Ethnography situating the contemporary financial services industry in the US Virgin Islands within broader histories of racial capitalism and gender inequality.

Analyzes socially engaged art practices worldwide, linking them to decolonial struggle and critique.

A comprehensive, concise, and easy-to-read introduction intended for undergraduates and general readers interested in the study of mysticism.

The first concerted attempt to analyze how the histories Shiji and Hanshu described the technical arts as they were applied in vital areas of the administration of pre-Han and Han China.

Historical and theoretical discussions that describe and reflect on personal objects from a variety of perspectives.

Classic works by naturalist John Burroughs on his beloved Catskill region.

Highlights the original cast members—both the well-known and the (until now) wholly unknown—who staged the duo's comic operas in Britain and in America.

A classic history of Delaware County and the border wars written by none other than prominent Gilded Age "Robber Baron" Jay Gould.

Describes how new kinds of direct-action labor movements are emerging to reshape American labor activism in the twenty-first century.

Explores how poetry was used to disseminate and interpret history in early medieval China.

Presents an original, insightful, and compelling vision of the trajectory of Cavell's oeuvre, one that takes his kinship with Emerson as inextricably bound up with his ever-deepening thinking about movies.

Explores how concepts of sex in heaven can inform Christian sexual ethics in ways that challenge traditional norms and open new possibilities.

First study of Harold D. Smith, FDR’s budget director from 1939 to 1945.

Chronicles the astonishing and counterintuitive spread of Christianity among a group of previously isolated tribes in a remote and hilly part of Northeastern India.

Corrective intervention in Plato's metaphysics replacing the standard view of Plato as a metaphysical dualist with a novel and revolutionary paradigm of unitary pluralism in a single reality built on ontological diversity.

Engages and extends the feminist philosopher Lorraine Code’s groundbreaking work on epistemology and ethics.

An up-to-date examination of the work of one of the most inventive thinkers in the study of religion.

Explains why Turkey embraced the Arab Spring despite the risk both domestically and internationally.

Examines how the national pastime of baseball has the capacity to shape politics and American democracy.

Gripping account of the life of the Russian Tsar’s last chief of security and intelligence.

Chronicles the creation of a picturesque home and landscape on the Hudson River by one of the nineteenth century's leading authors.

Offers a strong critique of traditional anthropological studies from an Indigenous and postcolonial perspective.

A rich, authentic account of eight young Black men's experiences on their paths to and through college.

Offers three neo-Confucian understandings of broadening the Way as broadening oneself, through an ongoing process of removing self-boundaries.

Looking at Japan, traces crisis narratives across three decades and ten policy fields, with the aim of disentangling discursively manufactured crises from actual policy failures.