Humanities books

Tracing the genre through fiction, visual art, film and videogames from the 1980s to the present, this book offers...  Read More >>

An authoritative, fact-based survey examining the true extent and severity of human trafficking around the world,...  Read More >>

A global history of dam-building, offering a revisionist narrative of international cooperation, circulation of...  Read More >>

Tracing the history of the sugar trade and its consumption in the Persian Gulf during the 18th century, this book...  Read More >>

Erich S. Gruen investigates a remarkable phenomenon in religious and literary history: the freedom with which Jewish...  Read More >>

This book explores how knowledge-based culture, delivered primarily through the popular lecture, helped shape Victorian...  Read More >>

A ground-breaking approach to understanding how great powers respond to revolutionary civil wars around the world....  Read More >>

This book brings to life the efforts of Mura Dehn to record, analyse and champion the development of jazz dance...  Read More >>

A new account of religion based in a transcendental phenomenological understanding of spirituality.  Read More >>

A timely look at the ways in which colonialism has undermined the study of moral philosophy, showing how a rigorous...  Read More >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>