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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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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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Emil Eiby Seidenfaden
Informing Interwar Internationalism

Examining the public information strategies employed by the League of Nations between 1919 and 1940, this book brings together international history, intellectual history and the history of communications…

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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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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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Ethan R. Sanders
Building the African Nation

How did people in East Africa come to see themselves as 'Africans,' and where did these concepts originate from? Utilizing a global intellectual history lens, Ethan Sanders traces how ideas stemming from …

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István Hont,
Political Economy from Pufendorf to Marx

István Hont (1947-2013) defected from Communist Hungary in the 1970s and became renowned globally as a scholarly visionary in European political ideas. Following his death, a wealth of unpublished materia…

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Frauke Berndt,
Facing Poetry

Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten (1714-1762) is known in intellectual history for having established the discourse of philosophical aesthetics with his "Meditationes philosophicae de nonnullis ad poema …

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Sandro Landi
Machiavelli's Gaze

This book examines Machiavelli in contemporary or past realities through the way in which he read, wrote, related to cultures distant in time and space---a first in the field of Machiavellian studies. It …

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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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István Hont,
Political Economy from Pufendorf to Marx

István Hont (1947-2013) defected from Communist Hungary in the 1970s and became renowned globally as a scholarly visionary in European political ideas. Following his death, a wealth of unpublished materia…

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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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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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Hiroaki Kawanishi
The Virtues of Divergence

Hiroaki Kawanishi sheds light on theological trends of the eleventh/seventeenth century Ottoman world, an area of research that remains understudied in existing scholarship. The author challenges the &quo…

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Thomas Wilson
Confucian Gods

Confucian Gods offers an intellectual history of Confucian conceptions of the gods found in the Classics and feasted by the imperial court until the early twentieth century. Thomas Wilson examines court d…

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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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Michelangelo Guida
Islamist Political Thought in Turkey

Islamism is a powerful political force in contemporary Turkey. But what are the roots of this ideology? This book provides an intellectual history of Islamism in Turkey, tracing the thought of key figures…

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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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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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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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