Paul Kosmin argues that the coast—not individual shores, but the coast as such—was fundamental to ancient history. The social and natural dynamics of the coast profoundly shaped not... Læs mere
Peter of Atroa (773–837 CE) was cofounder and abbot of the influential monastery of Saint Zachariah. He resisted Iconoclast policies and gained a reputation as a miracle... Læs mere
The first complete English-language collection of Simone Weil’s letters to her loved ones, A Life in Letters deepens appreciation of one of the twentieth century’s great thinkers by... Læs mere
David Rabban provides the first comprehensive synthesis of the case law on academic freedom and the First Amendment at American... Læs mere
Constant digital surveillance has inspired a heated but also limited privacy debate. Lowry Pressly looks beyond the narrow discourse of rights and... Læs mere
The definitive biography of Hu Yaobang, who, as general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party in the 1980s, promoted popular reforms... Læs mere
How does emotion shape public intellectual debate? In Sentimental Republic, Hang Tu proposes emotion as a new critical framework to... Læs mere
The crises of American democracy and criminal justice are intimately connected. David A. Sklansky shows how police,... Læs mere
Make Your Own Job charts the transformation of the American work ethic in the twentieth century. It is no longer enough to be... Læs mere
The Discovery of Ottoman Greece unearths forgotten research by the early modern philhellenist... Læs mere
The people of Smolensk survived both of the twentieth century’s most brutal dictatorships. Michael David-Fox probes their experiences under... Læs mere
Velleius Paterculus, soldier and senator, chronicles in concise fashion the story of Rome and Roman culture from the fall of Troy to the time of his work’s publication in AD 30 and... Læs mere