Humanities books

Examines three dynamic and overlapping communities of women and adolescent girls who challenged Japanese gender...  Read More >>

This book makes available a rare eyewitness account of Florida's Spanish colonial period: the 1595 narrative of...  Read More >>

Comprehensively sets out the cross-regional and transnational dimension of press history in early-modern Britain...  Read More >>

Studies the diplomatic and cultural implications of the exchange of symbolic objects in the ancient world  Read More >>

Offers a new understanding of doubt in Montaigne's Essais and early modern intellectual culture  Read More >>

Grounds the origins of the Corinthian Christ group within local social practice  Read More >>

Argues for a rethinking of sexuality as a constellation, rather than substantive identity.  Read More >>

Investigates the Ottoman bureaucrats who resisted the ethnic cleansing in the Smyrna region in 19191923.  Read More >>

Explores the impact of Enlightenment philosophers in Scotland on the development of sociology.  Read More >>

Traces the evolution of the Roman legal system through a study of the law of inheritance.  Read More >>

Explores the role of gender in shaping premodern Scottish identity and history  Read More >>

Critically re-reads Turkey's history with a focus on the interactions between religion, politics and society.  Read More >>

Reconfigures our concept of nature through the concept of the element.  Read More >>

Explores Persian tribespeople's changing ethics, feelings and lifeways in tough times.  Read More >>

This second volume in the critical edition reproduces more than 170 lectures delivered by Alfred North Whitehead...  Read More >>

Examines the work and reception of the Arab emigre writer Gibran...  Read More >>

This is a unique collection of essays examining nineteenth-century British and Irish newspaper and periodical history...  Read More >>

Explores the centrality of hope to political thought and policy practice in the Anthropocene  Read More >>

When nineteen-year-old Prince took the stage to perform “I Wanna Be Your Lover” on American Bandstand, those who...  Read More >>

In this biography of Joaquín de Arredondo, historian Bradley Folsom brings to life one of the most influential and...  Read More >>

Mountain Men were the principal figures of the fur trade era, one of the most interesting, dramatic, and truly significant...  Read More >>

In Literature for Little Bodhisattvas, Natasha Heller makes two key interventions: first, she argues that picturebooks...  Read More >>

Composed in his maturity, this work expresses Pierre de Berulle's theology of the Man-God, whose self-emptying has...  Read More >>

St. Thomas Aquinas never commented on the Song of Songs. The purpose of this book is to demonstrate, however, that...  Read More >>

Examines theories of divine ideas from approximately 1250-1325 AD (St Bonaventure through Ockham). This is the only...  Read More >>