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Why Europe Grew Rich and Asia Did Not provides a striking new answer to the classic question of why Europe industrialised from the late eighteenth cen

Contrary to popular belief that poverty has been characteristic of India for centuries, the author demonstrates that, it was not until the rise of col

Contrary to popular belief that poverty has been characteristic of India for centuries, the author demonstrates that, it was not until the rise of col

A striking new answer to the classic question of why Europe industrialised and Asia did not. Focusing on divergence from the perspective of the Indian

The rich history of the Indian Ocean has been much explored, though its present-day manifestations remain less studied. This catalog for an exhibition

Theatre flourished in the Roman Republic, from the tragedies of Ennius and Pacuvius to the comedies of Plautus and Terence and the mimes of Laberius.

This book combines classic statements of the theory of political rhetoric (Aristotle, Isocrates, Cicero) with an extraordinarily rich array of example

Pilgrim shrines were places of healing, holiness, and truth in early modern France. By analyzing the creation of these shrines as natural, legendary,

Many of America's most significant political, economic, territorial, and geostrategic accomplishments from 1776 to the present day came about because

In traditional cultures, the shaman is the healer, the connector, and the spiritual leader or sensemaker. Today in the management academy, some indivi

The Book of Hours was a 'best-seller' in medieval and early modern Europe, the era's most commonly produced and owned book. This interdisciplinary stu

Edmund Husserl (1859–1938) is regarded as the founder of transcendental phenomenology, one of the major traditions to emerge in twentieth-century phil

This volume in the Collected Writings of John Sallis presents his lecture course on German Idealism, tracing its development from the reception of Kan

Examines how fragile and decaying artworks transformed the relation between art, time, and value in eighteenth-century France.