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While mediation has a strong record in reducing hostilities, it is not without its own problems. In The Mediation Dilemma, Kyle Beardsley highlights its long-term limitations.
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Costlow explores the central place the forest came to hold in a century of intense seeking for articulations of national and spiritual identity.
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Alex Weisiger tests three explanations for a nation's decision to go to war and continue fighting regardless of the costs. He combines sharp statistical analysis of interstate wars over the past two centuries with nine narrative case studies.
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"Today, a good century after the first X-rays of mummies, Egyptology has the benefit of all the methods and means at the disposal of forensic medicine. The 'mummy stories' we tell have changed their tone, but they have enjoyed much success, with...
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In A Kingdom of Stargazers, Michael A. Ryan examines the interest in astrology in the Iberian kingdom of Aragon, where ideas about magic and the occult were deeply intertwined with notions of power, authority, and providence.
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The Mettray Penal Colony was a private reformatory without walls, established in France in 1840 for the rehabilitation of young male... Læs mere
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In this ground-breaking account of the political economy and cultural meaning of blood in contemporary India, Jacob Copeman and Dwaipayan Banerjee... Læs mere
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In Life Is Elsewhere, Anne Lounsbery shows how nineteenth-century Russian literature created an imaginary place called "the... Læs mere
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"Krcmaric uses the results of statistical tests and case studies to show how the advance of international justice creates a trade-off between resolving today's civil wars and preventing tomorrow's atrocity crimes"--
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"This book shows that Gothic elements in Russian literature (the themes of horror, medieval barbarity, darkness, and transgression) frequently expressed deep-set anxieties about the Russian imperial and national identity"--
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"When we take seriously the effect Ivan Turgenev's lifelong passion for hunting had on his literary craft, we dramatically deepen our appreciation of... Læs mere