• Rok vydání 2024

\nIn Ukraine, War, Love, award-winning fiction writer Olena Stiazhkina chronicles day-to-day developments in her beloved…

• Rok vydání 2011

From the temptation of Eve to the venomous murder of the mighty Thor, the serpent appears throughout time and cultures as a…

Babyn Yar brings together the responses to the tragic events of September 1941. Presented here in the original and in…

\nTwenty-five years after his prescient Democracy\'s Discontent, Michael Sandel updates his classic work for our more…

• Čeština

Kistiakovsky railed against Lenin’s concept of a vanguard party to lead the revolution and advocated a government based on…

• Rok vydání 2005

\nThe Katrina disaster was not a weather event of summer 2005. It was a disaster a century in the making, a product of…

\nThroughout US history, black people have been configured as sociolegal nonpersons. Joshua Bennett explores the place of…

\nIn this collection of dispatches, Stanislav Aseyev attempts to understand the reasons behind the success of Russian…

\nThe Frontline collects essays in a companion volume to Plokhy\'s The Gates of Europe and Chernobyl. The essays present…

• Rok vydání 2024

\nBobby Kennedy wasn’t the most visible figure in the civil rights movement, but his impact was transformative. As attorney…

\nThe fall of France in 1940 panicked US leaders, leading to their fateful decision to recognize the pro-Nazi Vichy…

\nIn antebellum New Orleans, whites and Blacks died in droves from yellow fever. But the fortunes of survivors were less…

\nWith Congress paralyzed, lawmaking falls to executive agencies and courts that interpret existing statutes. Due to the…

\nFrom the Alien Friends Act to the Cold War and the War on Terror, the US has used ideological exclusions and deportations…

The California Gold Rush is thought to exemplify the Wild West, yet miners were expert organizers. Driven by property…

\nLargely forgotten today, the Second Mexican Empire was a transformative nineteenth-century moment. Raymond Jonas explores…

\nThe Russia-China border is a study in contrasts, with booming cities on the Chinese side and sleepy villages on the…

Islamic China traces the interlinked stories of twenty Chinese Muslims across the centuries, spanning ethnic groups, sects,…

\nElectronic eavesdropping once provoked protest and outrage. Now it is a mundane fact of life. How did we get here? The…

\nIn US foreign policy, conflict has replaced diplomacy. At home, wars on crime, drugs, immigration, and terrorism dissolve…

\nWith Congress paralyzed, lawmaking falls to executive agencies and courts that interpret existing statutes. Due to the…

• Čeština

\nIn Ukraine, War, Love, award-winning fiction writer Olena Stiazhkina chronicles day-to-day developments in her beloved…

\nThe US government has long sought investment opportunities for US companies in developing countries. But the results have…

\nZongyuan Zoe Liu provides the first in-depth examination of sovereign funds in China. Under President Xi, the state has…

\nAvant-Garde Post– follows seven Russophone poets as they reinvigorate leftist art in the wake of state socialism.…

\nMargarita Fajardo tells the story of the cepalinos, Latin American economists and policymakers, and their dependentista…

\nNational security once was not limited to physical defense. FDR equated national security with safety from foreign attack…

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

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

\nSamantha Kelly tells the story of Ethiopian Orthodox pilgrims in sixteenth-century Rome. The only African community in…

• Čeština

A longstanding tradition holds that universities in early modern Italy suffered from cultural sclerosis and long-term…

By shedding light on a long-forgotten epigraphic genre called “genealogical steles” that flourished in North China…