CURRENT PUBLICATIONS
Imperialism and the Developing World: How Britain and the United States Shaped the Global Periphery
By exploring how Western imperialism shaped the developing world, Atul Kohli analyzes British and American influence on Asia, Africa, the…
Handsomely Done: Aesthetics, Politics, and Media after Melville
Handsomely Done: Aesthetics, Politics, and Media after Melville is a multidisciplinary examination of Melville’s works. The book explores how the…
Lair: Radical Homes and Hideouts of Movie Villains
Big-screen villains tend to live in architectural splendor, their homes often locations where a hero is tested. Movie villains’ abodes…
The Power Notebooks
Told in a series of notebook entries, Roiphe weaves her personal experiences with divorce, single motherhood, and relationships with insights…
Medusa's Head: The Rise and Survival of Joseph Fouché, Inventor of the Modern Police State
Medusa's Head recounts the career of Napoleon's security chief Joseph Fouché, creator of the modern police state. Fouché was an…
Do Morals Matter? Presidents and Foreign Policy from FDR to Trump
In Do Morals Matter?, Joseph S. Nye ’58, a leading scholar of international relations, analyzes how ethics have factored into…
Beyond Broadway: The Pleasure and Promise of Musical Theatre Across America
In Beyond Broadway, Stacy Wolf considers how examines musical theater in all of its forms and considers how it has…
Breaking Through: How Female Athletes Shattered Stereotypes in the Roaring Twenties
Breaking Through examines the evolution of women's rights in sports, introducing to young-adult readers the female athletes who from the…
Know Your Remedies: Pharmacy and Culture in Early Modern China
Pharmacy—both a medical and commercial enterprise—has influenced China’s early modern cultural transformation. In Know Your Remedies: Pharmacy and Culture in…
What Happens When We Practice Religion?: Textures of Devotion in Everyday Life
We say we “practice” religion, but what does this really mean? In What Happens When We Practice Religion?: Textures of…
Two Gods in Heaven: Jewish Concepts of God in Antiquity
In this book, Peter Schäfer, professor emeritus of religion and Judaic Studies, complicates Judeo-Christian monotheism by reintroducing a second, junior…
The Industrialists: How the National Association of Manufacturers Shaped American Capitalism
The National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) has helped solidify manufacturing as a foundational base of the U.S. economy since 1895…
Bird Love: The Family Life of Birds
The avian mating system starts with courtship and ends with raising chicks. In Bird Love: The Family Life of Birds…
The Little Book of Cosmology
It can be hard to conceptualize the enormity of the universe, but Lyman Page, professor of physics, creates an accessible…
Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism
Life expectancy has fallen in the United States for three years straight, and economics professors Anne Case and Angus Deaton…
Lectures on Dostoevsky
In this collection of lectures delivered by Joseph Frank, professor emeritus of comparative literature, published posthumously, Dostoevsky and his novels…
Hymns of the Republic: The Story of the Final Year of the American Civil War
The final year of the Civil War shaped the America we know today. Hymns of the Republic: The Story of…
First Class Passengers on a Sinking Ship: Elite Politics and the Decline of Great Powers
In First Class Passengers on a Sinking Ship (Bloomsbury), sociology professor Richard Lachmann asserts that the U.S. is headed for…
