Reinventing Examination and the State traces the ideological evolution of civil service and state-organized educational... Læs mere
Grounded in extensive fieldwork and archival research, Echoes from the Sino-Burmese Borderlands... Læs mere
The Making of Iranian Modernity brings together a diverse array of scholars from a wide variety of disciplinary backgrounds and areas of research specialization to celebrate Houchang E. Chehabi, one of the leading scholars in the field of Iranian Studies.
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Classical reception implies a parenthetical relationship where Antiquity appears to be inserted into while remaining alongside Modernity. By... Læs mere
The Old English Chronicle offer a brief year-by-year summary of important national events such as invasions and the deaths of political and religious figures from the fifth... Læs mere
In By Flesh and Toil, Mélanie Lamotte explores the rise of the French Empire across both the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. Charting... Læs mere
The Spanish Crown had initially hoped to establish an orderly aristocratic society in the New World. Yet from the late 1520s,... Læs mere
Strategic stability is admired as the basis of arms control, but the... Læs mere
Alexander Herzen’s Past and Thoughts was the most influential memoir in tsarist Russia. Passionate and insightful, Herzen watched both eagerly and warily... Læs mere