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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 >>

Exploring distinctive practices in the artisanal, mercantile, and governmental sites of London, Metropolitan Science...  Read More >>

Original and impressively broad in it scope, this is the first book to fully explore the aesthetics of weather in...  Read More >>

The experience of all occupied countries during the Second World War was characterised by severe material shortages....  Read More >>

Informed by senior policymakers with extensive expertise in defense, this book provides a comprehensive regional...  Read More >>

Adoption is one of the most emotive and complex subjects in social and family history. Gill Rossinis social history...  Read More >>

Presents eyewitness account of Liberia’s political and presidential history covering the first half of the twentieth...  Read More >>

Reveals the environmental and historical pressures shaping an essential stretch of land and water in the American...  Read More >>

Anthony Lookout tells the history of the Osage Nation of Oklahoma through the life narratives of his great-grandparents...  Read More >>

""A Short History of San Francisco moves from the first Ohlone settlements to the Spanish missions and Gold Rush...  Read More >>

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Mark Twain's life as told by more than 200 contemporaries including Teddy Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, Charles...  Read More >>

A major contribution to O’odham studies and Southwest history, Martínez offers a new perspective on the life and...  Read More >>

Offers an unorthodox thesis: the modern secular desire toward health is founded in a Protestant congregationalism...  Read More >>

A cultural history of race, resistance, and representation in a city divided by politics and play When outfielder...  Read More >>