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Performance Culture and Athenian Democracy
These new and specially-commissioned essays discuss the ways in which performance is central to the practice and ideology of democracy in classical...
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The Apocryphal Gospels of Mary in Anglo-Saxon England
This book provides an edition, with a facing translation and detailed commentary, of the three apocryphal gospels of Mary written in Old English. The...
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The Intellectual Foundations of the English Benedictine Reform
This book explores the foundations of the intellectual renaissance in tenth-century England, including both the English Benedictine reform and the...
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The Burden of Responsibility
Leon Blum, Albert Camus, and Raymond Aron might seem an unlikely combination. Blum was a fin-de-siecle aesthete who became the spiritual and...
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Doldahavsrullarna
De romerska kejsarna tävlade med sina föregångare om att stifta nya, stora offentliga bibliotek. Alla böcker och bibliotek sorterade under...
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Love Between Women
Love Between Women examines female homoeroticism and the role of women in the ancient Roman world. Employing an unparalleled range of cultural...
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Järnvägsresandets historia
Wolfgang Schivelbusch tar i Järnvägsresandets historia läsaren med på en ständigt överraskande färd genom det nya samhälle som...
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Från flygdröm till swingscen
Under det svenska 1930-talet bröts gammalt mot nytt som kanske aldrig förr. Mot det gamla Fattigsverige stod nu Folkhemmets vision laddad med...
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Den inre kretsen
Niklas Stenlås uppmärksammade avhandling Den inre kretsen är en granskning av den svenska ekonomiska elitens inflytande över partipolitik och...
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Sport and Society in Ancient Greece
Sport and Society in Ancient Greece provides a concise and readable introduction to ancient Greek sport. It covers such topics as the links between...
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Los Angeles
Ingen världsstad har blivit mer älskad och mer hatad än Los Angeles. Entusiasterna hävdar att den har allt. Belackarna ser den som en ständigt...
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A Hitler Youth in Poland
During the Nazi era, millions of German children between the ages of seven and sixteen were taken from their homes and sent to Hitler Youth...
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The Last Eyewitnesses
These testimonies, submitted by individual authors and not originally intended for publication, were assembled as a historical record by the...
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Lessons and Legacies II
In the years following the demise of the Third Reich, the task of Holocaust education fell predominantly to survivors. Now, as the generation of...
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Russian Subjects
Although Russia's major Golden Age writers have had numerous book-length studies devoted to them by distinguished American slavists, no Western...
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The Urban Image of Augustan Rome
The Urban Image of Augustan Rome examines the idea and experience of the ancient city at a critical moment, when Rome became an Imperial capital....
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A Cross of Iron
In A Cross of Iron, one of the country’s most distinguished diplomatic historians provides a comprehensive account of the national security state...
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Fighting for Rome
The essays in Fighting for Rome confront the traumatic disjunction between the militarist culture of classical Rome, with its heavy investment in...
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Language and History in the Early Germanic World
This book offers a distinctive and accessible approach to the earliest encounters of the Germanic tribes of Northern Europe with classical antiquity...
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Slaves, Warfare, and Ideology in the Greek Historians
This book challenges conventional opinion by arguing that slaves and Helots played an important part in classical Greek warfare. Although rival...
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Anglo-Saxon England (No. 26)
In the present volume, the two essays that frame the book provide exciting insight into the mental world of the Anglo-Saxons by showing on the one...
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A History of Cambridge University Press
This second volume of the history of Cambridge University Press deals with a period of fundamental changes in printing, publishing, and bookselling....
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A Journey Back
At the age of twenty-one, Arnon Tamir was deported to Poland from his home in Germany. A Journey Back describes Tamir's life in Germany, his...
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Vetenskap och karriär
Denna bok behandlar naturvetenskapens ställning och naturvetares karriärvillkor under 1900-talet. Utgångspunkten är fysikers ändrade...
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