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Yaniv Fox (Bar-Ilan University, Israel)

The Merovingians in Historiographical Tradition

"The Merovingian centuries were a foundational period in the historical consciousness of western Europe, and their stories were shaped through a process of historiographical adaptation across a millennium…

David K Leff, Eric D Lehman

New England Nature

Since its founding four hundred years ago, New England has been a vital source of nature writing. Maybe it's the diversity of landscapes huddled so close together or the marriage of nature and culture in …

F. H. King

Farmers of Forty Centuries; Or, Permanent Agriculture in China, Korea, and Japan

Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.

Theofanis Tsiampokalos

Plutarch and Rhetoric

A fundamental reappraisal of Plutarch's attitude towards rhetoric. Plutarch was not only a skilled writer, but also lived during the Second Sophistic, a period of cultural renaissance. This book offers ne…

Charles S. Maier

The Project-State and Its Rivals

Charles Maier offers a new narrative of the long twentieth century, focused on institutions that shaped politics and societies: project-states, driven by democratic or authoritarian ideologies; capital; a…

Henryk Szlajfer

Jews and New Christians in the Making of the Atlantic World in the 16th-17th Centuries

Amsterdam Jews appeared up to the mid-17th century as Braudelian "great Jewish merchants." However, the New Christians, heretic judaizantes in the eyes of the Inquisition, dispersed around the world, were…

Francesco Della Porta

From Satanic Mills to Machine Learning

The West brought two key changes to human endeavors: the mechanized factory system and the data processing automation. Each promoted globalization, later enabling the creation of oligopolies and causing a…

Geir K. Almlid

Norway¿s Foreign Policy in the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries

This book provides an introductory analysis of Norway s foreign policy in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, with a particular focus on the latter. Covering themes such as security and defence, for…

John David Chambers

Divine worship in England in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries contrasted with and adapted to that in the nineteenth

Reprint of the original, first published in 1877. The Antigonos publishing house specialises in the publication of reprints of historical books. We make sure that these works are made available to the pub…

Valérie Gillet

Minor Majesties

Minor Majesties studies the small ancient kingdom of Paluv r, active between the ninth and the eleventh centuries C.E. in the modern South-Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Author Valérie Gillet extensively sur…

Alejandro Vergara-Sharp

What Is Quality in Art?

'That this is a legitimate question, even a necessary one, is argued by Vergara in a pleasurable manner, with the pace and attitude of a peripatetic thinker. There is something here that reminds one of Mo…

Rossella Del Prete

The Neapolitan Creative Economy

This book analyses the emergence and growth of the creative sector in Naples between the early modern and modern eras, focusing particularly on the development of music markets in the city. From the seven…

James W Hughes, David Listokin, Richard L Edwards,

Rutgers Then and Now

Rutgers University has come a long way since it was granted a royal charter in 1766. It migrated from a parsonage in Somerville, to New Brunswick-sited The Sign of the Red Lion tavern, to stately Old Quee…

John David Chambers

Divine worship in England in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries contrasted with and adapted to that in the nineteenth

Reprint of the original, first published in 1877. The Antigonos publishing house specialises in the publication of reprints of historical books. We make sure that these works are made available to the pub…

Immigration and Exile Foreign-Language Press in the UK and in the Us

Both Britain and the United States have had a long history of harbouring foreign political exiles, who often set up periodicals which significantly contributed to community-building and political debates.…

Translating Ancient Greek Drama in Early Modern Europe

The volume brings together contributions on 15th and 16th century translation throughout Europe (in particular Italy, France, Spain, Portugal, Germany, and England). Whilst studies of the reception of anc…

Erin Vearncombe, Brandon Scott, Hal Taussig, The Westar Institute

After Jesus Before Christianity

From the creative minds of the scholarly group behind the groundbreaking Jesus Seminar comes this provocative and eye-opening look at the roots of Christianity that offers a thoughtful reconsideration of …

Notenband - Orgelwerke des 16. bis 18. Jahrhunderts. Music Examples - Organ works of the 16th-18th centuries

William Hector

Selections from the judicial records of Renfrewshire. Illustrative of the administration of the laws in the county, and manners and condition of the inhabitants, in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries

Reprint of the original, first published in 1878. The Antigonos publishing house specialises in the publication of reprints of historical books. We make sure that these works are made available to the pub…