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An accessible and engaging overview of the history of the European Union, from the postwar era to the present day....  Read More >>

This book challenges assumptions about race through the lens of nineteenth-century Cuba, addressing contemporary,...  Read More >>

Sallust's Bellum Catilinae is an excellent text for students, giving a riveting narrative of a significant event...  Read More >>

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One of the largest archives of writing by an eighteenth-century Black individual, this volume – the first of its...  Read More >>

Pindar was the single most important, canonical and influential lyric poet in the ancient Greek world. This is the...  Read More >>

Blending social, cultural, and political history, this book reveals how and why Americans mobilized the nation's...  Read More >>

It's recognized as wrong to intentionally kill a human being. But are there exceptions to that rule? In this book,...  Read More >>

A woman's quiet life became a wartime weapon. Jutta Graae - bank clerk, society hostess, master manipulator - ran...  Read More >>

This Element is an opinionated introduction to Heidegger's phenomenology in Being and Time and surrounding works,...  Read More >>

Through a historical overview of this multifaceted concept, alongside gender construction in colonial Latin America,...  Read More >>

This Element discusses the roles played by the idea of God in René Descartes' epistemology, physics, and metaphysics,...  Read More >>

This Element explores the historiography of madness in the Modern era, including publications in the overlapping...  Read More >>

Medieval Icelandic Bodies in ""Tristram ok Ísodd"" examines the depiction of the bodies of the two main characters...  Read More >>

This Element is composed of three sections that explore Gregory of Nyssa's understanding of the resurrected life....  Read More >>

A complete one-volume history of Greece from antiquity to the present which convincingly stresses the significance...  Read More >>

This Element introduces a new conceptualization of policy experiments. Policy experiments are seen as comprising...  Read More >>

Alvin Plantinga is a noted American analytic philosopher who has written in the areas of philosophy of religion,...  Read More >>

This Element centers the 'Black Pacific' as a generative site for comparative and intersectional methodologies and...  Read More >>

Millennial Dreams retells Oman's development story from the perspective of labour, moving beyond traditional discussions...  Read More >>

In a compelling new take on the legacies of slavery, Sascha Auerbach explores the origins of the 'global labor market'...  Read More >>

Ten essays on Kant's theoretical philosophy since his path-breaking Kant and the Claims of Knowledge.  The essays...  Read More >>

When scholars discuss whether Wittgenstein was a relativist, they draw their criteria from recent proposals. This...  Read More >>

This Element examines – for the first time in a single volume – the written evidence from the 'Far East' of the...  Read More >>