Humanities books

The Takkiyya Mu’avin al-Mulk is a building complex in the city of Kermanshah in western Iran, dedicated to the annual...  Read More >>

In 1983, Memphis landed a franchise in the upstart United States Football League after flirting with the World Football...  Read More >>

Marrying theory with interviews and case studies of practice, this is a critical examination of how performance...  Read More >>

The first English translation of renowned peace theologian Jean Lasserre’s seminal work on non-violence.  Read More >>

""A provocative account of EU border externalisation in Mauritania that identifies new, fundamental continuities...  Read More >>

This open access edited collection provides a long-overdue examination of a practice that is continuously involved...  Read More >>

In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the Arab-speaking regions of the Ottoman Empire saw a crucial change...  Read More >>

In the nineteenth century, a number of Zoroastrians emigrated from Iran to India. The subsequent importance of the...  Read More >>

Anger was the engine of justice in the ancient Greek world. It drove quests for vengeance which resulted in a variety...  Read More >>

Drawing upon extensive fieldwork, this book unveils the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood intra-dynamics by examining...  Read More >>

In the West, Stephen Chow is renowned as the ground-breaking director and star of global blockbusters such as Kung...  Read More >>

""Setting out a history of cyberspace and its relationship with the discipline that was to become digital humanities,...  Read More >>

An in-depth exploration of the history of representations of the indigenous 'Peoples of the North' in the Soviet...  Read More >>

The epigraphy of 1st-millennium-BCE Italy has been studied for many years, but these studies have largely concentrated...  Read More >>

Celebrating the contributions of Panayotis Pachis to the field, this book discusses the past, present, and future...  Read More >>

This volume utilizes Catherine Bell’s ritual theory to shed new light on the many rituals reflected in ancient Mediterranean...  Read More >>

With astute attention to Zephaniah’s intertextual relationships with other biblical texts, Nicholas R. Werse explores...  Read More >>

What did violence against women and children mean for ancient audiences and how do modern audiences hear and process...  Read More >>

An interdisciplinary study of the complex histories and contested legacies of heritage sites associated with Japan’s...  Read More >>

When God is “dead” and governments themselves are increasingly subject to the power of global corporations, massive...  Read More >>

Closely examining the work of women in the US and British naval services towards Allied naval intelligence during...  Read More >>

This book examines connected histories of development and socialism from the perspective of the Global South during...  Read More >>

This book explores Argentine President Juan Domingo Peron’s geopolitical vision over his lifetime to analyse and...  Read More >>

This book asks us to consider what is absent, rather than what is present, when studying religions. Priya Swamy...  Read More >>

Making the claim that reality is more like memory than a permanent substance, this original work draws on Derrida...  Read More >>