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
The father of Indian independence, Gandhi was also a political theorist who challenged mainstream ideas. Sovereignty, he said, depends on the consent of citizens willing to challenge... Læs mere
At his death in 2010, the Anglo-American analytic philosopher John Haugeland left an unfinished manuscript summarizing his lifelong engagement with Heidegger’s... 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.
How malleable is human nature? Can an individual really change in meaningful ways? Or, are there immutable limits on the possibilities of human growth set in... Læs mere
Within 12 years of the first appearance of "Leaves of Grass" in 1855, Whitman produced three further editions. Michael Moon concludes... Læs mere
Contemporary Afro–American theatre is an exciting spectacle of an emerging black identity during a period when blacks have come to the... Læs mere