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The emergence of the book was not merely an event of world historical importance, but the dawn of modernity. In this much praised work, Lucien Febv...

A highly original and accessible history of Latin between the sixteenth and twentieth centuriesFor almost three centuries, Latin dominated the civi...

A history of the Panthay Rebellion against the Chinese imperial courtThe Panthay Rebellion of 1856–1873 held the armies of the Qing dynasty at bay ...

The controversial thesis at the center of this study is that, despite the importance of slavery in Athenian society, the most distinctive character...

In this classic work which analyzes the context in which thirty years of war and revolution wracked the European continent, the great historian Arn...

A collection of essays that span many regions and cultures, by an award-winning historianSanjay Subrahmanyam is becoming well known for the same so...

Max Weber, widely recognized as the greatest of the founders of classical sociology, is often associated with the development of capitalism in West...

A historical essay on old regimes and modern states In this lively and wide-ranging book, Ellen Meiksins Wood argues that what is supposed to have ...

Was the extermination of the Jews part of the Nazi plan from the very start? Arno Mayer offers astartling and compelling answer to this question, w...

From the master of "micro-history" a reconstruction of two contrasting early-modern thinkersNevertheless comprises essays on Machiavelli and on Pas...

The Making of New World Slavery argues that independent commerce, geared to burgeoning consumer markets, was the driving force behind the rise of p...

The very scale of the 1939–45 war has often tempted historians to study particular campaigns at the expense of the wider panorama. In this readable...

In 1770 a handful of European nations ruled the Americas, drawing from them a stream of products, both everyday and exotic. Some two and a half mil...

Forty years after its original publication, Lineages of the Absolutist State remains an exemplary achievement in comparative history. Picking up fr...

A classic of political economy that traces the influence of religious thought on capitalismIn one of the true classics of twentieth-century politic...

The classic history of the Paris CommuneIn 1871, the working class of Paris, incensed by their lack of political power and tired of beingexploited,...

Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism is a sustained exercise in historical sociology that shows how the slave-based societies of Ancient Greece and...

“We who have been colonized can never forget”Andrée Blouin—once called the most dangerous woman in Africa—played a leading role in the struggles fo...

An uncompromising look at Nigeria’s crisis of democracy by a renowned essayist and criticIn this groundbreaking work, the essayist and critic Adewa...

A revolutionary reimagining of the cities we live in, the air above us, and what goes on in the earth beneath our feet Today we live in a world tha...

A revolutionary reimagining of the cities we live in, the air above us, and what goes on in the earth beneath our feet Today we live in a world tha...