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With evidence from the oral histories of various sections and a wide variety of written sources and historical documents, this book captures an intens... Meer informatie
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Combining scholarship with readability, Jeremy McInerney's wide-ranging, stimulating new book uncovers the complexity and potency of ancient hybridity... Meer informatie
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Essential reading for anyone interested in the African continent and the diversity of human history, this Very Short Introduction looks at Africa's pa... Meer informatie
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Born into but escaped from slavery, Frederick Douglass—orator, journalist, autobiographer; revolutionary on behalf of a just America—was a towering fi... Meer informatie
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Thomas Hobbes, the first great English political philosopher, has long had the reputation of being a pessimistic atheist, who saw human nature as inev... Meer informatie
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This book will become the standard work on the life and thought of Émile Durkheim, one of the great founding fathers of sociology. Durkheim remains on... Meer informatie
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Ada Maria Kuskowski traces the impact of writing, language, learned ideas and court practices on the development of customary law in medieval France. ... Meer informatie
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Offers a radically new account that advances the modern scholarly understanding of Babylonian Jewish history and society, and of Sasanian rule. Buildi... Meer informatie
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Can subalterns transform themselves into members of the elite, and what does it take to do so? And how do those efforts reveal the nature of ethnic po... Meer informatie
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Can subalterns transform themselves into members of the elite, and what does it take to do so? And how do those efforts reveal the nature of ethnic po... Meer informatie
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A manifesto seeking to exhort both believers and atheists to behave better in the public sphere.... Meer informatie
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My Palestine is a poignant personal memoir and an incisive political and economic commentary on the tumultuous events that have shaped the history of ... Meer informatie
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In 2006, Bangladeshi economist Muhammad Yunus made history by bringing the Nobel Peace Prize home to the micro-finance institution he had pioneered, t... Meer informatie
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The history of Ancient Babylonia in ancient Mesopatamia is epic. Trevor Bryce offers an exploration of the rich world of Babylonia, providing insight ... Meer informatie
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Advances the study of Ennius' Annals, a foundational but now fragmentary work of Latin literature, by exploring the cross-fertilization of recent crit... Meer informatie
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"This book is bold, timely, and uncompromising, demanding to be read carefully for its erudite argument. Through ample evidence, a reimagined interpre... Meer informatie
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The Atlantic World was an oceanic system circulating goods, people, and ideas that emerged in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth century. European... Meer informatie
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The Atlantic World was an oceanic system circulating goods, people, and ideas that emerged in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth century. European... Meer informatie
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This is a revised and completely updated edition of Jonathan Steinberg's classic account of Switzerland's unique political and economic system. This n... Meer informatie
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The first comprehensive treatment of the 'small politics' of rural communities in the Late Roman world. It emphasizes the primacy of internal relation... Meer informatie
