Explores the evolving role of botanic gardens from products and enablers of modernity and the nation-state, to their recent reinvention as institutions of environmental governance.

Investigates how musicals, war films, sex comedies, and Westerns dealt with contentious issues during a time of change in Hollywood.

Uncovers long-ignored political themes—ideology, propaganda, mind-control, and Orwellian history—at work within the pages of The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.

Examines the history of the Italian anarchist movement in New London, Connecticut.

Examines how our diverse understandings of property impact real-world governing strategies.

A distillation of the historian’s finest writings on modern Indian historical themes.

An indispensable primary source in the history of Zionism.

A rare look at the history of Himalayan peasant society and the relationship between culture and environment in the Himalayas.

Pioneering study of the localization of Chinese culture in early modern Japan, using legends, classics, and historical terms as case studies.

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.

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

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.

Offers a history of the role of investigations in radical political struggles from the nineteenth century forward.

A full account of the Metaphysical Club, featuring the members’ philosophical writings and four critical essays.

Archaeologists, anthropologists, and classicists discuss how urbanization first emerged in strikingly different sociopolitical contexts in North America, Europe, and the Near East.

Compares the political activities of African Americans who settled in Ghana in the 1950s and 1960s with those who settled in the 1980s to the present.

Explores how writers across five continents and four centuries have debated ideas about what it means to be an individual, and shows that the modern self is an ongoing project of global history.

Explores why past generations of radical ecological and social justice scholarship have been ineffective, and considers the work of a new wave of scholarship that aims to reinvent the radical project and combat injustice.

Examines the Great Peace (taiping), one of the first utopian visions in Chinese history, and its impact on literati lives in Han China.

Chronicles the history and archaeological study of Lake George, New York’s sunken bateaux of 1758.

The intellectual autobiography of a leading figure in the field of Latin American philosophy.

Tells the forgotten but surprising stories of the many handsome and significant buildings in downtown Troy, New York.

Explores the wide-ranging impact of the Mexican Revolution on global cinema and Western intellectual thought.

Demonstrates how four books by dissident German intellectuals served as a rebuke to the Nazi regime.

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