In By Flesh and Toil, MĂ©lanie Lamotte explores the rise of the French Empire across both the Atlantic and Indian Oceans.…

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For liberals, the question "Do others live rightly?" seems to demand a follow-up question: "Who am I to judge?" Peaceful…

Was there ever such a thing as Byzantium? Certainly no emperor ever called himself Byzantine. While the identities of…

Populism suddenly is everywhere, and everywhere misunderstood. Nadia Urbinati argues that populism should be regarded as…

\nIn Strange Tales from Edo, William Fleming paints a sweeping picture of Japan\'s engagement with Chinese fiction in the…

Utpaladeva on the Power of Action provides the first critical edition, annotated translation, and study of one of the…

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

\nKaterina Clark recovers the story of leftist world literature, a massive project that united writers from the Soviet…

A study of what it means to play. The book explores play theory as elaborated and debated in disciplines from biology and…

Julia Rombough explores the regulation of sound in women's residential institutions in early modern Florence. Silence was…

How do we justify our political convictions? Libertarians appeal to a love of freedom, liberals to a dedication to fairness.…

Benjamin Elman describes how education, examinations, and civil service fostered the world's first professional class based…

Phenomenology has the strongest claim to the mantle of continental philosophy. Edward Baring shows that credit for its…

Meredith Ray shows that women were at the vanguard of empirical culture during the Scientific Revolution. They experimented…

Representation-in visual arts and fiction-play an important part in our lives and culture. Walton presents a theory of…

The Evolving Self focuses upon the most basic and universal of psychological problems--the individual's effort to make sense…

Economists say there is a limit to what we gain by buying consumer goods. Americans say they want to work less. Yet we…

Text and Interpretation examines the main characteristics of the legal thought of Imam Ja?far al-?adiq, preeminent religious…

Arguably the most important contribution to social theory in fifty years, James Coleman's Foundations erects a unified…

Writers and intellectuals in modern Japan have long forged dialogues across the boundaries separating the spheres of…

\nEugene Fishel asks whether, how, and under what circumstances the United States has considered Ukraine\'s sovereignty in…

Though celebrated at the peak of his career, Australian architect John Andrews' fame waned over time. His body of work…

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

Meanings of Antiquity is the first dedicated study of how the oldest Japanese myths, recorded in the eighth-century texts…

Cataglyphis ants can set out across vast expanses of desert terrain in search of prey, and then find the shortest way home.…

Pulitzer Prize-winner Bert Hölldobler and behavioral ecologist Christina Kwapich reveal a universe of behavioral mechanisms…

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

Drawing on centuries of data, Julia CagĂ© and Thomas Piketty place today's French politics in historical context. France is…

Wang Hui asks what it means for China to be modern and for modernity to be Chinese. Is there a rupture between tradition and…

This rigorous but brilliantly lucid book presents a self-contained treatment of modern economic dynamics. Stokey, Lucas, and…