Notions of civilization and barbarism were intrinsic to Eugène Delacroix’s artistic practice: he wrote regularly about these concepts in his journal, and the tensions between the two were the subject of numerous paintings, including his most ambitious mural project, the ceiling of the Library of the Chamber of Deputies in the Palais Bourbon. Exiled in Modernity delves deeply into these themes, revealing why Delacroix’s disillusionment with modernity increasingly led him to seek sp...

Would it bother you if your vicar or pastor was a former skinhead, punk-rocker and football hooligan? What about your Sunday School teacher? For that matter, what about St Paul who was a persecutor of Christians and then had them thrown into prison, or Moses who murdered a man?This is a timely modern story of how God chooses sinners, any of us, and makes them into saints for his glory. David O'Brien was a least likely candidate for church leadership but God had his eye on him from ...

Since its inception, the United States has defined itself as a nation of immigrants and a land of religious freedom. But following September 11, 2001 American openness to immigrants and openness to other beliefs have come into question. In a timely manner, Religion and Immigration provides comparative perspectives on Protestants, Catholics, Muslims and Jews entering the American scene. Will Muslims seek and receive inclusion in ways similar to Catholics and Jews generations before? How wil...

The History of Babylon traces the city's rise from Amorite beginnings to its Neo-Babylonian zenith, interlacing political chronicle with religion, economy, and material culture. Using classical testimonies alongside newly deciphered cuneiform, Rawlinson reconstructs dynasties, diplomacy, and scribal learning, with attention to Marduk's cult and monumental building. The style is measured, documentary Victorian prose, yet alert to comparative vistas across the Ancient Near East. George Rawli...

In one of the only works drawing on interviews with both Uyghurs and Han in Xinjiang, China, and postcolonial perspectives on ethnicity, nation, and race, this book explores how forms of banal racism underpin ideas of self and other, assimilation and modernisation, in this restive region.Significant international attention has condemned the CCP’s use of forced internment in ‘re-education’ camps, as well as its campaign of cultural assimilation. In this wider context, this book focu...

Organon of Medicine distills Hahnemann's homeopathic doctrine into aphorisms that outline a radical therapeutic program: rigorous case-taking, individualization, single remedies in minimum doses, and remedies selected by the law of similars. Combining polemical prefaces with marginalia and observations, the treatise argues for a dynamic vital force and the primacy of provings. Composed against the backdrop of early nineteenth-century heroic medicine, it offers a systematic alternative to b...

Assyrian Empire presents a capacious history of Mesopotamia's most formidable power, tracing its rise from warrior city-states to the imperial hegemony of Nineveh and its collapse in 612 BCE. Rawlinson synthesizes cuneiform inscriptions, royal annals, and classical testimonies to reconstruct campaigns, siegecraft, provincial administration, deportations, religion, and court art. Attentive to diplomacy with Egypt, Urartu, and Elam, he situates Assyria within a competitive Near Eastern syste...

This title was first published in 2000: Using micro-level data, this text shows that rural Russian households have made significant adaptations to an emerging market economy in just a few years. It focuses on how household capital (household labour, social networks and comunity attachment) effect the economic and psychological adaptation of households to rapid socioeconomic change. Findings are from 1995 to 1997 panel surveys made in three waves. The book deals systematically with micro-le...

History of the Phoenician Civilization follows the Levantine seafarers from the city-states of Tyre and Sidon to the Punic world, charting trade, colonization, and the spread of the alphabet. Drawing on Greek and Roman writers, biblical notices, inscriptions, and coinage, Rawlinson reconstructs institutions, cult, and material life—purple dye, cedar commerce, and navigation. In lucid Victorian prose with orderly chapters and ample notes, he marries classical narrative to emergent epigraphy...

History of the Sasanian Empire narrates the dynasty from Ardashir I to Yazdegerd III, setting Iran's last pre‑Islamic realm within Late Antique geopolitics. Rawlinson integrates wars with Rome/Byzantium and Armenia with chapters on administration, Zoroastrian institutions, court ritual, and kingship ideology. He correlates Greek, Syriac, Armenian, and Arabic testimonies with coins, rock reliefs, and inscriptions at Naqsh‑e Rustam and Paikuli, in lucid Victorian prose marrying narrative swe...

In The History of Parthian Empire, George Rawlinson traces the Arsacid rise from Parni chiefs to a dominion straddling Iran and Mesopotamia. Drawing on Greek and Latin historians alongside coins and inscriptions, he reconstructs wars with Seleucids and Rome, patterns of overlordship and vassalage, and the military ecology of horse archers and cataphracts. Attention to Ctesiphon, Armenia, and Silk‑Road traffic situates Parthia between Hellenism and Iran. Composed in measured Victorian prose...

History of the Ancient Chaldea surveys southern Mesopotamia from Sumerian city-states to the Neo‑Babylonian age. Rawlinson blends cuneiform evidence—tablets, cylinder seals, brick inscriptions—with Herodotus and Berossus, charting Ur and Uruk, Sargon of Akkad, Hammurabi, and Nebuchadnezzar II, alongside religion, astronomy, law, and Gulf commerce. In measured Victorian prose with ample apparatus, it exemplifies early, synthetic Assyriology. George Rawlinson (1812–1902), Camden Professor of...