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The 2,500 - Year Struggle Between East and WestThe differences that divide West from East go deeper than politics, deeper than religion, argues Anthony Pagden. To understand this volatile relationship, and how it has played out over the centuries, we need to go back before the Crusades, before the birth of Islam, before the birth of Christianity,...

Pre-Modern to Contemporary PerspectivesIn recent years, terrorism has become closely associated with martyrdom in the minds of many terrorists and in the view of nations around the world. In Islam, martyrdom is mostly conceived as "e;bearing witness"e; to faith and God. Martyrdom is also central to the Christian tradition, not only in the...

Winding Up the British Empire in the Pacific Islands is the first detailed account, based on recently-opened archives, of when, how, and why the British Government changed its mind about giving independence to the Pacific Islands. As Britain began to dissolve the Empire in Asia in the aftermath of the Second World War, it announced that there were...

Black Women in Colonial and Revolutionary New EnglandThey baked New England&'s Thanksgiving pies, preached their faith to crowds of worshippers, spied for the patriots during the Revolution, wrote that human bondage was a sin, and demanded reparations for slavery. Black women in colonial and revolutionary New England sought not only legal...

Abu Hamid al-Ghazali and his Revival of the Religious SciencesThe First Islamic Reviver presents a new biography of al-Ghazali's final decade and a half, presenting him not as a reclusive spiritual seeker, but as an engaged Islamic revivalist seeking to reshape his religious tradition....

A new edition of this best-selling history of Britain, from Roman times, now updated to cover the first decade of the 21st century....