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Vanessa Rampton
Making Medical Progress

Answers to the question 'what is medical progress?' have always been contested, and any one response is always bound up with contextual ideas of personhood, society, and health. However, the widely held e…

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Bone, Bronze, and Bamboo

Explores how the tremendous wealth of newly unearthed artifacts and manuscripts have changed our understanding of China's past. Bone, Bronze, and Bamboo explores the tremendous wealth of newly unearthed a…

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Benoît Vermander
The Encounter of Chinese and Western Philosophies

Vermander revisits the encounter between Chinese and Western philosophy while unfolding questions about the way "comparative philosophy" is conducted today. In the vulgate of intellectual histor…

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Aaron Sheehan-Dean
Fighting with the Past

Civil War Americans, like people today, used the past to understand and traverse their turbulent present. As Aaron Sheehan-Dean reveals in this fascinating work of comparative intellectual history, ninete…

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Hans Blumenberg's History and Philosophy of Science

This book highlights and develops a hitherto neglected area of Hans Blumenberg's contributions, i.e., history and philosophy of science. It covers both Blumenberg's works on the history of ideas and conce…

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Vanessa Rampton
Making Medical Progress

Answers to the question 'what is medical progress?' have always been contested, and any one response is always bound up with contextual ideas of personhood, society, and health. However, the widely held e…

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M. A. R. Habib
Literary Criticism from Plato to Post-Theory

Provides a comprehensive account of the evolution of literary criticism from antiquity to the present Spanning more than two millennia of intellectual history, Literary Criticism from Plato to Post-Theory…

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Gayle Feldman
Nothing Random

The story of the legendary Random House founder, whose seemingly charmed life at the apogee of the American Century afforded him a front-row seat to literary and cultural history in the making"A stun…

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Melissa Ann Kaul
Animals in Premodern Japan

In this Open Access book, the reader is presented with an outlook on current developments in Japanese Animal Ethics and how And¿ Sh¿eki's depictions of non-human animals, as well as the examination of Chi…

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Giulia Torello-Hill, Andrew J Turner,
Jodocus Badius Ascensius' Praenotamenta to Terence

Offering the first scholarly edition and English translation of Praenotamenta , a treatise on ancient drama by Flemish scholar, editor and publisher Jodocus Badius Ascensius (1462-1535), along with his in…

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Ibn Taymiyya's Thought

A fresh reading of medieval thinker Ibn Taymiyya, offering pathbreaking insight into his lasting relevance in debates on Islam, authority, and religious thought.Ibn Taymiyya's Thought: Corpus, Reception, …

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Nicola Miller
Republics of Knowledge

"Republics of Knowledge tells the story of how the circulation of knowledge shaped the formation of nation-states in Latin America, and particularly in Argentina, Peru and Chile, during the century a…

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Kelly Clancy
Playing with Reality

'A dopamine hit on every page' Marcus du Sautoy A sweeping intellectual history of games and their importance to human progress. We play games to learn about the world, to understand our minds and the min…

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Ping Wang
The Poetic Way of XIE Lingyun

The father of Chinese landscape poetry in time and placeDuring the dark centuries between the fall of the Han dynasty in 220 CE and the golden age of reunified China under the Tang and Song dynasties (618…

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Justin Smith-Ruiu
On Drugs

In the wake of a personal loss and the upheaval of the pandemic, Justin Smith-Ruiu found himself at a California cannabis dispensary, pondering a profound question: Who am I and how did I get here?On Drug…

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Hendrik Dey
The Making of Medieval Rome

Integrating the written sources with Rome's surviving remains and, most importantly, with the results of the past half-century's worth of medieval archaeology in the city, The Making of Medieval Rome is t…

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Todd Kontje
Global Germany Circa 1800

Global Germany Circa 1800 asks two interrelated questions: How did Germans participate in the European conquest of the world, and how were they different from other imperial powers? In other words, what i…

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Georgios Varouxakis
The West

A comprehensive intellectual history of the idea of the WestHow did "the West" come to be used as a collective self-designation signaling political and cultural commonality? When did "Weste…

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J. Mackenzie Pierce
Sounds of Survival

"A major intellectual history with extraordinary significance as scholars ask how art music in Europe has been a site for the contestation of difference. This beautifully crafted book is a model twen…

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Andrew Hammond
Late Ottoman Origins of Modern Islamic Thought

"In this major contribution to Muslim intellectual history, Andrew Hammond offers a vital reappraisal of the role of Late Ottoman Turkish scholars in shaping modern Islamic thought. Focusing on a poe…

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