"Chronicling Frederick Douglass's life in an accessible way, this biography engages with history and wrestles with biases, falsehoods, and unknown facts in order to tell Douglass's story as accurately as…

The interplay between religion and student activism at the universities of Abomey-Calavi (Benin) and Lome (Togo) has often been overlooked, although faith-based organisations and student unions have coexisted since the…

Early German Positivism is a history of the origins of the scientific worldview of positivism. This worldview arose in a struggle against the Roman Catholic tradition and the traditions of…

Frederick Barthelme is a minimalist writer whose stories are anything but minimal. Labeled as "Dirty" or "Kmart" Realism, his work illustrates the immense feeling contained within the minute and seemingly…

Explores the commemoration and memorialisation of the Canterbury martyr in visual and material culture.

Poetic storytelling at its finest, this book captures the essence of real-life experiences from an author who has seen and lived through more than most. With rivetingly illicit descriptions of…

The selected correspondence of the great American abolitionist and reformer dating from the immediate post-Civil War years

The first modern English edition of diverse Enlightenment-era writings by Prussian monarch Frederick the GreatFrederick II of Prussia (1712-86), best known as Frederick the Great, was a prolific writer of…