Greek Festivals, Modern and Ancient
Håland’s two-volume book represents a cross-period product of fieldwork conducted in contemporary Greece in combination with ancient sources. It investigates the importance of cults connected with the Greek female sphere and its relation to the official male-dominated ideology.
The Land of Fertility II
This volume presents a detailed analysis of cities in the Fertile Crescent, the region where human civilisation began. It covers their formation, development, the urbanisation process, and urban ideology from the beginning of the Bronze Age to the Muslim Conquest.
Examples of social practice in the Central European region from the 19th century to the 1950s are presented here. The volume responds to the current economic and social crisis, including the welfare state crisis, which raises the need to seek solutions from the past and present.
Gáldy presents the history, art, and architecture of 25 of the main Florentine churches. She also provides plans and photos of the façades, and introduces important vocabulary and the main textual sources of the 13th to the 17th centuries.
History and Politics
History and politics are interlinked. Politicians consistently use historical arguments, (re)interpreting the past and deciding what should be remembered. A prepared narrative of the past can become a powerful instrument to influence reality and consolidate power.
Choir Stalls and their Workshops
This conference proceedings discusses the workshop context of medieval choir stalls in its broadest sense, given the relative lack of studies on the process and circumstances of the making of these complex objects.
Rizas approaches middle class politics from a historical perspective, looking at its progression since the early 1900s. He investigates the role of the middle classes in the evolution of mass politics in the West and the loss of middle class purchasing power after the 2008 Crash.
African Intellectuals and the State of the Continent
This festschrift honors distinguished scholar and Pan-Africanist Sulayman S. Nyang. His contributions to African affairs transcend academia, with a career as a diplomat and consultant to the UN, while publishing copiously on issues affecting Africans and the Diaspora.
Nature Alive
Inspired by the work of Alfred North Whitehead and his metaphysical “lens,” the contributors here bring a multiplicity of philosophical orientations to the table in challenging the mechanistic and reductionistic neo-Darwinian paradigm still dominant today in the life sciences.
By focusing on colonial histories and legacies, this edited anthology breaks new ground in studying modernity in Islamicate contexts. From a range of perspectives, the authors probe ‘colonial modernity’ as being introduced into such contexts by European encroachment.
The international group of historians represented here focus on several significant groups of minorities who were driven into exile from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries. They discuss a broad range of topics, including the religious meaning they accorded to their exile.
Street Literature of the Long Nineteenth Century
For centuries, street literature was the main reading material of the working classes. Fascinating today for the unique light it shines on the lives of ordinary people, it has long been neglected as a historical resource, and this title is the first book on the trade for decades.
War on the Human
The essays here explore the question of the human, both as a contested concept and as it relates to the wider global conjuncture. They explore the theoretical underpinnings of the term “human,” inviting the reader to reflect upon the contemporary human condition.
This book presents multi-angled perspectives of socio-religious transition, adopting the cultural religiosity of the Asian people as a lens through which readers can re-examine the concepts of imperialism, religious syncretism and modernisation.
This anthology studies the subject of islands, their essence and identity, their isolation and their relationships in the Ancient world. It researches Greek and Roman concepts of insularity, and their consequences for the political, economic and social life of the Empire.
The English Reformation Revisited
Salvato puts forward a comparative study of two Church Communities, specifically the Anglican Communion and the Universal Catholic Church. He investigates what caused the Church in England to break away from the Catholic Church, and focuses on the influence of English law.
Varian Studies Volume Two
A study of Emperor Elagabalus’s architecture and sculpture in Rome. This book confirms the Palatine site and astronomical implications of the Varian Temple, and analyses relief sculpture to explore the cosmology, theology, and ritual of the Syrian sun god’s cult.
Africa and the First World War
This anthology brings together essays written by scholars of African history, society, and military about African experiences of the war. It complements and problematises some key themes on Africa and the First World War, and offers a stimulating historiographical excursion.
Workers’ Cooperatives
After the failure of state socialism, what is the alternative to capitalism? This volume explores workers’ cooperatives across the globe, examining worker-owned enterprises as the foundation for a redefined socialism based on self-organisation.
Renovating the Sacred
In this exploration of the cultural context of the English Reformation, Larking places the emphasis not just on law makers or the major players, but also, and more importantly, on those individuals and parish communities that lived through the twists and turns of reform.
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