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Gil Ben-Herut, R V S Sundaram
Stories of Shiva's Saints

The Kannada language boasts an ongoing literary tradition spanning more than a millennium, with a rich array of social positions and roles, religious traditions, and poetic styles that developed over the …

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Ross Brann
Moses Maimonides

Very Short Introductions

Moses Maimonides, a scientist, physician, philosopher, rabbinic scholar, and communal leader, was perhaps the most imposing Jewish figure of the pre-modern age. Yet, more than eight centuries after his de…

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Tabitha Stanmore
Love Spells and Lost Treasure

Magic is ubiquitous across the world and throughout history. Yet if witchcraft is acknowledged as a persistent presence in the medieval and early modern eras, practical magic by contrast - performed to a …

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Plants in 16th and 17th Century

In the pre-modern times, while medicine was still relying on classical authorities on herbal remedies, a new engagement with the plant world emerged. This volume follows intertwined strands in the study o…

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Barry Buzan, Robert Falkner
The Market in Global International Society

The Market in Global International Society tracks the idea and practice of the market through both modern and premodern times, and its evolution as a primary institution in international relations over th…

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Avner Greif, Guido Tabellini, Joel Mokyr
Two Paths to Prosperity

How the social organization of Europe and China shaped their divergent economic and political trajectories over the past millenniumIn the eleventh century, when Europe was still backward and poor, China w…

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Mark Ronan
Addiction Literature's Past and Present

Addiction Literature's Past and Present aims to realign consideration of addiction as a transhistorical and transcultural aspect of the human condition. This book illuminates the premodern roots of the li…

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Beyond Banks

Scholars of credit markets have long focused on banks, but pre-modern as well as modern economies often relied on non-bank credit. This edited volume brings together international examples from across his…

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Francesca Rochberg
Worldmaking and Cuneiform Antiquity

Objects of knowledge exist within material, immaterial, and conceptual worlds. Once the world is conceived from the perspective of others, the physical ontology of modern science no longer functions as a …

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John Kupchik
Azuma Old Japanese

Azuma Old Japanese is an areal term for the two major dialects of Eastern ('Azuma') Japan during the eighth century: Eastern Old Japanese and Töpo-Suruga Old Japanese. This volume is an exhaustive, compar…

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Karl Whittington
Queer Making

What role does desire play in the making of art objects? Art historians typically answer this question by referring to historical evidence about an artist?s sexual identity or to particular kinds of image…

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Khaled El-Rouayheb
Al-Sanå'sä'

The North African scholar Muhammad ibn Yusuf al-Sanusi (1436-90), from Tlemcen, present-day Algeria, was one of the most influential theologians and logicians in the Islamic tradition. al-Sanusi's theolog…

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Vestiges of the Three Kingdoms of Ancient Korea

Vestiges of the Three Kingdoms of Ancient Korea (Samguk yusa) is the first annotated English translation of one of the most important premodern Korean historical texts. One of only two surviving works on …

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Justin Yifu Lin
Demystifying the Chinese Economy

By the late 19th century, China had degenerated into one of the world's poorest economies. Despite generations of effort for national rejuvenation, China did not reverse its fate until the market-oriented…

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Khaled El-Rouayheb
Al-Sanå'sä'

The North African scholar Muhammad ibn Yusuf al-Sanusi (1436-90), from Tlemcen, present-day Algeria, was one of the most influential theologians and logicians in the Islamic tradition. al-Sanusi's theolog…

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Ecologizing Late Ancient and Byzantine Worlds

How can we study the late ancient and Byzantine history from ecological perspectives? How might one grapple with the more-than-human in sources and media created by humans? Exploring the diverse ways in w…

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James Scarth Gale,
Life of the Buddha

Composed in vernacular Korean by Powŏl, P'alsangnok , or Record of the Eight Marks , is an influential pre-modern fictional biography of the Buddha that chronicles the life of Śākyamuni through eight tran…

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Mark Knights
Trust and Distrust

Trust and Distrust offers the first overview of Britain's history of corruption in office in the pre-modern era, 1600-1850, and as such will appeal not only to historians, but also to political and social…

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Justin Yifu Lin
Demystifying the Chinese Economy

By the late 19th century, China had degenerated into one of the world's poorest economies. Despite generations of effort for national rejuvenation, China did not reverse its fate until the market-oriented…

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