Historical Dictionary of Burkina Faso
Burkina Faso, known as Upper Volta until its independence from France in 1960, and locally called the “land of the upright people,” is a medium-sized … Read more
Social History
Collecting the Self: Body and Identity in Strange Tale Collections of Late Imperial China
Chinese strange tale collections contain short stories about ghosts and animal spirits, supra-human heroes and freaks, exotic lands and haunted homes, earthquake and floods, and … Read more
The Buffalo Hunters: The Story of the Hide Men
In 1867 conservative estimates put the number of buffaloes in the trans-Missouri region at fifteen million. By the end of the 1880s, that figure had … Read more
The Excavations of San Giovanni di Ruoti, Volume III: The Faunal and Plant Remains
This third volume of The Excavations of San Giovanni di Ruoti series deals with the social, economic, and environmental information derived from the analysis of … Read more
Kant’s Justification of Ethics
Kant’s arguments for the reality of human freedom and the normativity of the moral law continue to inspire work in contemporary moral philosophy. Many prominent … Read more
Freedom’s Right: The Social Foundations of Democratic Life
The theory of justice is one of the most intensely debated areas of contemporary philosophy. Most theories of justice, however, have only attained their high … Read more
The Correspondence of Charles Hutton Mathematical Networks in Georgian Britain
This book contains all the letters that are known to survive from the correspondence of Charles Hutton (1737-1823). Hutton was one of the most prominent … Read more
Guiding Lights: The Extraordinary Lives of Lighthouse Women
None Women have a long history of keeping the lights burning, from tending ancient altar flames or bonfires to modern-day lighthouse keeping. Yet most of … Read more
Herbert Hoover, Unemployment, and the Public Sphere: A Conceptual History, 1919-1933
Herbert Hoover, Unemployment, and the Public Sphere examines the fulfillment of Hoover’s ideas in the area of unemployment between 1919 and 1933. The economic system … Read more
An Account of the Manners of the German Inhabitants of Pennsylvania
None At a time in U.S. history when negative stereotypes and prejudices toward the Germans in Pennsylvania abounded, Benjamin Rush&’s account sought to redeem their … Read more
Festivals and Legends: The Formation of Greek Cities in the Light of Public Ritual
Since ritual is by definition unchanging, public festivals can disclose earlier stages of social organization. Robertson also shows how the festivals gave rise, by way … Read more