Largely forgotten today, the Second Mexican Empire was a transformative nineteenth-century moment. Raymond Jonas explores the... Læs mere
Rising prosperity was supposed to bring democracy to China, yet the Communist Party’s political monopoly endures. How? Minxin... Læs mere
Yakov Feygin argues that Soviet decline owes much to internal tensions over economic reform. Focused on socioeconomic competition with the... Læs mere
From Booker T. Washington to a neighbor who speaks up at a city council meeting, many of the people who represent us were never... Læs mere
The Collapse of Heaven investigates a long-neglected century in Chinese literature through the lens of the... Læs mere
In US foreign policy, conflict has replaced diplomacy. At home, wars on crime, drugs, immigration, and terrorism dissolve... Læs mere
Although Cicero’s oratory is well attested—of 106 known speeches, fifty-eight survive intact or in large part—the sixteen speeches that survive only in quotations by later authors... Læs mere
Justin’s artfully condensed version of the lost Philippic History of Trogus, a contemporary of Livy, is a universal history of the world apart from Rome,... Læs mere
Dear Unknown Friend relates the story of US and Soviet pen pals amid the early Cold War. The correspondents, all of... Læs mere
Ælfric’s Catholic Homilies convey mainstream Christian thought at the turn of the millennium. The first series draws on the works of Augustine and... Læs mere
In Rethinking Japan’s Modernity, M. William Steele takes a new look at the people, places, and events associated with Japan’s engagement with... Læs mere
Between 1555 and 1870, papal authorities created legal roadblocks to keep Rome’s ghetto-bound Jews from obtaining kosher meat.... Læs mere