Far from a stagnant “Middle Ages,” the years 600–1350 witnessed globalization and social innovation. Entangled Worlds explores long-distance trade in the Americas, cosmopolitan... Læs mere
Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century showed that capitalism, left to itself, generates deepening inequality. In this audacious follow-up, he challenges us to... Læs mere
Here in a newly annotated edition are the two founding documents of the United States of America: the Declaration of Independence (1776), our... Læs mere
Timbuktu is famous as a center of learning from Islam’s Golden Age. Yet it was one among many scholarly centers to exist in precolonial West... Læs mere
Brigham Young was a roughhewn New York craftsman whose impoverished life was electrified by the Mormon faith. Turner provides a fully realized portrait of this spiritual prophet, whose pioneering faith made a deep imprint on thousands of lives in the American Mountain West.
The great themes woven through John Lukacs’s spirited, concise history of the twentieth century are inseparable from the author’s own intellectual preoccupations:... Læs mere
By early 1787, John and Abigail Adams, anticipating a quiet retirement from government in Massachusetts, were quickly pulled back into the... Læs mere
Aristotle on Practical Wisdom is the first full-scale commentary on Nicomachean Ethics VI to be issued in a century, and the most illuminating ever. A... Læs mere
This book examines the political nature of legal decisionmaking, and offers a sustained attempt to integrate the American approach to law with the Continental... Læs mere