CURRENT PUBLICATIONS
Beyond Individualism: The Challenge of Inclusive Communities
While individualism is an integral part of Western cultures and Western foreign policy, it elicits strong resistance in traditional communities…
Dark Turns
After suffering an injury and a broken heart, ballerina Nia Washington takes a temporary job at an elite boarding school…
Territories of the Soul: Queered Belonging in the Black Diaspora
Territories of the Soul: Queered Belonging in the Black Diaspora explores structures of black belonging at the intersection of queer…
Not my Grandfather’s Wall Street: Diaries of a Derivatives Trader
The career of a fictional numbers-oriented young man is recounted from the 1980 Hunt Silver Crisis to the 1987 stock-market…
Confronting Black Jacobins: The U.S., the Haitian Revolution, and the Origins of the Dominican Republic
Confronting Black Jacobins examines the United States’ reaction to the revolutionary process in the nation that became Haiti and the…
Flint Stones in the Nascent Circus
The early 1970s are captured through the four characters in the Flint Stones series, who are again on the precipice…
The Man Who Falls in Love with His Wife
John Franklin thinks he has a perfect marriage, but after examining his wife Elizabeth’s activities more closely, he realizes he…
Art and Beauty
Private investigator Jon Dak is hired as a security guard by the married owners of a Manhattan art gallery and…
Medicare and Medicaid at 50: America’s Entitlement Programs in the Age of Affordable Care
Professors Keith Wailoo and Julian Zelizer served as editors, with Alan Cohen and David Colby, of Medicare and Medicaid at…
The China Challenge: Shaping the Choices of a Rising Power
Professor Thomas J. Christensen takes issue with the view of China as a rival to the United States. In The…
Inventing American Religion: Polls, Surveys, and the Tenuous Quest for a Nation’s Faith
Americans love polls, but are they accurate? In Inventing American Religion: Polls, Surveys, and the Tenuous Quest for a Nation’s…
Get Backed: Craft Your Story, Build the Perfect Pitch Deck, and Launch the Venture of Your Dreams
Get Backed is a handbook for anyone who has an idea and needs to build relationships to get it off…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Fear, Fathers, and Family: In Search of the American Dream
When Jon J. Masters ’58 was 10, his parents cut off their families and became Episcopalians in an attempt to…