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Before the Bauhaus
Before the Bauhaus re-evaluates the political, architectural, and artistic cultures of pre-World War I Germany. As contradictory and conflict-ridden...
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Poverty, Participation, and Democracy
For too long a conventional wisdom has held sway, suggesting that poor people in poor countries are not supportive of democracy and that democracies...
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Ethics of Global Development
Poverty, inequality, violence, environmental degradation, and tyranny continue to afflict the world. Ethics of Global Development offers a moral...
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A History of Modern Iran
In a reappraisal of Iran’s modern history, Ervand Abrahamian traces its traumatic journey across the twentieth century, through the discovery of...
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Zionism and Anti-Semitism in Nazi Germany
This is a study of the ideological and political relationship between Zionism and anti-Semitism in modern Germany, from the nineteenth century...
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The Cambridge History of Egypt
The Cambridge History of Egypt offers the first comprehensive English-language treatment of Egyptian history through thirteen centuries, from the...
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George Eliot’s Daniel Deronda Notebooks
George Eliot’s notebooks from the years 1872–77 contain memoranda of her reading while she was preparing for and writing Daniel Deronda, together...
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The Russian Roots of Nazism
This book examines the overlooked topic of the influence of anti-Bolshevik, anti-Semitic Russian exiles on Nazism. White émigrés contributed...
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From Modernism to Postmodernism
In this overview of twentieth-century American poetry, Jennifer Ashton examines the relationship between modernist and postmodernist American...
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Hitler’s African Victims
During its campaign against France in 1940, the German army massacred several thousand black POWs belonging to units drafted in France's West African...
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The Politics of Extremism in South Asia
South Asia is home to a range of extremist groups from the jihadists of Pakistan to the Tamil Tigers of Sri Lanka. In the popular mind, extremism and...
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Christianity, Art and Transformation
Christianity, Art and Transformation explores the historical and contemporary relationship between the arts and Christianity with reference to the...
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Solon and Early Greek Poetry
The poetry of archaic Greece gives voice to the history and politics of the culture of that age. This book explores the types of history that have...
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Discourse and Context
How do social situations influence language use, discourse and conversation? This book is the first monograph to present a multidisciplinary theory...
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Ecumenism, Christian Origins and the Practice of Communion
The theology of communion, or Koinonia, has been at the centre of the ecumenical movement for more than thirty years. It is central to the...
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The Ancient Languages of Asia and the Americas
This book, derived from the acclaimed Cambridge Encyclopedia of the World’s Ancient Languages, describes the ancient languages of Asia and the...
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The Cost of Counterterrorism
In the aftermath of a terrorist attack political stakes are high: legislators fear being seen as lenient or indifferent and often grant the executive...
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Theology and the Drama of History
How can theology think and talk about history? Building on the work of the major twentieth-century theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar as well as...
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Plato and Theodoret
In late antiquity Plato’s philosophy became a battlefield between the competing discourses and rival intellectual paradigms represented by...
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After Bush
The foreign policy of the George W. Bush administration has won few admirers, and many anticipate that his successor will repudiate the actions of...
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Aristotle and the Philosophy of Friendship
This book offers a comprehensive account of the major philosophical works on friendship and its relationship to self-love. The book gives central...
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Thinking about Harmony
Focusing on music written in the period 1800–1850, Thinking About Harmony traces the responses of observant musicians to the music that was being...
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Moral Limit and Possibility in World Politics
At what point can we concede that the realities of world politics require that moral principles be compromised, and how do we know when a real...
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Adam and Eve in Seventeenth-Century Thought
This book offers a fascinating account of the central myth of Western culture - the story of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. Philip Almond...
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