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Inquisition and Power
Catharism and the Confessing Subject in Medieval Languedoc
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2013
What should historians do with the words of the dead? Inquisition and Power reformulates the historiography of heresy and the inquisition by focusing on depositions taken from the Cathars, a religious sect that opposed the Catholic church and took root in southern France during the twelfth century....
Monsters
Evil Beings, Mythical Beasts, and All Manner of Imaginary Terrors
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
The human mind needs monsters. In every culture and in every epoch in human history, from ancient Egypt to modern Hollywood, imaginary beings have haunted dreams and fantasies, provoking in young and old shivers of delight, thrills of terror, and endless fascination. All known folklores brim with...
The Gods, the State, and the Individual
Reflections on Civic Religion in Rome
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
Roman religion has long presented a number of challenges to historians approaching the subject from a perspective framed by the three Abrahamic religions. The Romans had no sacred text that espoused its creed or offered a portrait of its foundational myth. They described relations with the divine...
Argentina Betrayed
Memory, Mourning, and Accountability
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2018
The ruthless military dictatorship that ruled Argentina between 1976 and 1983 betrayed the country's people, presiding over massive disappearances of its citizenry and, in the process, destroying the state's trustworthiness as the guardian of safety and well-being. Desperate relatives risked their...
Doomsayers
Anglo-American Prophecy in the Age of Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2010
The age of revolution, in which kings were dethroned, radical ideals of human equality embraced, and new constitutions written, was also the age of prophecy. Neither an archaic remnant nor a novel practice, prophecy in the eighteenth century was rooted both in the primitive worldview of the Old Testament...
Empires of God
Religious Encounters in the Early Modern Atlantic
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2013
Religion and empire were inseparable forces in the early modern Atlantic world. Religious passions and conflicts drove much of the expansionist energy of post-Reformation Europe, providing both a rationale and a practical mode of organizing the dispersal and resettlement of hundreds of thousands of...
Religion in the Public Square
Sheen, King, Falwell
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2019
In Religion in the Public Square, James M. Patterson considers religious leaders who popularized theology through media campaigns designed to persuade the public. Ven. Fulton J. Sheen, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and Rev. Jerry Falwell differed profoundly on issues of theology and politics, but they...
Imperial Medicine
Patrick Manson and the Conquest of Tropical Disease
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
In 1866 Patrick Manson, a young Scottish doctor fresh from medical school, left London to launch his career in China as a port surgeon for the Imperial Chinese Customs Service. For the next two decades, he served in this outpost of British power in the Far East, and extended the frontiers of British...
Parades and the Politics of the Street
Festive Culture in the Early American Republic
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2010
Simon P. Newman vividly evokes the celebrations of America's first national holidays in the years between the ratification of the Constitution and the inauguration of Thomas Jefferson. He demonstrates how, by taking part in the festive culture of the streets, ordinary American men and women were able...
by Oleg Budnitskii
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2012
In the years following the Russian Revolution, a bitter civil war was waged between the Bolsheviks, with their Red Army of Workers and Peasants on the one side, and the various groups that constituted the anti-Bolshevik movement on the other. The major anti-Bolshevik force was the White Army, whose...
by Brooke Conti
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2014
As seventeenth-century England wrestled with the aftereffects of the Reformation, the personal frequently conflicted with the political. In speeches, political pamphlets, and other works of religious controversy, writers from the reign of James I to that of James II unexpectedly erupt into autobiography....
Rebellion and Savagery
The Jacobite Rising of 1745 and the British Empire
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
In the summer of 1745, Charles Edward Stuart, the grandson of England's King James II, landed on the western coast of Scotland intending to overthrow George II and restore the Stuart family to the throne. He gathered thousands of supporters, and the insurrection he led—the Jacobite Rising of 1745—was...
Ethnonationalist Conflict in Postcommunist States
Varieties of Governance in Bulgaria, Macedonia, and Kosovo
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Ethnonationalist Conflict in Postcommunist States investigates why some Eastern European states transitioned to new forms of governance with minimal violence while others broke into civil war. In Bulgaria, the Turkish minority was subjected to coerced assimilation and forced expulsion, but the nation...
Disknowledge
Literature, Alchemy, and the End of Humanism in Renaissance England
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2015
"Disknowledge": knowing something isn't true, but believing it anyway. In Disknowledge: Literature, Alchemy, and the End of Humanism in Renaissance England, Katherine Eggert explores the crumbling state of learning in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Even as the shortcomings of Renaissance...