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Although my training in architectural history was very traditional—I studied the history of architects, their patrons, and buildings produced with high budgets and aesthetic ambitions—I became interested in how people...
The retrieval of Craddock’s life from the vaults of vice suppression offers an entryway into major religious, cultural, and political issues of her day—and, often enough, of our own as...
Although it was only in the course of the nineteenth century that the barricade emerged as the preeminent symbol of the modern revolutionary tradition, its origins can be traced as...
Animal Ethics in Context attempts to offer something both to theoretical debates in animal ethics and to more practical concerns about animal treatment.Theoretically, animal ethicists have focused on the importance...
It was as a child living in Japan that I first began to wonder about the connection between culture and foreign affairs. In the 70s and 80s China kept exploding...
This book tells the story of how a small, often morally dubious, craft industry in the nineteenth century grew to be the $330 billion global powerhouse.There are many books written...
We need to move away from a mechanistic, materialist, interest-based view of political struggles. Every class, every ethnicity, every gender—and every political campaign—has a fair amount of free space to...
Unsilencing belongs to the global conversation about how societies remember—or refuse to remember—state violence. It speaks to the legacy of the gulag but also to the aftermath of authoritarianism everywhere,...
This book examines the huge number of artistic representations of women warriors that exist in German from the Renaissance to the present—on the stage, in the opera house, on the...
Religion and the belief in God have made a major comeback. From the fundamentalist turn in predominantly Islamic polities to the spread of Catholicism and Pentecostalism in the global south,...
When I began working on The Skull Collectors, human remains seemed to be causing trouble everywhere. In the 1990s, new states in Eastern Europe unburied and sorted out the Soviet...
Heroes of Empire tells the story of five colonial figures, two British and three French, who made imperial conquest exciting, even exhilarating, for millions of ordinary citizens.Most British and French...
Death of a Pirate tells a story about the politics of media from the 1920s to the present.Broadcasting was something radically new when it arrived after World War I, and...
This is first a book about ideas and how they can have consequences in politics, if they are linked to powerful, well-financed movements.I excavate the ideas on race of the...
I have lived in, observed, and written about Chicago for approximately 30 years.My academic home is the Political Science Department at DePaul University. I earned my Ph.D. in Urban Planning...
Between 1933 and 1945, when both Hitler and Stalin were in power, their two regimes murdered some fourteen million people in the lands between Berlin and Moscow, which I call...
Primitive Selves offers a different take on the history of Japanese colonial rule in Korea. Whereas most studies focus on specific policies—such as economic exploitation, compulsory education, assimilation directives, military...
The American Young Men’s Christian Association, which began as a Protestant evangelical voluntary association in the 1850s, built hundreds of buildings in the years between the Civil War and the...
This book deals with a basic question: What’s the best way to get people to behave themselves?Modern legal, policy, and management experts often assume human beings are selfish creatures who...
This book examines the War of 1812 between the American republic, the British empire, and their Indian allies.Most of the fighting took place in the hotly contested region between Montreal,...
What you’re reading right now is a copy. I’m using only words taken and recycled from other places.You probably do it too. Even the questions you’re asking are copies, repetitions.You...
On the one hand, this book addresses the well-known literature on Orientalism, and argues that singing Turks were not understood as simply exotic “others” on the European stage. On the...
The book—really an extended essay—argues that Stalin’s mass killings in the 1930s should be classified as “genocide.”The book suggests that the definition of genocide, as taken from the work of...
When American historical writing entered its Humpty Dumpty phase, sometime around 1970, political and social history flew off in separate directions. In No Right Turn I bring them back together....
Is economics the key to everything or do we need to look for completely new ways of explaining what is going on in the world?By “economics” I mean the discipline...
I originally got started on this topic as a young idealist then as a neophyte teacher. While in law school, I interned in the United States government, out of the...
My goal was to write a detailed chronicle of an era in Chinese history that is much speculated about, but has never before been fully documented.Between 1958 and 1962, Mao...
Fascism was a cross-regional civic religion in its most extreme form. In certain Catholic countries fascism reoccupied places previously held by institutional religion but also let itself be invested by...
This is a book about one American’s lifelong mission to explain the real Japan to the rest of the world. Edwin O. Reischauer, born in Japan in 1910 to Presbyterian...
The book started as an attempt on my part to combine my interests in modern American and European history. I was trained in both fields but didn’t want to write...
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