Society and culture: general

Develops an approach to contemporary religious, moral, and political conflicts in which conflict may be constructively reframed and creatively engaged toward productive democratic practice.

This book traces how early Americans imagined what a ''nation'' meant during the first fifty years of the country''s existence.

An interdisciplinary approach to the foundations of moral agency, focusing on different forms and roles of fellow feeling.

A panoramic study of our Urban Planet that takes readers on a six-continent, six-millennia tour of the world''s cities.

Using extensive research, this book argues that successful African leaders consolidate their rule by developing strategic rural coalitions.

The first holistic study of Roman literature and literary culture under Nerva, Trajan and Hadrian (AD 96–138).

Mining new sources, Klein tells the dramatic story of Italy''s Jews, from emancipation to Fascism, the Holocaust, and postwar myth-making.

Develops a new account of historical injustice and redress, demonstrating why a consideration of history is crucial for gender equality.

Focuses on enslaved families and their social networks in the city of Puebla de los Ángeles in seventeenth-century colonial Mexico.

A major illustrated collection offering a fresh interdisciplinary reading of Chinese women''s periodicals and history in the long twentieth century.

This book shows how love between men has a rich history in English literature, and explores why these same-sex friendships are memorable.

A wide-ranging analysis of grass-roots activism, migration, legal, political and religious changes as basis for social transformation.

Offers evidence that opportunity structures created by state weakness can allow NGOs to exert unparalleled influence over local human rights law and practice.

Laura Montanaro asks what entitles self-appointed representatives, such as non-governmental organizations and celebrity activists, to speak and act for others.

This volume looks at the effects of interaction and the nature of identity construction in a frontier or contact zone through the analysis of material culture, especially in mortuary settings.

Women and Microfinance in the Global South is a grounded exploration of the intersections of neoliberal ideology and feminism.

Heather Tilley examines the huge shifts that took place in the experience and conceptualisation of blindness during the nineteenth century.

This lively and erudite cultural history examines how Scottish identity was experienced and represented in novel ways.

An engaging, innovative history of Brazil''s black and indigenous people that redefines our understanding of slavery, citizenship, and national identity.

How do immigration and refugee laws work ''in action'' in Russia?

Sen argues that the decline of caste-based politics in twentieth-century Bengal was as much the result of coercion as consent.

Looks at the situation of Kurds in Turkey through the lens of multiculturalism, giving us a fresh and new comparative perspective.

Unearths the forgotten history of a catastrophic flood, examining its profound impact upon the environment and society of modern China.

Establishing the inseparability of grammar and gesture, this book explains what determines when, how, and why we gesture.

Examines the influence of Islam, as a religion, a practice, and a tradition, on Egypt''s visual and literary modernity.

The first in-depth study to integrate the study of legal language with analysis of multimodal communication.

An original interpretation of the lives and social interactions of Quaker women in the British Atlantic between 1650 and 1750.

While dominant narratives emphasize war''s destructive effects, this book demonstrates how war can open up unexpected opportunities for women''s political mobilization.

A social and political history of Mexico''s first political system after the Revolution that demonstrates the critical influence of regional socialist parties.

Kessler-Mata argues for a constitutive theory of tribal sovereignty based on the interconnected relationships between tribes and non-federal governments.

Comprehensive account of Melissus of Samos and his contribution to the philosophy of monism in early Greek thinking.

Aimed at political sciences students and teachers, Ferreras presents the new idea of ''economic bicameralism'' to redefine firms as political entities.

Global Gifts considers the role that the circulation of material culture played in the establishment of early modern global diplomacy.

Reveals how babies shaped modern American life, including the rise of the medical authority, consumerism, social welfare, and popular psychology.

Highlights competing masculine values in slave communities and reveals how masculinity shaped resistance, accommodation, and survival.

Investigates the idea of the human within Brontë sisters'' work, offering new insight on their writing and cultural contexts.

This book investigates how language, embodiment, objects, and settings in historically shaped communities combine, and form human actions.

Pressures emanating from China''s scale, regulatory politics, and need to feed itself has led to its decade''s long food safety crisis.

Argues that laywomen''s interactions with gendered theology, Catholic rituals, and church institutions significantly shaped colonial Mexico''s religious culture.

Leading scholars of political thought demonstrate how the history of political ideas makes sense of environmental politics and climate change.

Offers a more complex and nuanced understanding of the Russian justice system than stereotypes and preconceptions lead us to believe.

The first book-length analysis of how the Bolsheviks responded to antisemitism during the Russian Revolution.

Tsui reveals the peculiarities of the Guomindang''s revolutionary enterprise, resituating Nationalist China in the moment of global radical right ascendancy.

An important new analysis of Native Hawaiian efforts to construct relationships with other Oceanic peoples as missionaries, diplomats, and tourists.

This book discusses the nature of masculinity in eighteenth-century literature and culture through the figure of the military man.

Cutting-edge scholarship on post-war Arab intellectual history that challenges conventional thinking about authoritarianism, religion and revolution in the modern Middle East.

Considers how to implement children''s rights in the twenty-first century through a child rights-based approach to sustainable development.

Explores gender and identity in fourth-century Cappadocia, where bishops used a rhetoric of contest to align with classical Greek masculinity.

Shows that Homer was a philosophic thinker who played a crucial role in the thought of Plato, Machiavelli, and Nietzsche.

Masculine cultures define urban cultures and are defined by them.