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In search of the River Jordan

a story of Palestine, Israel and the struggle for water

A writer's travels along the legendary yet contested Jordan River-exploring the long conflict over water supply Access to water has played a pivotal role in the Israel-Palestine dispute. Israel has diverted the River Jordan via pipes and canals to build a successful modern state ...

The Great Plague

when death came to Cambridge in 1665

In this intimate history of the extraordinary Black Plague pandemic that swept through the British Isles in 1665, Evelyn Lord focuses on the plague's effects on smaller towns, where every death was a singular blow affecting the entire community. Lord's fascinating reconstruction of ...

The liberation of the camps

the end of the Holocaust and its aftermath

A moving, deeply researched account of survivors' experiences of liberation from Nazi death camps and the long, difficult years that followed When tortured inmates of Hitler's concentration and extermination camps were liberated in 1944 and 1945, the horror of the atrocities came fully to ...

The rediscovery of America

native peoples and the unmaking of U.S. history

The most enduring feature of U.S. history is the presence of Native Americans, yet most histories focus on Europeans and their descendants. This long practice of ignoring Indigenous history is changing, however, with a new generation of scholars insists that any full American history ...

Spain

the trials and triumphs of a modern European country

An incisive account of modern Spain, from the death of Franco to the Catalan referendum and beyond "Comprehensive and engaging."-Gideon Rachman, Financial Times Spain's transition to democracy after Franco's long dictatorship was widely hailed as a success, ushering in three decades of ...

Amongst the ruins

why civilizations collapse and communities disappear

Amongst the Ruins explores the loss of ancient civilizations, the collapse of ruling elites, and the disappearance of more recent communities and their local traditions. Some of these are now sealed under 3,000-year-old peat, others lost to rising seas or sands, and the carcasses ...

Ramesses II

Egypt's ultimate pharaoh

In Ramesses II, Egypt's Ultimate Pharaoh Peter J. Brand paints with authoritative knowledge and colourful details a compelling portrait of this legendary Pharaoh who ruled over Imperial Egypt during its Golden Age. Warrior, mighty builder and statesman, over the course of his 67-year-long reign ...

Scripts and scripture

writing and religion in Arabia, circa 500-700 CE

How did Islam's sacred scripture, the Arabic Qur'an, emerge from western Arabia at a time when the region was religiously fragmented and lacked a clearly established tradition of writing to render the Arabic language? The studies in this volume, the proceedings of a ...

Political Meritocracy in Renaissance Italy

The Virtuous Republic of Francesco Patrizi

The first full-length study of Francesco Patrizi-the most important political philosopher of the Italian Renaissance before Machiavelli-who sought to reconcile conflicting claims of liberty and equality in the service of good governance. At the heart of the Italian Renaissance was a longing to recapture the ...

Ilse Koch on trial

making the "Bitch of Buchenwald"

An authoritative reassessment of one of the Third Reich's most notorious war criminals, whose alleged sexual barbarism made her a convenient scapegoat and obscured the true nature of Nazi terror. On September 1, 1967, one of the Third Reich's most infamous figures hanged ...

The loss of Hindustan

the invention of India

Did India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh have a shared regional identity prior to the arrival of Europeans in the late fifteenth century? Manan Ahmed Asif tackles this contentious question by inviting us to reconsider the work and legacy of the influential historian Muhammad Qasim Firishta, a ...

Stalin and the fate of Europe

the postwar struggle for sovereignty

Was the division of Europe after World War II inevitable? In this powerful reassessment of the postwar order, Norman Naimark suggests that Stalin was far more open to a settlement than we have thought. Through revealing case studies from Poland and Yugoslavia to Finland and ...

Nihilistic times

thinking with Max Weber

One of America's leading political theorists analyzes the nihilism degrading-and confounding-political and academic life today. Through readings of Max Weber's Vocation Lectures, she proposes ways to counter nihilism's devaluations of both knowledge and political responsibility. How has politics become a playpen for ...

The falling sky

words of a Yanomami shaman

A now classic account of the life and thought of Davi Kopenawa, shaman and spokesman for the Yanomami, The Falling Sky paints an unforgettable picture of an indigenous culture living in harmony with the Amazon forest and its creatures, and its devastating encounter with the ...

Metternich

strategist and visionary

Metternich is often portrayed as the epitome of reactionary conservatism, a ruthless aristocrat who used his power to stifle liberalism and oppose the dreams of social change that inspired the revolutionaries of 1848. But in this landmark biography, the first to make use of state ...

Encountering Early America

This is the first major study to comprehensively analyse English encounters with the New World in the sixteenth century and their impact on early English understandings of America and changing approaches to exploration and settlement. The book traces the dynamism of early English encounters with ...

An archaeology of innovation

approaching social and technological change in human society

An archaeology of innovation is the first monograph-length investigation of innovation and the innovation process from an archaeological perspective. It interrogates the idea of innovation that permeates our popular media and our political and scientific discourse, setting this against the long-term perspective that only archaeology ...

Divine doppelgängers

YHWH's ancient look-alikes

The Bible says that YHWH alone is God and that there is none like him-but texts and artwork from antiquity show that many gods looked very similar. In this volume, scholars of the Hebrew Bible and its historical contexts address the problem of YHWH's ...

La capacidad jurídica de las personas con discapacidad medidas de origen legal y judicial

La Ley 8/2021, de 2 de junio, supone un importante avance en la protección de los derechos de las personas con discapacidad en el ejercicio de su capacidad jurídica, al promover el respeto a su autonomía y voluntad, y al establecer medidas de apoyo ...

Derechos fundamentales y democracia en el constitucionalismo digital

Este libro contiene un análisis muy complejo y completo de las diversas vertientes que configuran el mundo digital y que tienen relevancia para el derecho y especialmente para el derecho constitucional. Desde las cuestiones generales, relacionadas con la nueva cultura constitucional que se está perfilando ...