
Aesthetics, Industry, and Science: Hermann Von Helmholtz and the Berlin Physical Society
On January 5, 1845, the Prussian cultural minister received a…

Genetics in the Madhouse: The Unknown History of Human Heredity
The untold story of how hereditary data in mental hospitals gave…

Naissance de l’écologie: polémiques françaises sur l’environnement, 1800-1930
(This book is a translation of Natural Interests: The Contest…

The Russian Revolution: A View from the Third World
A never-before-published book by the Pan-Africanist and socialist…

The Economic History of China: From Antiquity to the Nineteenth Century
China's extraordinary rise as an economic powerhouse in the past…

The Killing Season: A History of the Indonesian Massacres, 1965-66
The Killing Season explores one of the largest and swiftest,…

L’Inde sous les yeux de l’Europe – Mots, peuples, empires – 1500-1800
(This is a French translation of Europe's India: Words, People,…

Opera and the City: The Politics of Culture in Beijing, 1770-1900
Link to purchase English version
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Oduduwa’s Chain: Locations of Culture in the Yoruba-Atlantic
Yoruba culture has been a part of the Americas for centuries,…

Connectivity in Motion: Island Hubs in the Indian Ocean World
This original collection brings islands to the fore in a growing…