Reveals how the persona of India's most famous emperor was constantly reinvented in ancient times to suit a variety of social visions, political agendas, and moral purposes.

Detailed assessment of the People's Republic of China as an alternative mode of political system and as a distinctive model of socioeconomic development.

Examines literary, historical, and cultural portrayals of Chinese women, across centuries and continents.

Addresses the question of China's rise and what it portends for the future.

A richly scholarly yet accessible and imaginative account of society in the time of the Buddha.

Explores the delicate interplay between emigration of Jews from Israel to Germany and the construction of a new identity in the shadow of antisemitism both past and present in their new home.

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

Traces the circulation of Hollywood films in North Africa and the Middle East from the early twentieth century to the present.

Essays in the field of comparative world religions and corresponding axial civilizations.

Shows how Israeli Communists developed a distinctive national identity outside the boundaries of Zionism.

Examines how events in the Cold War and post–Cold War periods shaped the intellectual projects of Perry Anderson and Immanuel Wallerstein.

Calls attention to the political, economic, and cultural interdependence and interaction of global and local forces shaping the Atlantic world of the nineteenth century.

Groundbreaking analysis of how colonialism created new conceptual categories and spatial forms that reshaped rural societies.

Identifies and traces the evolution of a forgotten “realist” tradition in medieval Islamic political thought, and considers the prospects for its revival in the context of the contemporary Middle East.

A wide-ranging consideration of early modern Muslim and Christian empires, covering the Iberian, Ottoman and Mughal worlds, including questions of political economy, images and representations, and historiography.

Reveals how the expanding world-system entangled the non-western world in global economies, yet did so in ways that were locally articulated, varied, and, often, non-European in their expression.

The first detailed analysis in English of monarchy and governance in Korea during King Chŏngjo’s reign.

An indispensable primary source in the history of Zionism.

Explores the current and future trajectories of the paradigm of postsocialism.

Offers a new perspective on the relationship between religion and the creation of the first Chinese empires.

Comprehensive analysis of 220 hours of outtakes that impels us to reexamine our assumptions about a crucial Holocaust documentary.

Offers biographical accounts of several of North Korea’s leaders to illuminate the inner workings of its government.

Contrasts the experiences of German Jewish refugees from the Holocaust who fled to London and New York City.

Macro-level study of the South Atlantic throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries demonstrating how Brazil’s emergence was built on the longest and most intense slave trade of the modern era.

Examines political authority in the modern era as a function of specific energy politics.