Category: European & World History

Now Available–Nature as Model

Nature as Model: Salomon de Caus and Early Seventeenth-Century Landscape Design Luke Morgan 312 pages | 6 x 9 | 54 illus. Cloth 2006 | ISBN 0-8122-3963-6 | $55.00 |… READ MORE

Now in Paperback–Border Lines

Border Lines: The Partition of Judaeo-Christianity Daniel Boyarin 392 pages | 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 Cloth 2004 | ISBN 0-8122-3764-1 | $39.95 | £26.00 Paper 2006 | ISBN 0-8122-1986-4… READ MORE

CLIO Reviews Colonizing Nature

A review of Colonizing Nature: The Tropics in British Arts and Letters, 1760-1820 appears in CLIO, a Journal of Literature, History, and the Philosophy of History, Volume 35:3. Reviewer Janet… READ MORE

Eichmann’s Reappearance

A recent Human Rights & Human Welfare review of Harry Mulisch’s Criminal Case 40/61, the Trial of Adolf Eichman: An Eyewitness Account, translated by Robert Malcom, compares Mulisch’s portrait of… READ MORE

Now Available–History Matters

History Matters: Patriarchy and the Challenge of Feminism Judith M. Bennett 224 pages | 6 x 9 Cloth 2006 | ISBN 0-8122-3946-6 | $49.95 | £32.50 Not for sale in… READ MORE

Now Available–Power Play

Power Play: The Literature and Politics of Chess in the Late Middle Ages
Jenny Adams
264 pages | 6 x 9 | 9 illus.
Cloth 2006 | ISBN 0-8122-3944-X | $49.95 | £32.50

Indian Independence Day

At midnight, August 15, 1947, by order of  the Indian Independence Act passed one month earlier by the British Parliament, British  India was divided into two dominions, India and Pakistan…. READ MORE