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This study analyzes the changing roles of German-Jewish women as members of an economically mobile but socially spurned minority.

This is a fascinating new overview of European-American relations during the long twentieth century. Ranging from economics, culture and consumption t

The thesis of this original and provocative book is that representative government should be understood as a combination of democratic and undemocrati

Egypt played a crucial role in the Roman Empire for seven centuries. It was wealthy and occupied a strategic position between the Mediterranean and In

The City: A World History depicts the rise of urban centers from the middle of the fourth century BCE to the early twenty-first century. It begins in

This Very Short Introduction provides an analytical narrative of the main events and developments in Soviet Russia between 1917 and 1936. It examines

Cultural psychology through a global lens.

The fullest biography of Mark Antony in English, A Noble Ruin provides a fresh account of Antony's personal life and especially his public career, inc

Carol Gilligan's landmark book In a Different Voice – the "little book that started a revolution" – brought women's voices to the fore in work on the

A provocative argument against the idea that we view the world through the lens of the language we speak.

This book demonstrates that women have been and key to understanding processes of development and explores the importance of greater gender equality f

Law in Common draws on a large body of unpublished archival material from local archives and libraries across the country, to show how ordinary people

Human language allows us to plan, communicate, and create new ideas, without limit. Yet we have only finite experiences, and our languages have finite

M. Lindsay Kaplan expands the study of the history of racism through an analysis of the medieval Christian concept of Jewish servitude. Developed thro

Gender exists in almost every society as a way of organizing its people. Gender is used to assign certain responsibilities, obligations, and privilege

A vast system of prisons, camps, and exile settlements, the Gulag was one of the defining attributes of the Stalinist Soviet Union and one of the most

This first book-length study of Nikephoros Bryennios' history of the Byzantine Empire examines his use of classical Roman constructions of masculinity

In the decade after 1945, as the Cold War freeze set in, a new Europe slowly began to emerge from the ruins of the Second World War, based on a broad

Retaining all the alliterative music of the original, a Middle English poem thought to be by the same anonymous author responsible for Sir Gawain and

An engaging primer of the history of the sustainability movement from the 1600s to the present day, illuminating how sustainability evolved from a rel