Western academic analyses of the notion of answered prayer fail to be attentive to claims that, within a specifically Christian theology, should be normative. This Element... Læs mere
Lawgiving in the Ancient Near East offers a comprehensive study on the enactment of law from the mid-third to mid-first millennium BCE. This study analyzes the world's... Læs mere
Taming the Careerists is for scholars, graduate and undergraduate students, and policymakers seeking to understand how bureaucrats... Læs mere
Examining the forgotten publications of nineteenth-century asylums, Mila Daskalova draws on book history and periodical studies to... Læs mere
Why do autocracies concentrate between Siberia and Central Africa? This book explores how geography, nomadic-sedentary conflicts and... Læs mere
Antisemitism and Social Democracy provides a historical analysis and interpretation of how far-left anti-Zionism entered the political... Læs mere
In this fascinating history of interwar European federalism, Rebecca Shriver uncovers how women were central to the... Læs mere
Analyzing an array of contributions by English and Anglo-American preachers, polemicists, poets, and printers,... Læs mere
Highlights the intellectual and cultural history of British imperial knowledge production in late-nineteenth-century India, examined... Læs mere
This book draws on hieroglyphic texts, imagery, and archaeological finds to reconstruct interactions through which the Classic Maya exchanged knowledge about their hieroglyphic script and how to use it. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
Focuses on the impact of crusading on the people of Europe, and the diverse cultural, political and religious legacies that were left behind. This wide-ranging collection will interest readers from undergraduates to specialists.
This book explores trade networks and economic change in the gold-driven society of colonial-era... Læs mere