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A brilliant and scholarly study of the mercantile world of medieval London in the 14th and 15th centuries. Sylvia Thrupp explores merchant life of the world made famous by Chaucer.

Explores the ways in which the experience of the Revolutionary War was entangled with both the causes and the consequences of the Revolution itself. This is not a traditional military chronicle of battles and campaigns, but a series of essays that recapture the social, political, and even intellectual dimensions of the military effort.

A study of the Goliards, itinerant Latin lyricists of the 12th and 13th centuries.

Presents epic poems by one who has been called the first Greek philosopher and theologian.

In his now classic volume Prospero and Caliban, Octave Mannoni gives his firsthand account of a 1948 revolt in Madagascar that led to one of the bloodiest episodes of colonial repression on the African continent. Anthropologist Maurice Bloch has written a powerful and critical new foreword to this English translation.

Portrays monasticism as it developed under Columban, Benedict, and Gregory the Great

The first volume of a collection of writings by early Soviet critics and theorists.

A compelling and intricate novel of emigration and the effects of colonialism on a people

An account of how Jews in eighteenth and early-nineteenth century England adapted to new circumstances and conditions in order to immerse their culture into a pluralistic state and society. The book also incorporates a consideration of the active role of poor Jews in this process.

Offers a vivid portrait of political and cultural life in the 10th century.