CURRENT PUBLICATIONS
Economics and Capitalism in the Ottoman Empire
Economics and Capitalism in the Ottoman Empire examines how the interplay between Western European economic theories and the traditional Muslim…
Forging the Past: Invented Histories in Counter-Reformation Spain
Spain’s infamous “false chronicles” — the documents about Spanish sacred history fabricated by a little-known Jesuit priest — shaped scholarly…
Wine and Economics: Transacting the Elixir of Life
Wine and the wine trade have been culturally important since the earliest days of our civilization. In Wine and Economics…
Truth or Truthiness: Distinguishing Fact from Fiction by Learning to Think Like a Data Scientist
Conflicting claims about data appear in the media every day, so how can people figure out what is right? Using…
James Wilson: An Introduction to His Life and Work
James Wilson is one of the lesser-known Founding Fathers, and — in the mind of Maynard Garrison ’50 — undeservedly…
Fatal Reservations: A Key West Food Critic Mystery
Fatal Reservations by Roberta Isleib ’75, who writes under the pen name Lucy Burdette, continues the story of food critic…
Daguerreotypes: Fugitive Subjects, Contemporary Objects
By examining photography as articulated in literature, film, and graphic novels, Daguerreotypes: Fugitive Subjects, Contemporary Objects demonstrates how in many…
Contested Treasure: Jews and Authority in the Crown of Aragon
In Contested Treasure: Jews and Authority in the Crown of Aragon, Thomas Barton ’98 examines how the Jews in Spain…
“Eighteen Hundred and Froze to Death”: The Impact of America’s First Climate Crisis
As the result of a volcanic eruption halfway around the world, New England suffered a series of calamitous cold spells…
Reforming Sodom: Protestants and the Rise of Gay Rights
In Reforming Sodom: Protestants and the Rise of Gay Rights, Heather R. White *07 challenges the usual picture of perennial…
The New Parkinson’s Disease Treatment Book: Partnering with Your Doctor to Get the Most from Your Medications
J. Eric Ahlskog *73 has published the second edition of The New Parkinson’s Disease Treatment Book: Partnering with Your Doctor…
Federal Justice in the Mid-Atlantic South: United States Courts from Maryland to the Carolinas, 1836-1861
Federal Justice in the Mid-Atlantic South by Peter Fish ’60 traces the antebellum development and performance of the federal judiciary…
Martial Bliss: The Story of The Military Bookman
In the seedy New York City of 1976, Wall Street refugee Harris Colt ’57 founded and ran a specialty antiquarian…
Midnight’s Furies: The Deadly Legacy of India’s Partition
The liberation of India and the birth of Pakistan were supposed to be the answer to the dreams of Muslims…
Mobile Persuasion Design
Mobile Persuasion Design by Aaron Marcus ’65 presents 10 conceptual design projects for new mobile applications that combine theories of…
Defining Duty in the Civil War: Personal Choice, Popular Culture, and the Union Home Front
As Northern civilians struggled to understand their role in the Civil War that was being fought hundreds of miles away…
Meeting China Halfway: How to Diffuse the Emerging U.S.-China Rivalry
In Meeting China Halfway: How to Defuse the Emerging U.S.-China Rivalry, Lyle J. Goldstein *02 tackles the ever-rising tensions in…
Breaking the Male Code: Unlocking the Power of Friendship
For much of the past century, says Rob Garfield ’67, men have operated under the rules of the Male Code…