In 1675 English America descended into anarchy, as rebellions, massacres, and riots swept the colonies from New York to…

No major economy is more dependent on fossil fuel exports than Russia, yet it is unprepared for the global transition away…

Rationality and freedom are among the most profound and contentious concepts in philosophy and the social sciences. In two…

Revision seems to be an intrinsic part of good writing. But Hannah Sullivan argues that we inherit our faith in redrafting…

Bernardo Zacka probes the complex moral lives of street-level bureaucrats'-the frontline social and welfare workers, police…

Woodrow Hartzog develops the underpinning of a new kind of privacy law responsive to the way people actually perceive and…

Consumers, investors, and corporations orient their activities toward a future that contains opportunities and risks. How do…

Produkt Competition in the Midwestern Coal Industry zakoupíte na Bookshop.cz od nakladatele Harvard University Press.…

Between 1555 and 1870, papal authorities created legal roadblocks to keep Rome''s ghetto-bound Jews from obtaining kosher…

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

Ai Hisano reveals how the food industry capitalized on color, fashioning a visual vocabulary that shapes what we think of…

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

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

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

From Booker T. Washington to a neighbor who speaks up at a city council meeting, many of the people who represent us were…

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Among the late nineteenth-century profusion of evolutionary ideas, Wilhelm Roux''s theory of a struggle for existence within…

Faced with government''s ineptitude, people are attracted to strong leaders and bold action. As Pierre Rosanvallon…

Anthony Gregory traces the origins of America''s modern law-and-order politics to a surprising source: the New Deal, the…

The Op-Ed Novel follows a clutch of globally renowned Spanish novelists who swept into the political sphere via the pages of…

Waleed Ziad examines the development of Sufi-led Muslim revivalist networks. From the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries,…

• Čeština

Timbuktu is famous as a center of learning from Islam''s Golden Age. Yet it was one among many scholarly centers to exist in…

In her examination of juvenile misconduct, Kathleen Jones reveals the complex history of '"child guidance,'" a specialized…

Moore presents his summation of 15 years of research, observation, and teaching about what public-sector executives should…

Jianglin Li provides the first clear historical account of the Chinese crackdown in Lhasa in 1959. Sifting facts from the…

When a young woman killed herself in the office she shared with her employer in 1920s Shanghai, the city reeled in shock. Xi…

Chinese Communists have long embraced capitalism, for various reasons. In the 1930s Communists made deals with foreign…

Festivals and the French Revolution'-the subject conjures up visions of goddesses of Liberty, strange celebrations of…

During his long career, Hilary Putnam repeatedly revised his philosophical positions. This unique volume is a window into…

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

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

Produkt Injury to Insult zakoupíte na Bookshop.cz od nakladatele Harvard University Press.…

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

As railways, steamships, and telegraph communications brought distant places into unprecedented proximity, previously minor…

The American Constitution has a dual nature. The first aspect is the degree to which it acts as a binding set of rules that…

In this book, senior scholars in the field review and synthesize recent theoretical developments in important areas--optimal…

The Sound of Modern Polish Poetry unearths recordings from Polish poets such as Czeslaw Milosz, Wislawa Szymborska, and…

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

Our legal system is committed to the idea that private markets and the law of contracts that supports them are the primary…

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Sociologist Robert Wuthnow notes remarkable similarities in the social conditions surrounding three of the greatest…

This timely and controversial book presents powerful theoretical and empirical arguments for the repeal of the…

Gregory Afinogenov explores centuries of Russian spying and scholarship on the Far East. He argues that the approaches the…

Christian Raffensperger tracks the dynastic marriages of the Volodimerovici, the ruling family of Rus'´. Using a modern…

Katie Ebner-Landy shows that early modern Europeans, inspired by the ancient philosopher Theophrastus, embraced the…

Carl Kaysen offers a penetrating economic analysis of the issues in the civil antitrust suit brought by the United States…

It is common to regard rights and wrongs as mirror images: to be wronged is to have one''s rights violated. Nicolas Cornell…

Histories of remote islands around Japan are usually told through the prism of territorial disputes. In contrast, Takahiro…

• Rok vydání 1937

Heinz Rutha, pioneer of a youth movement that emphasized male bonding in its quest to reassert German dominance over…

• Rok vydání 1813

The British Crown''s 1813 legalization of Christian evangelism among its Indian subjects set off a storm of criticism in…