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Daniel R Langton
Darwin in the Jewish Imagination

This book explores how Jewish thinkers engaged with Darwin's theory of evolution from the 1860s to the 1960s, offering a unique perspective on one of history's most transformative scientific ideas. Writte…

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Peter Harrison
Some New World

What was believable in one era is no longer acceptable in another. What one culture finds utterly incredible elsewhere becomes an article of faith. This disjuncture forms the basis of Peter Harrison's mas…

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Susanna Morton Braund
Translating Virgil

"The first synthesis and analysis of the translation history of Roman poet Virgil's works into European languages. A wide-ranging interdisciplinary investigation that contributes to western intellect…

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Sandor Hites
Five Economies of World Literature

Breaks new ground in the study of world literature by analysing the genesis of this concept in the context of early European political economy. Addressing readers interested in comparative literature, int…

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Jared Poley
Luck, Leisure, and the Casino in Nineteenth-Century Europe

"Casino gambling is central to understanding the cultural, social, and intellectual history of nineteenthcentury Europe. Tracing the development of casino gambling across this period, this book conne…

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Daniel Lav
Salafi Political Theology

"Salafi Islam, whose radical wing is today affiliated with groups such as al-Qaida and the Islamic State, has a long history, and is particularly indebted to Ibn Taymiyya's (d. 1328) doctrine of tawh…

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Daniel Lav
Salafi Political Theology

"Salafi Islam, whose radical wing is today affiliated with groups such as al-Qaida and the Islamic State, has a long history, and is particularly indebted to Ibn Taymiyya's (d. 1328) doctrine of tawh…

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Dmitri Levitin
The Kingdom of Darkness

This book offers a transformative account of early modern European intellectual history, culminating in new interpretations of two of its leading minds: Pierre Bayle and Isaac Newton. It charts the proces…

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Political Thought and Japan's New Left Movements

While the intellectual history of the New Left is dominated by scholarship on western thinkers, Japan's radical theorists developed equally groundbreaking ideas, producing one of the most intense periods …

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Robert L. Fowler
Myth, Mythography, and Historiography

Themes and Forms in Graeco-Roman Literature

This volume collects Robert L. Fowler's major papers on Greek myth, mythography, and historiography published since 1996, the date of the foundational article 'Herodotus and his Contemporaries', together …

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The Cambridge Companion to Ottoman History

Why study Ottoman history? What are the available sources? And how can researchers begin locating, reading, and interpreting these? The Cambridge Companion to Ottoman History provides a broad introduction…

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Natasa Kovacevic
Nonaligned Imagination

Recovering the literary and intellectual history of anticolonial collaborationsPreoccupied with developing a multiethnic, postcolonial culture and seeking an alternative to Cold War-bloc politics, sociali…

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The Cambridge Companion to Ottoman History

Why study Ottoman history? What are the available sources? And how can researchers begin locating, reading, and interpreting these? The Cambridge Companion to Ottoman History provides a broad introduction…

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Idriss Jebari
Leaping Decolonization

In the wake of independence from French colonialism, a generation of North African nationalist leaders and progressive thinkers reimagined their futures through essays, periodicals, and publishing network…

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Richard N Langlois
The Corporation and the Twentieth Century

A definitive reframing of the economic, institutional, and intellectual history of the managerial eraThe twentieth century was the managerial century in the United States. An organizational transformation…

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José María Pérez Fernández
Translation and the Truth of History

This book tells the material and intellectual history of several translations of Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War, from Lorenzo Valla's first Latin rendering in 1452, to the publication of Tho…

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José María Pérez Fernández
Translation and the Truth of History

This book tells the material and intellectual history of several translations of Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War, from Lorenzo Valla's first Latin rendering in 1452, to the publication of Tho…

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Esotericism in East Asia

This pioneering open access book offers a new take on esotericism by centering the often-overlooked contributions of East Asian thinkers to the development of this field of knowledge. The intellectual his…

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Rachel Kantz Feder
Revolutionary Shi'i Modernism in Iraq

While Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr has often been portrayed as a fundamentalist or sectarian Islamist, this study repositions the scholar as a revolutionary Shi'i modernist and a critical figure in global intel…

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Rachel Kantz Feder
Revolutionary Shi'i Modernism in Iraq

While Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr has often been portrayed as a fundamentalist or sectarian Islamist, this study repositions the scholar as a revolutionary Shi'i modernist and a critical figure in global intel…

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