A fascinating account of the phenomenon known as the Black Death, this volume offers a wealth of documentary material focused on the initial outbreak of the plague that ravaged the world in the 14th century.

A work by the Italian-Jewish writer, Primo Levi.

The Arcades Project is Benjamin's effort to represent and to critique bourgeois society from the post-Napoleonic era to the present age and, in so doing, to liberate the suppressed "primal history" that underlies its ideological mask.

This important book further asserts that although fascist ideology was grounded in a revolt against the Enlightenment, it was not a reactionary movement.

Above all, the book illuminates the niches protected and financed by the Catholic Church in which science and mathematics thrived.

Laura Engelstein, one of the greatest scholars of Russian history, has written a searing and defining account of the Russian Revolution, the fall of the old order, and the creation of the Soviet state.

Tacitus' Annals recounts the major historical events from the years shortly before the death of Augustus to the death of Nero in AD 68.

Between 1915-1916 approximately one million Armenian Christians were killed under the auspices of the Ottoman government.

This 1997 book discusses the shift to quantitative perception which made modern science, technology, business practice and bureaucracy possible.

Presenting a thorough analysis of the Dutch participation in the transatlantic slave trade, this book is based upon extensive research in Dutch archives.