Humanities - Page 399

Guilty Aesthetic Pleasures

In the wake of radical social movements in the 1960s and 1970s, literary studies’ embrace of politic...

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Rage for Order: The British Empire and the Origins of International Law, 1800-1850

International law burst on the scene as a new field in the late nineteenth century. Where did it com...

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Medieval Bodies: Life, Death and art in the Middle Ages

Dripping with blood and gold, fetishized and tortured, gateway to earthly delights and point of cont...

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Reckonings: Legacies of Nazi Persecution and the Quest for Justice

A single word—"Auschwitz"—is sometimes used to encapsulate the totality of persecution and suffering...

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History and Presence

Beginning with metaphysical debates in the sixteenth century over the nature of Christ’s presence in...

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Adorno and Existence

From the beginning to the end of his career, the philosopher Theodor W. Adorno sustained an uneasy b...

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Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World

The definitive history of the Great Financial Crisis, from the acclaimed author of The Deluge and Th...

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A Short History of Byzantium

A Short History of Byzantium is renowned historian, and author of A History of Venice, John Julius N...

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Saints: A Very Short Introduction

The idea of saints and sainthood are familiar to all, irrelevant of religious faith. In this Very Sh...

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Napoleon: A Very Short Introduction

This Very Short Introduction provides a concise, accurate, and lively portrait of Napoleon Bonaparte...

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The London Cage: The Secret History of Britain's World War II Interrogation Centre

The first complete account of the fiercely guarded secrets of London’s clandestine interrogation cen...

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Athenian Prostitution: The Business of Sex

This is a pioneering study that examines the sale of sex in classical Athens from a commercial (rath...

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The Ethics of Authenticity

Everywhere we hear talk of decline, of a world that was better once, maybe fifty years ago, maybe ce...

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The Black Circle: A Life of Alexandre Kojeve

Alexandre Kojève (1902–1968) was an important and provocative thinker. Born in Russia, he spent most...

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Mussolini and Hitler: The Forging of the Fascist Alliance

A fresh treatment of Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany, revealing the close ties between Mussolini and...

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