Humanities books

An anthology of the first modern history of Latin literature, Sicco Polenton’s Scriptorum illustrium Latinae linguae...  Read More >>

An edition with translation and commentary of a Latin poem on Islam by the Cambridge scholar Isaac Barrow, written...  Read More >>

This book explores how Hungarian and American writers, educators, and experts crossed the Cold War divide and built...  Read More >>

This collection draws together a selection of Richard Healey's essays on the philosophy of physics. The essays apply...  Read More >>

A fascinating look at the role of a mitigator in the US justice system and the lives of her clients.  Read More >>

This Element focuses on the career of Henry Harris, a leading member of the Duke's Company between 1661 and 1682,...  Read More >>

This is the full history of the county of Wicklow, covering pre-Christian sites all the way up to modern times,...  Read More >>

Speech act theory has been foundational in establishing pragmatics as an independent field of inquiry; yet, recent...  Read More >>

An exploration of what historians do and can do beyond the classroom, and a guide through the complete range of...  Read More >>

Investigates the challenges of exhibiting sounding artworks by studying the listening experiences of artists, curators,...  Read More >>

Origen believed that God's providence makes good use of everything, including the actions of wicked demons, which...  Read More >>

Newly-translated works from modern Yiddish historians that seeks to expand the scholarship about eastern European...  Read More >>

Winner, The Lionel Gelber PrizeSilver Medal, Arthur Ross Book AwardFor decades, China's rise to power was characterized...  Read More >>

In cinema, blurriness is usually intended to go unnoticed. When it appears it is either considered an error or a...  Read More >>

Engineering Global Socialism chronicles the journey of the Bosnian global corporation Energoinvest and its workers...  Read More >>

The history of the Chicana por mi Raza Digital Memory Collective, an archive dedicated to preserving Chicana feminist...  Read More >>

Why were the last generation of Jews to grow up in Poland before the Holocaust so susceptible to change and new...  Read More >>

Examines the role of the American Revolution in the everyday lives of women Patriarchal forces of law, finance,...  Read More >>

Challenges the traditional view that no significant distinction exists between male and female names in the Hebrew...  Read More >>

The first book devoted to the the career of anglophone West Africa's most important early twentieth-century statesman...  Read More >>

Lake Ontario has materially enabled and enriched the societies that have crowded its edges, from fertile agriculture...  Read More >>

In Rescuing the Enlightenment from the Europeans, Nikita Dhawan examines key theoretical conflicts between postcolonial...  Read More >>

In Sex Isn’t Real, Beans Velocci traces the history of current high stakes attempts to define sex and to create...  Read More >>

Gay Print Culture investigates the relationship between transnational gay liberation politics, periodicals, and...  Read More >>

A groundbreaking history of the ethics of war in the ancient Near East Origins of the Just War reveals the incredible...  Read More >>