Alexander Broadie & Craig Smith 
Cambridge Companion to the Scottish Enlightenment [PDF ebook] 

Friendships between women and gay men captivated the American media in the opening decade of the 21st century. John Portmann places this curious phenomenon in its historical context, examining the ch …

In January of 1848, James Marshall discovered gold at Sutter”s Mill in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada. For a year afterward, news of this discovery spread outward from California and started a m …

This single volume traces three approaches to the study of the Holocaust – through notions of history, theories of memory, and a focus on art and representation. It introduces students to the differe …

Late Antiquity witnessed a dramatic recalibration in the economy of power, and nowhere was this more pronounced than in the realm of religion. The transformations that occurred in this pivotal era mo …

Examining the evolution of kingship in the Ancient Near East from the time of the Sumerians to the rise of the Seleucids in Babylon, this book argues that the Sumerian emphasis on the divine favour t …

Wars cannot be fought and sustained without food and this unique collection explores the impact of war on food production, allocation and consumption in Europe in the twentieth century. A comparative …

In discussions of worship, the term ’participation’ covers a lot of ground. It refers not only to concrete acts in gathered liturgy, but also to some of the loftiest claims of Christian theology. In …

This book explores the epiclesis or invocation of the Holy Spirit in the Eucharistic Prayer, using the Anglican tradition as an historical model of a communion of churches in conscious theological an …

A fascinating look at how America”s favorite sport has both reflected and shaped social, economic, and …

First published in 1942 (second impression 1944), this book forms a debate about the endeavour to find an intellectual basis for ethics in science. …