Paul B. Watt 
Demythologizing Pure Land Buddhism [PDF ebook] 
Yasuda Rijin and the Shin Buddhist Tradition

All education and educational scholarship occurs on Indigenous Lands. Despite this reality, U.S. social studies education and scholarship has reinforced settler colonialism through curricula, teacher …

Traditional accounts of the scientific revolution focus on such thinkers as Copernicus, Galileo, and Newton, and usually portray it as a process of steady, rational progress. There is another side to …

Beginning with the extraordinary rescript by Tsar Nicholas II in August 1898 calling the world“s governments to a disarmament conference, this book charts the history of the two Hague peace conferen …

The Twentieth-Century World, 1914 to the Present introduces students to five distinct historical themes in 20th century history – politics, economics, religion, technology and the environment. Each o …

This book provides a meticulously documented account of officially sanctioned cannibalism in the south-western province of Guangxi during the Cultural Revolution. Zheng Yi paints a disturbing picture …

Parting company with the trend in recent scholarship to treat the subject in abstract, highly theoretical terms, Magic in Ancient Greece and Rome proposes that the magic-working of antiquity was in r …

Winner of the Penang Book Prize 2019 Nusantaria – often referred to as “Maritime Southeast Asia“ – is the world“s largest archipelago and has, for centuries, been a vital cultural and trading hub. …

This book demonstrates how people were kept ignorant by censorship and indoctrinated by propaganda. Censorship suppressed all information that criticized the army and government, that might trouble t …

The Ottoman Empire went through rapid economic and social development in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, as it approached its end. Profound changes took place in its European terri …