General & World History

This volume collects a range of the most important published critical essays on T.H. Green's political philosophy. These essays consider Green's et...

This title was first published in 2002.In recent years scholars have begun to conceptualize the history of the Pacific Ocean as a subset of world h...

First published in 1930, this volume aimed to provide an overview of folk-lore which contrasted with the Anthropological school. Consciously workin...

The contributions to this volume enter into a dialogue about the routes, modes and institutions that transferred and transformed knowledge across t...

Lisa Lindquist Dorr tells the story of the vast smuggling network that brought high-end distilled spirits and, eventually, other cargoes (including...

From rulers to uninvited guests, from women to thieves, from dreams to names, from blindness to torture - in a series of ground-breaking studies, P...

Prayer and Worship in Eastern Christianities, 5th to 11th Centuries forges a new conversation about the diversity of Christianities in the medieval...

In this fresh and fascinating chronicle of Christianity in the contemporary South, historian and minister James Hudnut-Beumler draws on extensive i...

In this fresh and fascinating chronicle of Christianity in the contemporary South, historian and minister James Hudnut-Beumler draws on extensive i...

From the 90 or so articles he has published in the last two decades Professor Lloyd has chosen fifteen of the most important and influential to be ...

While Hollywood deserves its reputation for much-maligned portrayals of southern highlanders on screen, the film industry also deserves credit for ...

From calls to arms to demands for peace, and from cries of freedom to words of inspiration, this stirring anthology captures the voices of prophets...

Heavy water (deuterium oxide) played a sinister role in the race for nuclear energy during the World War II. It was a key factor in Germany's bid t...

The comparative study of empires has traditionally been addressed in the widest possible global historical perspective with comparison of New World...

An Unproclaimed Empire: The Grand Duchy of Lithuania is an interdisciplinary study of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania (GDL) that is historical in subj...

Global Medieval Contexts 5001500: Connections and Comparisons provides a unique wide-lens introduction to world history during this period. Designe...

David Whisnant's study focuses on public and private social and economic development efforts in Appalachia from the close of the nineteenth century...

Gender was a key social indicator in Byzantine society, as in many others. While studies of gender in the western medieval period have appeared reg...