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Road to santiago
Walter Starkie’s The Road to Santiago: Pilgrims of St. James is both an erudite cultural history and an ethnographically alert travel narrative of Europe’s most consequential medieval pilgrimage. Framing the Camino as a “double journey” through space and time, Starkie reconstructs the institution...
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The theory of literary criticism
The Theory of Literary Criticism: A Logical Analysis by John M. Ellis argues that modern debates about “what criticism should do” have stagnated since the mid-century syntheses, breeding a climate of “wise eclecticism” that shrinks theory’s scope to ad-hoc judgment. Ellis contends this posture is...
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Chaucer and the fictions of gender
In Chaucer and the Fictions of Gender, the poet’s exploration of masculinity and femininity takes center stage, offering a complex interplay between societal constructs of gender and personal identity. Focusing on the Legend of Good Women, the analysis delves into the feminization of male charact...
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A financial revolution in the habsburg netherlands
This book delves into the financial revolution that took place in the Habsburg Netherlands, focusing specifically on the County of Holland from 1515 to 1565. It investigates the evolution of public debt, with a particular emphasis on the introduction and widespread use of life-term and perpetual ...
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An anthropologist looks at history
This title compiles influential essays by Alfred Kroeber, written in the last decade of his life, reflecting his deep exploration of human culture, civilization, and history through an anthropological lens. Curated by Milton Singer and Theodora Kroeber, this collection showcases Kroeber's unique ...
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The political culture of japan
The Political Culture of Japan delves into the evolving political attitudes of the Japanese populace in the postwar period, focusing on the influence of democratization efforts introduced during the American occupation. This study aims to document the shifts in mass political attitudes rather tha...
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Stuart and georgian moments
Bringing the celebrated Clark Library Saturday seminars to a wider audience, Stuart and Georgian Moments gathers twelve crisp, field-defining essays that map the literary, musical, and cultural horizons of the long seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Edited by Earl Miner, the volume showcases a...
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Rural change and royal finances in spain at the end of the old regime
Rural Change and Royal Finances in Spain at the End of the Old Regime by Richard Herr offers a comprehensive examination of the social, economic, and political transformations that reshaped Spain’s countryside in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Through a meticulous study of th...
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Residues of justice
In Residues of Justice, Wai Chee Dimock probes the conceit of justice as a matter of measurable equivalence—those iconic scales that promise perfect balance—and finds what she calls the “residues” left behind by any attempt to translate lived conflicts into commensurate terms. Opening with Aristo...
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Vilyatpur 1848-1968
Vilyatpur 1848–1968: Social and Economic Change in a North Indian Village by Tom G. Kessinger reconstructs over a century of life in an ordinary Punjabi village, tracing the rhythms of agriculture, labor, and community from the advent of British rule through independence and into the postcolonial...
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Black robes in lower california
The Jesuit missions of Lower California (1697–1768) represent a pivotal chapter in the cultural and spiritual history of the Americas. Black Robes in Lower California brings together a detailed, scholarly exploration of this seventy-year mission period, addressing both its successes and controver...
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Venice and the defense of republican liberty
Venice and the Defense of Republican Liberty: Renaissance Values in the Age of the Counter Reformation by William J. Bouwsma recasts the history of the Renaissance by shifting the spotlight from Florence to Venice. What began as a study of Paolo Sarpi expands into a sweeping exploration of how Ve...
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Kin clan raja and rule
Kin, Clan, Raja, and Rule: State-Hinterland Relations in Preindustrial India delves into the intricate dynamics between local communities and the broader state structures in preindustrial northern India. This study bridges historical and anthropological approaches, examining the cultural and poli...
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Suicide in asia and the near east
Suicide in Asia and the Near East, edited by Lee A. Headley, is a pioneering cross-cultural investigation that widens the suicide research lens far beyond the familiar Western profile. Built over eleven years of fieldwork and collaboration with psychiatrists, psychologists, sociologists, and publ...
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Epochs of greek and roman biography
Sather Classical Lectures, Volume Four: Epochs of Greek and Roman Biography provides an episodic yet insightful exploration of the development of biography as a literary genre in ancient Greece and Rome. Rooted in the principle articulated by Polybius, the work emphasizes the interconnectedness o...
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Human rights and reform
Independence from colonial rule did not usher in the halcyon days many North Africans had hoped for, as the new governments in Morocco, Tunisia, and Algeria soon came to rely on repression to reinforce and maintain power. In response to widespread human rights abuses, individuals across the Maghr...
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T. s. eliot
T. S. Eliot: The Pattern in the Carpet by Elisabeth Schneider offers a searching exploration of Eliot’s poetry and criticism through what she calls “double vision”: the simultaneous awareness of each poem as an autonomous work and as part of the larger, developing pattern of a poet’s lifetime ach...
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The research foundations of graduate education
The Research Foundations of Graduate Education: Germany, Britain, France, United States, Japan, edited by Burton R. Clark, provides a comparative portrait of how five leading national systems connect research with advanced study. The essays examine both the broad organization of higher education ...
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Kinship and urbanization
Kinship and Urbanization: White Collar Migrants in North India delves into the social dynamics of rural-to-urban migration within India's burgeoning white-collar middle class. Focusing on a North Indian city, the study examines two key questions central to urban sociology: the transformation of k...
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Panama at the crossroads
In December 1989, the United States invaded Panama, deposed its government, and established another in its place. While this act of violent intervention brought Panama to public attention, the justifications for it obscured the underlying instabilities that have plagued the country throughout its...
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De quincey to wordsworth
De Quincey to Wordsworth: A Biography of a Relationship delves into the dynamic and complex connection between Thomas De Quincey and William Wordsworth, chronicled through decades of revealing correspondence. This biography goes beyond the letters themselves, placing them within the broader conte...
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Christian political theory and church politics in the mid-twelfth century
Gratian's Decretum, completed around 1140, represents a monumental development in the history of canon law and Christian political theory. As the foundational text for a new, systematic approach to Church law, Gratian’s work combined the ancient canons with innovative scholastic methods, reconcil...
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Scientific realism
Scientific Realism edited by Jarrett Leplin assembles a landmark debate over whether—and how—science tells us what the world is really like. Opening with Hilary Putnam’s “no-miracles” provocation, Leplin frames ten characteristic realist theses (about approximate truth, reference, success, progre...
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Romantic orpheus
Romantic Orpheus: Profiles of Clemens Brentano by John F. Fetzer offers the first comprehensive English-language study of Clemens Brentano (1778–1842), one of the most versatile and influential writers of German Romanticism. A poet, novelist, and critic, Brentano was central to the early Romantic...
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Mothers and divorce
Mothers and Divorce: Legal, Economic, and Social Dilemmas by Terry Arendell is a sobering and insightful examination of the enduring economic and social challenges faced by divorced mothers in America. Moving beyond the often romanticized narratives of self-reinvention that dominate popular cultu...
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Studies in inductive logic and probability, volume i
Rudolf Carnap and Richard C. Jeffrey’s Studies in Inductive Logic and Probability, Volume I gathers seminal work charting Carnap’s late-career re-architecture of inductive logic. Moving beyond the single preferred c\*-method of Logical Foundations of Probability (1950), this volume documents the ...
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Political awakening in the congo
Political Awakening in the Belgian Congo offers a comprehensive exploration of the historical, social, and political forces that shaped the Congo's tumultuous transition from colonial rule to independence. The book provides critical insights into how ethnic diversity, regional particularisms, and...
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Driving a bargain
Driving a Bargain: Automobile Industrialization and Japanese Firms in Southeast Asia explores the dynamics between developing nations and foreign investors in the context of automobile manufacturing. Focused on Southeast Asia, the book analyzes the national efforts of the Philippines, Malaysia, I...
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Confrontation and accommodation in southern africa
Confrontation and Accommodation in Southern Africa: The Limits of Independence examines the complex regional dynamics, racial tensions, and political maneuverings within southern Africa during a period of profound social and political upheaval. The book delves into the interplay of economic, poli...
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Village life in modern thailand
Village Life in Modern Thailand by John E. deYoung provides a vivid descriptive account of Thai rural society beyond the Bangkok delta plain, covering the north, northeast, and much of the central and southern regions. Based on nearly three years of first-hand fieldwork, including an intensive so...
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Cooper's landscapes
Cooper's Landscapes: An Essay on the Picturesque Vision delves into the vivid and enduring landscapes of James Fenimore Cooper's works, exploring how his descriptive artistry shaped the American literary imagination. This essay examines Cooper's unique ability to translate the grandeur of early 1...
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Peasant wisdom
Peasant Wisdom: Cultural Adaptation in a Swiss Village offers an intimate ethnographic portrait of Bruson, a small Alpine village in the canton of Valais, as it negotiates the pressures of modernization while holding fast to an enduring ideology of “peasant wisdom.” Drawing on nineteen months of ...
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Victors divided
Victors Divided: America and the Allies in Germany, 1918–1923 by Keith L. Nelson reexamines the United States’ first military occupation of Germany and the ways it shaped both American foreign policy and the fragile European peace after World War I. Moving beyond the familiar debates over the Lea...
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Robert herrick
Blake Nevius’s Robert Herrick: The Development of a Novelist offers a rigorously contextualized reassessment of an American realist whose reputation straddles the interregnum between Howells and the moderns. Eschewing formal biography, Nevius reconstructs Herrick’s artistic formation through a de...
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John wilkins 1614-1672
John Wilkins, 1614–1672: An Intellectual Biography delves into the multifaceted life of one of 17th-century England’s most dynamic intellectual figures. This meticulously researched volume explores the profound impact of Wilkins as a theologian, scientist, linguist, and advocate for intellectual ...
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Bureaucratic authoritarianism
Bureaucratic Authoritarianism: Argentina, 1966–1973, in Comparative Perspective provides a rigorous and multidimensional analysis of Argentina’s political and economic trajectory during a pivotal period in its history. Through the lens of the bureaucratic-authoritarian (BA) state, the book explor...
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The ancient dialect
In The Ancient Dialect: Thomas Carlyle and Comparative Religion, the author examines how Carlyle’s perspective on religion, language, and human potential both shaped and transcended the intellectual boundaries of his time. The book highlights Carlyle’s movement away from traditional Christian dog...
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Japan in the muromachi age
The Muromachi age may well emerge in the eyes of historians as one of the most seminal periods in Japanese history. So concluded the participants in the 1973 Conference on Japan. The proceedings, as edited for this volume, reveal this new interpretation of the Muromachi age (1334?1573), which was...
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Studia pindarica
Studia Pindarica by Elroy L. Bundy is a landmark in classical philology that reshaped modern understandings of Pindar’s victory odes. Originally published in 1962 and reissued in this combined edition, the book distills Bundy’s methodological innovations into close readings of two key epinician p...
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Moral relativity
Moral Relativity: Reconciling Objectivity and Subjectivity provides a compelling framework for understanding moral experience through the lens of relativism. The book contends that there is no single true morality and argues that this perspective best explains the dual nature of moral experience,...
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Arizona flora
Nearly every life form found among North American flowering plants is represented in Arizona. This amazing diversity is partly explained by the fact that the altitudinal range extends from a few feet above sea level to approximately 12,000 feet at the summit of the San Francisco Peaks. The life z...
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Residence and race
Davis McEntire’s Residence and Race offers a comprehensive examination of one of the most entrenched forms of discrimination in the United States: restrictions on where racial and ethnic minorities could live. Drawing on vivid case studies—from an African American physician barred from buying nea...
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From the poetry of sumer
From the Poetry of Sumer: Creation, Glorification, Adoration by Samuel Noah Kramer offers modern readers a rare window into the world’s earliest recorded literature. Kramer, one of the foremost authorities on Sumerian civilization, surveys a century of philological and archaeological work that ha...
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Merchants and rulers in gujarat
Merchants and Rulers in Gujarat: The Response to the Portuguese in the Sixteenth Century offers a compelling reevaluation of the Portuguese influence in early modern South Asia, specifically in Gujarat. Challenging the notion that the Portuguese were a mere prelude to the larger colonial enterpri...
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Herder
Herder: His Life and Thought aims to offer a comprehensive biography of Johann Gottfried von Herder, a pivotal figure in the German Enlightenment and early Romanticism. The book serves two purposes: first, to provide English-speaking readers with a detailed picture of Herder’s life and thought, c...
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Nepal
Nepal: Strategy for Survival delves into the intricate interplay of geography, history, and cultural dynamics that have shaped Nepal’s foreign policy and its interactions with neighboring giants, India and China. Situated along the Himalayan slopes, Nepal’s central location has historically made ...
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Saving the prairies
Ronald C. Tobey tells a new origin story for American ecology by relocating its birth from the campfire of nature romanticism to the laboratories, land-grant classrooms, and wind-scoured prairies of the Midwest. Saving the Prairies follows the founding school of plant ecologists—C. E. Bessey, Ros...
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English comedy
English Comedy: Its Role and Nature from Chaucer to the Present Day offers an in-depth literary critique of English comedy, highlighting its evolution from the medieval period to modern times. The book is not a mere historical account but a critical exploration of the genre, aiming to deepen the ...
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Guernica! guernica!
Guernica! Guernica! A Study of Journalism, Diplomacy, Propaganda, and History offers a riveting exploration of one of the most infamous events of the Spanish Civil War—the bombing of Guernica on April 26, 1937. Through meticulous research and an incisive critique of historical narratives, Southwo...
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Your california governments in action, second edition
Your California Governments in Action by Winston W. Crouch and John C. Bollens is a clear, accessible introduction to how California governs itself. Written for students and engaged citizens, this volume traces the origins of the state’s constitutions, explains the organization and functions of t...
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The thrift debacle
The Thrift Debacle by Ned Eichler analyzes what he terms the greatest regulatory failure in American history: the collapse of the savings and loan industry and the enormous taxpayer burden created by the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation (FSLIC). Originally designed in the 1930s to s...
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Roman satire
J. Wight Duff’s Roman Satire: Its Outlook on Social Life, first delivered as the Sather Classical Lectures at Berkeley in 1936, offers a sweeping account of satire as Rome’s most characteristically social genre. Moving from Greek precedents to the creations of Lucilius, Horace, Juvenal, and other...
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The rhizome and the flower
The Rhizome and the Flower: The Perennial Philosophy—Yeats and Jung offers an ambitious exploration of what its author terms “Yeats-and-Jung,” a conceptual pairing examined not through conventional literary criticism or psychological analysis but through the broader framework of intellectual hist...
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Senate and general
Senate and General: Individual Decision Making and Roman Foreign Relations, 264–194 B.C. by Arthur M. Eckstein reconsiders the traditional view that the Roman senate exercised consistent and centralized control over foreign policy in the middle republic. Building on close readings of Livy, Polybi...
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Americo castro and the meaning of spanish civilization
Americo Castro and the Meaning of Spanish Civilization offers a systematic exploration of Castro's ideas, organized to trace the evolution and impact of his theories on Spanish history and culture. More than a typical Festschrift or homage, the book brings together contributions from scholars, fr...
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Britain and the balance of power in north america 1815-1908
Kenneth Bourne’s Britain and the Balance of Power in North America, 1815–1908 offers an incisive analysis of British defense and foreign policy as shaped by the complex dynamics of Anglo-American relations. Rather than a conventional history of diplomatic interactions, this volume explores the st...
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London 1808-1870
London 1808-1870: The Infernal Wen examines the sweeping transformation of London during the Industrial Revolution, a period that reshaped the city’s character and identity. Once celebrated for its picturesque charm, as immortalized in Wordsworth’s 1802 sonnet, London became a sprawling industria...
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Diagnosis of the brazilian crisis
Diagnosis of the Brazilian Crisis delves into the complexities of Brazil’s socio-economic challenges during a turbulent period of its history, offering a critical perspective on the role and responsibility of intellectuals in times of national crisis. The author explores the betrayal of intellect...
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Tilak and gokhale
Stanley Wolpert’s study reframes India’s independence as the culmination of a long gestation rather than a sudden post-1947 birth, arguing that the intellectual and organizational groundwork for nationalism was laid well before Gandhi and Nehru. Centering on Bal Gangadhar Tilak and Gopal Krishna ...
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From c-numbers to q-numbers
From c-Numbers to q-Numbers: The Classical Analogy in the History of Quantum Theory explores the critical role of classical analogies in the development of quantum theory, examining how key figures such as Planck, Bohr, Heisenberg, and Dirac employed these analogies to bridge the gap between clas...
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A scotch paisano in old los angeles
A Scotch Paisano in Old Los Angeles by Susanna Bryant Dakin reconstructs the career and milieu of Hugo Reid—a Scottish trader turned Californio hacendado—through an extraordinary epistolary record, chiefly his 1836–1852 correspondence with Abel Stearns. Dakin situates Reid within the intertwined ...
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Change in contemporary south africa
Change in Contemporary South Africa examines the intricate and often contradictory realities of South Africa during a period of significant political and social tension. The book explores the coexistence of apparent governmental stability—marked by economic growth, a strong coercive apparatus, an...
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The world of jean anouilh
The World of Jean Anouilh by Leonard Cabell Pronko presents the French dramatist as one of the twentieth century’s most incisive playwrights, a writer whose enduring reputation rests on his exploration of moral compromise, political expediency, and the tension between purity and complicity. While...
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Darwin in russian thought
Darwin in Russian Thought delves into the profound impact of Darwin's theory of evolution on Russian intellectual culture from the 1860s to the October Revolution. This meticulously researched work explores the diversity of Russian responses to Darwinism, highlighting its role in shaping scientif...
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John locke and agrarian capitalism
John Locke and Agrarian Capitalism by Neal Wood reframes Locke’s political and economic thought by situating it in the profound agrarian changes of seventeenth-century England. Rather than reading Locke as a theorist of emerging mercantile or industrial capitalism, Wood presents him as an interpr...
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The christian poet in paradise lost
The Christian Poet in Paradise Lost offers an illuminating exploration of Milton's personal and poetic presence in his epic masterpiece. The book examines how Milton’s interactions with his characters—Adam, Eve, Satan, the angels, and the Son—serve as a reflection of his spiritual journey and his...
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The school and the university
Burton R. Clark’s edited volume, The School and the University: An International Perspective, explores the enduring and evolving relationship between secondary and higher education across diverse national contexts. Clark frames this relationship as a two-way street: schools shape the flow of stud...
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Lesotho 1970
Lesotho 1970: An African Coup Under the Microscope provides a gripping examination of a pivotal moment in the political history of Lesotho, a small but culturally rich nation nestled within South Africa. This book delves into the January 1970 coup, when Prime Minister Chief Leabua Jonathan suspen...
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Black orpheus, transition, and modern cultural awakening in africa
Black Orpheus and Transition stand as towering landmarks in Africa’s cultural and intellectual history between 1957 and 1978, serving as incubators for the continent's postcolonial literary and artistic awakening. Founded in 1957 by Ulli Beier in Nigeria, Black Orpheus was a platform for artistic...
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Supplement to a california flora
Supplement to A California Flora by Philip A. Munz is an essential update to one of the foundational references on the botany of the American West. Published a decade after the original A California Flora (1959, with David D. Keck), this volume incorporates the results of an extraordinarily activ...
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Politics and force levels
Politics and Force Levels: The Strategic Missile Program of the Kennedy Administration offers a comprehensive analysis of the sweeping military build-up undertaken during John F. Kennedy's presidency, focusing specifically on the expansion of the United States' strategic missile forces. The book ...
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Satiric catharsis in shakespeare
Alice Lotvin Birney reopens the most intractable question in aesthetics—catharsis—and relocates it in the charged arena of satire. Arguing that Aristotle’s purgation can illuminate drama driven by invective as surely as it explains tragedy, Satiric Catharsis in Shakespeare proposes a twofold mode...
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Russia and the outbreak of the seven years' war
Russia and the Outbreak of the Seven Years' War by Herbert H. Kaplan reconsiders one of the great turning points of eighteenth-century Europe by placing Russia at the center of the story. Traditional accounts of the Seven Years’ War highlight the balance of power among Austria, France, Great Brit...
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