Alexander frames the book with the theoretical conundrum of representation...

Laderman exposes the way that imperial ambitions suffused the ideas and practices of turn-of-century humanitarian intervention...

Household Gods is a family biography that explores the Christian republicanism of John and Abigail Adams...

The story of the creation of the Book of Mormon has been told many times, and often ridiculed...

Mahalia Jackson, the great mid-twentieth century gospel singer, thought of herself as an embodiment of the history of African Americans in the United States...

As the wife of a Macedonian king and the mother of three sons who would succeed him, Eurydice played an important role in Macedonia at an important moment in the kingdom’s history...

Hale-Dorrell re-evaluates Khrushchev’s corn campaign as the cornerstone of his reformation programs...

"Habeas Corpus in Wartime" is a comprehensive history of the writ of habeas corpus in Anglo-America...

It is common to see science and religion portrayed as mutually exclusive and warring ways of viewing the world, but is that how actual scientists see it?

The king’s guards became increasingly nervous as they watched nearly 7,000 individuals march on Versailles on October 5, 1789...

DiGirolamo looks at the legion of children and teenagers who sold newspapers on city streets, moving trains, and even Civil War battlefields in the 19th and early 20th centuries...

The Wrong of Rudeness asks a key question for our times how do we interact with each other, especially in politically contentious situations?

Premo demonstrates a gradual shift from a justice-oriented system—focused on extralegal outcomes and casuistic jurisprudence—to a Enlightened law-oriented system...

In American While Black, Carter argues that immigration, both historically and in the contemporary moment,

Krutzsch argues that gay activists memorialized people like Shepard as part of a political strategy to present gays as similar to the country's dominant class of white, straight Christians...

Gorvine provides a multifaceted analysis of Shardza Tashi Gyaltsen (1859-1934), one of the most prominent modern representatives of the Tibetan Bön tradition...

James talks about the 1905 Galapagos Expedition organized by the California Academy of Sciences...

There are few better guides to the “long eighteenth century” that J. C. D. Clark...

Why was a Crusade that was initially meant for Syria end up in Tunis?

The authors make points that professionals already know and that end-investors ought to know: that there are a lot of cooks in the investment kitchen...

Okasha explores the fascinating and complex links between evolutionary biology and rational choice theory...

Crowcroft's is a tale of relentless intrigue, burning ambition, and the bitter rivalry in British politics during the years preceding the Second World War...

Gibbons examines the intersection between video games and classical music...

This book represents the very first study of a fascinating Hindu phenomenon: the Svasthanivratakatha (SVK), a sixteenth-century narrative textual tradition native to Nepal surrounding the Goddess, Svasthānī...

Sometimes people are blameworthy or otherwise not admirable because of what they believe....