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When did Americans first believe they were at the center of a truly global culture? How did they envision that culture and how much do recent attitudes toward globalization owe to their often utopian...

How anti-fascism is as American as apple pieSince the birth of fascism in the 1920s, well before the global renaissance of “white nationalism,” the United States has been home to its own distinct...

The Classical Greek sophists - Protagoras, Gorgias, Prodicus, Hippias, and Antiphon, among others - are some of the most important figures in the flourishing of linguistic, historical, and...

Thomas Perry's Edgar Award-winning Butcher's Boy is back and redeploying the violent ways of his youth to escape a new reward on his head in Eddie's Boy Michael Shaeffer is a retired American...

The life, times, and music of Franz SchubertDuring his short lifetime, Franz Schubert (1797–1828) contributed to a wide variety of musical genres, from intimate songs and dances to ambitious chamber...

The origins, controversial uses, and competing interpretations of Jefferson's famous remark—"wall of separation between church and state"No phrase in American letters has had a more profound...

Examining the relationship between Hooker's activities and his writings, Frank Shuffelton considers his role in the crises of early New England politics and religion. The author analyzes Hooker's...

By John W. Shirley. Includes Index. Bibliography: P. 476-490.

Responding to ongoing debates over the role of humanism in the rise of empirical science, Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann explores the history of Renaissance art to help explain the complex beginnings of the...

Political strategies for tackling climate change and other “long problems” that span generations Climate change and its consequences unfold over many generations. Past emissions affect our climate...

Well-known as a brilliant general and politician, Julius Caesar also played a fundamental role in the formation of the Latin literary language and remains a central figure in the history of Latin...

“What does it mean to be lonely?” Thomas Dumm asks. His inquiry, documented in this book, takes us beyond social circumstances and into the deeper forces that shape our very existence as modern...

A compelling framework for understanding the importance of the 1970s for America and the worldThe 1970s looks at an iconic decade when the cultural left and economic right came to the fore in...

"For over two millennia, empires were the dominant political organizations in Eurasia. The premodern empires with which we are most familiar arose through a process of internal development and...

New mathematical research in arithmetic dynamicsIn The Arithmetic of Polynomial Dynamical Pairs, Charles Favre and Thomas Gauthier present new mathematical research in the field of arithmetic...