Humanities books

What if the world discovered witches overnight? In The Power Borne, Jade Usher’s quiet life shatters as her hidden...  Read More >>

This Element reconstructs Kant's puzzling statements about the moral feeling of respect (Achtung), which is 'a feeling...  Read More >>

This Element reassesses narratives of intercultural transmission in medieval European magic, highlighting complex...  Read More >>

The knight Carlyon and thatcher's daughter Mary return in this medieval adventure, the sequel to 'Swan Flowers'....  Read More >>

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Whether through medical encyclopedias, daily-use almanacs, or novels and anecdotes, readers pursued knowledge of...  Read More >>

A fresh approach to the classic text. Craig Spencer presents vital cultural context and updated translations of...  Read More >>

Sara Mastros has turned thousands of novices into practitioners of the Craft. For the first time, Introduction to...  Read More >>

BonaDea's Book of Everyday Enchantments is a practitioner's guide to using words, gestures, everyday objects, and,...  Read More >>

The second volume of a classic account of 5,000 years of Indian art The Art of Indian Asia is a unique work of...  Read More >>

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

Is it possible for foreign things to be perceived as local? Transcultural things sets out to examine this seeming...  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 >>

This book presents a cultural history of Promethean Horror in the modern age, tracing the rise of a sub-genre of...  Read More >>

This book brings together a range of methodological approaches to highlight royal and elite sexualities the sexualities...  Read More >>

This edited collection focusses on the writing of ordinary, semi-literate people in history, emphasising the agency...  Read More >>

This book uncovers that exhibitions uniquely reveal the changing landscape of Irishness over two centuries by analysing...  Read More >>