This volume of 15 interdisciplinary essays is based on papers given at a conference at Duke Unive...

This book tells the story of Ebenezer, a frontier community in colonial Georgia founded by a moun...

A study of precocious attempts at school reform in societies that were overwhelmingly 'premodern'.

James Melton's lucid and accessible study examines the rise of 'the public' in eighteenth-century...

This collection explores different approaches to contextualizing and conceptualizing the history ...

James Melton's lucid and accessible study examines the rise of 'the public' in eighteenth-century...

This collection explores different approaches to contextualizing and conceptualizing the history ...

Compulsory schooling is widely held to be a creation of modern industrial society. Yet already in...

Paths of Continuity examines the impact of the Third Reich on the German historical profession be...

Paths of Continuity examines the impact of the Third Reich on the German historical profession be...

Otto Brunner contends that prevailing notions of medieval social and constitutional history had b...