Looking Beyond the Political in China
08/04/2008
In this essay Vera Schwarcz, Director/Chair of the Freeman Center for East Asian Studies at Wesleyan University and author of Place and Memory in the Singing Crane Garden, hopes that… READ MORE
Category: European & World History
Women’s Human Rights–Now Available
07/31/2008
Women’s Human Rights: The International and Comparative Law Casebook Susan Deller Ross 688 pages | 7 x 10 Cloth Jul 2008 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4067-2 | $135.00 | £88.00 A volume… READ MORE
A History of the Gardens of Versailles–Now Available
07/30/2008
A History of the Gardens of Versailles Michel Baridon Translated by Adrienne Mason 312 pages | 6 x 9 | 48 illus. Cloth 2008 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4078-8 | $55.00 |… READ MORE
Liberia: The Violence of Democracy–Now in Paperback
07/17/2008
Liberia: The Violence of Democracy Mary H. Moran 200 pages | 6 x 9 | 15 illus. Cloth 2005 | ISBN 978-0-8122-3907-2 | $49.95 | £32.50 Paper 2008 | ISBN… READ MORE
Reparations to Africa — Now Available
07/11/2008
Reparations to Africa Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann. With Anthony P. Lombardo 264 pages | 6 x 9 Cloth 2008 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4101-3 | $49.95 | £32.50 A volume in the Pennsylvania… READ MORE
Boyarin and Idel Comment on Ancient Hebrew Tablet
07/07/2008
"Ancient Tablet Ignites Debate on Messiah and Resurrection," an article in yesterday’s New York Times, outlines the potential religious significance of a centuries-old stone tablet that "may speak of a… READ MORE
Tragicomic Redemptions–Now Available
06/26/2008
Tragicomic Redemptions: Global Economics and the Early Modern English Stage Valerie Forman 296 pages | 6 x 9 Cloth 2008 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4096-2 | $59.95 | £39.00 Valerie Forman contends… READ MORE
History Matters Book Forum in the Journal of Women’s History
06/18/2008
Provocative was a popular word among the four historians who participated in a Journal of Women’s History book forum on Judith M. Bennett’s History Matters: Patriarchy and the Challenge of… READ MORE
Christianity, Empire, and the Making of Religion in Late Antiquity–Now Available
06/03/2008
Christianity, Empire, and the Making of Religion in Late Antiquity Jeremy M. Schott 272 pages | 6 x 9 Cloth 2008 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4092-4 | $59.95 | £39.00 A volume… READ MORE
LRB Reviews Deirdre David’s Fanny Kemble
05/21/2008
". . .few subjects can have had more incarnations than Kemble," writes Ruth Bernard Yeazell in the latest issue of London Review of Books. "and Deirdre David’s new biography is… READ MORE
