History

American Prophets sheds critical new light on the lives and thought of seven major prophetic figures in twentieth-century America whose social acti...

The history of civilization is, in many ways, the history of wine. This book is the first comprehensive account of the earliest stages of the histo...

Al-Andalus, the Iberian territory ruled by Islam from the eighth to the fifteenth centuries, was home to a flourishing philosophical culture among ...

Many historical processes are dynamic. Populations grow and decline. Empires expand and collapse. Religions spread and wither. Natural scientists h...

When Iranians overthrew their pro-Western monarchy in favor of an Islamic regime in 1979, many observers predicted that revolutionary turmoil would...

In 2013, just two years after the popular overthrow of Hosni Mubarak, the Egyptian military ousted the country’s first democratically elected presi...

In Pirates and Publishers, Fei-Hsien Wang reveals the unknown social and cultural history of copyright in China from the 1890s through the 1950s, a...

translated by R. J. Zwi Werblowsky Gershom Scholem stands out among modern thinkers for the richness and power of his historical imagination. A wor...

translated 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...

For 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 ...

The 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...

The Great Divergence sheds light on one of the great questions of history: Why did sustained industrial growth begin in Northwest Europe? Historian...

The Killing Season explores one of the largest and swiftest, yet least examined, instances of mass killing and incarceration in the twentieth centu...