How Linear Perspective Shaped Policies in the Western World
Philipp Lepenies
A brilliant meditation on how the invention of linear perspective in art helped shape our perspectives on the developing world
214 pages
| 6 x 9
| 4 figures, 18 halftones
Edited by Étienne Balibar, Sandro Mezzadra, and Ranabir Samaddar
Exploring the limits of and contradictions of transitional justice
224 pages
| 6 x 9
A Chronicle of the Schorcht Family
Donald S. Pitkin
Charting the transformation of East Germany through the lens of one town and one multi-generational family
316 pages
| 6 x 9
Rick Fantasia
Analyzing the effects of corporate-driven global industrial processes on the practices, and the practitioners, of French gastronomy
240 pages
| 6 x 9
| 7 tables, 9 figures, 2 halftones
Racism, Nationalism, and Feminism
Patricia Hill Collins
A provocative analysis of the new contours of black nationalism and feminism in America
256 pages
| 6 x 9
Daniel Levy and Natan Sznaider
How collective memory of the Holocaust advances human rights in the Global Age
240 pages
| 5.5 x 8.25
Explorations in Comparative Macroanalysis
Aristide Zolberg
A collection of essays on the importance of comparative cultural analysis
376 pages
| 6 x 9
| 12 tables, 1 figure
Social Movements and Collective Identity
Edited by Aidan McGarry and James M. Jasper
Are identity politics good or bad for social movements?
228 pages
| 6 x 9
| 7 tables, 10 figures
Xenophobia, Citizenship, and Identity in South Africa, Germany, and Canada
Heribert Adam and Kogila Moodley
A comparative examination of hostility towards migrants around the world
250 pages
| 6 x 9
American Millennialism and Mission to the Middle East
Hans-Lukas Kieser
How missionaries and evangelical politics influenced American government policy in the Middle East
224 pages
| 6 x 9
Philip S. Gorski
Essays on the contradictory resurgence of religion and liberalism in the twenty-first century by one of the most important voices in the study of the sociology of religion
342 pages
| 6 x 9
Jean Améry and the Refusal to Forgive
Thomas Brudholm
Is forgiveness always the proper moral response to collective violence?
254 pages
| 6 x 9
From Soviet to Post-Soviet Russia, 1985-2000
Marc Garcelon
From perestroika to Putin: a recent history of Russia's turbulent transformation from communist to post-communist nation
328 pages
| 6 x 9
| 3 tables, 5 figures, 2 halftones
Heribert Adam and Kogila Moodley
Lessons from South Africa for the unresolved Israeli-Palestinian conflict
248 pages
| 6 x 9
The Politics of National Apologies in the United States
Brian A. Weiner
Should governments apologize for past wrongs done in their name?
256 pages
| 5.5 x 8.25