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Institutional Change and Political Continuity in Post-Soviet Central Asia
The establishment of electoral systems in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan presents both a complex set of empirical puzzles and a theoretical...
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Missionary Writing and Empire, 1800–1860
Anna Johnston analyses missionary writing under the aegis of the British Empire. Johnston argues that missionaries occupied ambiguous positions in...
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Enduring the Great War
An innovative comparative history of how German and British soldiers endured the horror of the First World War. Unlike existing literature, which...
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Revolution and the People in Russia and China
A unique comparative account of the roots of Communist revolution in Russia and China. Steve Smith examines the changing social identities of...
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Legal Positivism in American Jurisprudence
This book represents a serious and philosophically sophisticated guide to modern American legal theory, demonstrating that legal positivism has been...
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Charlemagne
Charlemagne is often claimed as the greatest ruler in Europe before Napoleon. In this magisterial new study, Rosamond McKitterick re-examines...
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Making a New Deal
This book examines how it was possible and what it meant for ordinary factory workers to become effective unionists and national political...
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Forest Farmers and Stockherders
Drawing extensively on anthropological theory and ecological models of human adaptation, Forest Farmers and Stockherders explores the single most...
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Loyalty and Dissidence in Roman Egypt
The Acta Alexandrinorum are a fascinating collection of texts, dealing with relations between the Alexandrians and the Roman emperors in the first...
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Global Lives
This is a fascinating and unique account of Britain’s rise as a global imperial power told through the lives of over forty individuals from a huge...
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The Iron Age Community of Osteria dell'Osa
Anna Maria Bietti Sestieri, one of the finest Italian protohistorians, deals in this monograph with a major archaeological site, the Iron Age...
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Stewards, Lords and People
The landed estates were one of the fundamental structures of early modern England. They were omnipresent, for they were not confined to the...
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Distorted Ideals in Greek Vase-Painting
This book examines Greek vase-paintings that depict humorous, burlesque, and irreverent images of Greek mythology and the gods. Many of the images...
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Plague and the End of Antiquity
Plague was a key factor in the waning of Antiquity and the beginning of the Middle Ages. In this volume, the first on the subject, twelve scholars...
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Bakhtin and the Visual Arts
Bakhtin and the Visual Arts assesses the relevance of Mikhail Bakhtin’s ideas as they relate to painting and sculpture. First published in the...
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The Language of Empire
The Roman Empire has been an object of fascination for the past two millennia, and the story of how a small city in central Italy came to dominate...
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Hegel's Art History and the Critique of Modernity
In this study, Beat Wyss provides a critical analysis of Hegel’s theories of art history. Analogous to his philosophy of history, Hegel viewed the...
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Art and Identity in Dark Age Greece, 1100–700 BC
This book explores how art and material culture were used to construct age, gender, and social identity in the Greek Early Iron Age, 1100–700 BC....
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Proclus: Commentary on Plato’s Timaeus
This volume of Proclus' commentary on Plato's Timaeus records Proclus’ exegesis of Timaeus 27a–31b, in which Plato first discusses preliminary...
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Eighteenth-Century Aesthetics and the Reconstruction of Art
This collection of essays explores the rise of aesthetics as a response to, and as a part of, the reshaping of the arts in modern society. The...
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A Theology of Public Life
What has Washington to do with Jerusalem? In the raging debates about the relationship between religion and politics, no one has explored the...
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Classical Greece and the Birth of Western Art
What was the ‘Classical Revolution’ in Greek art? What were its contexts, aims, achievements, and impact? This book introduces students to these...
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The Roman Bazaar
It has long been held by historians that trade and markets in the Roman Empire resembled those found later in early modern Europe. Using the concept...
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Greek Sculpture
Greek sculpture developed into a fine art in the archaic and classical periods. With the human figure as its main subject, artists worked to...
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