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

\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…

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

\nJulia Rombough explores the regulation of sound in women’s residential institutions in early modern Florence. Silence was…

\nIn Dreaming and Self-Cultivation in China, 300 BCE-800 CE, Robert Ford Campany examines how dreaming was addressed in…

\nIn Lineages Embedded in Temple Networks, Richard Wang explores the key role played by elite Daoists in social and cultural…

This work plumbs opened archives in the former Soviet bloc to reveal the actual, practical accomplishments of Communism…

The first intellectual history of Song, Yuan, and Ming China written from a local perspective, Localizing Learning traces…

Daniel J. C. Kronauer brings to life the research surrounding army ants, nature's preeminent social hunters. Without central…

\nVice President John Adams faces a turbulent world of rebellion in this volume of the Papers of John Adams, which…

Offers commentary and an illustrated history of the representations of people of African descent ranging from the ancient…

Offers commentary and an illustrated history of the representations of people of African descent ranging from the ancient…