Desai offers an alternative history of East Africa in the Indian Ocean world...

Bronkhorst makes the case through an extensive introduction and select translations of important Indian texts that language has a crucial role in Indian thought...

Lean offers a new understanding of industrialization, going beyond material factors to show the central role of culture and knowledge production in technological and industrial change....

How did Buddhist women access religious experience and transcendence in a Confucian patriarchal system in imperial China?

What do psychoanalysts do with bodies, and what do they do with them now?

Arjomand provides a startling account of the many intersections between theatre and trials in Germany and the United States from the 1930s to the 1960s...

How are we going to address inequality and put the economy on a sounder footing?

Glotzer examines the history surrounding how modern housing segregation was purposefully planned out beginning at the turn of the 20th Century...

Siegel explores the previously neglected history of a diverse group of women from around the world who fought for women’s rights as male politicians forged a new world order...

Oualdi explores the life and afterlife of one figure, the manumitted slave and Tunisian dignitary Husayn Ibn ‘Abdallah...

In his classic essay on the fear of breakdown, Donald Winnicott famously conveys to a patient that the disaster powerfully feared has, in fact, already happened...

How are we to conceive of acts that suddenly expose the injustice of the current order?

The authors show that when steps are taken to reduce the hold of inequitable laws, customs, and practices, outcomes for all improve....

McGowan combines sophisticated discussion of matters like the limits of formal logic and the history of German Idealism with playful allusions to Star Trek characters and classic films like Casablanca and Bridge on the River Kwai...

Palmer argues that understanding the motivations and experiences of those who have been featured in news stories – voluntarily or not – sheds new light on the practice of journalism and the importance many continue to place on the role of the mainstream media...

Jenkins engages readers in readers in a ethnography where she spent years observing and interviewing American, international, and osteopathic medical residents in two hospitals...

Since the 1940s, America’s relations with the rest of the world have been guided by the idea of promoting the free flow of information...

Rolsky makes the case for understanding Norman Lear as a key protagonist in the culture wars of the late 20th century...

Johnston traces the development of Žižek's recent thought in detail, salvaging the key philosophical themes while also offering several criticisms and developments of his own...

The relationship between Islam and the environment has a long and rich history across various Muslim societies...

How did Muslims respond to foreign goods in an age characterized by global exchange and European imperial expansion?

Friss historicizes the bicycle’s place in New York City’s social, economic, infrastructural and cultural politics...

Fahy gives a thorough and compelling analysis of testimonies and reports on North Korea...

Vaughan offers a new history of the movies from an environmental perspective...

"Social Media and the Public Interest" approaches this complex and multi-layered issue from a host of perspectives, leading the reader into the broader discussion through a history of social media,..