
American Prophets
American Prophets sheds critical new light on the lives and thought of seven major prophetic figures in twentieth-century America whose social acti...
View full detailsAmerican Prophets sheds critical new light on the lives and thought of seven major prophetic figures in twentieth-century America whose social acti...
View full detailsAl-Andalus, the Iberian territory ruled by Islam from the eighth to the fifteenth centuries, was home to a flourishing philosophical culture among ...
View full detailsMany historical processes are dynamic. Populations grow and decline. Empires expand and collapse. Religions spread and wither. Natural scientists h...
View full detailsIn 2013, just two years after the popular overthrow of Hosni Mubarak, the Egyptian military ousted the country’s first democratically elected presi...
View full detailsIn Pirates and Publishers, Fei-Hsien Wang reveals the unknown social and cultural history of copyright in China from the 1890s through the 1950s, a...
View full detailstranslated by R. J. Zwi Werblowsky Gershom Scholem stands out among modern thinkers for the richness and power of his historical imagination. A wor...
View full detailstranslated by Ethan Rundell When Muhammad died in 632 without a male heir, Sunnis contended that the choice of a successor should fall to his close...
View full detailsFor the Western world, the period from 1760 to 1800 was the great revolutionary era in which the outlines of the modern democratic state came into ...
View full detailsThe world of Jewish seafaring from Noah's voyage through the Diaspora of late antiquity is recreated in this book. The author beigns with the story...
View full detailsThe Killing Season explores one of the largest and swiftest, yet least examined, instances of mass killing and incarceration in the twentieth centu...
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