CURRENT PUBLICATIONS
Rebellion, Rascals, and Revenue: Tax Follies and Wisdom Through the Ages
In his book, Slemrod and his co-author discusses seemingly illogical and at times preposterous systems of taxation from history, such…
Dancing with the Revolution: Power, Politics, and Privilege in Cuba
In Dancing with the Revolution: Power, Politics, and Privilege in Cuba, Schwall examines how, during the Cuban revolution, Cuban dancers…
Revolutionary Women in Texas and Mexico: Portraits of Soldaderas, Saints, and Subversives
Through celebrating the contributions of 18 influential women during the Mexican Revolution, Speed rewrites the traditional male-dominated narrative of the…
The Big Picture: A Guide to Finding Your Purpose in Life
Whelan’s self-help book, The Big Picture: A Guide to Finding Your Purpose in Life, is aimed at assisting young adults…
Rise of Digital Repression: How Technology Is Reshaping Power, Politics, And Resistance
Using the Philippines, Ethiopia, and Thailand as case studies, Feldstein investigates how governments are using new technologies to repress dissent…
The Third Man: Churchill, Roosevelt, Mackenzie King and the Untold Friendships that Won WWII
While little is known about the cautious relationship between Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill, one interlocutor knew both men better…
The Bohemians
In her new historical novel, Jasmin Darznik tells the story of photographer Dorothea Lange in San Francisco during the 1920s…
Linguistics for the Age of AI
While artificial intelligence was once intended to endow machines with natural language capabilities, recent AI research focuses mostly on statistical…
Endpapers: A Family Story of Books, War, Escape, and Home
After extensive research in Berlin, Alexander Wolff ’79 presents a sweeping depiction of his family’s history by focusing on his…
The (Other) You: Short Stories
The (Other) You is a vision into alternative realities, a collection that ponders the constraints we all face given the…
Picture Ecology: Art and Ecocriticism in Planetary Perspective
This book offers a range of art-historical criticism formulated within an ecological context. Picture Ecology brings together scholars whose contributions…
Kinship Novels of Early Modern Korea: Between Genealogical Time and the Domestic Everyday
In Kinship Novels of Early Modern Korea, Ksenia Chizhova foregrounds lineage novels and the domestic world in which they were…
The Business of Conquest: Empire, Love, and Law in the Atlantic World
The Business of Conquest offers an original examination of the Spanish conquest period, including the perspectives of both the creators…
Benefactors and the Polis. The Public Gift in the Greek Cities from the Homeric World to Late Antiquity
Historians generally study elite public gift-giving in ancient Greek cities as a phenomenon that gained prominence only in the Hellenistic…
The Pedagogy of Images: Depicting Communism for Children
Spotlighting three thematic threads – communist goals, pedagogy, and propaganda – Pedagogy of Images traces the formation of a mass…
A Proposito di Dante: Cento note illustrative alla Commedia
A Proposito di Dante is a new way to discover Dante's masterpiece, Divine Comedy. The book delves into the knowledge…
Der , Oxforder Boethius' Studie und lateinisch-deutsche Edition
Der Oxforder Boethius focuses on the reception of Boethius's Consolatio philosophiae (circa 524) in the later Middle Ages. This publication…
Brutal Aesthetics: Dubuffet, Bataille, Jorn, Paolozzi, Oldenburg
Brutal Aesthetics explores how postwar artists and writers searched for a new foundation of culture after the massive devastation of…
