Sophia Stamatopoulou-Robbins is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Bard College.
'This project examines how Saudi Arabian officials and economic elites used state archives, histo...
In this essential early work, the preeminent European philosopher Peter Sloterdijk offers a cross...
Defacement asks what happens when something precious is despoiled. It begins with the notion that...
One of the gravest issues facing the global community today is the threat of nuclear war. Brokeri...
This is the first book in English on the seventeenth-century Chinese masterpiece Liaozhai's Recor...
'Knowledge in the Blood' offers a firsthand account, from the first black Dean of a historically ...
In Lautréamont and Sade, originally published in 1949, Maurice Blanchot forcefully distinguishes ...
This is a straightforward narrative of the development of Japanese civilization from 1334 to 1615...
'Originally published in Portuguese in 2018 under the title Paletâo e eu: memâorias de meu pai in...
Andrew Selee is Vice President of Programs at the Woodrow Wilson Center and former Director of it...
Cornelia Vismann is currently a researcher at the Max-Planck-Institute for European Legal History...
Featuring insights from a wide range of disciplines and a number of esteemed scholars, this volum...
Healing Labor is an ethnography of how adult Japanese women working in Tokyo's sex industry exper...
The late Jacques Derrida's notion of literature is explored in this new study. Starting with Derr...
Words can be misspoken, misheard, misunderstood, or misappropriated; they can be inappropriate, i...
After two decades of reinvention, Japanese companies are re-emerging as major players in the new ...
'This book provides a multidimensional analysis of Iran's struggle for development between 1970 a...
An essential guide for managers and leaders on building resilient teams in turbulent times.
In the world of online dating, race-based discrimination is not only tolerated, but encouraged as...
'Energy history is an approach to understanding the past that takes changes in the human exploita...
Established at the Bretton Woods conference in 1944, the World Bank soon emerged as a central pil...
What can the world's most acclaimed yet controversial state-led universal biometric identificatio...
The Historical Poem takes up Georg Lukács's classic account of the historical novel to tell the f...
War offers opportunities for women to liberate their communities and build a better life for them...
Richard Pipes was a longtime Harvard University professor, historian of Imperial and Soviet Russi...
The presence of hundreds of thousands ethnic Koreans in Japan, or 'zainichi Koreans,' is one of t...
This book tells the story of Walmart's expansion in China, making the case that it is the story o...
Thinking about relationships between religion and sexuality usually focuses on what religion has ...
What happens to economic life when meaning and value come apart? Drawing on Friedrich Nietzsche, ...
'Leniency might sometimes be the ethical response to atrocity. However, the more extraordinary an...
Torikaebaya monogatari is a twelfth-century Japanese tale like no other. As suggested by its titl...
With this book, Amy Motlagh considers how racial thinking underpins cultural practices in Iran an...
This book offers a new perspective on the history of early modern Jewish communities by centering...
Over the past three decades, jurisdictions across the United States have developed alternatives t...
The need and desire for people to move from one place to another, including and especially from o...
Between the late 1940s and the end of the twentieth century, natural gas became Iran's bedrock en...
The true story of a vigilante group of Holocaust survivors who conspired to kill six million Germans
Over the decades of the nineteenth century, Egypt changed dramatically, from a minor Ottoman prov...
'Leniency might sometimes be the ethical response to atrocity. However, the more extraordinary an...
Kachinland is an unrecognized state in the borderlands of Myanmar, India, China, and Thailand. It...
How do places shape peacebuilding interventions? Put simply, they are eventful. Geographers have ...
'The number of Black state and federal judges has grown considerably in the post-Civil Rights Era...
'The number of Black state and federal judges has grown considerably in the post-Civil Rights Era...
In 1948, the Cominform, the Soviet-dominated organization that represented communist parties thro...
In this masterful new work, film critic and philosopher Eyal Peretz forges a new connection betwe...
Political Undesirables considers the legal making and unmaking of citizenship in Iraq, focusing o...
Spanning nearly 4 million square kilometers, the Tibetan river system-including the Brahmaputra, ...