History Books

Book SynopsisThe reign of King Baldwin IV of Jerusalem (1174â85) has traditionally been seen as a period of decline when, because of the king's illness, power came to be held by unsuitable men who made the wrong policy decisions. Notably, they ignored the advice of Raymond of Tripoli and attacked Saladin, who was prepared to keep peace with the Franks while uniting the Islamic near east under his rule. This book challenges that view, arguing that peace with Saladin was not a viable option for the Franks; that the young king, despite suffering from lepromatous leprosy (the most deadly form of the disease) was an excellent battle leader who strove with some success to frustrate Saladin's imperial ambitions; that Baldwin had to remain king in order to hold factions in check; but that the society over which he presided was, contrary to what is often said, vigorous and self-confident.Trade Review' … compelling … the book stands as a gifted work and one of the best introductions to the world of the Latin East produced to date.' BBC History Magazine' … judicious and learned book.' The Times Literary Supplement' … Hamilton's evaluation of Baldwin is convincing and compelling.' Journal of Ecclesiastical HistoryTable of ContentsPrologue; 1. The sources for Baldwin IV's reign; 2. Baldwin's childhood; 3. The kingdom; 4. The international status of the kingdom; 5. The king's minority; 6. Western aid: William of Montferrat and Philip of Flanders; 7. The victor of mont Gisard; 8. Prince Reynald's initiative; 9. The dying king; 10. The heirs of the leper king; Epilogue; Appendix by Piers Mitchell: an evaluation of the leprosy of king Baldwin IV of Jerusalem in the context of the medieval world; Bibliography.

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Book SynopsisConstituting over ninety percent of China's population, Han is not only the largest ethnonational group in that country but also one of the largest categories of human identity in world history. This book examines this ambiguous identity, one that shares features with, but cannot be subsumed under, existing notions of ethnicity, culture, and race.

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Book SynopsisProvides a historical look through the eyes of outsiders as they survey and scrutinize the politics, science, technology, religion, family practices, and gender roles of civilizations not their own. This book emphasizes the broader figurative meaning of looking west in the scope of history.Trade Review"For a novice reader undertaking a journey of discovery, a researcher looking for take-off points into the issue of comparative consciousness, or an educator designing a course on non-western views of the west, this book provides both source material and inspiration." * The Journal for the History of Discoveries *Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Introduction: Comparative Consciousness Maps PART ONE. MIDDLE EASTERN TRAVELERS AND THEIR OBSERVATIONS 1. The Rus - Ahmad Ibn Fadlan 2. From The Crusades through Arab Eyes - Amin Maalouf 3. From Napoleon in Egypt - Abd Al-Rahman Al-Jabarti 4. An Imam in Paris - Rifa?ah Al-Tahtawi 5. On the Music of the Maltese and of Others - Ahmed Faris Al-Shidyaq 6. From A Turkish Woman's Impressions - Zeyneb Hanoum 7. From Orientalism - Edward Said 8. The President of Iran's Letter to the President of the United States - Mahmoud Ahmadinejad 9. Democracy Cartoons - Khalil Bendib 10. Empire as Everyday Life, Everyday Life as Imperialism - Mayssoun Sukarieh PART TWO. CHINESE TRAVELERS AND THEIR OBSERVATIONS 11. From Buddhist Records of the Western World - Xuanzang (Hiuen Tsiang) 12. Two Poems - Huang Zunxian 13. The Power and Threat of America - Liang Qichao 14. American Democracy in Crisis and The Collapse of American Capitalism - No-Yong Park 15. The Shallowness of Cultural Tradition - Fei Xiaotong 16. From Americans and Chinese - Francis L. K. Hsu 17. Some Thoughts on Certain Aspects of Modern Western Culture - Zhao Fusan 18. Be Nice to the Countries That Lend You Money - Interview of Gao Xiqing by James Fallows 19. Full Text of Human Rights Record of United States in 2008 - Xinhuanet PART THREE. INDIAN TRAVELERS AND THEIR OBSERVATIONS 20. From Travels of Mirza Abu Taleb Khan - Mirza Abu Taleb Khan 21. Remarks on Settlement in India by Europeans - Raja Rammohun Roy 22. My Impressions of England - Keshub Chunder Sen 23. From Poverty and Un-British Rule in India - Dadabhai Naoroji 24. The Condition of England and Civilization -- Mohandas K. Gandhi 25. Passage to and from India - Nirad C. Chaudhuri 26. Indian Economic Policy - Birendra Narayan Chakravarty 27. The Eurocentric History of Science and Multicultural Histories of Science - Arun Bala 28. From The Thistle and the Drone - Akbar Ahmed PART FOUR. JAPANESE TRAVELERS AND THEIR OBSERVATIONS 29. From The Record of a Pilgrimage to China in Search of the Law - Ennin 30. From A Secret Plan of Government and Tales of the West - Honda Toshiaki 31. From As We Saw Them: The First Japanese Embassy to the United States - Masao Miyoshi 32. From The Autobiography of Yukichi Fukuzawa - Fukuzawa Yukichi 33. Why Security Treaty? - Yuzuru Katagiri 34. Japan and the United States: Partners or Master and Servant? - Shintaro Ishihara For Further Reading Index

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Book SynopsisIlluminates the connections between soccer empire and sport by tracing the story of World Cup soccer, from the Cup's French origins in the 1930s to Africa and the Caribbean and back again. This title recounts the lives of two of soccer's most electrifying players, Zidane and his outspoken teammate, Lilian Thuram.Trade Review"An intriguing tale of soccer within the matrix of France's history of colonialism." STARRED REVIEW Library Journal "Drills down to uncover the relationship among politics, race and the legacy of empire." The New York Times "Excellent" Chronicle Of Higher Education "Tale of how even the most seemingly apolitical institutions in a society can become the battlegrounds for its most pressing questions of identity and ambition." Salon.com "The best, most important contribution to soccer scholarship to date...A timely and wonderful book." -- A.-P. Durand Choice "Soccer Empire has a heart that beats louder than most, and is all the better for it." Times Literary Supplement (TLS)Table of ContentsContents List of Illustrations Preface: Scoring Spirits Introduction: The Language of Happiness 1. A Beautiful Harvest 2. Caribbean France 3. Crossings 4. Roots 5. Two Goals 6. Two Flags 7. La France Metissee 8. An Unfinished War 9. Reconciliation 10. Burn 11. Coup de Boule Epilogue: Returns Notes Acknowledgments Index

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Book SynopsisImmigration, Ethnicity, and National Identity in Brazil, 1808 to the Present examines the immigration to Brazil of millions of Europeans, Asians and Middle Easterners beginning in the nineteenth century. Jeffrey Lesser analyzes how these newcomers and their descendants adapted to their new country and how national identity was formed as they became Brazilians.Trade Review'A crowning achievement by the premier historian of immigration to Brazil. In this highly readable book, Lesser shows how immigrants from Europe, Asia, and the Middle East helped create new ways of being white, of being nonwhite, and of being Brazilian, and in so doing, helped create modern Brazil.' George Reid Andrews, University of Pittsburgh'Jeff Lesser is on intimate terms with Brazilian history and is an authoritative guide to this topic. His new overview of immigration to Brazil will richly reward its readership. [He] studies immigration as a process, not simply an event. [He] concentrates on the immigrants' interactions with the state and their participation in larger social and political currents. This is better than the older approach that tends to isolate immigrants (usually a single ethnic group) in the mind's eye, focusing on what they did not share with non-immigrants. In sum, Lesser shows us that to pull immigrants out of Brazil's living collage is to misunderstand them and their experience. Highly recommended!' John Charles Chasteen, University of North CarolinaThis fascinating and lively book teaches us that to understand ethnicity and immigration we must consider Brazil, and to understand Brazil we must consider immigration and ethnicity.' Jerry Dávila, University of Illinois'Jeffrey Lesser masterfully surveys the history of immigration to Brazil (and to some extent, from Brazil) through the lens of ethnicity. He has digested a vast literature in English and Portuguese to produce a concise and well-crafted volume that will become the standard survey of the subject.' Marshall C. Eakin, Vanderbilt University'In this engaging and provocative book, historian Jeffrey Lesser demonstrates how central immigration has been, and continues to be, in struggles over Brazilian national identity. Weaving together his prodigious knowledge of postcolonial Brazilian history and the diverse experiences of the many immigrant ethnic groups in Brazil, Lesser produces a portrait of Brazilian society since independence that challenges and revises both scholarly and popular notions of what it means to be Brazilian.' Barbara Weinstein, New York University'This book is accessible enough for the general reader, though the best use will be in an undergraduate course on Brazilian history or a course on race and ethnicity in Brazil or Latin America more broadly.' Colonial Latin American Historical ReviewTable of Contents1. Creating Brazilians; 2. From Central Europe and Asia: immigration schemes, 1822–70; 3. Mass migrations, 1880–1920; 4. The creation of Euro-Brazilian identities; 5. How Arabs became Jews, 1880–1940; 6. Asianizing Brazil: new immigrants and new identities, 1900–55; 7. Epilogue: the song remains the same.

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Book SynopsisAn unsettling journey through the calamitous consequences of settler colonialism in Patagonia--and the story of the world-renowned scientist who witnessed it.

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Book SynopsisNow available to an English-speaking audience, this book presents a groundbreaking theoretical analysis of memory, identity and culture. Dr Assmann defines two theoretical concepts of cultural memory and applies this theoretical framework to case studies of four specific cultures, concluding that memory can be a powerful and dynamic tool in shaping culture.Trade Review'Jan Assmann's work on cultural memory is essential for notions of memory and memorialization. I know of no modern scholarly study on collective memory and aspects relating to it, from Thucydides to modern Israel, from Genesis to modern Germany, that has not in some form drawn on Jan Assmann's theories on the relation between collective and cultural memory. In short, this book is an absolute classic, and will be invaluable to English-speaking scholars.' Susanna Elm, University of California, Berkeley'More than canonical since its original publication in Germany, Cultural Memory and Early Civilization is one of the most important works of cultural analysis of the past two decades. Spanning cultural and media studies, sociology, ancient history, and numerous other fields, it has already underwritten volumes of research and theory in Europe. Its translation was long awaited, and will surely transform discourse in Anglophone scholarship as well. It is a genuine tour-de-force.' Jeffrey Olick, University of Virginia'Fantastically readable …' The Times Higher Education SupplementTable of ContentsIntroduction; Part I. The Theoretical Basis: 1. Memory culture; 2. Written culture; 3. Cultural identity and political imagination; Part II. Case Studies: 4. Egypt; 5. Israel and the invention of religion; 6. The birth of history from the spirit of the law; 7. Greece and disciplined thinking; Cultural memory: a summary.

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Book SynopsisBeginning in 1947, when 'India and Pakistan were born to conflict,' this title provides a primer on what is potentially the world's one of the dangerous crisis. It distills sixty-three years of complex history, tracing the roots of the relationship between these two antagonists, and explaining the various attempts to resolve their disputes.Trade Review"An expert and brisk historical primer." -- Marc Tracy New York Times Book Review "The analysis is insightful and the conclusions are inspiring." -- R. D. Long Choice "The analysis is insightful and the conclusions are inspiring." Choice "Comprehensive perspective on the origin and nature of this urgent conflict." Interaction / Bms Book NewsTable of ContentsList of Maps Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction 1. The Historic Roots of the Problem 2. The First Indo-Pakistani War 3. The Second Indo-Pakistani War 4. The Third Indo-Pakistani War and the Birth of Bangladesh 5. From the Simla Summit to Zia's Coup 6. Afghanistan's Impact on Indo-Pakistani Relations 7. Pakistan's Proxy War and Kashmir's Azaadi Revolution 8. Recent Attempts to Resolve the Escalating Conflict 9. The Stalled Peace Process 10. Potential Solutions to the Kashmir Conflict Notes Select Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"This is not just a publicist-driven fancy... [Paglen's images are] aesthetic and allegorical... A unique tale of human history." Wallpaper "The images are wondrous, paradoxical, and awe-inspiring." -- Dara Solomon PrefixTable of ContentsForeword by Anne Pasternak and Nato Thompson Introduction: Geographies of Time 1 Ancient Aliens 2 One Hundred Pictures, Frozen in Time "Belonging": Human/Archive/World by Katie Detwiler 3 One Hundred Pictures Notes on the One Hundred Pictures 4 Field Notes The Artifact Cover Etching by Joel Weisberg Talking Mathematics to Aliens? (Get Real! ... or Have Fun with Anthropomorphism 101!) by Rafael Nunez Putting a Time Capsule in Orbit: What Should It Be Made Of? by Brian L. Wardle and Karl Berggren The EchoStar XVI Mission by EchoStar Corporation Epilogue Acknowledgments Credits

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Book SynopsisFrom the informal games of Homer's time to the highly organized contests of the Roman world, Miller has compiled a trove of ancient sources: Plutarch on boxing, Aristotle on the pentathlon, Philostratos on the buying and selling of victories, Vitruvius on literary competitions, and Xenophon on female body building. Arete offers readers an absorbing lesson in the culture of Greek athletics from the greatest of teachers, the ancients themselves, and demonstrates that the concepts of virtue, skill, pride, valor, and nobility embedded in the word arete are only part of the story from antiquity. This bestselling volume on the culture of Greek athletics is updated with a new preface by leading scholar Paul Christesen that discusses the book's continued importance for students of ancient athletics.Trade Review"A remarkable compendium of ancient sources ... An invaluable resource for the study of Greek sport ... What Miller's Arete does extremely well is to show that 'nearly almost every aspect of athletics we know today existed already in that distant but kindred world'" The European LegacyTable of ContentsAbbreviations Foreword Introduction I. The Earliest Days of Greek Athletics II. Nudity and Equipment III. The Events at a Competition a. Running b. Wrestling c. Boxing d. Pankration e. Pentathlon f. Equestrian g. Herald and Trumpeter h. Music i. Poetry and Prose Composition j. Acting k. Painting IV. Organization of a Panhellenic Festival a. Preparations at the Site b. Preparations of the Athletes c. The Truce d. Preliminaries: Registration and Certification e. Schedule, Heats, and Pairings f. Prohibitions and Penalties g. Officials h. Rewards for Victory V. Local Festivals a. The Panathenaic Games of Athens b. The Eleutheria of Larissa in Thessaly c. The Bomonikai of Sparta VI. The Role of the Games in Society VII. Women in Athletics VIII. Athletes and Heroes IX. Ball playing X. Gymnasion, Athletics, and Education XI. The Spread of Greek Athletics in the Hellenistic Period XII. Greek Athletics in the Roman Period XIII. Amateurism and Professionalism XIV. Nationalism and Internationalism a. Relations between the Panhellenic Sanctuaries b. Relations between City-States and the Panhellenic Sanctuaries c. Relations between City-States at the Panhellenic Sanctuaries XV. Beauty and Reality Appendix: The Olympian and Pythian Programs Select Bibliography Index and Glossary Sources for the Chapter-Opening Sketches

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Book SynopsisOffers an exploration of the land, people, and wines of Bordeaux and Burgundy. This title presents the key role played by medieval monks, dukes, and peasant vignerons in building their respective reputations and in creating the rivalry between bourgeois Bordeaux and earthy Burgundy.Trade Review"Pitte, a specialist in wine geographies, relates a long and fierce oenophile war in this charming history." New Yorker "Full of fascinating digressions into the history of the wines, the areas, and the people." Art Info Brilliant The Guardian "Whatever you may know about these two great wine regions, you'll learn something new." Decanter "History buffs will especially savor Pitte's extensive report on France's most legendary wine regions." The Bloomsbury ReviewTable of ContentsList of Maps Preface to the American Edition 1. Weighing the Evidence 2. Markets and Consumers 3. The Physical Environment 4. Incomparable Wines Conclusion. Farewell to Parochialism Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisCan one explain the power of global capitalism without attributing to capital a logic and coherence it does not have? Can one account for the powers of techno-science in terms that do not merely reproduce its own understanding of the world? This work examines these questions through a series of essays focused on Egypt in the 20th century.Trade Review“Timothy Mitchell’s new book is brilliant. Written for academics . . . the writing is superb. The prose is luminous and limpid, undergirded by steely passion and resolve.” * EPD: Society and Space *“Rule of Experts is the most exciting and intellectually stimulating book about the Middle East to come my way in a long time. It is a brilliant set of inter-related essays about late-19th- and 20th-century Egypt. . . . This book will surely be required reading for most students and faculty in Middle East studies.” * International Journal of Middle East Studies *“Rules of Experts is the most significant collection of essays by a single author to be produced in contemporary Middle East social science in a generation. There is no one writing today in the field more important than Mitchell.” * Middle East Journal *“The importance of this book goes well beyond the study of Egypt and the Middle East, making it a must read for everyone interested in the formations and effects of modern power.” * Transforming Anthropology *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Note on Transliteration Introduction I. Economies of Truth 1. Can the Mosquito Speak? 2. Principles True in Every Country 3. The Character of Calculability II. Peasant Studies 4. The Invention and Reinvention of the Peasant 5. Nobody Listens to a Poor Man 6. Heritage and Violence III. Fixing the Economy 7. The Object of Development 8. The Market's Place 9. Dreamland Notes Select Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn 1987, the Japanese government inaugurated the Japan Exchange and Teaching (JET) program in response to global pressure to 'internationalize' its society. This book explores the cultural and political dynamics of internationalization in Japan. It is suitable for policy analysts, students of Japan, and prospective and former JET participants.Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments List of Acronyms 1. JAPAN'S IMAGE PROBLEM: CULTURE, HISTORY, AND GLOBAL INTEGRATION 2. THE SOLUTION: TOP-DOWN "GRASSROOTS INTERNATIONALIZATION" 3· THE START-UP YEARS: THE "CRASH PROGRAM" NEARLY CRASHES 4· MANAGING DIVERSITY: THE VIEW FROM A PREFECTURAL BOARD OF EDUCATION 5. BEYOND THE STEREOTYPES: THE JET PROGRAM IN LOCAL SCHOOLS 6. THE LEARNING CURVE: JETTING INTO THE NEW MILLENNIUM 7. FINAL THOUGHTS EPILOGUE: MIRROR ON MULTICULTURALISM IN THE UNITED STATES Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis examination of Japanese imperialism focuses on the domestic impact of Japan's activities in Northeast China between 1931 and 1945, to consider the "metropolitan effects" of empire building - how the Japanese people imagined and experienced the empire they called Manchukuo.Table of ContentsList of Map and Tables Acknowledgments Note on Sources PART I THE MAKING OF A TOTAL EMPIRE 1. Manchukuo and Japan 2. The Jewel in the Crown: The International Context of Manchukuo PART II THE MANCHURIAN INCIDENT AND THE NEW MILITARY IMPERIALISM, 1931-1933 3· War Fever: Imperial Jingoism and the Mass Media 4· Go-Fast Imperialism: Elite Politics and Mass Mobilization PART III THE MANCHURIAN EXPERIMENT IN COLONIAL DEVELOPMENT, 1932-1941 5· Uneasy Partnership: Soldiers and Capitalists in the Colonial Economy 6. Brave New Empire: Utopian Vision and the Intelligentsia PART IV THE NEW SOCIAL IMPERIALISM AND THE FARM COLONIZATION PROGRAM, 1932-1945 7· Reinventing Agrarianism: Rural Crisis and the Wedding of Agriculture to Empire 8. The Migration Machine: Manchurian Colonization and State Growth 9· Victims of Empire PART V CONCLUSION 10. The Paradox of Total Empire Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisNarrates the movement of an old diaspora across the Indian Ocean. Ranging from Arabia to India and Southeast Asia, this work explores the transcultural exchanges that enabled Hadrami Yemeni descendants of the Muslim prophet Muhammad to become locals in each of the three regions, yet remain cosmopolitans with vital connections across the ocean.Trade Review"An important contribution to the study of diaspora... Elegant... [A] very thorough study that deserves a wide readership." Intl Journal Of Middle East Stds (Ijmes) "This exemplary ethnography offers a distinctive approach to the 'anthropology of mobility'." Journal Royal Anthro InstTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Note on Dates, Abbreviations, and Transliteration Preface: Hadrami Society, an Old Diaspora I. BURIAL 1. The Society of the Absent 2. Geography, a Pathway through History 3. A Resolute Localism Conclusion to Part I: Making Tarim a Place of Return II. GENEALOGICAL TRAVEL 4. Ecumenical Islam in an Oceanic World 5. Hybrid Texts: Genealogy as Light and as Law 6. Creole Kinship: Genealogy as Gift Conclusion to Part II: Local Cosmopolitans III. RETURNS 7. Return as Pilgrimage 8. Repatriation 9. The View from the Verandah 10. Evictions Concluding Remarks: Names beyond Nations Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisPresents the history of Western ideas about the nature of human experience. This book explores Western discourse since the sixteenth century onwards, asking why the concept of experience has been such a magnet for controversy.Trade Review"Few in the humanities can rival Jay's omnivorousness or match his intellectual energy." - Terry Eagleton, London Review of Books "Songs of Experience is at once modest and extraordinarily ambitious. The erudition on display in this sweeping account of a central concept in Western philosophy over several hundred years is a wonder; the writing is clear, and the scholarship breathtaking. But it is modest in the sense that it does not announce its own point of view with any emphasis. Instead, the reader benefits from the author's openness to thinkers as unalike as Schleiermacher and Rorty, Oakeshott and Bataille. Jay makes sense of each thinker on his own terms - and that's because with his intellectual openness and his conceptual mediation, Jay indeed practices what he is so lightly preaching. An intellectual historian at the top of his game, he has shared his own experience of these ideas, texts, and writers. After reading this book, we can too." - Michael Roth, Bookforum "A magisterial study of one of the most elusive, contested, and pervasively important concepts of the Western philosophical tradition." - Richard Shusterman, author of Pragmatist Aesthetics"Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. The Trial of "Experience": From the Greeks to Montaigne and Bacon 2. Experience and Epistemology: The Contest between Empiricism and Idealism 3. The Consolations of Religious Experience: Schleiermacher, James, Otto and Buber 4. Returning to the Body through Aesthetic Experience: From Kant to Dewey 5. Politics and Experience: Burke, Oakeshott and the English Marxists 6. History and Experience: Dilthey, Collingwood, Scott and Ankersmit 7. The Cult of Experience in American Pragmatism: James, Dewey and Rorty 8. Lamenting the Crisis of Experience: Benjamin and Adorno 9. The Poststructuralist Reconstitution of Experience: Bataille, Barthes and Foucault Conclusion

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Book SynopsisLooks at the haunting, melancholy horror films Val Lewton made between 1942 and 1946 and finds them to be powerful commentaries on the American home front during WWII. This study demonstrates the film-maker's interest in those who found themselves alienated by wartime society and illuminates the dark side of the American psyche in the 1940s.Trade Review"This is cultural history at its best. The author's vivid engagement with his material reveals Val Lewton in a bracing new light. Nemerov teases out relationships between film and society with supple writing, imagination, and skill. A critical tour de force." - David M. Lubin, author of Shooting Kennedy "Icons of Grief is a brilliantly conceived and successfully executed filmmaker study. Nemerov's research is dazzling, as are his highly sophisticated analyses. At every turn, he reveals his deep understanding of cinema. This is an exquisitely crafted book." - Scott Bukatman, author of Terminal Identity"Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Fragments of the Home Front 1. The Madonna of the Backyard: Simone Simon and Ann Carter in The Curse of the Cat People 2. The Power of the Minor Actor: Skelton Knaggs in The Ghost Ship 3. Stillness and Recollection: Darby Jones in I Walked with a Zombie 4. This Pretty World: Glenn Vernon in Bedlam Notes Selected Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisArchaeology impacts the lives of indigenous, local, or descendant communities. Yet often these groups have little input to archaeological research, and its results remain inaccessible. In this title, the author outlines the principles of community-based participatory research and demonstrates how CBPR can be effectively applied to archaeology.Trade Review"Recommended." -- A. B. Kehoe, Emeritus, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Choice

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Book SynopsisDrawing on ancient historical writings, the array of information gleaned over years from the study of Hellenistic coins, and startling archaeological evidence newly unearthed in Afghanistan, this book sets out to rediscover the ancient civilization of Bactria. It provides a chronicle of the search for one of the world's enigmatic empires.Trade Review"Holt has done a service in summarizing the scholarship about this outpost of Hellenism. Well written [and] of interest... Recommended." -- K. W. Harl, Tulane University ChoiceTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface Introduction: A Lost Civilization 1. The Adventure Begins: Checklist Numismatics 2. A Dangerous Game: Framework Numismatics 3. The Gold Colossus: Novelty Numismatics 4. Telling Tales: Narrative Numismatics 5. Wanted--One Greek City: Archaeology 6. Letters Here and There: Epigraphy 7. A Perfect Storm: Rescue and Revisionist Numismatics 8. A New Beginning: Cognitive Numismatics I 9. Coins and the Collapse of Civilization: Cognitive Numismatics II Conclusion: The Lost World of the Golden King Notes Select Bibliography Illustration Credits Index

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Book SynopsisBased on years of archival and ethnographic research in Venezuela's largest public housing community, this book offers an in-depth history of urban popular politics before the Bolivarian Revolution. It also provides context for understanding the democracy that emerged during the presidency of Hugo Chavez.Trade Review"Barrio Rising prompts reflection on Chavismo and the imprint of architectural modernity beyond the famous profiles of Brasilia and writes the people of Caracas into the story of Latin America's 20th century... Highly recommended" CHOICE connect Velasco's complex engagement with the everyday practice of politics is a model of good urban history... great comparative potential well beyond its contribution to defining urban popular politics in Latin America. Above all, Barrio Rising makes the important point that incomplete promises create lasting legacies in the built environment and in politics. Planning PerspectivesTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments Introduction: A History of Place and Nation PART ONE. Landscapes of Opportunity 1. Dictatorship's Blocks: The Battle for the New Urban Venezuela 2. Democracy's Projects: Occupying the Spaces of Revolution PART TWO. Paths to Democracy 3. From Ballots to Bullets: The Rise of Urban Insurgency, 1958--1963 4. "The Fight Was Fierce": Uncertain Victories in the Streets and the Polls, 1963--1969 PART THREE. Streets of Protest 5. Water, Women, and Protest: The Return of Local Activism, 1969--1977 6. "A Weapon as Powerful as the Vote": Seizing the Promise of Participation, 1979--1988 7. Killing Democracy's Promise: A Massacre of People and Expectations Conclusion: Revolutionary Projects Appendix Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisA riveting biography of the Nobel Prizewinning experimental physicist hailed as the greatest scientific detective of the twentieth century

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Book SynopsisOffering new insight into 3000 years of Mesoamerican history, from roughly 1500 BC to the Spanish conquest, this study examines the methods, purposes and values of warfare as practiced by the major pre-Columbian societies and shows how warfare affected the rise of the state.

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Book SynopsisPart of a trilogy on civilization and its discontents, on humanity's long struggle to master its instincts and the perils that attend that denial of human nature, this book contains eleven essays that covers 1990 and the fall of Communism in Eastern Europe.Table of ContentsPreface I. Apocalypse: The Place of Mystery in the Life of the Mind 2. Daphne, or Metamorphosis 3· My Georgics: A Palinode in Praise of Work 4· Metamorphoses II: Actaeon 5· The Prophetic Tradition 6. The Apocalypse of Islam 7· Philosophy and Prophecy: Spinoza's Hermeneutics 8. The Turn to Spinoza 9· Metamorphoses III: The Divine Narcissus IO. Revisioning Historical Identities II. Dionysus in I990

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Book SynopsisContains the first English translations of a group of important eighteenth-century German essays that address the question, 'What is Enlightenment?'. This book includes interpretive essays by historians and philosophers, which examine the origins of eighteenth-century debate on Enlightenment and explore its significance for the present.Table of ContentsPREFACE I Introduction: What Is Enlightenment? A Question, Its Context, and Some Consequences James Schmidt Part I. THE EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY DEBATE 1. The Question and Some Answers What Is to Be Done toward the Enlightenment of the Citizenry? (1783) Johann Karl Mohsen On the Question: What Is Enlightenment? (1784) Moses Mendelssohn An Answer to the Question: What Is Enlightenment? (1784) Immanuel Kant Thoughts on Enlightenment (1784) Karl Leonhard Reinhold A Couple of Gold Nuggets, from the ... Wastepaper, or Six Answers to Six Questions (1789) Christoph Martin Wieland 2. The Public Use of Reason On Freedom of Thought and of the Press: For Princes, Ministers, and Writers (1784) On Freedom of the Press and Its Limits: For Consideration by Rulers, Censors, and Writers.(l787) Carl Friedrich Bahrdt Publicity (1792) Friedrich Karl von Moser Reclamation of the Freedom of Thought from the Princes of Europe, Who Have Oppressed It Until Now (1793) Johann Gottlieb Fichte 3. Faith and Enlightenment Letter to ChristianJacob Kraus (18 December 1784) · Johann Georg Hamann Metacritique on the Purism of Reason (1784) Johann Georg Hamann On Enlightenment: Is It and Could It Be Dangerous to the State, to Religion, or Dangerous in General? A Word to Be Heeded by Princes, Statesmen, and Clergy (1788) Andreas Riem 4. The Politics of Enlightenment Something Lessing Said: A Commentary on Journeys of the Popes(I782) Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi True and False Political Enlightenment (1792) Friedrich Karl von Moser On the Influence of Enlightenment on Revolutions (1794) Johann Heinrich Tuftrunk Does Enlightenment Cause Revolutions? (1795) Johann Adam Bergk Part II. HISTORICAL REFLECTIONS The Berlin Wednesday Society Gunter Birtsch The Subversive Kant: The Vocabulary of "Public" and "Publicity" John Christian Laursen On Enlightenment for the Common Man Jonathan B. Knudsen Modern Culture Comes of Age: Hamann versus Kant on the Root Metaphor of Enlightenment Garrett Green Jacobi's Critique of the Enlightenment Dale E. Snow Early Romanticism and the Aujkliirung Frederick C. Beiser Progress: Ideas, Skepticism, and CritiqueThe Heritage of the Enlightenment Rudolph Vierhaus Part III. TWENTIETH-CENTURY QUESTIONS What Is Enlightenment? Rudiger Bittner Reason Against Itself: Some Remarks on Enlightenment Max Horkheimer What Is Enlightened Thinking? Georg Picht What Is Critique? Michel Foucault The Unity of Reason in the Diversity oflts Voices ]iirgen Habermas The Battle of Reason with the Imagination Hartmut Bohme and Gernot Bohme The Failure of Kant's Imagination Jane Kneller The Gender of Enlightenment Robin May Schott Autonomy, Individuality, and Self-Determination Lewis Hinchman Enlightened Cosmopolitanism: The Political Perspective of the Kantian "Sublime" Kevin Paul Geiman CONTRIBUTORS TO PARTS II AND III SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX

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Book SynopsisFocuses on American intervention in Vietnam. Challenging the prevailing myth that the outbreak of large-scale fighting in 1965 was essentially unavoidable, this book argues that the Vietnam War was unnecessary, not merely in hindsight but in the context of its time.Trade Review"A brilliant book." - Kai Bird, Washington Post "Thorough and nuanced, and expressed with admirable clarity. Rarely is diplomatic history so well written these days." - Jack F. Matlock Jr., New York Times Book Review "This book is a triumph of research and a narrative of unusual power that relieves the 'diplomatic Vietnam' from the mouldering archives. The result is a eureka of comprehension, a minor miracle of scholarship and argument. Fredrik Logevall has written a great book. Vietnam studies will never be the same. May he win all the prizes." - Robert Anderson, Philadelphia Inquirer "The finest history to date of America's decisions to escalate war in Vietnam. More than just a Vietnam book, Choosing War offers a rare and beautifully crafted example of how to study a turning point in history." - Philip Zelikow, Foreign Affairs "Compendious and persuasive." - Jonathan Mirsky, New York Review of Books "Stunning in its research and highly sophisticated in its analysis, Choosing War is far and away the best study we have of Lyndon Johnson's escalation of the conflict in Vietnam." - George C. Herring"Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Preface List of Abbreviations Used in the Text 1. The Kickoff: 29 August 1963 2. Breaks and Continuities: September to November 1963 3. "I Will Not Lose in Vietnam": November 1963 to January 1964 4. "A Deeply Dangerous Game": February to April 1964 5. Rumblings of Discontent: April to June 1964 6. Campaigns at Home and Abroad: June and July 1964 7. Provocations: August 1964 8. Standing Logic on Its Head: September and October 1964 9. The Freedom to Change: November and December 1964 10. "Stable Government or No Stable Government": January and February 1965 11. Americanization: February to July 1965 12. Choosing War List of Abbreviations Used in the Notes Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisExamines the Chicano movement's development in Los Angeles, home of the largest population of people of Mexican descent outside of Mexico City. This book focuses on four organizations that constituted the heart of the movement: the Brown Berets, the Chicano Moratorium Committee, La Raza Unida Party, and the Centro de Accion Social Autonomo.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: "Those Times of Revolution" 1. "A Movable Object Meeting an Irresistible Force": Los Angeles's Ethnic Mexican Community in the 1950s and Early 1960s 2. "Birth of A New Symbol": The Brown Berets 3. "Chale No, We Won't Go!": The Chicano Moratorium Committee 4. "The Voice of the Chicano People": La Raza Unida Party 5. "Un Pueblo Sin Fronteras": The Centro de Accion Social Autonomo (CASA) Afterword: "Why Are We Not Marching Like in the '70s?" Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIt is often thought that the story of Tutankhamun ended when the thousands of dazzling items discovered by Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon were transported to the Egyptian Museum in Cairo and put on display. But there is far more to the boy-king''s story. Tutankhamun and the Tomb that Changed the World explores the 100 years of research on Tutankhamun that have taken place since the tomb''s discovery, from the several objects in the tomb made of meteoritic iron that came from outer space to new evidence that shows that Tutankhamun may actually have been a warrior who went into battle. Author Bob Brier also takes readers behind the scenes of the recent CT-scans of Tutankhamun''s mummy to reveal more secrets of the young pharaoh.The book also illustrates the wide-ranging impact the discovery of Tutankhamun''s tomb had on fields beyond Egyptology. Brier examines how the discovery of the tomb influenced Egyptian politics and contributed to the downfall of colonialism in Egypt. Outside Egypt, the modern blockbuster exhibitions that raise great sums of monies for museums around the world all began with Tutankhamun, as did the idea of documenting every object discovered in place before it was moved. And to a great extent, the modern fascination with ancient Egypt was also greatly promoted by the Tutmania that surrounded the discovery of the tomb. Deeply informed by the latest research and presented in vivid detail, Tutankhamun and the Tomb that Changed the World is a compelling introduction to the world''s greatest archaeological discovery.

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Breaks new ground in both perspective and subject matter." Intl Journal Of Middle East Stds (Ijmes)Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Part I. Beauty, Love, and Sexuality 1. Early Qajar 2. Nineteenth-Century Transformations Part II. Cultural Labor of Sexuality and Gender 3. The Eclipse of the (Fe)Male Sun 4. Vatan, the Beloved; Vatan, the Mother 5. Women's Veil and Unveil 6. The Tragedy of Romantic Marriage 7. Crafting an Educated Wife and Mother 8. Women or Wives of the Nation? Epilogue: Feminism and Its Burden of Birth Notes Glossary Bibliography Credits Index

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Book SynopsisThis richly illustrated, four-colour textbook introduces the art and archaeology of ancient Greece, from the Bronze Age through to the Roman conquest. Emphasizing context and function, Barringer explores the purpose and use of buildings and objects within their particular time and place, leading students to a rich sociohistorical understanding of Greek art.Trade Review'This book is a superb resource for students and teachers of ancient Greek art specifically and the ancient Greek world as a whole. Barringer strikes an ideal balance between brevity and depth, leaving just enough room between the sentences for dialogue, discussion, and discourse. No mere survey, this important new text goes out of its way to problematize traditional narratives and point to the hidden riches and complexities of the field.' Peter Schultz, Concordia College, Moorhead, Minnesota'There is no lack of good introductions to the art and archaeology of ancient Greece, but Barringer's new book - clearly written and presented, incorporating the latest scholarship, and superbly illustrated (many images are new, unusual and uncommonly instructive in themselves) - will occupy the first rank. The narrative is made to order for undergraduate surveys, but even advanced students and scholars will benefit from the book's succinct and perceptive analyses of the themes, functions and cultural contexts of the major monuments of Greek art and architecture. It is that rare thing: a readable survey that intimates the richness, depth and complexity of its subject.' Jeffrey M. Hurwit, University of OregonTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. The Bronze Age and early Iron Age in Greece; 2. The Geometric period (c.900–700 BC) and the seventh century BC; 3. The Archaic Mediterranean; 4. The Classical period: the fifth century BC; 5. The late Classical period and Alexander, c.400–323 BC; 6. The legacy of Alexander: the Hellenistic world; 7. Roman conquest and the conquest of Rome; Glossary.

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Book SynopsisIs there a 'Western way of war' which pursues battles of annihilation and single-minded military victory? Is warfare on a path to ever greater destructive force? This magisterial account answers these questions by tracing the history of Western thinking about strategy - the employment of military force as a political instrument - from antiquity to the present day. Assessing sources from Vegetius to contemporary America, and with a particular focus on strategy since the Napoleonic Wars, Beatrice Heuser explores the evolution of strategic thought, the social institutions, norms and patterns of behaviour within which it operates, the policies that guide it and the cultures that influence it. Ranging across technology and warfare, total warfare and small wars as well as land, sea, air and nuclear warfare, she demonstrates that warfare and strategic thinking have fluctuated wildly in their aims, intensity, limitations and excesses over the past two millennia.Trade Review'This is a real masterpiece. As a history of strategic thinking, ancient and modern, it is comprehensive, learned and authoritative. Its discussion of contemporary issues is shrewd and illuminating. It is lucid, wise, often witty, and above all, deeply humane. It should be essential reading for all students and practitioners of strategy: indeed I doubt whether they will need any other for a long time to come.' Sir Michael Howard, former Regius Professor of Modern History, University of Oxford'Beatrice Heuser has produced a book of immense and unique scholarship. The study provides the most detailed and comprehensive survey yet written on strategic thinking across the ages from Roman times to the contemporary debates about the future of warfare in the twenty-first century. It is essential reading for any serious university or military student of strategic studies or international security.' John Baylis, Emeritus Professor and formerly Pro Vice Chancellor, Swansea University'With this work Beatrice Heuser has made a major contribution. This is much more than just a survey of strategy through the ages, but a deep, intellectual examination of the complex relationships between strategy and war through the course of history.' Williamson Murray, Professor Emeritus of History, Ohio State University'Heuser's history of strategic theory and practice demonstrates extraordinary range, erudition, intelligence, and insight. She appears to have read everything, in many languages, about attempts to apply armed force effectively. The Evolution of Strategy will be the first port of call for those wanting to check up on the development of land strategy in the eighteenth century, maritime strategy in the nineteenth century, nuclear strategy in the twentieth century, or counterinsurgency strategy in the twenty-first century.' Lawrence D. Freedman, Foreign Affairs'Beatrice Heuser … has written one of the most important books on strategy and war to appear in recent years.' H. R. MacMaster, Survival'… Hauser's deeply intellectual analysis of the history of military strategy achieves its aim and achieves it with style. It is comprehensive without being dry, it is intellectual without being geekish and it is authoritative without being academically arrogant … It should be read, digested, considered and appreciated like one would approach a Cuban cigar and cognac in the study or ante-room. The author is to be congratulated for a fine piece of work and a major contribution to the study of strategy.' Dave Mugridge, The Naval Review'There can be no dispute that this is a major work by a recognised authority. Heuser set out to provide a survey of the literature discussing this subject over much of European history and there can be little doubt that she has achieved her aim.' Australian Defence Force JournalTable of ContentsPart I. Introduction: 1. What is strategy?; Part II. Long-Term Constants: 2. Warfare and mindsets from antiquity to the middle ages; 3. Warfare and mindsets in early modern Europe; 4. Themes in early thinking about strategy; Part III. The Napoleonic Paradigm and Total War: 5. The age and mindset of the Napoleonic paradigm; 6. The Napoleonic paradigm transformed: from total mobilisation to total war; 7. Challenges to the Napoleonic paradigm vs. the culmination of total war; Part IV. Naval and Maritime Strategy: 8. Long-term trends and early maritime strategy; 9. The age of steam to the First World War; 10. The World Wars and their lessons for maritime strategists; 11. Maritime strategy in the nuclear age; Part V. Air Power and Nuclear Strategy: 12. War in the third dimension; 13. Four schools of air power; 14. Nuclear strategy; Part VI. Asymmetric or 'Small' Wars: 15. From partisan war to people's war; 16. Counterinsurgency; Part VII. The Quest for New Paradigms after the World Wars: 17. Wars without victories, victories without peace; 18. No end of history: the dialectic continues; 19. Epilogue: strategy making vs. bureaucratic politics; 20. Summaries and conclusions.

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Book SynopsisAn essential primer for the reader looking to understand the consequences of the war with Ukraine for Russia's regional relationships with bordering countries and Russia's place in the world beyond the binary EastWest tensions.

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Book SynopsisChronicles the life and times of Mohammad Reza Shah, who ruled from 1941 to 1979 as the last Iranian monarch. This biography provides a perspective on key events in Iranian history, including the 1979 revolution, US-Iran relations, and Iran's nuclear program.Trade Review"A comprehensive and well-researched reexamination of a well-meaning but tragic figure." -- Jay Freeman Booklist "A magisterial biography ... painstakingly researched and meticulously sourced." Iranian Freedom Blog "An easily accessible book, which should prove useful to people who are interested in the history and politics of modern Middle East." -- Serpil Atamaz-Hazar The HistorianTable of ContentsPreface Notes on Transliteration and Translations PART I. FATHER AND SON 1. The Father 2. Father and Son 3. The Man PART II. HARD TIMES 4. Ascending the Throne 5. Azerbaijan 6. Nationalizing Oil 7. Toward the Abyss 8. TPAJAX PART III. SECURING THE REALM 9. A New Vista 10. The White Revolution 11. Women and Rights 12. Mastering Oil 13. Commander-in-Chief 14. Development and Dreams 15. Gas, Petrochemicals, and Nuclear Energy PART IV. REVOLUTION AND IRONY 16. Politics and Terror 17. SAVAK 18. A Celebration and a Festival 19. The Rastakhiz Party 20. The Gathering Storm 21. "I Heard the Message of Your Revolution" 22. "Melting Like Snow" PART V. EXILE 23. Trek to Nowhere 24. The Ayatollah's Shadow 25. Almost Bartered 26. Closing in a Dream Brief Chronology of the Pahlavi Dynasty Appendix 1: Iran's Prime Ministers under the Shah Appendix 2: Principles of Iran's White Revolution Appendix 3: U.S. Ambassadors to Iran, 1941-1979 Notes Selected Glossary of Terms and Events Index

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Book SynopsisInvestigates time and its contours as described by the ancient Romans, first as Rome positioned itself in relation to Greece and then as it exerted its influence as a major world power. This book examines the most important of the ancient world's time divisions, that between myth and history.Trade Review"As [Feeney's] excellent book [underlines], the most lasting achievement of Caesar was... the calendar that is still used, throughout the west." -- Mary Beard The Guardian "As [Feeney's] excellent book [underlines], the most lasting achievement of Caesar was... the calendar that is still used, throughout the west." -- Mary Beard New York Review Of BooksTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface Introduction 1. Synchronizing Times I: Greece and Rome 2. Synchronizing Times II: West and East, Sicily and the Orient 3. Transitions from Myth into History I: The Foundations of the City 4. Transitions from Myth into History II: Ages of Gold and Iron 5. Years, Months, and Days I: Eras and Anniversaries 6. Years, Months, and Days II: The Grids of the Fasti Epilogue Notes Bibliography General Index Index Locorum

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Book SynopsisDissolves the logic of a beginning based on writing, civilization, or historical consciousness and offers a model for a history that escapes the continuing grip of the Judeo-Christian time frame. This book presents a case for bringing neuroscience and neurobiology into the realm of history.Trade Review"An intelligent disquiet runs through these pages." New York Times Book Review "A creative and compelling synthesis of ideas, Smail's book provides an engaging and invigorating analysis of our history." Science (AAAS) "A provocative thesis... Radically rethinks the relationship between biology and culture." -- Steven Mithen London Review Of Books "Relax and enjoy. It's a good read, and it makes you think." New Scientist "[An] intriguing little book." American Scientist "Dazzling." Boston Globe Book Section "A pioneering work." -- Brendan Wallace Fortean Times: The Journal Of Strange PhenomenaTable of ContentsPreface Introduction: Toward Reunion in History 1. The Grip of Sacred History 2. Resistance 3. Between Darwin and Lamarck 4. The New Neurohistory 5. Civilization and Psychotropy Epilogue: Looking Ahead Notes Bibliography of Works Cited Index

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Book SynopsisRaises questions about the roots of Israel-Palestine conflict. This book tells the story of Arabs who, from the very beginning of the Arab-Israeli encounter, sided with the Zionists and aided them politically, economically, and in security matters.Trade Review"[An] important book... The picture presented is thorough and fair and persuasive." -- Benny Morris New Republic "Groundbreaking... Riveting... Eloquent." The Nation "An important academic work that is accessible to general readers." Jerusalem Post "Written in ... honorable revisionist spirit." Books & Culture: A Christian Rvw "An important academic work that is accessible to general readers." Spero NewsTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction I. TWO NATIONALISMS MEET, 1917--1935 1. Utopia and Its Collapse 2. Who Is a Traitor? 3. We, the Collaborators II. REBELS AND TRAITORS, 1936--1939 4. Old Collaborators, New Traitors 5. Unity Ends 6. The "Traitors" Counterattack III. WAR IN EUROPE, WAR AT HOME 7. World War, Local Calm 8. Prelude to War 9. Treason and Defeat: The 1948 War Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisMaps a series of historical events - since the Raj in the mid-nineteenth century - through which India was made fashionable to Western audiences within the popular cultural arenas of the imperial metropole. This book presents an examination of India as represented in department stores, exhibitions, painting, and picture postcards of the era.Table of ContentsList of Figures Acknowledgments Introduction. Colonial Patterns, Indian Styles 1. The Indian Village in Victorian Space: The Department Store and the Cult of the Craftsman 2. "To Visit the Queen": On Display at the Colonial and Indian Exhibition of 1886 3. The Discrepant Portraiture of Empire: Oil Painting in an Expanded Field 4. Collecting Colonial Postcards: Gender and the Visual Archive 5. A Parable of Postcolonial Return: Museums and the Discourse of Restitution Epilogue. Historical Afterimages Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe Incas built one of the largest empires of the ancient world. The sheer scale makes their achievement truly remarkable. At its zenith it extended northwards from the Inca capital Cusco along the Andes to embrace parts of modern Peru and Ecuador, and southwards into Bolivia, Chile and Argentina. Uniquely, the authors look in detail at Cusco and at the four parts of the empire, following the vast road system to explore not just famous sites such as Machu Picchu, but all the major regional settlements. This vivid portrait shows how the Incas ruled some peoples directly but allowed others to maintain their traditional leaders with little interference. The concluding chapter is devoted to the end of the empire: the arrival of the Spaniards, the assassination of the Inca ruler Atawallpa, and the final years of the rebellious, neo-Inca state in the tropical forest of Vilcabamba.Trade Review'A lively, deeply informed and highly readable account of the last great empire of pre-Columbian South America' - Gary Urton, Harvard University'I know of no other book in English that provides such a good region by region description of the Inca empire ... Both a useful review of the main Inca sites and a new perspective on the structure of the empire' - Bill Sillar, Institute of Archaeology, University College LondonTable of Contents1. The Birth and Growth of Tawantinsuyu • 2. The Principles of Inca Statecraft: Feared Warriors, Generous Rulers • 3. The Wealth of the Empire: Land, Labour and the Worth of Goods • 4. Religion and Ideology: the Sun, the Moon, the Oracles, the Ancestors • 5. Technology and the Arts: Architects, Weavers, Smiths and Potters • 6. Cusco: Capital of the Realm • 7. Chinchaysuyu: Land of the Setting Sun and the Sacred Shell • 8. Antisuyu: The Road to Machu Picchu and Beyond • 9. Qollasuyu and Kuntisuyu: Herds, Metals and Mountains of Sacrifice • 10. The Fall: Bearded Men from across the Sea • Epilogue

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Book SynopsisTrade Review'Robinson's enthusiasm for the subject is so infectious that you might find youreself trying to crack Etruscan in your spare time' - Archaeology'If you hate unsolved mysteries this parade of incomprehensible texts will drive you nuts with frustration. But if you're a wannabe linguist, and perhaps the world's next Michael Ventris, you'll definitely want to read this book' - Focus

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Book SynopsisRobert Massie is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Peter the Great, Nicholas and Alexandra, Dreadnought and The Romanovs: The Final Chapter. He lives in Irvington, New York.Trade ReviewGripping stuff * Charles Osbourne, Sunday Telegraph *

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Book SynopsisWINNER OF THE 2012 SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZEA monumental work of history, biography and adventure - the First World War, Mallory and Mount Everest‘The price of life is death’ For Mallory, as for all of his generation, death was but ‘a frail barrier that men crossed, smiling and gallant, every day’.Trade ReviewMaybe the prime minister should read it -- Stephen Frears * Guardian *I was enthralled by Wade Davis’s Into the Silence, an account of three failed Everest expeditions leading up to the death of Mallory in 1924, which brilliantly places those feats of endurance in the context of British imperialism and the psychological aftermath of the First World War -- Ben Macintyre * The Times *[An] epic story * New Statesman, *Books of the Year* *I was captivated. Wade Davis has penned an exceptional book on an extraordinary generation. From the pathos of the trenches to the inevitable tragedies high on Everest this is a book deserving of awards -- Joe Simpson, author of Touching the VoidPowerful and profound, a moving, epic masterpiece of literature, history and hope * Sunday Times *

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Book SynopsisGrant Morrison was born in Glasgow in 1960. As a comics writer, he is renowned for his bold reinventions of existing superheroes and his own authored titles. He has had successful runs on Batman, Animal Man, Doom Patrol, JLA, The Invisibles, New X-Men, Fantastic Four and All Star Superman His Batman: Arkham Asylum is the best-selling original graphic novel ever published. A documentary on his life and work, Grant Morrison: Talking with Gods, was released in November 2010. Trade ReviewSupergods is a rather astonishing piece of work that leaves you feeling pretty much as those first readers of Superman in 1938 must have felt: slightly more aware of our place in the universe and cautiously optimistic about the future * Independent on Sunday *Magnificently idiosyncratic new history of the genre... Supergods is packed with intriguing nuggets of insight, and it will be fascinating to see how the trends it discerns play out... What was it they said about the geeks inheriting the earth? * Daily Telegraph *Supergods is perhaps the most satisfactory potted history of the American comic book industry I've ever read (and I've read just about all its competitors) while also offering a brilliantly incisive, if very personal, appreciation and analysis of the most important comic books or graphic novels - call 'em what you will - to be published in the past 30 years * Guardian *Part manifesto, part memoir, part idiosyncratic spiritual/philosophical tract... Morrison knows the genre and loves it deeply, and both that knowledge and that love shine through... an often funny and sometimes very moving account of Morrison's life as seen through the lens of his relationship with superheroes, which began in childhood -- Katherine Farmar * Irish Times *The author shows a deft turn of phrase while appraising his fellow creators...Supergods proves an entertaining introduction to newcomers * Metro *

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Book SynopsisTracy Borman studied and taught history at the University of Hull and was awarded a PhD in 1997. She went on to a successful career in heritage and has worked for a range of historic properties and national heritage organisations, including the National Archives and English Heritage. She is now Chief Executive of the Heritage Education Trust and also works part-time for Historic Royal Palaces.Tracy has regularly appeared on television and radio, and has featured in a range of magazine and newspaper articles. She is a regular contributor to history magazines, including articles in BBC History Magazine on the history of beauty and eighteenth-century 'It' Girls'. In addition, she also gives public talks and lectures on a wide range of subjects.Trade ReviewTracy Borman tells this story with a steady eye and a steady hand, tracing what can be known of Matilda's part in the events that were to change the course of English history -- Helen Castor * Literary Review *Borman shows that Matilda was a capable regent and political operator... Matilda remains relevant: one legacy is her bloodline, which still rules in Britain today * Sunday Times *A richly layered treatment of a stormy reign * Kirkus *Borman moves deftly between the difficult written sources... The often scanty details of Matilda's life are given more rounded form by viewing them in context * History Today *Borman has expertly forged an absorbing biography from fragments of her personal history * Independent *

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Book SynopsisBorn in the Belarusian shtetl Lyuban in 1885, Rokhl Faygnberg witnessed and wrote about many of the defining events of modern Jewish historywars, pogroms, and the birth of the State of Israel. She became the first professional Jewish female author who earned a living from writing novels and penning essays for the Yiddish and Hebrew press. After the pogroms of the civil war in Ukraine 1918-1921, which she powerfully chronicled in her work, she moved to Poland and eventually settled in Mandate Palestine in 1933, where she published largely in Hebrew under the name Rakhel Imri. She died in Tel Aviv in 1972.Elissa Bemporad is Professor of History and Chair in East European Jewish History and the Holocaust at Queens College and CUNY Graduate Center, USA. She is the author of Becoming Soviet Jews: The Bolshevik Experiment in Minsk (2013), winner of the National Jewish Book Award, the Fraenkel Prize in Contemporary History, and a finalist for the Jordan Schnitzer Award. Her most recent book, entitled Legacy of Blood: Jews, Pogroms, and Ritual Murder in the Lands of the Soviets (2019), also won a National Jewish Book Award. Elissa is also the co-editor of two volumes: Women and Genocide: Survivors, Victims, Perpetrators (2018, with Joyce Warren); and Pogroms: A Documentary History of Anti-Jewish Violence (2021, with Gene Avrutin). She is editor of Jewish Social Studies and is currently working on a biography of Ester Frumkin.

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Book Synopsis''The degradations, the wrongs, the vices, that grow out of slavery, are more than I can describe.''Harriet Jacobs was born a slave in the American South and went on to write one of the most extraordinary slave narratives. First published pseudonymously in 1861, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl describes Jacobs''s treatment at the hands of her owners, her eventual escape to the North, and her perilous existence evading recapture as a fugitive slave. To save herself from sexual assault and protect her children she is forced to hide for seven years in a tiny attic space, suffering terrible psychological and physical pain.Written to expose the appalling treatment of slaves in the South and the racism of the free North, and to advance the abolitionist cause, Incidents is notable for its careful construction and literary effects. Jacobs''s story of self-emancipation and a growing feminist consciousness is the tale of an individual and a searing indictment of slavery''s inhumanity. This edition includes the short memoir by Jacobs''s brother, John S. Jacobs, ''A True Tale of Slavery''.ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World''s Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford''s commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.Trade ReviewFew accounts of American slavery are as memorable as Jacobs' harrowing memoir. Born a slave in North Carolina in 1813, Harriet was in her teens when her owner, Dr James Norcom, first started to proposition her. Harriet was forced to take refuge in her grandmother's tiny attic for nearly seven years, before finally escaping to the North. R J Ellis's introduction to this latest edition is an insightful overview of the slave narrative for a new generation of readers. * Lesley McDowell, Independent (Radar) *Jacob's story is so dramatic, so illustrative of the horrors of slavery - the sickening violence, the waste of potential, the unpredictability of lives lived according to slave owner's caprices - that is almost reads as a novel * Victoria Segal, The Guardian *It's easy to be appalled at the notion of slavery, but this astonishing account, published in 1861, by Harriet Jacobs, born a slave in the American South, emphasises the personal experience. She makes us feel the minutiae of daily life as a slave. * Lesly McDowell, The Sunday Herald *

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Book SynopsisFrom the beginning of time, humans have been driven by both a fear of the unknown and a curiosity to know. We have always yearned to know what lies ahead, whether threat or safety, scarcity or abundance. Throughout human history, our forebears tried to create certainty in the unknown, by seeking to influence outcomes with sacrifices to gods, preparing for the unexpected with advice from oracles, and by reading the stars through astrology. As scientific methods improve and computer technology develops we become ever more confident of our capacity to predict and quantify the future by accumulating and interpreting patterns form the past, yet the truth is there is still no certainty to be had. In this Very Short Introduction Jennifer Gidley considers some of our most burning questions: What is the future ?; Is the future a time yet to come?; Or is it a utopian place?; Does the future have a history?; Is there only one future or are there many possible futures? She asks if the future can ever be truly predicted or if we create our own futures - both hoped for and feared - by our thoughts, feelings, and actions, and concludes by analysing how we can learn to study the future.ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.Trade ReviewThis pocket-size book ... gives the interested reader an amazing overview on the topic of future and the research field of futures studies ... The rich knowledge and the packed information of ideas, dates, and names is especially helpful for anyone working in the terrain of futures studies as well as students in the field to connect the dots of the many international strains, which often seem so disconnected. * Stefanie Ollenburg, beFORE01/03/2018 *[Gidley] deserves congratulations for helping a lay audience better understand [the future]. * Charles Brass, Compass *We all should give Jennifer Gidley a standing ovation. This is an absolutely wonderful source, as a basic textbook about the field, and as a very good short introduction about the futureS for everyone. * Jim Dator, World Futures Review *This is a remarkable book, a useful guide to the future, a revision guide to the future and a reminder of what future studies are all about ... a must read for everyone whether you are a trainee aspiring futurist or a fully qualified one with a PhD. * Ian Seymour Yeoman, Journal of Tourism Futures *The book is a must read for erudites desiring to broaden their knowledge on the subject. For those considering applying futures thinking in their academic or corporate research, the book serves as a guide for further reading based on Jennifer Gidleys deep and thorough understanding of futures studies as a discipline. * Scenario Magazine *Brilliant and concise This book not only raises the issues in a highly readable manner, but also raises awareness, and as such I can recommend it unreservedly. * David Lorimer, Network Review *A wonderfully concise and brilliantly written book * Jade Taylor-Salazar, E&T Magazine *A thoroughly researched and beautifully expressed invitation to look deeper at this fascinating field of enquiry * Richard Slaughter, Foresight International *Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION; CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; FURTHER READING & WEBSITES; APPENDIX: GLOBAL FUTURES TIMELINE; INDEX

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