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Perilous Wagers
The lives of the men depicted in Perilous Wagers take place in the squalor of Tokyo's old day-laborer district, San'ya, where they can be found eking out a living from occasional …
How Russian Literature Became Great
How Russian Literature Became Great explores the cultural and political role of a modern national literature, orchestrated in a Slavonic key but resonating far beyond Russia's …
Bounded Wilderness
In Bounded Wilderness, Kathryn Jasper focuses on the innovations undertaken at the hermitage of Fonte Avellana in central Italy during the eleventh century by its prior, Peter …
Black France, White Europe
Winner of the George Louis Beer Prize Black France, White Europe illuminates the deeply entangled history of European integration and African decolonization. Emily Marker maps the …
Freedom and the Captive Mind
Freedom and the Captive Mind is a biography of Fr. Gleb Yakunin, the first Orthodox priest to adopt an ecumenical approach to Russian Orthodoxy, earning him the enmity of …
Russia, Disinformation, and the Liberal Order
Through the prism of the first comprehensive account of RT, the Kremlin's primary tool of foreign propaganda, Russia, Disinformation and the Liberal Order sheds new light on the …
Costa Rica
In this third edition of Costa Rica, Adrian Hepworth continues his decades-long exploration of one of the most biodiverse countries in the world. Throughout six richly illustrated …
The Ethics of Narrative
The second volume of The Ethics of Narrative completes the project of bringing together nearly all of Hayden White's uncollected essays from the last two decades of his life, …
Reflections on Stalinism
Reflections on Stalinism distills decades of historical thought and research, bringing together twelve senior scholars of Soviet history who began their careers during the Cold War …
Eight Dogs, or "Hakkenden"
Kyokutei Bakin's Nanso Satomi Hakkenden is one of the monuments of Japanese literature. This multigenerational samurai saga was one of the most popular and influential books of the …
The Latecomer's Rise
In The Latecomer's Rise, Muyang Chen reveals the nature and impact of a rapidly growing form of international lending: Chinese development finance. Over the past few decades, China …
Ambivalent Pleasures
Ambivalent Pleasures explores how Europeans wrestled with the novel experience of consuming substances that could alter moods and become addictive. During the early modern period, …