A global history of early modern violence

A global history of early modern violenceThis is the first broad study of large scale violence and the methods of its restraint in the early modern world. Its case studies range from the early 1500s to the 1830s, taking in African slave raiders, Dutch merchants, Burmese bandits, Kurdish highwaymen, Mughal warriors, Spanish colonial soldiers and Japanese magistrates.

This book offers an original analysis of the problem of the authority of the state in democracies by focusing on the relationship between that authority and the development of the international economy through the twentieth century

Horizontal together is an up-close look at the cultural and political power of the langourous queer body

Directory of World Cinema: Italy aims to offer a wide film and cultural context for Italian cinema’s key aspects

A collection of essays and responses from diverse contributors united in original examination of the intersection between incarceration and human rights

Byatt’s work spans virtually her entire career and offers insightful readings of all of Byatt’s fictions up to and including The Children’s Book (2009)

toxic masculinity

the ecclesial factions of episcopalianism

This book examines the 11

This book gives a critical account of four of the most significant avant-garde Chinese art groups and associations of the late 1970s and ’80s

He later worked in textiles

the examples of contemporary art assembled in What’s Next

immunity and evolutionary genetics with a controversial new history of indigenous North America