From National Book Award finalist David I. Kertzer comes the gripping story of Pope Pius XI’s secret relations with Italian dictator Benito Mussolini. This groundbreaking work, based on seven years…

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Pope and Mussolini tells the story of the bloody revolution that stripped the pope of political power and signaled the birth of modern Europe.

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In the past anthropology often used demographic research, but the two disciplines have recently grown to distrust each other’s assumptions and methods. In order to show that they have much…

First Published in 1989. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

A CLASSIC WORK OF ANTHROPOLOGY-OVER SEVENTY THOUSAND COPIES SOLD With a new introduction by Pulitzer Prize-winner David I. Kertzer

Arnold van Gennep’s masterwork, The Rites of Passage, has been a…