In the early 1930’s in a small alcove at City College in New York a group of young, passionate, and politically radical students argued for hours about the finer points of Marxist doctrine, the true nature of socialism, and whether or not Stalin or Trotsky was the true heir to Lenin. These young int..
Carlo Ginzburg shows clearly how the transformation of the popular notion of witchcraft was manipulated by the Inquisitors, and disseminated all over Europe and even to the New World. The peasants’ fragmented and confused testimony reaches us with great immediacy, enabling us to identify a level of ..
Published in 1921. In this book Dr Albert Churchward proposes that the unity of brotherhood throughout the world is the only means for permanent universal peace...
First published in English in 1953, this important book from eminent philosopher Karl Jaspers deals with the philsophy of the history of mankind. More specifically, its avowed aim is to assist in heightening our awareness of the present by placing it within the framework of the long obscurity of pre..
Comprehensive and accessible while providing full documentation, this volume features the work of 23 internationally known scholars and writers, offerring the first wide ranging treatment of wine in the early history of western Asia and the..