An authoritative and refreshingly original consideration of the government and culture of ancient Sparta and her place in Greek history
An imaginative retelling of London’s history, framed through the experiences of Indigenous travelers who came to the city over the course of more than five centuries
An arresting study of the life, times, and achievement of one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century
A writer for whom the journey has always mattered reinvents the very form itself in this inviting collection of in-the-moment impressions of his journeys
A dazzling translation by Lydia Davis of the first volume of Michel Leiris's masterwork, perhaps the most important French autobiographical enterprise of the twentieth century
A groundbreaking history of abolition in the long march toward emancipation from the American Revolution through the Civil War
Relics affected everyone in medieval society. In this book, the author illustrates that the pervasiveness and variety of relics... Læs mere
Timothy Snyder traces the emergence of four rival modern nationalist ideologies from common medieval notions of citizenship.