The Enlightenment: A Brief History with Documents (2nd Edition)
In an unusually diverse collection, Margaret Jacob presents the…
La seduccion del Dictador: Politica e imaginacion popular en la Era de Trujillo
Lauren Derby La seducción del dictador: Política e imaginación…
India and the Unthinkable: Backwaters Collective on Metaphysics and Politics
A remarkable but little commented on feature of the various discourses…
Extraterritorial Dreams: European Citizenship, Sephardi Jews, and the Ottoman Twentieth Century
We tend to think of citizenship as something that is either offered…
An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846-1873
Between 1846 and 1873, California’s Indian population plunged…
Natural Interests: The Contest over Environment in Modern France
Challenging the conventional wisdom that French environmentalism…
Discourse on Africana Studies: James Turner and Paradigms of Knowledge
Discourse on Africana Studies: James Turner and Paradigms of…
The American War: A History of the Civil War Era
Joan Waugh, with Gary Gallagher, has just published a new book, The…
Birth, Death, and Religious Faith in an English Dissenting Community: A Microhistory of Nailsworth and Hinterland, 1695-1837
The book, enthuses Princeton sociologist Robert Wuthnow, is a…
Saharan Jews and the Fate of French Algeria
The history of Algerian Jews has thus far been viewed from the…