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A brilliant, eye-opening work of history that speaks volumes about today’s battles over international trade, immigration, public health and global ine

Between 1846 and 1940, more than 50 million Europeans moved to the Americas, irrevocably changing both their new lands and the ones they left behind.

This innovative study of the patriarchy belies the accepted notion of the father figure as tyrannical and exploitative.

A panoramic history of the vast migration of Eastern Europeans to the West by a recent winner of a MacArthur Fellowship.

In his Bellum Catilinae, C. Sallustius Crispus or Sallust (86-35/34 B.C.E.) recounts the dramatic events of the year 63 B.C.E. when a disgruntled and

In Maus maakt de lezer kennis met Vladek Spiegelman, een joodse overlevende van de Tweede Wereldoorlog, en zijn zoon Art. Ze herbeleven een historie

In this essential philosophical and practical reckoning, Martha C. Nussbaum, renowned for her eloquence and clarity of moral vision, shows how sexual

Thousands of texts, written over a period of three thousand years on papyri and potsherds, in Egyptian, Greek, Latin, Aramaic, Hebrew, Persian, and ot

We are all afraid that new dangers pose a threat to our hard-won freedoms, so what deserves attention is precisely the notion of freedom. The conce

In this innovative, interdisciplinary study, James Elkins argues against the assumption that images can be adequately described in words. In his view,

Hoe oud wordt de generatie die nu in de wieg ligt? Verdwijnt ons kikkerland grotendeels in de Noordzee? Kiezen toekomstige ouders hun baby uit in het

The first and only graphic novel to win the Pulitzer Prize, MAUS is a brutally moving work of art about a Holocaust survivor -- and the son who surviv