After fifty years of posing and answering daring historical questions, Richard Bulliet tackles an array of topics as diverse as the origin of... Læs mere
Empire was not fabricated in European capitals and implemented “out there.” Imperial systems affected the metropole as well as the farthest outpost. Empires... Læs mere
Presented in a new edition with expanded notes, this genre-defying meditation on the semiotics of late-1920s Weimar culture, composed of 60 short prose pieces that vary wildly in style and... Læs mere
Countless African Americans have passed as white, leaving behind families and friends, roots and communities. It was, as Allyson Hobbs writes,... Læs mere
Suppression and thaw have marked the course of communism in China. Goldman traces that shifting pattern over the last decades of Mao’s regime, linking it to the... Læs mere
Sociologist Robert Wuthnow notes remarkable similarities in the social conditions surrounding three of the greatest challenges to the status quo in the development of modern society—the Protestant Reformation, the Enlightenment, and the rise of Marxist socialism.
Within 12 years of the first appearance of "Leaves of Grass" in 1855, Whitman produced three further editions. Michael Moon concludes... Læs mere
In this monumental intellectual biography, Frank Sulloway demonstrates that Freud always remained, despite his denials, a biologist of the mind; and, indeed, that his most creative inspirations derived significantly from biology.
This book is an inquiry into the possibilities of politics in exile. The Mensheviks, driven out of Soviet Russia, functioned abroad in the West... Læs mere
Moral relativism and pessimism, and the denigration of ethics in comparison with science are the results of widespread skepticism about the... Læs mere
When Sarah Bernhardt made her first American tour in 1880, the term “feminism” had yet to enter our national vocabulary. But over the next... Læs mere