Humanities books

An invaluable resource for readers seeking to understand the history and practice of folk music and song across...  Read More >>

Reading Biblical Greek is aimed at students who are studying New Testament Greek for the first time, or refreshing...  Read More >>

How do we define plagiarism in literature? In this wide-ranging study, Muhsin J. al-Musawi examines debates surrounding...  Read More >>

A FORGOTTEN EGYPTIAN GODDESS. A FAMILY IN DANGER. Victorian Egyptologist Clemmie's dark talents have torn her family...  Read More >>

David Shatz offers a new and fresh approach to the field in a wide-ranging and engaging introduction to the analytic...  Read More >>

This expertly translated and contextualized primary-source reader brings together documents collected over decades...  Read More >>

This handbook re-introduces one of John Dewey's most important works for a new generation seeking unified perspectives...  Read More >>

The Fruitfulness of Normative Concepts is the first book-length treatment of the idea that the normative concepts...  Read More >>

In the mid-twentieth century, Cold War liberalism exerted a profound influence on the US state, US foreign policy,...  Read More >>

Articulates the importance of oral traditions and symbolism as repositories of philosophical knowledge and reaffirms...  Read More >>

What did it mean to possess something – or someone – in eighteenth-century Britain? This study examines the meaning...  Read More >>

A history of southeast Europe and the Adriatic Sea since 1800 through the lens of the Croatian island Hvar, focusing...  Read More >>

In an increasingly polarised age, culture wars are everywhere. They are often criticised as superficial or confected...  Read More >>

A history of crime, law and gender in Scotland between 1700 and 2000 through 15 cases of murder, rape and incest...  Read More >>

Tackles some of the most pressing contemporary systematic-theological problems with a view to providing a coherent...  Read More >>

This volume explores the notion of a heteroglobal approach to understand global circulation of performance. This...  Read More >>

This volume introduces the pathbreaking writings on political economy by the Japanese Confucian scholar Dazai Shundai...  Read More >>

How did ordinary racism among white Britons shape images of Black and south Asian people on screen in twentieth-century...  Read More >>

Revealing the hidden history of women on ships, from cabin ‘boys’ to cruise ship captains.  Read More >>

A history of the formation of modern film studies in Britain, revealing how the collaborative work of Paddy Whannel...  Read More >>

A multidisciplinary analysis of the course, causes and potential consequences of the war, including contributors...  Read More >>

Life as Art synthesizes a number of aesthetic theories in philosophy after 1850 and shows the ways in which they...  Read More >>

An introduction to the history of North Korea, covering its political, ideological, economic, cultural and social...  Read More >>

The Foundling Hospital was established to save impoverished infants from destitution and abandonment by separating...  Read More >>

This Element explores the formal and conceptual foundations of phase space formulations of classical and quantum...  Read More >>