A one-volume guide to Hindu faith and culture, this title elucidates the history, philosophy and practice of one of the world's great religious traditions, emphasizing Hinduism's classical heritage and daily practice as well as contemporary approaches to Hindu scholarship.
A one-volume guide to Hindu faith and culture, this title elucidates the history, philosophy and practice of one of the world's great religious tradit...
This collection begins with the intellectual origins of the Enlightenment, and spans early Enlightenment formations to both contemporary and modern critics of the Enlightenment. Themes include the High Enlightenment, polite culture and the arts, reforming the world, and popular culture.
This collection begins with the intellectual origins of the Enlightenment, and spans early Enlightenment formations to both contemporary and modern cr...
With an interdisciplinary approach that encompasses the history of ideas, political history, cultural history and art history, this volume, in the successful Routledge Worlds series, offers a sweeping survey of Europe in the Renaissance, from the late thirteenth to early seventeenth centuries, and shows how the Renaissance laid key foundations for many aspects of the modern world.
Collating thirty-four essays from the field's leading scholars, John Jeffries Martin shows that this period of rapid and complex change resulted from a convergence of a new set of social, economic and...
With an interdisciplinary approach that encompasses the history of ideas, political history, cultural history and art history, this volume, in the ...
Authoritative and up-to-date, this key single-volume work is a thematic exploration of ancient Egyptian civilization and culture as it was expressed down the centuries.
Including topics rarely covered elsewhere as well as new perspectives, this work comprises thirty-two original chapters written by international experts. Each chapter gives an overview of its topic, and also covers the latest research in the area. Chapters are divided thematically into seven sections, to enable a broader understanding of all the complexities of ancient Egyptian society without the constriction of...
Authoritative and up-to-date, this key single-volume work is a thematic exploration of ancient Egyptian civilization and culture as it was expresse...
Filling a gap in the literature for an academically oriented volume on the Viking period, this unique book is a one-stop authoritative introduction to all the latest research in the field.
Bringing together today's leading scholars, both established seniors and younger, cutting-edge academics, Stefan Brink and Neil Price have constructed the first single work to gather innovative research from a spectrum of disciplines (including archaeology, history, philology, comparative religion, numismatics and cultural geography) to create the most comprehensive Viking Age book of its kind...
Filling a gap in the literature for an academically oriented volume on the Viking period, this unique book is a one-stop authoritative introduction...
This comprehensive and beautifully illustrated collection of essays conveys a vivid picture of a fascinating and hugely significant period in history. Featuring contributions from thirty-eight international scholars, the book takes a thematic approach to a period which saw the defeat of the Spanish Armada, the explorations of Francis Drake and Walter Ralegh, the establishment of the Protestant Church, the flourishing of commercial theatre and the works of Edmund Spencer, Philip Sidney and William Shakespeare. Encompassing social, political, cultural, religious and economic history, and...
This comprehensive and beautifully illustrated collection of essays conveys a vivid picture of a fascinating and hugely significant period in history....
The World of the American West is an innovative collection of original essays that brings the world of the American West to life, and conveys the distinctiveness of this diverse, constantly changing region. Twenty scholars incorporate the freshest research in the field to take the history of the American West out of its timeworn 'Cowboys and Indians' stereotype right up to the present discussions of water rights and the presence of the defense industry. Other topics covered include the effects of leisure and tourism, western women, politics and politicians, Native Americans in the twentieth...
The World of the American West is an innovative collection of original essays that brings the world of the American West to life, and conveys the dist...
Orthodox Christianity is the main historical inheritor of the Byzantine tradition of Christianity, and is practised around the world. This book offers an overview of the Orthodox World, covering the main regional traditions and the ways in which the tradition has become global.
Orthodox Christianity is the main historical inheritor of the Byzantine tradition of Christianity, and is practised around the world. This book offers...
As the meeting point between Europe, colonial America, and Africa, the history of the Atlantic world is a constantly shifting arena, but one which has been a focus of huge and vibrant debate for many years. In over thirty chapters, all written by experts in the field, "The Atlantic World "takes up these debates and gathers together key, original scholarship to provide an authoritative survey of this increasingly popular area of world history. The book takes a thematic approach to topics including exploration, migration and cultural encounters. In the first chapters, scholars examine...
As the meeting point between Europe, colonial America, and Africa, the history of the Atlantic world is a constantly shifting arena, but one which ...
