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Law, Language, and Empire in the Roman Tradition - In a nutshell

The book falls into two parts, the first with two chapters, and the second with three. The first part concentrates on legal thought, the second on the interaction between specific...

Clifford Ando
Sustainable Utopias - A close-up

A key component of the book’s argument is that both efforts to reimagine the parameters of what “utopia” could mean and efforts to pursue those possibilities in practice could be...

Jennifer L. Allen
Supernormal Stimuli - The wide angle

Niko Tinbergen clearly thought ethological principles applied to man. But while waxing eloquently for pages about bee-wasps and sticklebacks, he devoted the occasional sentence or two to man.The major push...

Deirdre Barrett
Foretelling the End of Capitalism - In a nutshell

This book seeks to explain the persistence of capitalism despite all the trouble it has created. For several years now, every crisis—even crises not directly caused by capitalism, such as...

Francesco Boldizzoni
The Future of Change - A close-up

I hope readers would start with the first few pages of the book. In the introduction, I recount the story of how the American Legion advocated for passage of the...

Ray Brescia
Catastrophic Thinking - A close-up

In a case study comes in the book’s fifth chapter, I discuss how paleontological studies of extinction intersected with political debates about nuclear proliferation in the 1970s and 1980s.A variety...

David Sepkoski
The Age of Addiction - In a nutshell

Vice and addiction have always been with us. The Age of Addiction shows how entrepreneurs melded vices and addictions into a global economic system of limbic capitalism, outmaneuvering reformers determined...

David T. Courtwright
Violence Taking Place - In a nutshell

What if the destruction of architecture was understood to be just as complicated, just as culturally resonant, and just as open to interpretation as architecture itself—or, indeed, as any other...

Andrew Herscher
Conspiracy Theories - In a nutshell

I make two basic claims in the book. First, I argue that the dominant mode of understanding conspiracy theory is flawed. Academics and journalists have wrongly assumed that conspiracy theories...

Mark Fenster
Quarks to Culture - A close-up

I recently gave a book talk at a salon held on the first Sunday of every month at the Cornelia Street Café, in New York. (Great jazz there, by the...

Tyler Volk
Essaying Shakespeare - A close-up

I guess I’d direct a browsing reader to my last essay: any writer is always most interested in his or her current work.A colleague, Margaret Ferguson, observed over twenty years...

Karen Newman
Edward Bancroft - A close-up

Most historians who have had occasion to mention Bancroft have castigated him as a villainous traitor. Yes, he was a spy, but in my book I argue that he was...

Thomas J. Schaeper
Casualties of Credit - In a nutshell

Casualties of Credit offers a cultural history of early modern money. In exploring the intellectual underpinnings of the seventeenth-century English Financial Revolution, I uncover how people conceived of money and...

Carl Wennerlind
Treason on the Airwaves - The wide angle

As a child after the Second World War, I had often heard the grown ups talking about “Tokyo Rose,” the husky-voiced Japanese siren who supposedly taunted our soldiers in the...

Judith Keene
Futurism - The wide angle

Futurism’s outsized ambition responded to the limited and limiting conditions of Italian modernity. It was a still chiefly agrarian country, unified for less than half a century. Its identity remained wedded to...

Ara H. Merjian
The Creation and Destruction of Value - In a nutshell

The Creation and Destruction of Value focuses on parallels and differences between the current financial crisis and the Great Depression, and asks whether today’s crisis—like that of the Great Depression—might...

Harold James
The Politics and Ethics of Identity - In a nutshell

We are multiple, fragmented, and evolving selves who, nevertheless, believe we have unique and consistent identities.What accounts for this illusion? Why has the problem of identity become so central to...

Richard Ned Lebow
Decolonization and the Evolution of International Human Rights - The wide angle

This book originated in the search for the origins of contemporary skepticism on the universality of human rights—a skepticism exemplified by the 1990s controversy on “Asian Values,” and more recent...

Roland Burke
Technosystem - The wide angle

Technosystem should be read as a attempt to link up several different traditions of social thought in an innovative theory of modernity. The big question to which Technosystem is addressed...

Andrew Feenberg
The World Before Us - The wide angle

Is this what you would call a golden age of research?It's a combination of things. There has been a huge amount of excavation work and research over the past 150...

Tom Higham
Youth in a Suspect Society - The wide angle

Youth in a Suspect Society takes as its major organizing idea the notion that youth are under assault in ways that are entirely new. My assumption is that young people...

Henry A. Giroux
The Great Delusion - In a nutshell

The Great Delusion is about the unrealistic expectations we all have about what this tired and picked-over planet can provide us. It is about economic growth, the belief that a...

Steven Stoll
Performing South Africa's Truth Commission - In a nutshell

Performing South Africa’s Truth Commission is about the messy, uncertain process of transition from authoritarian to democratic rule, and the quasi-judicial ritual that South Africa used to help accomplish such...

Catherine M. Cole
On Location in Cuba - In a nutshell

Cuba has undergone dramatic changes during the past two decades. As global tides washed over the island in the early 1990s, Cubans did their best to remain anchored. How did...

Ann Marie Stock
God in Gotham - In a nutshell

Max Weber, the German sociologist, and his wife Marianne weren’t impressed with Manhattan’s spirituality when they visited New York City during their 1904 trip to the United States. They probed...

Jon Butler
The Statue of Liberty - A close-up

I hope browsers will look at the book’s prologue, since I open the story by describing an excursion to the Statue of Liberty, my first trip there since my 6<sup...

Edward Berenson
Perfect Communities - The wide angle

A key point of the book is to show that it was once possible to build affordable housing on an enormous scale, and that we can still learn something from...

Edward Berenson
Through Amateur Eyes - In a nutshell

Through Amateur Eyes is all about how amateur documentary films and photographs taken primarily by Germans can be used in the memory and memorialization of World War II and the...

Frances Guerin
Hotter Than That - The wide angle

The basic thesis of Hotter Than That is that the trumpet has been associated, rightly or wrongly, with masculinity. The men who have played it have jealously guarded their exclusive...

Krin Gabbard
Climatopolis - The wide angle

I am an academic economist and most of my research has focused on the quality of life of cities.Most economists agree that the key for long run city sustainability is...

Matthew E. Kahn

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