"Kleanthes and Habrokome" by Konstantinos Manos, a Phanariot Greek high officer in late-eighteenth/early-nineteenth-century Romania, is an important landmark in the reception of... Læs mere
Wilford provides the first comprehensive account of the clandestine relationship between the CIA and its front organizations. Using an unprecedented wealth... Læs mere
Schwartz presents the history of genetics through the eyes of a dozen or so central players, beginning with Charles Darwin and ending with Nobel laureate Hermann... Læs mere
Jim Crow has long represented America’s imperfect union. This edition of the earliest Jim Crow plays and songs presents essential performances assembling... Læs mere
Within the ephemera of the everyday—old photographs, circus posters, iron toys—lies a challenge to America’s dominant... Læs mere
Through an examination of debates about cosmopolitanism and human rights, Cheah questions key ideas about what it means to be human, and reveals the flaws in claims about the imminent decline of the nation-state and the obsolescence of popular nationalism.
A majority of evolutionary biologists believe that we now can envision our biological predecessors - not the first, but nearly the first, living beings on... Læs mere
The Imperial Register, compiled in the early eighteenth century by order of Emperor K’ang-hsi, is a guide to 826 basic melodic patterns and... Læs mere
After WWII, U.S. leaders sought to create liberal rule-of-law regimes in Germany and Japan, but the effort was often... Læs mere
The Market has deified itself, according to Harvey Cox’s brilliant exegesis. And all of the world’s problems—widening inequality, a rapidly warming planet, the injustices of global... Læs mere
Both memoir and critique, Methodists and Muslims follows Richard Bulliet’s expansive career, starting with his beginnings in Illinois to his entrée into... Læs mere