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"Nathans's deeply researched and meticulously argued book takes us into the drawing rooms and offices of successful Jews of St. Petersburg and greatly enhances our understanding not only of Jewish int

First published in 1202, Fibonacci's Liber abaci was one of the most important books on mathematics in the Middle Ages, introducing Arabic numerals and methods throughout Europe.Its author, Leonardo

First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

In this revision of his dissertation (in 2000, ancient history, U. of Barcelona, Spain), Feliu reconstructs a portrait of the god Dagan using a close analysis of archival cuneiform sources in Old Baby

Drawn from the 1996 "Medicine and the Colonies" Conference hosted by the Society for the Social History of Medicine in Oxford, six papers explore the way medical practices reveal historical aspects of

In order to subject the Asiatic campaigning of the 15th-century BC Egyptian Pharaoh to new investigation, Redford (classics and ancient Mediterranean studies, Pennsylvania State U.) has assembled, col

This unique study into the roots of Max Weber's Political Economy, is an intriguing read and a valuable contribution to the Weberian literature. Parsons argues that Weber's analysis is highly influenc

This collection of essays provides a comprehensive view of the economic thought of the Scottish Enlightenment. Organized as a chronological account of the rise and progress of political economy in eig

Reconstructing from several problem-laden details, Garr (religious studies, U. of California-Santa Barbara) re-integrates the conflicting references to God in the Priestly and Yahwist biblical account

A new translation makes this classic and important text more generally accessible. The text is placed in its contemporary context, but also related to the interests of practising mathematicians today.

Southern Association for Women Historians Julia Cherry Spruill Prize"A vital and, until now, missing piece to the puzzle of the 'Lost Cause' ideology and its impact on the daily lives of post-Civil Wa

First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

This volume relates the results of archaeological and historical investigations in the Hebron/Mamre area and exegetical comments on the Abraham story in Genesis chapter 13 to 18. The Abraham story is

In October 1946, seven million more women than men lived in occupied Germany. In this study of unwed, divorced, widowed, and married women at work and at home across three political regimes, Elizabeth

As the most important public space in the United States, the Mall in Washington, D.C., has been a vital emblem of national spirit and ideals ever since Major Pierre Charles L’Enfant first envisioned i

Hong Kong in Transition offers a perspective on the exceptional constitutional and administrative experiment that has been taking place in Hong Kong, based on a substantial period under Chinese rule.

Laundries were once ubiquitous in British and American cities—products of the same historical process that created steel mills and railroads. Unlike the more familiar examples of industrialization, th

This is the most comprehensive study available of the popular theater that developed during the last decades of tsarist Russia. Swift examines the origins and significance of the new "people'

This is the first volume of a multi-volume series on The Pacific World: Lands, Peoples and History of the Pacific, 1500-1900 . Journal and symposium papers from the past four decades present a macro-

Does science work best in a democracy? Were 'Soviet' or 'Nazi' science fundamentally different from science in the USA? These questions have been passionately debated in the recent past. Particular de

This is a volume of comparative essays on the First World War that focuses on one central feature: the political and cultural "mobilization" of the populations of the main belligerent countries in Eur

Grossvogel (comparative literature and romance studies, Cornell U.) dissects once again the oft-studied love-hate relationship between the US and France by contrasting a number of original French film

In A History of Canadian Catholics Terence Fay relates the long story of the Catholic Church and its followers, beginning with how the church and its adherents came to Canada, how the church establish

In this examination of the Babylonian cuneiform "algebra" texts, based on a detailed investigation of the terminology and discursive organization of the texts, Jens Høyrup proposes that the traditiona

Daviau (Near Eastern archaeology, Wilfrid Laurier U., Canada) reports on excavations at the Jordanian site Tall Jawa, considered a prime candidate to investigate the extent of the Iron Age Ammonite Ki

Approach your problems from the It isn't that they can't see the right end and begin with the solution. It is that they can't see answers. Then one day, perhaps the problem. you will find the final qu

Historical studies of the role of military agencies and considerations of military power in the promotion of science and technology have burgeoned since the early 1980s. Initially, such studies foc

Paul Merkley draws on the published literature of the World Council of Churches, the Middle East Council of Churches, the Roman Catholic Church, and other Christian organizations that have an interest

Negotiating the divide between "respectable manhood" and "rough manhood" this book explores masculinity at work and at play through provocative essays on labor unions, railroads, vocational training p

In the age of the French Revolution, opera was the locus of cabals, intrigues, and violent journalistic invective. Yet it was also a period when women composers and librettists gained access to concer

Federal Judge Frank M. Johnson of Alabama decided many of the most important civil rights and liberties cases in twentieth century American history. During the 1950s and 1960s his decisions supported

Examining the proliferation of reinforced-concrete construction in the United States after 1900, Amy E. Slaton explores how scientific approaches and occupations displaced traditionally skilled labor

This book shows that in the Ancient Near East the idea of freedom is older than in Greece. Snell studies archival texts on runaways, edicts, legal collections, treaties, and literature, as well as Bib

"Ruth Ben-Ghiat's Fascist Modernities: Italy 1922-1945 is among the very best analyses of Fascist culture in any language. Based on a truly amazing amount of research, this volume traces the first sti

An examination of the trans-oceanic migration of West Indians from the Caribbean to Sierra Leone in the decades following the abolition of slavery in the British colonies in 1807. The West Indians who

How war has been remembered collectively is the central question in this volume. War in the twentieth century is a vivid and traumatic phenomenon which left behind it survivors who engage time and time again in acts of remembrance. This volume, containing essays by outstanding scholars of twentieth-century history, focuses on the issues raised by the shadow of war in this century. The behaviour, not of whole societies or of ruling groups alone, but of the individuals who do the work of remembrance, is discussed by examining the traumatic collective memory resulting from the horrors of the First World War, the Spanish Civil War, the Second World War, and the Algerian War. By studying public forms of remembrance, such as museums and exhibitions, literature and film, the editors have succeeded in bringing together a volume which demonstrates that a popular kind of collective memory is still very much alive.