Humanities books

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Some embrace the idea of white privilege as an important concept that helps us to make sense of the connection between...  Read More >>

My interest in USS Howorth originated during my thirty-three months of duty in the Pacific Fleet destroyer Hamner,...  Read More >>

An avid reader of naval history since my father's service in World War II, I had been struck by the marked contrast...  Read More >>

For some time there has existed a need for a new account of the life and stylistic development of David Teniers...  Read More >>

General Arthur MacArthur's extraordinary life spans the history of the United States from the Civil War through...  Read More >>

This reader is intended to fill the urgent need for up-to-date materials on the Gorbachev era and to provide scholars...  Read More >>

Quality of life is a difficult concept to define, and particularly so when referring to the Soviet Union because...  Read More >>

Surveying traditional and contemporary views on the relationship between philosophical reason and religious faith,...  Read More >>

Even after fifty years, and in spite of the reams of documents now available,it remains difficult-especially in...  Read More >>

The conference on Russia and East Europe in Transition, held at Middlebury College in May 1994 under the auspices...  Read More >>

A collection of essays by renowned scholars of Native American economic history, The Other Side of the Frontier...  Read More >>

This book examines the crucial role that Soviet policy toward the Third World played in Soviet efforts to influence...  Read More >>

This book highlights that Soviet economic planners and politicians must come to recognize the need to make fundamental...  Read More >>

The political and economic changes that occurred in the Soviet Union in the six and one-half years of Mikhail Gorbachev's...  Read More >>

When I first conceived of this book, I intended to write a short book and one, the great philosophical figures of...  Read More >>

This book argues that analytical philosophy and radical theory alike stand in an ambivalent relationship with skepticism....  Read More >>

This book focuses on the intrinsic linkage between Soviet radical domestic reforms-perestroika-and international...  Read More >>

The idea for this book was conceived at a conference held at Emory University in April 1993, which brought together...  Read More >>

This book elaborates the author's views on Russia's political tradition, a subject which he continued to believe...  Read More >>

Marc Raeff is one of the truly outstanding scholars of Russian history. This volume offers a sampling of the best...  Read More >>

In this informed and balanced treatment of recent French history, Julius Friend analyzes the changes, successes,...  Read More >>

In this comprehensive new study of human free agency, Laura Waddell Ekstrom critically surveys contemporary philosophical...  Read More >>

Setting the context for the crisis that has fragmented the former USSR, this reader presents key essays by notable...  Read More >>

The development of modern science, and its increasing impact on our lives and cultures, is one of the great stories...  Read More >>