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The child follows the womb

gender, reproduction, and Roman slavery

A new and incisive exploration of female slavery and reproduction in ancient Rome One of ancient Rome's most significant legacies is a legal framework for hereditary slavery. Under the Roman principle that would come to be known as partus sequitur ventrem (the offspring follows ...

Assembling an imperial machine

Spanish commercial reform in the age of enlightenment

During the eighteenth century, Spanish statesmen pursued a set of ambitious imperial reforms that thoroughly remade conceptualizations of empire. They compared well-ordered empires to harmonious machines and devised a comprehensive plan to liberalize and integrate the imperial economy. The main initiative to emerge from this ...

Hariulf's history of St Riquier

A new and accessible translation of Hariulf's History of St Riquier, this book examines the history of a monastic community from the seventh to the eleventh century. It covers the ascetic life of the founding saint and the development of the community under the ...

A womb of one's own

lost histories of childbirth in ancient Rome

A bold new history of women's health, brought to life through ancient women's stories of pregnancy and birth. In the well-trod history of the Roman Empire, a pivotal moment has long gone unnoticed: It was in ancient Rome that medical men first set ...

Historia de Cantabria

Nuevos temas y líneas de investigación

Esta obra reúne en veintiocho capítulos los resultados de las investigaciones recientes o en curso sobre la historia de Cantabria. Investigadores e investigadoras abordan un abanico de temas con el rigor propio de los presupuestos teóricos y metodológicos actuales de la disciplina histórica. Siguiendo un ...

Concha Espina: "Querer, saber, poder"

Con motivo del setenta aniversario de la muerte de Concha Espina, en otoño del 2025, se organizó una exposición y ciclo de conferencias por parte del Parlamento y la Universidad de Cantabria. Fruto de ambas iniciativas surge este libro, en el que se retoma el ...

En torno a lo Jacobeo

Discursos de las académicas y académicos numerarios de la Academia Xacobea (2016-2024)

La Academia Xacobea nació en el año 2017 con la incorporación de académicos y académicas procedentes de distintas universidades de Galicia, del resto de España y de Europa. Su creación fue promovida por ocho personas conocedoras del Camino de Santiago y de su importancia histórica ...

Ciencia de película

La hormiga que soñaba con agujeros negros

¿Qué buscas cuando vas al cine? Que no te quepa duda, buscas emocionarte. Y no importa si vas a ver una película de terror, una comedia romántica, o una película de acción con explosiones. TODAS (con mayúsculas) las películas transmiten emociones, que pueden ir desde ...

Tebaida

Volumen I. Libros I-III

Tebaida, dedicada al emperador Domiciano y de estructura algo difusa, de forma que algunas partes sueltas, en particular las elegías funerarias, son superiores al conjunto, quizá por su falta de un personaje principal. En ella se narra en doce libros de hexámetros la guerra de ...

The blood between us

Syria after the fall of Assad

In a matter of days, an intense rebel offensive brought down one of the world's most entrenched regimes, ending the sixty-year Baathist dictatorship and the Assad family's grip on Syria. The speed of the collapse stunned observers. Yet this was no sudden fall ...

Empire with a vengeance

honour and revenge in European colonial warfare, 1815-1914

An absorbing new history of European colonialism, showing how ideas of retribution and revenge were used to justify violent conquest and rule. Today, the use of military force to punish enemies is strictly prohibited under international law. It is also a widely accepted principle that ...

Melancholy borders

mobility, migration, and exclusion in global history

A major contribution to the burgeoning field of global migration history, this book explores the historical clash between transnational networks of migrant mobility with state attempts to control them. Showcasing the latest research in the field, Melancholy Borders brings together a wide range of scholarship ...

Border abolitionism

migrants' containment and the genealogies of struggles and rescue

Building on an abolitionist perspective, this book offers an essential critique of migration and border policies, unsettling the distinction between migrants and citizens. This is the only book that brings together carceral abolitionist debates and critical migration literature. It explores the multiplication of modes of ...

A social history of analytic philosophy

how politics has shaped an apolitical philosophy

Analytic philosophy is the leading form of philosophy in the English-speaking world. What explains its continued success? Christoph Schuringa argues that its enduring power can only be understood by examining its social history. Analytic philosophy tends to think of itself as concerned with eternal questions ...

Crusader armies

the untold story of the wars for the Holy Land

A major new history of the Crusades that illuminates the strength and sophistication of the Western and Muslim armies During the Crusades, the Western and Muslim armies developed various highly sophisticated strategies of both attack and defense, which evolved during the course of the battles ...

The Scythians

lost civilizations

The Scythians offers a bold new take on the horse-riding peoples who once inhabited the vast steppe lands from the Black Sea to the Siberian Altai. Drawing on archaeological finds, ancient texts and comparative insights, Caspar Meyer shows how these communities forged dynamic networks rooted ...

The ancient interpretation of dreams

early Greek hermeneutics and its sources

The first book-length study of dream interpretation in classical Greece Long before Freud, dreams and how to make sense of them fascinated ancient thinkers. In The Ancient Interpretation of Dreams, Mirjam Kotwick traces a continuous intellectual practice of dream interpretation across a range of ancient ...

Derrida

a very short introduction

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Jacques Derrida had a major influence on 20th century philosophy and the idea of postmodernism. Challenging some of the deepest assumptions of the Western philosophical tradition, he is most renowned-or condemned-for his engagement with the movement that he called ...

Taiwan

a people's history

While most English-language histories of Taiwan focus on its geopolitical role, this history centres on the people of Taiwan themselves and explores how they have formed a unique polity, telling the story of the Indigenous Taiwanese, the Hoklo and Hakka who came from China before ...

The medieval guide to healthy living

We often think of medieval medicine as strange, unhygienic and unscientific, but The Medieval Guide to Healthy Living reveals a far richer story. Long before modern wellness trends, people in the Middle Ages were actively thinking about how to live well. They followed detailed health ...