Considers how sign-reading fit into broader understandings of the human and cosmic worlds in Han times.

A survey of the Muslim, Jewish, and Christian debates and mystical discussions about Muhammad’s heavenly journey that took place in early medieval Spain.

Details the Belt and Road global infrastructure development initiative as the most important instrument for China’s leadership under Xi Jinping to create an alternative global economic and geopolitical order to challenge the United States.

An in-depth analysis of the primary conflicts animating the contemporary struggle over the regional order of the Middle East.

A fascinating story of how three musicians, who escaped the Nazis, inspired Iceland’s modern classical music.

The first book-length account of Brazilian science fiction cinema.

A comparative study of iconographic and fictional representations of department stores in France and Egypt, as sites of imperial and Mediterranean cultural memory, from 1859 to the present.

Provides a new model for reading the Shiji and other early Chinese historical texts.

Explores Victorian writers’ conception of the novel’s potential to become serious knowledge and differentiate itself from other educational genres.

Seeks to introduce an "affective turn" to the study of China's political modernization process.

Combines historical, literary, art historical, and archaeological perspectives to explore the idea of the Hindu temple in the British colonial imagination.

Draws on the rich history of Black feminist writing to help scholars manage the stress of writing and publishing academic books.

An approachable and readable translation of a classic work of Chinese literature and landmark work of non-Western fiction writing.

Offers a new perspective on the first dynasty of imperial China and the reasons for its collapse.

Explores how the tremendous wealth of newly unearthed artifacts and manuscripts have changed our understanding of China's past.

Provides a philosophical, cultural, and historical answer to the question: Where did China come from?

Looks at how digitalization has changed the way we produce and interact, and the implications for working classes and countries of the Global South.

Examines questions of cosmos, society, and self through the metaphors and language of ancient Chinese texts and artifacts.

Sheds new light on the relationship between myth and history in ancient China and the central role they have played in shaping early Chinese thought.

A deeply researched, pathbreaking collection of original and newly translated essays on slavery in Spain, Hispaniola, and Puerto Rico.

Shows how Britain's trans-imperial engagements in the long nineteenth century have come to shape global cultural commodity flows today.

A comprehensive study of the history and evolution of the dybbuk, from kabbalistic tradition to popular folklore.

A pioneering study of a formative chapter in Middle East intellectual history, examining the historical myth that underlies the "Canaanite" brand of Israeli nationalist anti-Zionism.

A collection of original essays and previously untranslated critical writings on the renowned Brazilian documentary filmmaker, Eduardo Coutinho.

Offers an innovative analysis of gates—as architectural components, visual images, and mental constructs—in early Chinese thought and material culture.