The Gods of Egypt, first published in France in 1992 and now in its third French edition, is a short, elegant, and highly accessible survey of ancient Egyptian religion. The clarity and brevity of Claude Traunecker's book make it especially valuable to readers seeking an authoritative introduction to this complex topic. The Cornell edition, the ......
In the closing years of the fourteenth century, an anonymous French writer compiled a book addressed to a fifteen-year-old bride, narrated in the voice of her husband, a wealthy, aging Parisian. The book was designed to teach this young wife the moral attributes, duties, and conduct befitting a woman of her station in society, in the almost ......
Emotions, Memory, and the German-Jewish Settlement After the Holocaust
The Great Repair explores how Jews and Germans began reparations discussions less than seven years after the Holocaust, a momentous achievement relegated to the margins of Holocaust scholarship and memory, and the complexities that emerged from the resulting settlement. Gideon Reuveni illuminates the swift transition and extraordinary chapter ......
In The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, Jeremy A. Yellen exposes the history, politics, and intrigue that characterized the era when Japan's "total empire" met the total war of World War II. He illuminates the ways in which the imperial center and its individual colonies understood the concept of the Sphere, offering two sometimes ......
The Greater Second World War challenges the traditional temporal and geographic frameworks of World War II, expanding the timeline to include a series of regional conflicts and revolutions that began in 1931 and continued into the mid-1950s. These conflicts bookended a "central paroxysm" defined by the intervention of the United States into every ......
American-Ottoman Relations and Democratic Fervor in the Age of Revolutions
In The Greek Fire, Maureen Connors Santelli explores the early global influence of the United States through its fascination with the Greek Revolution of the 1820s and 1830s. The American philhellenic movement pushed US interests into the eastern Mediterranean, shaping domestic conversations on freedom and reform. Believing Greece to be the ......
The Hard Work of Hope takes you into the heady days of 1960s and 1970s activism, chronicling the hopes and strategies of the young people who created the movements that rocked the country. Michael Ansara was on the front lines. In this fascinating memoir, he traces an arc of discovery: from the hope and moral clarity of the Civil Rights Movement ......
The Hell of Holy War reads Jean de Joinville's famous account of King Louis IX and his Seventh Crusade as a powerful and unique representation of war, memory, and loss during the Middle Ages. In 1248, Joinville, a French nobleman, set out for the Holy Land, having taken the Cross and vowed to follow King Louis IX - Saint Louis (d. 1270) - across ......
The Heritage State examines the emergence and growth of a tradition of heritage and its preservation in the Arabian Peninsula following decades of the region's marginalization in global heritage debates, largely due to a Eurocentric worldview that prioritizes secular over religious ideas of heritage value and its circulation. Through an ......
