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Forgotten Experts
Forgotten Experts offers a history of Ottoman court astrologers and traces their shifting authority and prestige over the long sixteenth century. These individuals served the Ottoman court with their expertise in mathematical, astronomical, and astrological sciences, distinguishing themselves fro...
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Give Places Money
A strong democracy will not be possible unless we give places money. We should give places money. More precisely, the U.S. federal government should send cash to state and local governments to fund the everyday public goods that shape how Americans live: schools, water, fire trucks, libraries. ...
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The Rugged Litigant
Tort law refers to the system of laws governing civil wrongdoing, which is a bedrock governmental function and entails hundreds of thousands of lawsuits annually. These suits range from individual disputes stemming from car crashes, medical errors, or slip-and-fall accidents, to complex public he...
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Damascus
A sweeping history of Islamic Damascus across eight centuries, following the itineraries of generations of Damascenes as they walked through their city describing it in text. Damascus is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world. It was a capital of the first Islamic empire, a...
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Walter Benjamin’s Philosophical Miniatures
Eli Friedlander introduces the work of Walter Benjamin by way of subtle and revealing commentaries on short stories that Benjamin wrote in the 1930s. As Friedlander shows, these stories, also reproduced in the book, can be read as condensed abbreviations of fundamental philosophical themes in Ben...
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Just Friends
In October 1962, China and India went to war in the Himalayas. The war shocked the world and still shapes politics in Asia today. But for much of the prior decade, China and India had championed peaceful coexistence and collaboration. People from Beijing and Bombay to Shanghai and Calcutta argued...
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The Politics of Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena
Reports of UFOs were once ridiculed by government officials and military officers to discourage public interest in sightings of experimental aircraft and weapons tests over restricted areas of the United States, but public and private attitudes have slowly begun to shift. This groundbreaking volu...
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Medical Deportation
Medical deportation is the forced removal of ill or severely injured migrants to other nations. It is unregulated and illegal—and also standard practice for many hospitals in the United States. This practice persists due to public charge policy in US immigration law, a political classification us...
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Migrant Labor State
Migrant Labor State offers a new interpretation of globalization by showing how political conflict over foreign labor built the institutions that govern cross-border labor mobility in the United States. While most accounts explain globalization through expanding trade or examine the political bac...
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Frontier Signatures
Bordered by three nuclear powers—India, Pakistan, and China—Kashmir is both an archive and laboratory for colonial formations, where aspirations for self-determination remain deferred through military rule. This book takes readers into the bazaars, trade routes, and market relationships in Kashmi...
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Surveillance Paternalism
Data technologies are increasingly deployed worldwide in the systematic collection and analysis of reproductive health information. Nowhere is this more evident than in Turkey, where national concerns over declining birth rates have converged with the global push for health tracking over the last...
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Everything You Wanted to Know About China
A concise, engaging, and essential guide to China today. What does Xi Jinping share with Mao Zedong? Why is Confucius still central to a communist state? What really happened in Tiananmen Square—and why is it still taboo? In this accessible and politically astute primer, acclaimed historian Jef...
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The Creativity Tax
How guaranteed income can alleviate inequality and unlock more and better innovation. For much of the past century, the U.S. has been considered the world leader in innovation, with economic growth based on the continued creative contributions from its citizens a given. But this privileged posit...
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Selling Friendship
What would it take for you to commodify your friends? How should we understand a world in which everything is for sale, even our cherished relationships? In Selling Friendship, Curtis Child argues that multi-level marketing offers a window into the inner workings of our hyper-commodified existen...
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Queer International Activism
For decades, LGBTI+ people simply did not exist in the language of international human rights law. No treaty named them, and no UN body addressed their demands. They had been written out of the universal promise of human rights. Based on archival research in Amsterdam and London, three years of p...
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Medical Mistrust
Long before today's wellness influencers and vaccine skeptics, the rise of modern medicine provoked radical forms of mistrust. Nowhere was this resistance fiercer than in the German-speaking lands, where the pioneering rise of bacteriology and public health generated a powerful counterworld of va...
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Vital Omissions
An estimated one in five children under the age of five worldwide have not been registered at birth, and roughly one billion people do not possess any proof of identity. In a world in which fewer and fewer spaces remain untouched by the modern state, human life without official recognition is an ...
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Raising Korea’s Children
In the aftermath of the Korean War, ordinary South Koreans saw childrearing as a crucial way to reconstruct their war-torn nation. Above all, they dreamed of raising children who would embody the ideals of a newly democratic nation: choice, autonomy, freedom, individuality, and independence. Pare...
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Issei Failures
Issei, nisei, sansei. For decades, the story of Japanese America has been told as if it were a straight line of numbered generations—first, second, and third. Issei Failures turns to those who fell out of line, a lost generation of "failures." These failures were men of Japanese descent who lived...
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A Discontented Land
What makes internet addiction so notoriously hard to escape? Drawn from long-term fieldwork at an internet addiction rehab in the Pacific Northwest, A Discontented Land offers a fresh perspective on the urgent question of technological dependency. But it also poses a deeper question: what do high...
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Nose
A Stanford University Press classic.
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Becoming the Stranger
This innovative and penetrating book examines the transformation of American identity through 9/11 storytelling. Incorporating elements of ontological security and materiality into a new framework that highlights Self/Other differentiation by way of the transitory role of the Stranger, M. L. deRa...
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Coming Unbound
Barred from the battlefield and the ballot box, three female activists wielded their words to pursue freedom—for the country and themselves. As long as liberty matters, so will the women who helped make it possible. Yet few figures have been as eclipsed as the female writers who put their lives ...
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Claiming Yosemite
Foregrounding art's influence on the nation—from early far Western photography and painting, as well as work by contemporary California Native American artists—Tyler Green reveals the origin of the national parks. In Claiming Yosemite art critic and historian Tyler Green presents the invention o...
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The Worst Trickster Story Ever Told
When did the federal government's self-appointed, essentially limitless authority over Native America become constitutional? The story they have chosen to tell is wrong. It is time to tell a better story. Thus begins Keith Richotte's playful, unconventional look at Native American and Supreme Co...
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Rachel Carson and the Power of Queer Love
How Silent Spring stands as a monument to a unique, loving relationship between Rachel Carson and Dorothy Freeman, and how such love underpins a new environmental politics After the success of her first bestseller, The Sea Around Us, Rachel Carson settled in Southport, Maine. The married couple ...
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Whisper Tapes
Kate Millett was already an icon of American feminism when she went to Iran in 1979. She arrived just weeks after the Iranian Revolution, to join Iranian women in marking International Women's Day. Intended as a day of celebration, the event turned into a week of protests. Millett, armed with fil...
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Uncle Tom
Uncle Tom charts the dramatic cultural transformation of perhaps the most controversial literary character in American history. From his origins as the heroic, Christ-like protagonist of Harriet Beecher Stowe's anti-slavery novel, the best-selling book of the nineteenth century after the Bible, U...
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Two Sports Myths and Why They're Wrong
In Two Sports Myths and Why They're Wrong, authors Rodney Fort and Jason Winfree apply sharp economic analysis to bust a couple of the most widespread urban legends about professional athletics. Exploring the claim that player salary demands increase ticket prices and asking whether Major League...
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Can We Live Together?
In this book, a leading French social thinker grapples with the gap between the tendency toward globalization of economic relations and mass culture and the increasingly sectarian nature of our social identities as members of ethnic, religious, or national groups. Though at first glance, it might...
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Global Transformations
In this book, the authors set forth a new model of globalization that lays claims to supersede existing models, and then use this model to assess the way the processes of globalization have operated in different historic periods in respect to political organization, military globalization, trade,...
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Metaphysics
This volume makes available in English for the first time Adorno's lectures on metaphysics. It provides a unique introduction not only to metaphysics but also to Adorno's own intellectual standpoint, as developed in his major work Negative Dialectics. Metaphysics for Adorno is defined by a centra...
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Battling the Board
The boards and management of listed companies are under increasing pressure from investors to address urgent environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues. These include concerns over their companies' contributions to climate change, protection of First Nations people's cultural heritage, eli...
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The Range of the River
Spanning nearly 4 million square kilometers, the Tibetan river system—including the Brahmaputra, Irrawaddy, Salween, Mekong, Red, and Yangzi—forms the largest contiguous network of rivers on the planet, stretching across eastern South Asia, mainland Southeast Asia, and southern China. The Range o...
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The Sociology of Literature
The Sociology of Literature is a pithy primer on the history, affordances, and potential futures of this growing field of study, which finds its origins in the French Enlightenment, and its most salient expression as a sociological pursuit in the work of Pierre Bourdieu. Addressing the epistemolo...
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Protests Against U.S. Military Base Policy in Asia
Since the end of World War II, protests against U.S. military base and related policies have occurred in several Asian host countries. How much influence have these protests had on the p;olicy regarding U.S. military bases? What conditions make protests more likely to influence policy? Protests ...
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Articulations of Difference
This collection of fifteen essays deals with the representations, theories, and problematics of homosexuality in French writing of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Though focusing on literature, it also includes other self-conscious writing, such as medical discourse and lexicography. The ...
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Decentering Citizenship
Decentering Citizenship follows three groups of Filipina migrants' struggles to belong in South Korea: factory workers claiming rights as workers, wives of South Korean men claiming rights as mothers, and hostesses at American military clubs who are excluded from claims—unless they claim to be vi...
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Convulsing Bodies
By using religion to get at the core concepts of Michel Foucault's thinking, this book proposes and models a major shift in the way that the philosopher's work is read across the humanities and social sciences.
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How to Survive a Hostile World
The oldest ideas are the best. This book is a defense of an ancient way of thinking about international politics: realism. Patrick Porter, a scholar of international relations, defends the realist approach to understanding the world by addressing head-on the most robust critiques of the tradition...
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The Acceleration of History
Modernity, proposes Christophe Bouton, is not about the acceleration of time, but about living in multiple temporalities—polychrony. Like a speeding locomotive that has lost its driver, the history of Western society since the mid-eighteenth century has been characterized as an exponential, out-...
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Narrativized Space
In Narrativized Space, Aaron Santesso examines a phenomenon that is at least passingly familiar to most of us: space arranged so as to create the feeling of moving through a story. This book analyzes the implementation of narrativized space, a demarcated and sequentialized area that gradually rev...
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Traveling Chinatowns
Drawing on an impressive array of archival sources, from colonial criminal records to historical maps and exposé journalism, this book brings to light the overlooked history of ethnic Chinese enclaves in Korea during the era of Japanese colonialism. Situated within a global circuit of Chinese mig...
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Ordinary Horror
What is horror? Setting aside the implausible circumstances typical of the horror genre, Capra investigates what he terms "ordinary horror"—the horror that haunts our world, and that we may encounter firsthand. Drawing from ordinary language philosophy and phenomenology, he reframes horror as a c...
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Stormy Seas
How can a small democracy resist the influence of a powerful authoritarian neighbor? Taiwan is frequently praised for its successful economic development and peaceful transition to democracy, serving as a model for other developing countries. However, it faces substantial challenges, both from in...
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City of Speculation
In 2018, amidst a celebrated political transition, Myanmar's first democratically elected government since 1962 proposed a built-from-scratch "new city" just outside Yangon, the country's former colonial capital and current economic center. 20,000 acres of once-barren rice fields became the site ...
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Extractive States
The Turkish state and the Kurdistan Workers' Party engaged in a counterinsurgency war for nearly four decades. Over this period, Diyarbakır, the de facto capital of Greater Kurdistan, was a site of sieges and ceasefires, welfare and humanitarian relief, NGO interventions and decolonial resistance...
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Remedying the Body
Plastic surgery has exploded in popularity in the recent decades, with South Korea emerging as a leader of the global beauty economy. In Remedying the Body, So-Rim Lee explores a cultural discourse of plastic surgery in South Korea through the feminist politics of care. Pulling together archival ...
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The Land of the Skinny Cow
Beef looms large in Cuban history. Today, it is one of the most coveted food items, and so scarce that most ordinary Cubans cannot hope to consume it without a doctor's prescription. In this book, Bonnie A. Lucero challenges popular narratives that attribute beef scarcity to the failures of the C...
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Russia’s New Imperialism
Russia's devastating invasion of Ukraine in 2022 is a manifestation of a wider phenomenon: Russia's new, post-Soviet imperialism. This book provides a theoretically informed, critical account of Russian imperialism that is attentive to the interplay between economy and ideology, coercion and hege...
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The Politics of the Have-Nots
As authoritarianism and inequality deepen around the world, where can we look to find hope for democracy? Hae Yeon Choo turns to South Korea, where ordinary people are keeping democracy alive from below. Drawing on deep engagement with grassroots activism in South Korea and its diaspora over the ...
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Mexican American Exceptionalism
New Mexico's long-standing Mexican American population, known as "Nuevomexicanos," often see themselves as distinctive from other Mexican-origin people across the Southwestern United States. In this book, Casandra Salgado theorizes this distinction as "Mexican American exceptionalism," and interr...
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Debt and Refuge
Lebanon hosts the highest number of refugees per capita in the world, including up to 1.5 million displaced Syrians. Many are Syrian farmworkers, who for decades have sustained Lebanon's agricultural system through their seasonal labor. Debt and Refuge traces how the lives of these farmworkers-tu...
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Art for War
Understanding the world of art—particularly antiquities and archaeological artifacts—requires tracing how objects are removed from the ground, displaced by conflict or economic hardship, and ultimately reappear in the international art market. The odyssey of an artifact from its excavation site t...
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Same Dreams, Different Beds
Through a comprehensive analysis of relations between Europe and China during the Cold War, this volume reveals how those interactions quietly reconfigured the global balance of power, helping to forge the contemporary international order. Rooted in a rich array of multi-archival sources, the boo...
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Sea Changes
At the turn of the twentieth century, confrontations between rival French, Italian, and Ottoman empires solidified national, colonial, and racial boundaries throughout the Mediterranean basin. Yet, even in the face of an emergent ethno-nationalist world order, these decades saw various North Afri...
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Theories of Emancipation
Modern sociology and modern socialism were born at the same time and developed in conversation with each other — a link that is obvious in the work of Marx, but also visible in that of Durkheim, Weber, and Du Bois, among others. However, the extent of this overlap is yet to be fully realized. The...
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In a Land of Aid
An urgent examination of Palestine's humanitarian crisis—revealing international aid as both a lifeline and an instrument of colonial power. For decades, the international community, Israeli occupation, and Palestinian elites have engineered the humanitarianization of the Palestinian Territories...
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American Romanticism and the Evolutionary Idea
Evolutionary thought transformed nineteenth-century American intellectual life. This book details how it shaped literature in the middle decades of the century and intersected with Romantic conceptions of selfhood, society, and the history of life. Jennifer J. Baker reads the era's Romanticism in...
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The Arms Control Paradox
Arms control is eroding amid a rapidly changing and increasingly uncertain security environment. In addition to a spate of treaty withdrawals and demises that have occurred since 2002, major powers are militarizing space, and private actors are developing technologies at lightning speed. Thus, th...
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Americans Without Borders
Inspired by the story of a distant cousin, investigative journalist Julia Harte explores the rich and hidden history of American citizens who fought against imperialism and dictatorship abroad, only to be excoriated at home. One night in 1940, a group of Stalinists opened fire on Leon Trotsky's ...
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The Moral Economy of Care
American labor unions are in crisis. Unionization rates have been in decline for decades. Hospital workers' unions, however, are growing. Today, they are among the most potent forces in the American labor movement. The Moral Economy of Care seeks to understand both the historical developments tha...
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Shakespeare's Tragedies
A lively and provocative introduction to Shakespeare's five major tragedies, revealing their profoundly sympathetic and illuminating exploration of human experience. Shakespeare's Tragedies illuminates the majestic beauties and subtle insights of the great playwright's greatest works. Building f...
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The Autism Era
The invention of autism as a medical category was viewed as a crucial step toward a new era of hope for children with disabilities. However, it has come to be a hindrance to scientific knowledge and advocacy for social inclusion. The Autism Era provides an account of the diminishing value of auti...
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How Americans Enforce the Law
In most countries, bureaucratic agencies handle regulatory enforcement. But the United States does things differently. Embedded in statutes governing consumer protection, antitrust, employment, civil rights, and the environment are more than 10,000 "private rights of action"—legal provisions that...
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Accumulating Power
Accumulating Power offers a new way of thinking about belonging, sovereignty, and empire—and how the meanings of being "Ottoman" changed with the intersection of capitalism and imperial reform. Ottoman subjecthood and loyalty transformed around the turn of the twentieth century with the emergence...
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Law and Media
The essays collected in Law and Media present German media theorist Cornelia Vismann investigating how law functions through the media technologies used to produce, disseminate, and preserve it—from papyrus and the codex to courtroom stenography and Stasi files. Expanding on the understanding of ...
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Postcolonial Placemaking
Since South Africa's democratization in 1994, Cape Town has become an international tourism hotspot while its peripheral townships remain burdened by poverty and crime. Township tourism promises to bring tourists across the divide of racial segregation. Black South African women, insulted by noti...
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Chekhov's Antidotes
A rousing tour through Chekhov's stories and plays, with lessons for managing troubled times For all his immense literary fame, Anton Chekhov is underappreciated as a thinker. Widely regarded as a purveyor of gloom and indecision, Chekhov was in fact a reparative moral philosopher who fought bac...
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Cultural Techniques of Biosensing
Against the emergence of "the Internet of Bodies," Christopher O'Neill presents an incisive long history of biosensing technologies from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. As O'Neill shows, sensor technologies work by failing—if their mode of measure never quite captures the body, this is...
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The Man in the Middle
John Lehman is a legendary figure in American naval history. He was one of the youngest people ever to serve as Secretary of the Navy and arguably the most-powerful holder of that office. While the President and Secretary of Defense determine defense policy in the United States, it is up to the m...
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