlightenment’s leading figures, he lived life to the full.
Black Soldiers in a White Man’s War
Pollock investigates the story of 600 Black men from across North America and the Caribbean, who, in 1917, went to war in a labour unit. Based on service records of the 600 volunteers and 35 courts-martial in the unit, he probes the lives of these soldiers between 1917 and 1918.
Medieval Urban Identity
This book adopts a new approach to medieval urban life, using health, the economy, and law as frames of reference. Scholars provide insights into housing, cures for diseases, the work of artisans, and the relationship between the town and its region.
Less than Nations
After World War I redefined the map of Central-Eastern Europe, states and nations rarely coincided. The minority question emerged as a troublesome issue, affecting international relations and becoming an integral part of the League of Nations system.
The Victorians and the Ancient World
The 19th century was preoccupied with antiquity. As new discoveries challenged the pre-eminence of Greece and Rome, the Victorians explored a complex tension between great civilisations and primitive barbarity, influencing all aspects of their culture.
The Work of Avishai Ehrlich
This book is about Avishai Ehrlich’s life’s work in political sociology and his role as a public intellectual. Chapters include his articles, commentaries, and personal memories from distinguished academics, friends, and students who knew his influence well.
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