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.

The history of FDR's Office of Government Reports.

Argues that leaders sometimes promote international conflicts to keep their own military politically divided.

Discusses the first decades of Peking University and its role in shaping Chinese intellectual culture.

Shows how Chinese intellectuals with varying politics envisioned the peasantry and its role in changing society during the first half of the twentieth century.

Explores the origin and evolution of the Greek concept of nature up until the time of Plato.

Essays on the early disciplinary history of international relations.

Examines how Israel was caught by surprise in the opening stages of the 1973 Yom Kippur War.

Writings by twentieth-century imprisoned authors examining confinement, enslavement, and political organizing in prison.

Argues that universities can help revitalize poor neighborhoods.

Examines the politics behind the funding of NASA.

A boy's world is shattered by the Holocaust.

A historical romp through the fascinating subject of murder jurisprudence in the United States from the colonial period to the present, showing how changing social mores have influenced the application of murder law.

A collection of historical articles and essays by a pioneer in the field of masculinity studies.

An award-winning teacher takes a journey into alien territory: Austria, Hitler's birthplace, and the territory of her own hatred. A teaching memoir that offers a pedagogy of hope.

Looks at how foreigners were regarded in three ancient civilizations, finding that cultural, not biophysical, differences were key in distinguishing "us" from "them. "

Brings the writings of de Cleyre out of undeserved obscurity.

Explores the larger social, political, and philosophical contexts in which the current vitriolic science vs. anti-science debates occur.