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From the Ashes of Sobibor
When the Germans invaded Poland on September 1, 1939, Thomas Toivi Blatt was twelve years old. He and his family lived in the largely Jewish town of...
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The Rise and Fall of Languages
This book puts forward a different approach to language change, the punctuated equilibrium model. This is based on the premise that during most of...
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Friendship in the Classical World
This book – the only history of friendship in classical antiquity that exists in English – examines the nature of friendship in Greece and Rome...
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Knowledge, Discovery and Imagination in Early Modern Europe
Recent explanations of changes in early modern European thought speak much of a move from orality and emphasis on language to print culture and a...
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The World of Rome
The World of Rome is an introduction to the history and culture of Rome for students at university and at school as well as for anyone seriously...
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Friendship in the Classical World
This book – the only history of friendship in classical antiquity that exists in English – examines the nature of friendship in Greece and Rome...
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Remaking Queen Victoria
Queen Victoria’s central importance to the era defined by her reign is self-evident, and yet it has been surprisingly overlooked in the study of...
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Covenant and Republic
Philip Gould investigates the cultural politics of historical memory in the early American republic, specifically the historical literature of...
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Knowledge, Discovery and Imagination in Early Modern Europe
Recent explanations of changes in early modern European thought speak much of a move from orality and emphasis on language to print culture and a...
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Disputatio Volume 2
Northwestern University Press is pleased to announce this volume in its journal addressing late medieval culture (ca. 1300-1550). Constructions of...
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Theatre Culture in America, 1825–1860
Theatre Culture in America, 1825–1860 examines how Americans staged their cultures in the decades before the Civil War, and advances the idea that...
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The Roman Cultural Revolution
This book places culture centre-stage in the investigation of the transformation of Rome from Republic to Empire. It is the first book to attempt to...
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The World of Rome
The World of Rome is an introduction to the history and culture of Rome for students at university and at school as well as for anyone seriously...
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Press Censorship in Elizabethan England
This is a revisionist history of press censorship in the rapidly expanding print culture of the sixteenth century. Professor Clegg establishes the...
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Anglo-Saxon England (No. 25)
Material evidence brought to light in this book includes a niello disc from Limpsfield Grange (Surrey) and two fragments of a composite Old English...
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Hebrew Manuscripts at Cambridge University Library
For some five hundred years, Hebrew books have been counted among the treasures of the University of Cambridge, and Cambridge University Library’s...
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The Cambridge Ancient History
With the publication of Volume 13 The Cambridge Ancient History moves into fresh territory. The first edition was completed by Volume 12 which closed...
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Muntlig och skriftlig kultur
Walter J Ongs Muntlig och skriftlig kultur handlar om talets och skriftens historia. Ong försöker få oss - de skriftkulturella bokläsarna - att...
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Lost in a Labyrinth of Red Tape
Lost in a Labyrinth of Red Tape is the story of one family's desperate attempts to emigrate from Nazi Germany. The FrÜhaufs faced enormous...
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Den föreställda gemenskapen. Reflexioner kring nationalismens ursprung och spridning.
Andersons bok skiljer sig från den omfattande litteraturen i ämnet nationalism genom sina originella infallsvinklar och sitt okonventionella sätt...
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Från broderskap till systerskap
Gunnel Karlsson undersöker i Från broderskap till systerskap det socialdemokratiska kvinnoförbundets kamp för inflytande i SAP efter andra...
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Det långa 1900-talet
Giovanni Arrighis Det långa 1900-talet är enastående, bland annat därför att boken producerar ett problem som vi inte visste att vi hade, i...
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Riches and Poverty
In Riches and Poverty, Donald Winch explores the implications of a fundamental and influential idea in political economy. Adam Smith’s science of...
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Homer and the Origin of the Greek Alphabet
Who invented the Greek alphabet and why? The purpose of this challenging book is to inquire systematically into the historical causes that underlay...
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