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?

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...

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

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...

For those of you aware of the distinguished philosophical career of Hermann Cohen (1859 - 1918) and the absence of an intellectual biography in English, Beiser’s scholarship is a long time coming...

Dalsheim considers some of the surprising outcomes of the great Israeli experiment of re-imagining and reconstructing Judaism, Jewishness and the Jewish people as an ethno-national project focused on the state...

While typically circulating as a separate text, The Harivamsha forms the final part of the Mahabharata storyline...

White surveys the many developments in American law from the middle of the 20th century to the case of Bush v. Gore...

Adamson takes readers on a vivid – and accessible – journey through the intricate landscape of the philosophical world of Islam...

Adamson takes readers on a vivid – and accessible – journey through the intricate landscape of the philosophical world of Islam...

Aronson gives us the life of a women’s rights activist, labor lawyer, radical pacifist, writer and co-founder of what became the Civil Liberties Union...

Peacocke argues for the idea that the metaphysics of the domain must always be involved – that one must always draw on facts about metaphysics to explain meaning but not vice versa..

Never have so many possessed the means to be so lethal..

When asked what democracy is, many of us instantly think of elections, and thus voting...

What was the role of love and courtship in eighteenth-century English culture?

The remaking of Hanoi as a capital of French empire from the end of the nineteenth century had unintended consequences...

Using a wealth of memoirs and recently declassified secret police files, Plokhy captures the intimate detail of a culture clash that chilled relations before Nazism was even defeated...

Kang explores the history behind Immigration and Naturalization Service throughout the 20th Century,..

Talisse argues that contrary to what many democratic theorists have argued, democracy is something we can do too much of...

"The Trials of Allegiance" looks at the law of treason during the American Revolution, showing just how central treason is to understanding the course of the Revolution...