Humanities books

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 >>

This book addresses an absence in queer readings of Shakespeare’s work: the pregnant body. Through discussions of...  Read More >>

A study of property in transitional economies of reproduction. Besides reshaping human generativity, reproductive...  Read More >>

A world within a world: exploring virtual reality in contemporary art, its technical potential, aesthetic qualities,...  Read More >>

The first comprehensive analysis of the various ways in which the Great War affected urban life in East Asia, South...  Read More >>

This book is an account of the major battles on the Natal Front of the Anglo-Boer War in 1899-1900, including Colenso,...  Read More >>

This expanded 176-page volume in the Legends of Warfare series includes 350 images, making it one of the most comprehensive...  Read More >>

Battleship Nevada holds the unique distinction of having survived Pearl Harbor, D-Day, Iwo Jim, and Okinawa, and...  Read More >>

Celebrate the 250th anniversary of America with 250 quilts that artistically express Virginia's contributions to...  Read More >>

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This fully revised and updated edition of Peter B. Dedek's classic is a thorough dive into the history and current...  Read More >>

Explores how Ancien Régime writers theorized public communication through acoustic metaphors The salons, cafés,...  Read More >>

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

Karina Benazech Wendling offers a re-assessment of 'souperism' and of British cultural imperialism by focusing on...  Read More >>

When the World Cup comes to the United States in the summer of 2026, it will be the first time the tournament has...  Read More >>

This book shows how Cuban filmmakers, journalists, and activists use film and other digital media to create competing...  Read More >>

Cultures of Exchange is a uniquely interdisciplinary book that explores premodern Mediterranean mercantile culture...  Read More >>

Illustrated with artful images by renowned Kyoto-based photographer John Einarsen, this book is a 'must-have' for...  Read More >>

An examination of how the unsustainable consumption of meat in seventeenth-century Rome both symbolized the extent...  Read More >>

Just in time for America’s 2026 semiquincentennial, reveals the significance—especially for women—of commemorative...  Read More >>

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

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