Follows Alexander von Humboldt and Aimé Bonpland as they travel together in South America and then go their separate ways, in the process illustrating two very different ways of understanding humanity's place in the natural world.

The once-lost introduction to the philosophy of science by Philipp Frank (1884-1966), a leading member of the Vienna circle of philosophers and biographer of Albert Einstein.

Incorporates a unique diplomatic, insider perspective to explain the unexpected incorporation of LGBTI rights into American and Swedish foreign policies.

Illuminates the ways games—from baseball cards to board games, charades to boxing, and croquet to strategies of war—were integral to nineteenth-century life and culture in the United States and Britain.

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

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

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

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

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.

Offers an Asian immigrant perspective on US racial relations and explores the unique situations and challenges facing Asian immigrants in the United States.

A deeply personal study of post-9/11 film that exposes how genre can frame the shifting meanings of the War on Terror and its impact on American law and culture.

Examines the ways in which post-apocalyptic films express white racial anxiety.

A critical view of race relations on the island of Puerto Rico from 1898 to 1965.

Essays that argue in favor of Lenin's continuing relevance for twenty-first century politics and thought.

The first book-length study in English of the Heidegger-Hölderlin relation, addressing the tension between Heidegger's political commitments during National Socialism and Hölderlin's ideal of poetic dwelling.

A novel fusing of multiple approaches and range of examples exploring the dimensions, objects, and import of aesthetic encounters.

Examines the filmic representation of Whiteness as Indigeneity and its role in mediating racial politics in Mexico.

Analyzes international and cultural relationships informed by "China," a category that is becoming ever more indispensable and yet unstable in everyday narratives.

Considers how Hollywood films since the 1960s have both reflected and shaped attitudes toward rape and sexual violence.

Offers a new framework for understanding Du Bois's poetics and politics, including the concept of double consciousness, by tracing the trope of the cross-caste romance across his fiction.

The critical biography of a dynamic and under-represented figure who produced and starred in some of the most innovative works of her day.

Explores the close relationship between comics and urbanism in one of Europe's most notable global cities.

Offers a timely reconsideration of the writings of Gloria Anzaldúa, treating issues of multiplicitous agency, identarian politics, and the stakes of coalition building as core themes in the author's work.

A unique portrayal of the theoretical positions of eleven Italian women thinkers who share the practice of philosophy and extend philosophical work and interests beyond the realm of the discipline strictly defined.

Original and comprehensive examination of Chilean political and economic development since the end of the Pinochet military regime in 1990.