Crowd behavior is one of the most colorful but least understood forms of human social behavior. This volume is a major contribution to the field of collective b

This book analyses sociological discussions on crowds and masses since the late nineteenth century, covering France, Germany and the USA.

Discusses the efforts of Heinrich Schliemann, a nineteenth-century businessman, to identify a site in modern Turkey as the ancient city of Troy, and parallels h

In the first book-length study of astronomy in Hardy's writing, historian of science and literary scholar Pamela Gossin offers complex and inspired readings of