Galea examines what Americans miss when they fixate on healthcare: health...

Byrne places Algeria at the center of many of the twentieth-century’s international dynamics: decolonization, the Cold War, détente,..

While armies have seized enemy records and rare texts as booty throughout history, it was only during World War II that an unlikely band of librarians, archivists, and scholars traveled abroad to collect books and documents to aid the military cause...

What does the success of 1960s values mean for the reiteration of religious identities?

Berman shows us the complexities of Marshallese life and reveals the way that age, a central part of Marshallese culture, is not biologically given but culturally constructed...

Inglis uses the interactions between elite members of golf clubs in city of Bangalore and the caddies who carry their bags to examine how globalization is both upending and reproducing a status quo of extreme inequality...

Twarog examines how working- and middle-class American housewives used their identity as housewives to protest the high cost of food. In doing so, housewives' relationships with the state evolved over the course of the century...

Saunders tells the story of the Gupta family through the personal and religious narratives they tell as they create and maintain their extended family and community across national borders..

Idris traces the concept of peace, and the way it is often insinuated with other words and concepts, over more than 2000 years of political thought...

Drutman dives into both the problems with the current political dynamic and the possible solutions...

In the United States, the number of megachurches increased from 350 in 1990 to over 1,600 in 2011 with that number continuing to grow exponentially in subsequent years...

On March 16th, 1968, several units of American soldiers descended upon a collection of small villages in Central Vietnam, now collectively known as My Lai. In the space of a few short hours, they committed one of America’s most infamous war crimes...

How can we possibly improve the chances that the human family will not only live, but live well, into the 21st century and beyond?

"Beyond the Rapists" asks how and to what end scholars of communication and the public at large might look “beyond the rapist”--beyond the individuals who perpetuate violence and toward the organizations through whom violence is authorized and distributed

Adger brings foundational ideas in the cognitive science of language to a popular audience...

In April 2014, a cohort of twenty-five hip hop artists assembled in Washington, D.C. for the first orientation meeting of a new cultural diplomacy program sponsored by the United States State Department,,,

Why and how is fiction important to women?

What can a cultural history of the heartthrob teach us about women, desire, and social change?

Petty discusses the black and white farmers in the South who were part of the "small farming class," and their evolving strategies for holding onto their land through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries...

How did the Iron Curtain shape the Federal Republic of Germany?

Chrastil explores the most personal of women’s decisions from the 1500s on...

Collett delves into the lives of six of the best-known nuns from the period of early Buddhism...

Elizabeth Economy explains the background to recent dramatic changes inside China...

Hill and Martinez-Diaz draw on their personal experiences as senior officials in the Obama Administration to tell behind-the-scenes stories of what it really takes to advance progress on climate change issues...