Examines the interrelation between technology and international politics since the nineteenth century.

Draws attention to how American presidents have creatively interpreted the Constitution to expand the power of the executive branch.

Recounts the fake news stories, written from 1830 to 1880, about scientific and technological discoveries, and the effect these hoaxes had on readers and their trust in science.

Studies J. Robert Oppenheimer’s choice to accept leadership of the Manhattan Project.

Explores moral progress in the American military.

This reappraisal of the middle section of Augustine's Confessions covers the period of Augustine's conversion to Christianity. The author argues against the prevailing Neoplatonic interpretation of Augustine.

Addresses the implications of a document found in the Archivio di Stato di Siena which affirms a connection between Farinata degli Uberti, a Florentine conspicuously encountered by Dante the pilgrim in Inferno 10, and the Sienese Ghibellines with whom he and his fellow Florentine Ghibellines joined, in an alliance which produced the Sienese victory at the battle of Montaperti in 1260.

Examines Darwin’s concept of species in a philosophical context.

Chronicles the evolution of the armory as a specific building type in American architectural and military history, and the role these buildings played in the history of America’s volunteer militia.

A comprehensive account of JFK’s and LBJ’s leadership of the Democratic Party in the 1960s.

Argues that women's relationship to books and their promotion of reading contributed greatly to the cultural and intellectual vitality of the Enlightenment.

Essays on human rights in Puerto Rico during the twentieth century.

Explains how the Jordanian monarchy has survived economic crisis and regional political instability.

Explores the limits of economic liberalization within the European Union.

A fascinating exploration of how the transcendent is expressed in the spatial sensibility of premodern Islam.

Essays exploring rural New York during the American Revolution.

Explores the unique and volatile relationship of these two nations and cultures over the past two centuries, as expressed in literature, film, and philosophy.

Details the reactions of men and women serving aboard a hospital transport ship during the American Civil War.

Shows how Alfred the Great's translations of Latin works exposed Anglo-Saxon elites to classical learning and Christian thought while bringing prestige to the king and his West Saxon dialect.

Continuing his groundbreaking reappraisal of the Confessions, Carl G. Vaught shows how Augustine's solutions to philosophical and theological problems emerge and discusses the longstanding question of the work's unity.

Explores how literati of China’s mid-Northern Song period developed a social and therapeutic tradition in poetry. Includes a number of translations of the witty poems of the period.

The history of Turkey's difficult transition to a multi-party political system.

The first systematic treatment of Karl Popper’s contribution to the philosophy of the social sciences.

Art historical and literary perspectives on the place of women in the medieval church.

Discusses interpretations of the Yijing (the I Ching or Book of Changes) during the Northern Song period and how these illuminate the momentous changes in Chinese society during this era.