This volume presents translations from the Greek of two crucial primary sources published together for the first time—Michael Panaretos’s On the Emperors of Trebizond and... Læs mere
The anonymous Tria sunt, with its wealth of illustrative materials, was a widely used and highly ambitious textbook compiled in the late fourteenth century for... Læs mere
Daniel J. C. Kronauer brings to life the research surrounding army ants, nature’s preeminent social hunters. Without central coordination, army ants march in... Læs mere
From the ashes of empire, the nation rose on a wave of idealism. That, at least, is the standard tale. Dominique Reill argues that empire retained... Læs mere
Long before the European Union was the ideal of Europe: a continent politically united and thereby at peace. In a pointed warning to... Læs mere
Under French rule, majority Muslim Algeria became one of the world’s largest wine producers. Owen White explores the impact of the wine industry on what was France’s most important possession—and on the Algerians for whom grapevines became a hated symbol of colonial exploitation.
Fritz Zwicky was one of the most inventive and iconoclastic scientists of the twentieth century. Among other accomplishments, he was the first to infer... Læs mere
Nearly 1,600 Americans who took part in the Vietnam War are still missing and presumed dead. Sarah Wagner tells the stories of those who... Læs mere
From nineteenth-century whaling to a multitude of firms pursuing entrepreneurial finance today, venture finance reflects a deep-seated tradition in the deployment of risk capital... Læs mere