Aiming to dispel the notion that Britain is exclusively responsible for the formation of the Persian Gulf's modern states, this... Læs mere
Contributors, including C. Ernest Dawn, Mahmoud Haddad, Reeva Simon, and Beth Baron, provide a broad survey of the Arab world at the turn of the century, permitting a comparison of developments in a variety of settings from Syria and Egypt to the Hijaz, Libya, and Iraq.
This book covers mammalian evolution from the aftermath of the dinosaur extinction to the glacial climax of the Pleistocene epoch, from early lemur-like primates to giant cold-climate adapted mega-mammals, such as the woolly mammoth or mastodon.
Wael B. Hallaq takes critique of Orientalism as a point of departure for rethinking the modern project. A remarkably ambitious attempt to overturn... Læs mere
A significant shift in environmental governance since 1970 has been the convergence of environmental and libral economic norms toward "liberal... Læs mere
Tracing the canonization through translation of The Tale of Genji from the 1830s to the 1950s, Michael Emmerich rewrites the early modern... Læs mere
Established scholars of Rawls and the philosophy of religion reexamine and rearticulate the central tenets of Rawls’s theory
The poems of Du Fu (712-77) had a diverse range of subject matter, from personal detail to historical fact, expressed with a richness of language that stretched from the elegant... Læs mere