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Modern Rwanda

a political history

Rwanda has been the subject of much research following the genocide against the Tutsi ethnic group in 1994. Moving beyond recent histories which examine Rwanda's past predominantly through the lens of this tragic event, Filip Reyntjens utilises a longue durée framework to provide new ...

The idea of the city in late antiquity

a study in resilience

The city was one of the central and defining features of the world of the Greek and Roman Mediterranean. Challenging the idea that the ancient city 'declined and fell', Andrew Wallace-Hadrill argues that memories of the past enabled cities to adapt and remain relevant in ...

Nationalism

a world history

A global perspective on the nature and evolution of nationalism, from the early modern era to the present The current rise of nationalism across the globe is a reminder that we are not, after all, living in a borderless world of virtual connectivity. In Nationalism ...

Tiberius and his age

myth, sex, luxury, and power

A radical new portrait of the infamous Roman emperor Rome's second emperor, Tiberius (42 BCE-CE 37), has traditionally been seen as a villainous hypocrite-treacherous, grasping, vindictive, and depraved. But in Tiberius and His Age, Edward Champlin draws on vast and diverse evidence to show ...

Citizen Marx

Republicanism and the formation of Karl Marx's social and political thought

The first book to offer a comprehensive exploration of Marx's relationship to republicanism, arguing that it is essential to understanding his thought In Citizen Marx, Bruno Leipold argues that, contrary to certain interpretive commonplaces, Karl Marx's thinking was deeply informed by republicanism. Marx ...

In Hitler's Munich

Jews, the revolution, and the rise of Nazism

From acclaimed historian Michael Brenner, a mesmerizing portrait of Munich in the early years of Hitler's quest for power In the aftermath of Germany's defeat in World War I and the failed November Revolution of 1918-19, the conservative government of Bavaria identified Jews ...

Lost Souls

Soviet displaced persons and the birth of the Cold War

A vivid history of how Cold War politics helped solve one of the twentieth century's biggest refugee crises When World War II ended, about one million people whom the Soviet Union claimed as its citizens were outside the borders of the USSR, mostly in ...

Naples 1925

Adorno, Benjamin, and the summer that made critical theory

The untold story of how the volcanic landscape surrounding Naples influenced a crucial moment in twentieth-century intellectual history In the 1920s, the Gulf of Naples was a magnet for European intellectuals in search of places as yet untouched by modernity. Among the revolutionaries, artists, and ...

The magic books

a history of enchantment in 20 extraordinary manuscripts

A fascinating and highly original history of medieval magic told through twenty key illuminated manuscripts Medieval Europe was preoccupied with magic. From the Carolingian Empire to Renaissance Italy and Tudor England, great rulers, religious figures, and scholars sought to harness supernatural power. They tried to ...

Empire of labor

how the East India Company colonized hired work

Empire of Labor tells the story of how hired workers experienced and responded to the rise to power over the long eighteenth century of the English East India Company (EIC), which perennially hired thousands of people in and around its settlements in Bengal. Focusing on ...

Architecture and affect in the Middle Ages

How did people living in the Middle Ages respond to spectacular buildings, such as the Gothic cathedrals? While contemporary scholarship places a large emphasis on the emotional content of Western medieval figurative art, the emotion of architecture has largely gone undiscussed. In a radical new ...

The mechanic and the Luddite

a ruthless criticism of technology and capitalism

This short book demystifies how the two systems of technology and capitalism work together and equips readers with practical tools to dismantle them and build a better world, bit by bit. Our society is constantly made to serve the needs of two systems: technology and ...

Demos rising

democracy and the popular construction of public power in France, 1800-1850

A political history exploring the concept of demos in the French government during the period of 1800 to 1850. In his previous book, Demos Assembled, historian Stephen W. Sawyer offered a transatlantic account of the birth and transformation of the modern democratic state. In Demos ...

The Nazi mind

Twelve Warnings from History

A groundbreaking narrative history of the motivations and mentalities behind the Nazis and their supporters, from the bestselling author of THE HOLOCAUST and President Zelenskyy's most-read book, HITLER AND STALIN. How could the Nazis have committed the crimes they did? Why did commandants of ...

The last tsar

the abdication of Nicholas II and the fall of the Romanovs

The definitive story behind the self-destruction of the autocratic Romanov dynasty, by the world's foremost expert. When Tsar Nicholas II fell from power in 1917, Imperial Russia faced a series of overlapping crises, from war to social unrest. Though Nicholas's life is often ...

Unfortunately, she was a nymphomaniac

a new history of Rome's imperial women

A superb and illuminating history of Imperial Rome's most important women - dispelling the myths and misogyny that have distorted their reputations for over 2000 years. Writer, activist and journalist Joan Smith has worked for years to raise awareness of violence against women and girls ...

Máximas

y reflexiones diversas

En el prólogo de la primera edición de sus Máximas, La Rochefoucauld advierte al lector que su propósito es retratar el corazón del hombre. Y efectivamente, aunque no trata exclusivamente de ello, en sus reflexiones plasma con gran perspicacia los mecanismos y motivaciones que subyacen ...

El profeta; El loco; El vagabundo

Nacido en el norte del Líbano, en Becharre, el 6 de enero de 1883, Gibrán Jalil Gibrán está reconocido como el pensador de las primeras décadas del siglo XX en Oriente Medio. Sus biógrafos, en su mayor parte amigos personales, han dejado de él visiones ...

El Libro Rojo

Obra del ministro de Defensa y jefe de las fuerzas armadas chinas Lin Piao, el conocido como Libro rojo(1964) recoge citas y discursos pronunciados por Mao Tse-tung, quien fuera presidente del Partido Comunista de China y líder de la República Popular China de 1949 ...

Los crímenes de la calle Morgue

y otros casos de Auguste Dupin

En la presente edición se ofrecen tres de los relatos policiacos más conocidos de Edgar Allan Poe, a quien se reconoce como precursor de géneros literarios como la narrativa fantástica y de ciencia-ficción, la policiaca o la de aventuras. De hecho, Doble asesinato en la ...