Jan Assmann 
Death and Salvation in Ancient Egypt [PDF ebook] 

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 …

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 …

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 …

Soviet global strategy, long established and well understood by the Kremlin leaders, is to intimidate weak and fearful governments, exploit indigenous difficulties, disrupt social order, and promote …

A Short History of the French Revolution is an up-to-date survey of the French Revolution and Napoleonic era that introduces readers to the origins and events of this turbulent period in French histo …

The figure of Anna Perenna embodies the complexity and richness of the Roman mythological tradition. In exploring Anna Perenna, the contributors apply different perspectives and critical methods to a …