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As O’Callaghan details, many of the code's provisions were drawn up in response to the problems Alfonso dealt with as king...

Mill’s life was in many respects unsatisfying – riven with anxiety and trauma...

Wang Gungwu has long been recognized as a world authority on the history of China and the overseas Chinese...

Buccola uses the iconic debate between Baldwin and Buckley which took place at the Cambridge Union in February 1965 as an entry point into their own lives and their place within the post black freedom struggle...

Born into slavery, Henrietta Wood was taken to Cincinnati and legally freed in 1848..

The things that make people academics do not necessarily make them good teachers...

Greer provides a fascinating look at a trio of black imagemakers – publisher John H. Johnson, PR executive Moss Kendrix, and photographer Gordon Parks...

Oropeza sheds new light on one of Chicano history’s most notorious figures...

Dag Hammarskjold was such a dynamic secretary-general that for years, the motto about him was simply “Leave it to Dag.”

This is a conversation about a Philadelphian and his store, told by guest Nicole C. Kirk...

O'Rourke brings together Ford’s major professional writings and speeches for the first time.,,

This book draws together Black’s expansive reading in Shakespeare’s contexts with extensive knowledge of the canon of his plays...

The Emperor Charles V (1500–1558), ruler of Spain, the Holy Roman Empire, the Netherlands, and much of Italy and Central and South America, has long intrigued many scholars of early modern Europe...

Household Gods is a family biography that explores the Christian republicanism of John and Abigail Adams...

Mahalia Jackson, the great mid-twentieth century gospel singer, thought of herself as an embodiment of the history of African Americans in the United States...

Focusing on the actions and consequences of a “front-line Holocaust perpetrator”, Kay’s biographies diverges drastically with the traditional bios of other more well-known Nazis...

As the wife of a Macedonian king and the mother of three sons who would succeed him, Eurydice played an important role in Macedonia at an important moment in the kingdom’s history...

Beauvior is now celebrated, but during her life she was a controversial figure both by conventional and feminists’ standards...

Crow studies how Jefferson’s association with legal history was born out of America’s long history as part of an early modern empire and the political thought which preceded him...

This unexpected and absorbing book delves into the story of Napoleon’s exile on the island of Elba following his abdication in 1814...

Gorvine provides a multifaceted analysis of Shardza Tashi Gyaltsen (1859-1934), one of the most prominent modern representatives of the Tibetan Bön tradition...

Thompson examines the Melville's magazine work in its original publication...

Parker draws upon an enormous array of documentation to provide readers with a better understanding of Charles and the many challenges he faced over the course of his decades-long reign...