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The Persae of Aeschylus
The Persae is the oldest of surviving plays and its subject matter is unique in ancient drama, since it is concerned with a recent historical event,...
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Medieval Latin and Romance Lyric to A.D. 1300
In this classic volume, first published in 1951, the two parallel literatures of the Middle Ages, the Latin and the vernacular, may be studied side...
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Sodomy, Masculinity and Law in Medieval Literature
William Burgwinkle surveys poetry and letters, histories and literary fiction - including Grail romances - to offer a historical survey of attitudes...
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Deviant Modernism
This original study re-evaluates central texts of the modernist canon - Eliot’s early poetry including The Waste Land, Joyce’s Ulysses and...
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The War Puzzle Revisited
John A. Vasquez’s The War Puzzle provided one of the most important scientific analyses of the causes of war of the last two decades. The War...
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Lucretian Receptions
Lucretius’ De Rerum Natura, one of the greatest Latin poems, worked a powerful fascination on Virgil and Horace, and continued to be an important...
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Money, Oil, and Empire in the Middle East
An important new political and economic history of the unravelling of the British Empire and its connection to the decline of sterling as a leading...
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The Market Revolution in America
The mass industrial democracy that is the modern United States bears little resemblance to the simple agrarian republic that gave it birth. The...
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The Great War and Medieval Memory
A genuinely comparative study of the cultural impact of the Great War on British and German societies in the first half of the twentieth century....
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Growing Up in France
How did French people write about their own childhood and youth between the 1760s and the 1930s? Colin Heywood argues that this was a critical period...
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Leprosy and Empire
An innovative, interdisciplinary study of why leprosy, a disease with a very low level of infection, has repeatedly provoked revulsion and fear. Rod...
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Madness, Religion and the State in Early Modern Europe
From the ideological crucible of the Reformation emerged an embittered contest for the human soul. In the care of souls, the clergy zealously...
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Hitler’s War Poets
Jay W. Baird comes to grips with a theme which has been generally avoided by over two generations of scholars and literary critics. He argues that...
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German Intellectuals and the Nazi Past
This book analyzes how West German intellectuals debated the Nazi past and democratic future of their country. Rather than proceeding event by event,...
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Building New Deal Liberalism
This book provides the first historical study of New Deal public works programs and their role in transforming the American economy, landscape, and...
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Art and Society in Cyprus from the Bronze Age into the Iron Age
Dramatic social and political change marks the period from the end of the Late Bronze Age into the Iron Age (ca. 1300–700 BCE) across the...
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A History of Indian Philosophy: Vol III
In this benchmark five-volume study, originally published between 1922 and 1955, Surendranath Dasgupta examines the principal schools of thought that...
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A History of Indian Philosophy: Vol IV
In this benchmark five-volume study, originally published between 1922 and 1955, Surendranath Dasgupta examines the principal schools of thought that...
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A History of Indian Philosophy: Vol V
In this benchmark five-volume study, originally published between 1922 and 1955, Surendranath Dasgupta examines the principal schools of thought that...
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Analytical Philosophy of Knowledge
A central theme of this book is that the main problems of philosophy and certainly the main traditional problems in the theory of knowledge, concern...
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The Cambridge Companion to Leo Strauss
Leo Strauss was a central figure in the 20th century renaissance of political philosophy. The essays of The Cambridge Companion to Leo Strauss...
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Samuel Beckett and the Postcolonial Novel
Samuel Beckett has long been seen as a distinctly ‘apolitical’ and ‘ahistorical’ writer, but this reputation fails to do him justice. Placing...
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The Cambridge History of Canadian Literature
From Aboriginal writing to Margaret Atwood, this is a complete English-language history of Canadian writing in English and French from its...
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Race, Work, and Desire in American Literature, 1860–1930
Race, Work and Desire analyses literary representations of work relationships across the colour-line from the mid-nineteenth century to the early...
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