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Tributary Empires in Global History is one of a very select few to pioneer comparisons between the great historical empires of agrarian societies, such as the Roman, Mughal and Ottoman empires, and others. As such, it is an exercise in global and comparative history over time. It examines and interrogates our basic historiographical, theoretical and comparative models and conceptions about how large pre-colonial empires expanded, operated and declined. In 14 chapters, all of them explicitly comparative, a group of leading historians, sociologists and anthropologists illuminate tributa

The first volume under review is the outcome of a five-day conference held in Italy in July 1989. It was the first gathering of representatives of national historians' associations affiliated to the International Federation for Research in Women's History/Federation International pour la Recherche de l'Histoire des Femmes (IFR WH/FIRHF), or rather of those associations which could afford to send representatives. IFR WH/FIRHF is an Internal Commission of the International Committee of the Historical Sciences. Its purpose, obviously, is to promote the serious study of women in history and the role of women within the profession.

"Human Rights and History" published on by Oxford University Press.

W.J. Mander presents the first ever synoptic history of British idealism, the school of thought which dominated English-language philosophy from the 1860s to the early 20th century. He restores to its proper place this period of philosophy, introduces the exponents of idealism and explains its concepts and doctrines

AbstractThe definition of Islam as submission, the claim that Islam needs a Luther, and the desire to identify jihād with private and spiritual struggle, all reflect a series of compulsions and elisions. The three idioms are fundamental to how Islam has been constituted in language as a subject and as a problem. They each also have forgotten genealogies. This article outlines these genealogies and their intersection through the politics of translating Islam as submission, peace, or salvation; of narrating its place and temporality in modernity; and of reinterpreting historical texts and exemplars through the prism of liberalism and toleration. These three moves take Islam out of history. The dislocation of Islam winds through three disciplinary moments that track political theory's investments in philology, teleology, and philosophy. The article concludes by pointing toward critical possibilities and resources that emerge out of alternative discursive formations—formations that dwell alongside or behind the three idioms and that remain suppressed in them.

Patriarchy in the ancient world, 3000 BCE-300 CE -- The gender rules of new universal religions, 200-1000 CE -- Gender and war in the age of global interactions, 1000-1500 -- Gender and slavery in the age of global expansion, 1450-1750 -- Gender and the state in the age of revolution, 1750-1850 -- Gender in the age of empires, 1815-1914 -- Gender politics in the twentieth century.

When and how do communication and history impact each other? How do disciplinary perspectives affect what we know?. Explorations in Communication and History addresses the link between what we know and how we know it by tracking the intersection of communication and history. Asking how each discipline has enhanced and hindered our understanding of the other, the book considers what happens to what we know when disciplines engage. Through a critical collection of essays written by top scholars in the field, the book addresses the engagement of communication and history as it applies to the stud

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- The examined Life -- 1: What is There? -- 2: Is there a God? -- 3: What is it to be Human? -- 4: What can we Know? -- 5: How should we Live? -- 6: How do we make a Good Society? -- Conclusion -- Glossary -- For More Information -- For Further Reading -- Index -- Back Cover

Hours at work and total factor productivity growth in nineteenth-century U.S. agriculture / Lee A. Craig, Thomas Weiss -- Factor endowments and contract choice / Alan Dye -- Moral hazard and asset specificity in the Renaissance : the economics of sharecropping in 1427 Florence / Francesco L. Galassi -- Squatting and the settlement of the United States : new evidence from post-gold rush California / Karen Clay, Werner Troesken -- The social prologue to the civil rights movement / Jay R. Mandle -- Migration, labor market dynamics, and wage differentials in Hawaii's sugar industry, 1901-1915 / Sumner J. La Croix, Price Fishback -- Did the black-white income gap close during the late nineteenth century? / Anthony Patrick O'Brien -- Cooperation and cooperatives in Southern European wine production / James Simpson