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Dan Edelstein
The Revolution to Come

"A new intellectual history of the idea of the revolution in the Western world, from the Greeks to the present"--

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Ori Levin
Celluloid Babel

Traces the intellectual history of cinema's aspiration to create a universal language, examining how this vision has been articulated in both writings and films. Celluloid Babel offers a transnational int…

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Christian Olaf Christiansen
In Defense of Economic and Social Human Rights

Breaking new ground in the intellectual history of economic and social human rights, Christian Olaf Christiansen traces their justification from the outset of World War II until the present day. Featuring…

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Peter Watson
The British Imagination

The third in Peter Watson's spiritual trilogy, including THE GERMAN GENIUS and THE FRENCH MIND: a masterful and epic intellectual history of Britain

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Will Norman
Complicity in American Literature After 1945

Complicity in American Literature after 1945 offers a literary and intellectual history of the idea of complicity in the United States, proposing a new frame for understanding American literature in the p…

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Natasa Kovacevic
Nonaligned Imagination

Nonaligned Imagination: Yugoslavia, the Global South, and Literary Solidarities Beyond the Cold War Blocsrecovers the literary and intellectual history of internationalist cultural collaborations to eluci…

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Erica Weaver
The Hermeneutics of Distraction in Early Medieval England

This book writes the cultural and intellectual history of distraction through the study of the affective practices of a particular community of medieval writers and readers: the influential circle of Ã†th…

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Risto Saarinen
Philosophical Justice and Reformation Righteousness

A study of the intellectual history of justice in Latin philosophical and theological sources between 1250 and 1550, demonstrating that Protestant views of Iustitia Dei have their roots in medieval interp…

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Daniel R Langton
Darwin in the Jewish Imagination

This book explores how Jewish thinkers engaged with Darwin's theory of evolution from the 1860s to the 1960s, offering a unique perspective on one of history's most transformative scientific ideas. Writte…

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Sandor Hites
Five Economies of World Literature

Breaks new ground in the study of world literature by analysing the genesis of this concept in the context of early European political economy. Addressing readers interested in comparative literature, int…

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Peter Harrison
Some New World

What was believable in one era is no longer acceptable in another. What one culture finds utterly incredible elsewhere becomes an article of faith. This disjuncture forms the basis of Peter Harrison's mas…

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Susanna Morton Braund
Translating Virgil

"The first synthesis and analysis of the translation history of Roman poet Virgil's works into European languages. A wide-ranging interdisciplinary investigation that contributes to western intellect…

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Jared Poley
Luck, Leisure, and the Casino in Nineteenth-Century Europe

"Casino gambling is central to understanding the cultural, social, and intellectual history of nineteenthcentury Europe. Tracing the development of casino gambling across this period, this book conne…

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Dmitri Levitin
The Kingdom of Darkness

This book offers a transformative account of early modern European intellectual history, culminating in new interpretations of two of its leading minds: Pierre Bayle and Isaac Newton. It charts the proces…

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Daniel Lav
Salafi Political Theology

"Salafi Islam, whose radical wing is today affiliated with groups such as al-Qaida and the Islamic State, has a long history, and is particularly indebted to Ibn Taymiyya's (d. 1328) doctrine of tawh…

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Daniel Lav
Salafi Political Theology

"Salafi Islam, whose radical wing is today affiliated with groups such as al-Qaida and the Islamic State, has a long history, and is particularly indebted to Ibn Taymiyya's (d. 1328) doctrine of tawh…

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Thinking of the Medieval

Revealing the profound influence of the Middle Ages on mid-twentieth-century thought and the influence of these intellectual endeavours on present-day politics, art, and history, this interdisciplinary co…

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Ben Jamieson Stanley
Precarious Eating

"Precarious Eating asks how recentering global South representations of food might shift understandings of environmental precarity. Taking up a diverse range of novels, films, scholar/activist writin…

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Idriss Jebari
Leaping Decolonization

In the wake of independence from French colonialism, a generation of North African nationalist leaders and progressive thinkers reimagined their futures through essays, periodicals, and publishing network…

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The Cambridge Companion to Ottoman History

Why study Ottoman history? What are the available sources? And how can researchers begin locating, reading, and interpreting these? The Cambridge Companion to Ottoman History provides a broad introduction…

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