Britain's Bloodless Revolutions explores the relationship of the emerging category of Literature to the emerging threat of popular violence between...

After Shakespeare the most famous British author in Europe, in Britain Byron was for years either neglected, or a victim...

What is—and what was—“the world”? Though often treated as interchangeable with the ongoing and inexorable progress of globalization, concepts of...

This Element examines the eighteenth-century novel's contributions to empirical knowledge. Realism has been the conventional framework for treating this subject...

Ends of Enlightenment explores three realms of eighteenth-century European innovation that remain active in the twenty-first century: the realist novel,...

This is a study of Enlightenment in Edinburgh like no other. Using data and models provided by urban innovation and...

The economic crisis of 2008 led to an unprecedented focus on the world of high finance—and revealed it to be...

In this broad ranging study, Gretchen Woertendyke reconfigures US literary history as a product of hemispheric relations. Hemispheric Regionalism: Romance and...

The first comprehensive intellectual history of alphabet studies.

Inventing the Alphabet provides the first account of two-and-a-half millennia of scholarship...

As schooling has become more commodity-based, the place and position of learning and curriculum has been transformed and new perspectives...

At a moment when Google seeks "to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful", this book...

An innovative study of the ways performance influenced Mozart’s compositional style.

We know Mozart as one of history’s greatest composers....

Tracing war’s expansion beyond the battlefield to the concept of the human being itself

As military and other forms of...

Paper Knowledge is a remarkable book about the mundane: the library card, the promissory note, the movie ticket, the PDF...

‘Poetry and the Idea of Progress, 1760–1790’ explores the role of poetry in eighteenth-century thinking on human progress. Its central...

The fledgling United States fought a war to achieve independence from Britain, but as John Adams said, the real revolution...

Episodes in the history of data, from early modern math problems to today's inescapable “dataveillance,” that demonstrate the dependence of...

This study examines academic departments as a context for teaching in the secondary school. lt explores why teachers find departments...

An engaging and authoritative history of Scotland’s influence in the world and the world’s on Scotland, from the Thirty Years’...