\nIn Experimentalist Constitutions, the first book that systematically compares subnational experimentalism in different…

Rugged, remote, riven by tribal rivalries and religious violence, Afghanistan seems to many a forsaken country frozen in…

\nDiego Javier Luis tells the story of transpacific Asian movement to and through the Spanish Americas. On arrival in…

As the postwar U.S. national security establishment required Middle Eastern expertise, it cultivated a beneficial…

Fads and fashions, sexual mores, and political ideologies-all were subject to satire and parody on the cabaret stage. This…

Between 1875 and 1920, Chicago's homicide rate more than quadrupled. Based on an analysis of nearly six thousand homicide…

William Halsey, the most famous naval officer of World War II, was known for fearlessness, steely resolve, and impulsive…

Berkhoff addresses one of the most neglected questions facing historians of the Second World War: How did the Soviet…

Before the Civil War, slaves who managed to escape almost always made their way northward along the Underground Railroad.…

Revered as the birthplace of democracy, Athens is much more than an open-air museum filled with crumbling monuments to…

\nThe New Biology argues that mechanical reductionism, though helpful in answering many biological questions, cannot on its…

\nNazmul Sultan explores Indian contributions to democratic theory, as anticolonial thinkers developed principles of…

\nIn the age of tenure-denial lawsuits and free speech battles, colleges and universities face more intense legal pressures…

Does temperament in childhood shape adult personality? Four psychologists followed thousands of people as they grew up,…

Communist and capitalist states alike were scarred by the economic shocks of the 1970s. Why did only communist governments…

\nVietnam focuses on how the country\'s governance shapes its politics, economy, social development, and international…

\nThe Mongol Empire in Global History and Art History includes essays on topics from historical chronicles to contemporary…

Neeti Nair explores the trend toward legal protection for the religious "sentiments" of majorities in India, Pakistan, and…

Commentators call the United States an empire: occasionally a benign empire, sometimes an empire in denial, often a…

In this meditation on the relationship between East Asia and the United States, Warren I. Cohen examines how cultural…

Some of the most divisive contests shaping the quest for marriage equality occurred not on the culture-war front lines but…

Long before sugar and slaves made Jamaica Britain's most valuable colony, its conquest sparked conflicts with European…

Greil Marcus delves into three distinct episodes in the history of American commonplace song and shows how each one manages…

Heroes and heroines in antiquity inhabited a space somewhere between gods and humans. In this detailed, yet brilliantly…

Provides an alternative history of environmental power and the making of the modern Saudi state. This title demonstrates how…

Of the many pathways out of empire, why did African leaders follow the one that led to the nation-state, whose dangers were…

\nAt the end of World War II, the Soviet Union captured 600,000 Japanese prisoners of war and interned them in Siberian…

\nIn the 1960s biologists and social scientists engaged in a public debate about human nature. The question-whether humans…

\nIn a career spanning seven decades, Liu Kuo-sung has reinvented the millennium-old tradition of ink painting. The Liu…

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\nThe Painting Master\'s Shame describes the remarkable circumstances of the period around 1120, when the Xuanhe Catalogue…

\nUtpaladeva on the Power of Action provides the first critical edition, annotated translation, and study of the first three…

\nDavid Kennedy and Martti Koskenniemi, two leading critics of law\'s role in global life, join together to explore the…

For most of human history, states and regions were connected by long-distance commerce and war, yet they developed…

In the 1960s the Air Force buried 1,000 ICBMs in pastures across the Great Plains to keep U.S. nuclear strategy out of view.…

American Tax Resisters gives a history of the anti-tax movement that, for the past 150 years, has pursued limited taxes on…

Waged for a just cause, World War II was America's good war. Yet for millions of GIs, the war did not end with the enemy's…

As Stefan Ihrig shows in this first comprehensive study, many Germans sympathized with the Ottomans' longstanding repression…

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In 1956 Khrushchev stunned Communists by reciting a litany of Stalin's abuses. His bid to rejuvenate the Party opened the…

Romania's Abandoned Children reveals the heartbreaking toll paid by children deprived of responsive care, stimulation, and…

Banner tells the story of colonial settlement in Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, Tonga, Hawaii, California, Oregon,…

On the heels of the Munich Agreement, Hitler's troops marched into Prague and established the Protectorate of Bohemia and…

\nNo Birds of Passage explores the remarkable business success of three Gujarati Muslim commercial castes: the Bohras,…

It is commonly believed that international law originated in respectful relations among free and equal European states. But…

Maura Dykstra shows how information overload resulting from the administrative revolution of China's eighteenth-century Qing…

Mughal rulers were legendary connoisseurs of the arts, whose patronage attracted poets, artists, and scholars from all parts…

\nMichael Breidenbach traces American secularism to an unexpected source: not Enlightenment liberalism but Catholic…

\nRotary International spreads America\'s good news. The organization spent the interwar years convincing Main Street and…