Humanities books

The second edition of A New History of Asian America offers an expansive, updated synthesis of the Asian American...  Read More >>

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Produced in close collaboration with The Rolling Stones, the band gave unprecedented access to their archives. Featuring...  Read More >>

Why is it that talking about politics or religion is taboo these days? The assumption behind this idea is that...  Read More >>

This handbook consolidates the large and growing amount of knowledge and expertise in the field in the form of targeted...  Read More >>

A radical cultural and political history of exorcism and possession from the 1950s to the present day.  Read More >>

A hard-hitting exploration of how state policy displaces and isolates Black communities and how collective resistance...  Read More >>

A study of how our understanding of Akkadian history has been shaped by subsequent dynasties. In this innovative...  Read More >>

International stabilization interventions in so-called fragile states have failed everywhere they have been tried....  Read More >>

Offers a robust introduction to John Calvin's writings through the lens of his experience as a religious refugee....  Read More >>

In 822, Black Charlestonians attempted to overthrow slavery. They were exposed before they could strike, and many...  Read More >>

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Historians largely understand Native American education through the Indian boarding schools and reservation schools...  Read More >>

This volume offers new insights into revolutionary Cuba's global influence by shifting the focus from high-level...  Read More >>

Protestant missionary children's historical lives are examined from the perspectives of parents, churches and children,...  Read More >>

Decolonizing images focuses on Egypt's local visual heritage and continues the urgent process of decolonizing the...  Read More >>

Agents of European overseas empires examines networks of trade and communication on a global scale whose activities...  Read More >>

This book explores the process by which the French Basque country acquired a folkloric regional identity in the...  Read More >>

This book offers a new study of Hobbes's reception among seventeenth- and eighteenth- century deists and freethinkers,...  Read More >>

This book bears witness to the personal experiences of Jewish refugees from Nazi Europe in the highly gendered profession...  Read More >>

Surviving repression tells the story of the Muslim Brotherhood in the aftermath of the 2013 coup. It is the first...  Read More >>

Haunted Britain offers a new emotional and cultural history of the Great War as told through the spiritualist and...  Read More >>

This book is a history of the Potters' Emigration Society from its founding in 1844 to its dissolution in early...  Read More >>

Details the political and cultural contexts of the entry of fairies to the historical record in twelfth century...  Read More >>

This study overturns twentieth-century thinking about pasticcio opera, redefining it as method not genre, and recontextualising...  Read More >>