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The Rise and Fall of a Palestinian Dynasty
The Husayni family of Jerusalem dominated Palestinian history for 250 years, from the Ottoman times through to the end of the British Mandate. At the height of the family's …
Hero, Conspiracy, and Death: The Jewish Lectures
With Hero, Conspiracy and Death: The Jewish Lectures, the author has written a book of sweeping significance for readers interested in Polish history, Jewish history, and the …
Gender in Urban Europe
This volume offers an integrated set of local studies exploring the gendering of political activities across a variety of sites ranging from print culture, courts, government and …
The Glory and the Sorrow
An intimate history of an ordinary Parisian citizen and his neighbors that reflects on the origins and radicalization of the French Revolution. What was it like to live through one …
Isaac Newton
Quarrelsome and quirky, a disheveled recluse who ate little, slept less, and yet had an iron constitution, Isaac Newton rose from a virtually illiterate family to become one of the …
Philosophising the Occult
Was it mere encyclopedism that motivated Fakhr al-Din al-Razi (d.1210), one of the most influential Islamic theologians of the twelfth century, to theorize on astral magic – or was …
The Military Organization of Moldavia and Wallachia in the Phanariot Era, 1709-1821
In the summer of 1806, Charles-Fr d ric Reinhard (1761-1837), resident and general commissioner of France in the Romanian Principalities, stated that there weren't any armies in …
Life and Death of States
An intellectual history of sovereignty that reveals how the Habsburg Empire became a crucible for our contemporary world orderSprawled across the heartlands of Europe, the Habsburg …
Upton and the Army
Scorched Earth
A global history of environmental warfare and the case for why it should be a crimeThe environmental infrastructure that sustains human societies has been a target and instrument …
Of Duty Well and Faithfully Done
On the eve of the Civil War, the Regular Army of the United States was small, dispersed, untrained for large-scale operations, and woefully unprepared to suppress the rebellion of …