Though blacks were not often seen on the streets of seventeenth-century London, they were already capturing the British... Læs mere
Bembo (1470–1547), a Venetian nobleman, later a cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church, was the most celebrated Latin stylist of his day and was widely admired for... Læs mere
Hasegawa rewrites the history of the end of World War II in the Pacific by integrating the key actors in the story—the US, the USSR, and Japan.... Læs mere
Shows how the collective purposes and meanings that had framed social debate became unhinged and uncertain. This title offers a reinterpretation of the ways in which the decades... Læs mere
Confessions is a spiritual autobiography of Augustine's early life, family, associations, and explorations of alternative religious and theological viewpoints as he moved... Læs mere
Plutarch (ca. AD 45–120) wrote on many subjects. His forty-six Parallel Lives are biographies planned to be... Læs mere
Ethnic groups continue to be conceived as entities and cast as actors. Journalists and others frame accounts of ethnic, racial, and national conflict as the struggles of... Læs mere
Legal Lessons examines how China’s party-state attempted to motivate ordinary citizens to learn laws during the Mao period.... Læs mere
The laws governing the very small and the very swift defy common sense and stretch our minds to the limit. Drawing on a deep familiarity with the... Læs mere
In Choice and Consequence, Thomas Schelling ventures where rationality is ambiguous, exploring topics as awesome as nuclear terrorism, as sordid as blackmail, as ineffable as... Læs mere
Although eugenics is now widely discredited, some groups and individuals claim a new scientific basis for old racist assumptions.... Læs mere