Historia & Arkeologi

A major new biography of Huldrych Zwingli—the warrior preacher who shaped the early Reformation   Huldrych Zwingli (1484–1531) was the most significant early reformer after Martin …

The definitive study of Nikolai Yezhov’s rise to become the chief of Stalin’s secret police—and the dictator’s “iron fist”—during the Great Terror Head of the secret police from …

A comprehensive look at how slavery and resistance to it have shaped Yale University   Award-winning historian David W. Blight, with the Yale and Slavery Research Project, answers …

The first full-scale account of a Persian king vilified by history Xerxes, Great King of the Persian Empire from 486–465 B.C., has gone down in history as an angry tyrant full of …

A noted medical historian explores the roles played by various intellectual frameworks and trends in the writing of history A collection of ten essays paired with substantial …

An innovative study of how the Victorians used books, portraits, fairies, microscopes, and dollhouses to imagine miniature worlds beyond perception In 1856, Elizabeth Gaskell …

What really caused the failure of the Soviet Union’s ambitious plans to modernize and industrialize its agricultural system? This book is the first to investigate the gap between …

A groundbreaking history of women in British intelligence, revealing their pivotal role across the first half of the twentieth century   From the twentieth century onward, women …

A synthetic reconstruction of women’s religious engagement and experiences in preexilic Israel  “This monumental book examines a wealth of data from the Bible, archaeology, and …

A comprehensive history of the struggle to define womanhood in America, from the seventeenth to the twenty-first century  “Exhaustively researched and finely written.”—Alexandra …