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This book explores the political and textual interrelations which linked anti-colonialists, nationalists, and modernists in the years 1890-1920. Focusing on both canonical and less well-known figures, and interconnecting Europe, India, and South Africa, the book considers how resistance to domination and nationalist processes of 'making new'...

A Very Short IntroductionMartin Heidegger (1889-1976) is probably the most divisive philosopher of the twentieth century: viewed by some as a charlatan; as a leader and central figure to many philosophers. Michael Inwood's lucid introduction to Heidegger's thought focuses on his most important work, 'Being and Time', and its major themes of...

Hume is one of the greatest of all British philosophers, and even in his own lifetime was celebrated as one of the pivotal figures of the Enlightenment. A central theme of his philosophy is the conviction that questions traditionally thought of as completely independent of the scientific realmDSquestions about the mind, about morality, and about...

Islam features widely in the news, often in its most militant versions, but few people in the non-Muslim world really understand the nature of Islam.  Malise Ruthven's Very Short Introduction contains essential insights into issues such as why Islam has such major divisions between movements such as the Shi'ites, the Sunnis, and the Wahhabis, and...

A translation, with detailed commentary, of Book 10 of Curtius Rufus&'     Histories, a major Roman source on the end of the reign of Alexander the Great. The Introduction establishes a profile of Curtius, and his agenda as a historian. Both translation and commentary are designed for the reader without Latin....

Legality and Legitimacy in Global Affairs focuses on the problematic relationship        between legality and legitimacy when a nation (or nations) intervene in the work of        other nations. Edited by Mark Juergensmeyer, Richard Falk, and Vesselin Popovski,        this volume brings together a wide range of contributors with a broad set of...