Against the backdrop of four decades of continuous conflict in Afghanistan, the Pashtun male protagonists of this book carry out their daily effort to internally negotiate, adjust (if at all), and respond to the very strict cultural norms and rules of masculinity...

Hill tells the story of this crime, placing it in the context of both the African American experience and the practice of white supremacy...

Thuesen links the “numinous” religious experiences of Americans as they experienced the uniquely destructive weather phenomenon of the tornado....

Hassett explores the experiences and political aims of key constituencies throughout Algerian society, including: socialists and trade unionists; European and Algerian veterans; and even the Algerian widows and orphans...

Pernau examines the varied and hugely consequential expressions of and normative investments in emotions in modern South Asian Muslim thought...

Malcolm tells the story of Western European fascination with the Ottoman empire and Islam between the fall of Constantinople in 1453 and the latter half of the 18th century...

Stefan Bauer has written an outstanding study of one of the most important Catholic historians in early modern Europe...

Heroic Saktism is the belief that a good king and a true warrior must worship the goddess Durga, the form and substance of kingship...

Bevir and Blakely make a case for why interpretivism is the most philosophically cogent approach currently on offer in the social sciences, and for anti-naturalism as the best option among interpretivist alternatives..

Padma focuses on two types of Gramadevatas or goddesses: deified women and those associated with disease and fertility...

Who truly controls immigration law in the United States?

How did young workers spend time together? When would they initiate sexual relationships outside of marriage?

For this volume, the brilliant Liz Clarke illustrated Dr. Walker’s biography of a ½ brother of José Gabriel Condorcanqui Tupac Amaru, the leader of the 1780-1783 Tupac Amaru Rebellion....

How do we distinguish art from non-art artifacts, and what does cognitive science have to do with it?

What was at the core of the UK's semi-detachment to the EU?

Chris Heffer argues that to analyze untruthfulness, we need a framework which goes beyond these two kinds of speech acts, bullshitting and lying...

Walker brings together the political science and criminal justice disciplines in exploring how individuals are mobilized to engage in political participation by their connection to the criminal justice system in the United States...

What are the similar ways in which animals and people try to intimidate others?

At the end of the twentieth century, many believed the story of European political development had come to an end. Modern democracy began in Europe, but for hundreds of years it competed with various forms of dictatorship...

Historians of early modern religion recognise the importance of the development of covenant theology in the formation of Calvinism...

What is it that makes hatred so addicting?

Rarely does the discourse consider the role of wealthy Western countries in creating the conditions under which a refugee crisis emerges....

Blythe examines apocalypticism across the history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, particularly as it took shape in the writings and visions of the laity...

Plank uses war as a lens to examine the interactions of peoples who forged shared experiences amid endemic conflict...