Humanities books

An expert on Christian nationalism identifies three areas--power, fear, and violence--where nationalism conflicts...  Read More >>

The life and times of Dante's soaring poetic allegory of the soul's redemptive journey toward God  Read More >>

They weren’t willing to kill for their country, but they were willing to die for it. During World War II, religious...  Read More >>

Humans have always incorporated wildlife into processes of work, capture, and exchange. During the nineteenth and...  Read More >>

Many of the sights and sounds that Americans associate with slavery are rooted in a grandiose historical myth. The...  Read More >>

Scholars and critics have long understood the writing of nineteenth-century Black women as critiquing the figure...  Read More >>

Formed in the late 1960s, the Young Patriots Organization was a Chicago-based radical group made up of young white...  Read More >>

An immersive analysis of camp life and soldiers’ well-being during the Civil War The Civil War was a watershed...  Read More >>

Voices of Liberty argues that Black revolutionaries' fight for freedom directly challenged the ideological architects...  Read More >>

For readers trying to make sense of America’s political turmoil and eroding reproductive rights, an incisive examination,...  Read More >>

A central figure in Illinois' early history, Sidney Breese forged an eventful public life that spanned the state's...  Read More >>

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The story of a cultural touchstone and its impact Fiddlers, step dancers, storytellers, traditional singers,...  Read More >>

The Ragged Edge of Freedom explores the long shadow of slavery in the Lower Midwest. In the decades after the Civil...  Read More >>

Today's organizations are increasingly complex with many structures, practices and rules to follow. While the organizational...  Read More >>

Thin Blue Rage analyzes police as a social movement through exploring policing's ideological dimensions, communications...  Read More >>

A funny, fascinating and affectionate journey through our love-hate relationship with cats by Australia's only cat...  Read More >>

Die Gründerin der Internationalen Jugendbibliothek Jella Lepman (1891-1970) gehört zu den prägenden Persönlichkeiten...  Read More >>

This book theorizes the slave ship as a unique site for the imaginative and material convergence of abolitionism...  Read More >>

This anthology brings together the unpublished poetry of Jacob Bronowski (1908-74). One of the last great polymaths,...  Read More >>

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*SHORTLISTED FOR THE GRAND PRIX DU LIVRE DE MONTREAL* A PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BEST BOOK OF 2023 ""A deeply vulnerable...  Read More >>

This book addresses critical ethical, social, and technological challenges that arise from the rapid integration...  Read More >>

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This book tells the story of jurema-preta, a plant which shaped the culture of Indigenous and Afro-Brazilian peoples,...  Read More >>